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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] I once asked Okuda about the [i]Copernicus[/i] and this was his response in an e-mail dated 05/28/2003:<blockquote>[b]"If I recall the name and registry number of the [i]Copernicus[/i] came from a photo from ILM that showed the [i]Grissom[/i] model as it was used in the end of ST4."[/b]</blockquote> Take it for whatever it's worth. His recollection may not be completely accurate, and he did get the [i]Saratoga[/i]'s registry wrong, after all. But I would also propose an alternate theory of what might have happened: it might be a similar situation to that of the [i]U.S.S. Hood[/i], where the [i]Excelsior[/i] model was relabeled by the VFX department for "Encounter At Farpoint" (as NCC-2541) but the art department came up with a different (higher, perhaps more fictionally "plausible") number that ended up becoming the "official" one because the original one was not readable in the episode. Perhaps NCC-640 was the VFX department's idea for the [i]Tsiolkovsky[/i]'s number but the art department came up with NCC-53911 for the dedication plaque and because it was more prominent and "plausible" (and because Okuda was likely the one going to the effort of keeping track of such things) it was that number which became the official one. During remastering, the number was "corrected" in one shot but was overlooked in others. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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