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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] FWIW, the [i]Republic[/i] was never said onscreen or in scripts to be a [i]Constitution[/i]-class ship. The 16xx numbers (and the one 18xx number) on the wall chart in "Court Martial" weren't intended by Jeffries to represent [i]Constitution[/i]s specifically. All attempts to do so are revisionist history. FASA adopted most of Greg Jein's attempt (from his T-Negative article) for their list in the Star Trek RPG. When Okuda was working on Star Trek IV and early TNG, and directly under Gene himself... Well, first of all, he was a longtime Trek fan from Hawaii who was getting a chance to live a dream. He, like many Trekkies, idolised GR and thought he could do no wrong. He slavishly adopted the "Roddenberry Rules of Starship Design" and the policy of no non-liscensed or formerly-liscensed material to be used for reference -- both created by Gene pretty much specifically to disown Franz Joseph's works following the breakup of their working relationship. At the time, the only liscensed source of [i]Constitution[/i] registries was the FASA RPG, so that's what Okuda started with. And pointing to the ships listed in Star Trek VI as further support for the Okuda scheme is ignorant, as he created those lists himself. As anyone who's read the Encyclopedia and Chronology can attest, his research methods are appalling. But there it is. However, one of the joys of revisionist history is setting the record straight. I don't know if it's too late to re-educate the vast hordes of casual Treknologists out there, but for my own use, I am using an extrapolated Jeffries scheme for TOS through to about 2285, and then the Okuda scheme from then on. There are surprisingly few conflicts, when one dismisses Okuda's clumsy attempts to rewrite TOS starship numbering. Of course, this brings me to the downside of revisionist history and setting the record straight -- having people yelling to burn you as a heretic for not being a good little fish and swimming with the school. ;) --Jonah P.S. Additionally, this also still leaves the problem with the [i]Constellation[/i], caused by no interdepartmental communication and a tight VFX budget. I offer to solutions. Either say the model was mislabelled (supposed to be 1710 or some such)... or else the [i]Constellation[/i] is an older ship refit to [i]Constitution[/i] specs due to some heroic act of her commander, as so many minor details don't match up. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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