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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] [QUOTE]Remember now, this is not Jein's list but rather Ruth Berman's modified one[/QUOTE]Yeah, I realized that after I posted. I'd been wondering where that unusual Vulcan-sounding name came from... ;) At any rate, I think that rather than incorporating this info into canon, it should be used to debunk the Encyclopedia's lists of most of the Connies. After all, this article shows all the convoluted (although still quite inspired) logic that would make poor Spock weep. For its time, though, the registry numbers would make pretty good sense -- they just don't fit into the Okudaic system that's taken over since then. There's not many times I would choose the FJ system over the Encyclopedia, but I think that FJ's list of Constitution-class ships (the first batches, anyway, before he goes off the deep end from NCC-1732 and onwards) makes a better choice as far as ships and registry numbers go. With a couple of exceptions: 1) We never, ever SAW the USS Republic, so it doesn't HAVE to be a Constitution unless that specific designation was placed next to it in some ST:6 display. And even then, I'd be inclined to toss that out to explain the registry number. (Aside: I'm wondering if the ship's number from "Court Martial" -- NCC-1371 -- was actually a typo during the writing of the script, and was supposed to be NCC-1731 instead. After all, no one would've guessed back then that a bunch of fanboys who had never been born would be conversing over a computer-powered information network with people on the other side of the world about the design and origins of starships that were never even seen on the show, and so they never cared about getting a "correct" number. However, since that number was actually SPOKEN on screen and not just seen, I wouldn't propose decanonizing that.) 2) As I indicated in another thread, my personal belief is that some strange gravitational distortions caused by the Doomsday Machine distorted light waves in a peculiar way, and the Constellation's true registry number is actually NCC-1710. ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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