posted May 02, 1999 08:27 PM
Everything I've read and heard says it's true.
What's so wrong about having the -A?
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posted May 02, 1999 11:51 PM
So? According to a mention in the Motion Picture novelization, there was at least one other Fed ship called Enterprise. . .
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posted May 03, 1999 12:32 AM
[Snip & Edit & Sigh]Just cannot help yerself can you frog? I care about registries about as much as you do, I just keep it to myself.
[This message was edited by Daryus Aden on May 03, 1999.]
posted May 03, 1999 01:09 AM
Well, NX-74205-A would be correct, since it would be the second ship with that registry. I wish we could just forget about this suffix nonsense, though.
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posted May 03, 1999 01:35 AM
Okay, maybe you can have the registry NCC-74205-A. But NX-74205-A is IMPOSSIBLE!!
Every ship with a NX registry is the first of its class (maybe not the first FINISHED ship, but that's another story). You just CANNOT have both NX and -A in one registry (the Dauntless being a VERY obvious exception!!).
(Something tells me that I was better off putting this one at the Flameboard.)
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[This message was edited by Altair on May 03, 1999.]
posted May 03, 1999 10:58 AM
So your saying when the Defiant would have became NCC it should have went from NX 74205 to NCC 1764-A?
Well, I think thy do this to remember a part. ship (org. Enterprise!) no just any ship. The Constitution Defiant was not very memorable, yet the Defiant one is.
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posted May 03, 1999 02:33 PM
Doesnt it seem like there should not be another Defiant? Since the Defiant has been in just about every major battle concerning Starfleet since its construction, the name should be retired.
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posted May 03, 1999 03:00 PM
Starfleet seems to have far too many ships to "retire" names...
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posted May 03, 1999 04:05 PM
So somebody tell me, what was the (*&!@#! point of destroying the stpid Defiant in the first place if they are just going to bring back the same damn ship with an A attatched to it. Wow they are really original. I agree with Altair: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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posted May 04, 1999 09:37 AM
I think the new Defiant should be named Defiant as a tribute, but not the same designed from the dedication plaque to Sisko's office. It should be sort of an "upgrade". Maybe combining some of the elements from the Defiant Pathfinder. Basically fixing the Defiant's problems and adding more firepower. Something like that.
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