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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] While that's certainly possible, without that photo as proof, we'll never know the Copernicus's true registry. [QUOTE]Perhaps NCC-640 was the VFX department's idea for the Tsiolkovsky'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.[/QUOTE]It's possible that when Okuda made that plaque, he was assuming that the Tsiolkovsky would be a new model, a ship contemporaneous to the Enterprise-D, since both ships were launched in the same year. If that were the case, then the term "Oberth" was never meant to be the class of the Grissom-type ships, and only became that class retroactively. It's also possible, as you say, that the VFX personnel weren't aware of the info on the plaque, and changed the registry to be more contemporaneous with the Grissom, and that they thought the Tsiolkovsky was an old ship from Kirk's era. This could also be why later appearances of the Grissom model sported such high registries: because once the Tsiolkovsky set the precedent, Okuda just followed through with the same registry nomenclature. It's too bad really, because NCC-640 would have fit the Tsiolkovsky so much better. i myself do not find Oberths with regs of 5XXXX and Excelsiors with regs of 4XXXX to be plausible at all. This is one of my few sticking points with Okuda's registry assignings. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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