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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [qb] Or then these things are decided on a case-by-case basis. Perhaps it was budgetarily easier to "sell" a new class rather than further Miranda units - whereas riding on the Excelsior class name was considered good publicity for the E-B? And "Enterprise class" might have become politically incorrect by the 2290s, the name being a red flag for Klingons and Romulans alike. Even Starfleet at that point might have hated it, as it reminded them of the mutineer Kirk and of the fact they were ordered by some civilians to rename a ship "Enterprise" for the said pain-in-ass. Timo Saloniemi [/qb][/QUOTE]That doesn't sound like a particularly good way to run a quasi-military organisation. The way I see it, around the time of TUC they stopped using both new-name-for-new-subclass and registry-numbers-assigned-in-blocks systems, probably because of the increased number of ships around that time. I see it more as a definite shift in policy than as a random quirky make-it-up-as-you-go-along system. In TNG, for instance, we have variants on the Galaxy Class that are presumably still Galaxies, and variants on the Nebula that are still Nebulas. But in TOS and the movies, it appears (to me) as if a new design gets a new name. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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