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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by WizArtist II: [qb] But we are talking about nothing more than arbitrary number assignments. Look at the M-1 Abrams or the F-22 Raptor. Someone who was not familiar with modern military designations could logically interpret that an F-101 Voodoo from the early 60's or an M-4 Sherman from WW2 were more advanced replacements of the Abrams and Raptor if all they knew were the designations.[/qb][/QUOTE]While I don't think starship registries are always necessarily chronological (or chronological at all, for that matter), I certainly don't think they're completely arbitrary either. If that were the case, then we'd be getting registries like NCC-GF78, or NCC-07 for a brand-new Galaxy class starship. I think the issue is just that most Trek fans who care about stuff like this (myself included), prefer registries to be more cut-and-dried than that. Nice, orderly chronological registries are easier to deal with :) [QUOTE][qb]Since every registry is "NCC" instead of a type specific like the Navy uses,Starfleet could simply have started classifying ranges of numbers to equate to type/usage. Anything below 4 digits would be utility vessels and the 2000's could have been intended for "Fast Battleships" (Transwarp) etc.[/qb][/QUOTE]For all we know, that's exactly what they do. Something I noticed when I was writing up my essay about starship production times was the almost total occurrence of the registries of each conjectural class of starship being extremely close together (i.e. the three known Renaissance class registries all being 45XXX). This also happens with some regular classes, like the Intrepid. Maybe these numbers actually stand for the type of ship or mission it was built for. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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