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Malnurtured Snay
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THE USS YAMATO ...

Two different registries. One of them was spoken aloud by Will Riker, the other was apparently a screen capture of the model used in the second ep. the Yamato appeared in.

The screen-capture registry is taken as correct, despite the fact that Riker actually spoke (on screen) a different number.

How is the determination made that spoken dialogue can be overweighed by a screen-cap?

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Maybe it has something to do with the background-story of these numbers. Okuda said that the number with the prefix -E was an error.

Or because the Yamato with the -E wasn't the real one.

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There's a whole intricate story of how the -E ended up in the episode. Basically, they realised the mistake, but it had already been filmed or something. I think the story is in the encyclopedia or the chronology.

The -E one is wrong if, for no other reason, than because of the fact that everybody involved with it says that the other one is right. Also, the one with the -E doesn't fit with the rest of the numbering

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I heard that letters on registries were reserved for the flagship. Although the new Defaint would be cooler if it was NX-74205-A err whatever the registry was.. forgot it.

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No, it would be exactly the same level of coolness.

The story was that Okuda noticed the incorrect registry for the Yamoto, and wrote them a memo. However, he then got an updated script, and the reference had been removed, so he never sent it. He was unaware that an even later draft added it back in.

I'd go for the onscreen registry because:

1/ EVERYONE at Paramount says that's the correct one.
2/ With this one exception, for over a decade they've stuck to the "The Enterprise is the only ship to get a prefix" rule (ignoring the non-cannon New Frontiers).
3/ Riker's an idiot. Possibly he was reading off the Yamoto's saucer on the viewscreen. Weird spooky alien had just got it wrong, and Riker didn't want to say "erm, it that the Yamoto's registry?" incase people laughed at him, and no-one dared question him, incase he subjected them to more trombone playing.

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...which was all the more disparaging, because he left the musical trombone in his quarters.

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One other question.

During that same ep, Worf volunteers to go on the Away Team to the YAMATO because, as he states, "he's familiar with the ship's layout."

Um. Hello? Doesn't he serve on a Galaxy-Class too? Shouldn't everyone on the ship be familiar with the YAMATO's layout?

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There are subtle differences between individual ships of the same class, both inside and out, so Worf's statement could be taken to mean that as opposed to the Enterprise, he's also familiar with the Yamato.

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The ships did have at least one major structural difference - the Enterprise had 18 coils per nacelle, while the Okudagram used by LaForge to analyze the cause of death of the Yamato only showed 16 coils.

Perhaps the Yamato and the prototype Galaxy were built with these 16-coilers, but found unsatisfactory, and Leah Brahms (said to have contributed to the propulsion system design, but probably not old enough to have created the ORIGINAL design) designed these new engines with two more coils apiece but with the same nacelle structure.

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