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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] In case you still don't understand what he's saying, Griff, I'll elaborate some more. In order to get his point, you need to be familiar with the original (1994) edition of Mike and Denise Okuda's [i]Star Trek Encyclopedia[/i]. It contained several datapoints that were different from those in the later (1997, 1999) editions of the book: [list] [*]As mentioned, the second [i]U.S.S. Grissom[/i] is listed as an [i]Oberth[/i]-class vessel with a registry of NCC-59314. (Only in the shiplist, however. The main entry for the vessel gave the familiar [i]Excelsior[/i] designation and NCC-42857.) [*]The [i]U.S.S. Hornet[/i] was listed with a registry number of NCC-10523 rather than the correct NCC-45231. (Again, shiplist only. The main entry gave correct number.) [*]The reverse is true of the [i]U.S.S. Saratoga[/i] from TVH, which is listed as the correct NCC-1867 in the shiplist and the erroneous NCC-1937 in the main entry. (This error, unlike most of the others, was not corrected later and survived through the rest of the book's incarnations.) [*]Another error that has persisted is the listing of the [i]U.S.S. Intrepid[/i] as NCC-1831 rather than the correct NCC-1631. [*]The [i]U.S.S. Crazy Horse[/i] was listed as a [i]Cheyenne[/i]-class vessel rather than an [i]Excelsior[/i]. [/list] The later editions generated a few errors as well: [list] [*]The [i]U.S.S. Carolina[/i] is listed in places as both NCC-189 and NCC-235, although arguably neither one is "correct" given that the ship is most likely not a [i]Daedalus[/i]-class vessel as the book claims. [*]The [i]U.S.S. Raman[/i] is listed as NCC-59983 rather than the correct NCC-29487. [*]The [i]U.S.S. Biko[/i] is listed in the shiplist as an [i]Olympic[/i]-class vessel, although this is obviously just a typo for "[i]Oberth[/i]." [/list] Personally, I don't think I agree with [b]newark[/b] here. These erroneous datapoints are simply that---errors. OTOH, if you really think about it, it's obvious that there must have been vessels with those numbers at some point. I mean, think about it this way: The very fact that the [i]U.S.S. Sao Paulo[/i] has a registry of NCC-75633 implies that there have been ships with NCCs 01 through 75632. So of course there have been NCCs 235, 1831, 1937, 10253, 59314, and 59983. However, we don't list them on our shiplists because they've never been seen or mentioned on the show, just as we don't list all the other numbers that we all *know* must have existed. -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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