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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] I'm probably alone in this, but I've never been a fan of giving shuttles class names, largely because Starfleet seams to churn through so many designs that they'll either start running out of names or just confuse the hell out of people. To me it seams more realistic to give them alpha numeric designations, like most modern aircraft. I actually came up with a system for assigning these a while back when I was doing allot of shuttle designs and needed a consistent system to keep track of them and how they fitted into the canon designs. I think it went something like..."SC1-T17" where "SC" stands for "shuttle class" and "T" naturally stands for "Type". This is based on the theory that the "class-2" shuttles are the ones we're most familiar with (Galileo, Justman, Cochrane etc.) While the Class-1's are the small shuttle pods (El-Baz, Pike) and the Class-3's are the larger cargo shuttles and people carriers (type-9 from the TNG tech manual, "executive shuttle" from ST:VI & VII, possibly Delta Flyer.) This of course conveniently compensates for the writers on Voyager not paying attention to the tech notes. Now for the "Spacedock Tug" I'd call it something like TC1-T6 if you assume it's just a light tug, however we see it parked planet side and perform a sea rescue in ST:IV so I'd rather think of it as a light cargo shuttle, so it'd be something like SC3-T6 instead. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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