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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Treknophyle: [qb] For the first time I can remember, a thread is so long and convoluted that I may have lost track of part of the arguement. I was going to state my personal interpretation - but it may have already been stated. Hell, I still will. If it corresponds to one already posited - point me in the 'right' direction. 1. Of the 'first-flight' Heavy Cruisers, Constellation was the first built. Therefore the class was named after her. 2. Of the refitted 'first-flight' Heavy Cruisers, Enterprise was the first refitted. Therefore the refit class was named after her. (to distinguish between the original and refit configurations). 3. X years later, when the original Constitution was refitted, the refit class was renamed after her. 4. Any surviving pre-refit Constitution-class vessels (such as the one Picard alluded to in a museum) are also designated 'Constitution-class' - but are referred to as pre-refit. This seems the simplest explanation to me. Comment? [/qb][/QUOTE]Assuming you mean "Constitution" in 1 and not "Constellation", then that's the theory thelastguardian and I believe in. The other theories seem to be: 1) They are all Constitution Class - the sign on the door indicated something else (like "the Class being taught on the Enterprise") 2) They are all Constitution Class, but the refitted 1701 is Enterprise Sub-Class, commonly called Enterprise Class From this theory, however, and looking at the 1017, 956 and 1600s registries we have, if we accept that refits have different class names while looking similar, there seems to be no reason why we have to designate TOS-Connie-type ships as Constitution Class - they could be members of other Classes, which either (in the case of the 1600s) look identical to Connies, or (in the case of 1017) look slightly different. Or possibly 1600s used to look slightly different and have been refitted to Connie-specs by the time of TOS, although, seeing the 1017, this seems unlikely (why upgrade the newer ships and not the older ones?). Hope you can understand all that... :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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