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I was thinking about the funny fact that after the Enterprise-B, the only SF-ships taller than it are the other Enterprises, in a straight line. Amb, Gal, Sov. All the other classes are shorter, even the new ones.
Then I started thinking, how come the founders of TNG were so clever as to name the ship Enterprise-D? Why not just B? Did they really plan ahead to such length as to weave in the -B and -C later on?
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They wanted a total disconnect. New EVERYTHING. It was originally the NCC-1701-7, of the twenty-fifth century. But then the -A came along in IV and they changed it to a letter. Why they backed it up to the 24th and -D, I don't know.
And you say "taller". I assume you mean in the number of decks. The Nebula class was almost certainly taller than the Excelsior class. A Galaxy primary hull, with spaces above and below...
Of course, you could have meant "longer", so there you might have a point. 'Course, the Prommie might be longer than an Excelsior. Not sure there.
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They didn't really "weave" in the B and C at the beginning. As Omega said, it was more a case of them wanting to leave a large number of years between TNG and TOS, otherwise, if it was just 10 or so years, everyone would be screaming "Where's Kirk?" and so on. By setting it a century, they had more freedom with characters, new tecnologies, new races, what old races were doing, and so on.
Regarding the B and C, when they were deseigning the ships for the observation lounge wall, it's my understanding that the "B" was just based on an Excelsior, and the "C" was just a mix of the Excelsior and Galaxy classes. All 6 of them are very "open" sculptures, so they still had a fair bit of freedom designing the C for Yesterday's Enterprise.
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Well I think they handled it well. But the Ent-C firefight would've been nice to've seen, even though tragic...
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