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It's an original John Eaves lithograph being sold by the FanMedia folks who do the Star Trek Communicator.
Is it just me or have the worms found a way to place point charges and blown their way out of the can?
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a NX clas ship of earth(and where else would the bloody thing be from Romuls) registry. Ok me have questions now.
Now dose NX stand for anything and if so what? If you had an automated survay ship would that be an ASS class ship? Ok end of questions.
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NX-class? I guess it certainly wouldn't be unheard of. From a point earlier in Earth's history, you have the DY-series of space ships. From The Original Series era we have mention of class J cargo ships and class S starships.
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I just want them to hurry up and get AMT/Ertl or whoever to make the plastic model kit so I can build it.
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You know, that's not such a bad idea. I've been wanting to try building a starship model again after all of these years. My biggest difficulty back then was getting the saucer to sit on the !@#$ing neck. I wouldn't have any problems here.
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I guess I wouldn't be opposed to an "NX Class"...although it seems to go against the traditions of Earth Naval organizations, at least the US Navy. From what I know, most naval groups name ships with actual names, not just numbers and the classes are derived from one fo the ships in that class. TOS and the TNG era have all followed this tradition, so I don't think it really fits to have NX Class. I guess I just assumed it was Enterprise Class. I wonder what the plaque on the bridge says...
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Well, as ive noticed before, the producers seem to be trying to establish a more 'space shuttle-ish' atmosphere on the ship. They want us to feel like we are watching an apollo mission or space shuttle crew, so they are foregoing some naval traditions assuming that since Starfleet really doesnt have a fleet yet, they feel more like 'rocket guys' Space shuttles dont have 'SS' or 'USS' prefixes, class names and have a few letter-number combinations for their registries (OV-101, etc)
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Cool. Look good next to my signed drawing of the Enterprise-E by Eaves.
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I have no problems with an NX Class, apart from the 23rd/24th century use of the prefix NX. It would assume that every NX rego is of a ship of the NX class.
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Well...the obvious answer to that problem is that, when the Federation Starfleet is founded, the new registry system includes an NX registry for new ship types in honor of the "old" NX class.
We definitely have to accept that there is a difference between the Federation Starfleet and registry system and the Earth Starfleet and registry system. I think everyone has pretty much accepted that, I'm just saying...
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Now let's pray to the starship gods that if they show another Starfleet ship it'll have a nice big registry printed on the side with a new prefix so that NX doesn't devolve into a generic Starfleet indicator just yet.
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right. NX needs to be only for ships made after enterprise. anything already in the Earth fleet should have something else. Though I doubt we'll be seeing many other Starfleet ships just yet. Nothing they have yet will be able to keep up with Enterprise. Unless they run into a ship that's already out there...
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I have a great idea for an episode: a time-travel episode which involves a ship from the 23rd century (TOS, but not with *the* Enterprise). Would be cool to see the U.S.S. Intrepid (the all-Vulcan crew) and the NX-01 trapped inside some Temporal Anomaly of the Week.
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It would be easy to allow for the fact that the Earth Starfleet has ship registries that start with two random letters and are followed by two random numbers, and the NX is completely unrelated to the NX which will be used to refer to Naval Experiments undertaken by the Federation Starfleet. This would then still allow for the USS Dauntless NCC-01 ten years later, being under a different jurisdiction
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