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[QUOTE]Originally posted by newark: [QB] I think Starfleet is building Constitution Class starships in the 2280's. This class still had importance in an era of uneasy relations with the Klingons. The Enterprise-A may have been one of the newer ships of this class built. The confusion over Enterprise Class and Constitution Class I think originated on the original series. In the book 'The Making of Star Trek', the author writes of Enterprise-type starships. In the fictional and non-fictional worlds of Star Trek, class and type are used interchangeably. This is what I understand from reading the book and looking at the available data. When the series began, the U.S.S. Enterprise is the second ship of the 17th class of starships to be built. She is constructed and commissioned approximately a quarter of a century before. She has twelve 'sisters' of which several are known including the U.S.S. Defiant, the U.S.S. Excalibur, the U.S.S. Exeter, the U.S.S. Hood, the U.S.S. Lexington, and the U.S.S. Potemkin. The U.S.S. Constellation, of a lower number, represents an earlier class of starship and is a variant of the later Enterprise and her sister ships. These ships are supported by other classes of ships. In 1967, there is a technical readout which shows the class "Constitution Class" and gives information on phaser turrets. This readout which Scotty reads has two possiblities attached to it: a. this readout is information pertaining to another class of starship; or b. this readout is information pertaining to the Enterprise and this is the phaser turrets common to her and her sister ships. The book The Making of Star Trek is published. A class is identified for the Enterprise as Enterprise-type. A Constitution is included in the list. This could be the same ship mentioned above, or another ship. Years pass, and FJ publishes a technical manual which identifies this class of ship as Constitution Class. Supposedly, this is approved by Gene Roddenberry. From this manual, we get a page showing the schematics of a starship bearing the registry NCC-1700 which is later seen in the movies and TNG. This registry is seen briefly in "Court-Martial". So, we have two opinions on the class of the Enterprise in 1976. This difference of opinion comtinues into the episode "The Naked Now". The E is identified as a Constitution Class starship. From this episode on, this has been the E's class. I think the issue arises from a failing on the part of the original production crew. First, they never gave a specific class for the E. Second, they didn't assign registries for these starships. So, not only are we having to work through the failings of these people, we are also having to reconcile the conflicting fan interpretations on registry & class which have become canon via the efforts of a fan, Mr. Okuda. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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