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I guess it sounds reasonable, but my suspicion is that this sort of thing would go more along the lines of "Hey, got any numbers yet?" "What about 74656?" "Sounds great. Hey, have you had lunch yet?"
But what do I know? Very little.
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Yup, it's from Poe's book. Berman picked it, with no real reason ever offered. Sternbach had preliminarily plopped 73xxx on the pointy-nosed study model, hadn't he?
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The proto-Voyager is 73602, The_Tom. BTW, I think the proto would be a nice contendor for the Bradbury-class. Both the rego and the design itself seem fitting. And then we have those rumours that the model was used in "A Time to Stand" or such.
As for 74656. I once read something about Berman deriving the number from the 747 plane. So we have the first two digits, then 6-5+6=7. This also works for the Defiant 74205. First two digits, then 2-0+5=7.
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I had always thought the proto-V would be a good Bradbury too.. i was wondering if anyone shared my opinion.. i even went so far as to use a retouched picture of it in my [URL=http://www.geocities.com/captainmike47/Galactopedia/b4.html#Bradbury, U.S.S.]Bradbury[/URL] entry. [edit: which is a broken pic link until i upload tonight.. sorry]
Maybe we could get Okuda/Sternbach/Drexler to give us their blessing in defining that class as that ship.. they seem to control all the sources of starship reference material.
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I actually would have preferred the Mercury-class Proto-Voyager to the final product. I think it looks better since its more angular than curvy.
What I find interesting about Okuda's memo, though, is that he left out any explanation for the Grissom 638 being stuck in the middle of the Enterprise 1701, the Reliant 1864, and the Excelsior 2000.
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quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: I actually would have preferred the Mercury-class Proto-Voyager to the final product. I think it looks better since its more angular than curvy.
What I find interesting about Okuda's memo, though, is that he left out any explanation for the Grissom 638 being stuck in the middle of the Enterprise 1701, the Reliant 1864, and the Excelsior 2000.
It's old.
There's no reason to assume that the Oberth-Class as seen in ST3 and later was the original configuration, using the original engine design.
Indeed, it just crossed my mind that the saucer section of the Oberth rather resembles the top half of a Moskva Class ship, which, though not the slightest bit canon, does make a good show of showing development between primary hull spheres and primary hull saucers.
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There's also no reason to assume that just because the Oberth looks "newer" than the original Connnies, that they are in fact newer. Even though they have nacelles that look more advanced, how do we know they are? Just look at Enterprise. It looks more advanced the the Connie too, but it isn't.
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Seigfried: Where did you get the "Mercury class" name from?
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Goodness, I certainly whooshed all of you, didn't I? And I even included the joke smiley, too. Sheesh, y'all.
Dukhat: I got Mercury class from somewhere online, possibly from a transcript of The Art of Star Trek or Star Trek Magazine (whichever one featured the two most popular pictures of the prototype model). Also, from the top of the page Mark posed about:
quote:Michael Okuda sent Rick Berman a dozen or so possible names for Voyager's starship class. Berman originally chose Mercury but later changed his mind and decided it should be Intrepid.
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So would the Defiants registry have been chosen before or after Voyager's was decieded?
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