Topic: Missing Okudagram from ("Hotel Royale"[TNG]) found.
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National Aerospace Registry seems likely is it started at NASA.. makes you wonder why it continued, unless it was something more like Naval Aeronautic Registry or something (which would concur with much later uses of it)
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I'm fairly certain that we've never heard a person from the 21st or 22nd century say their vessel was a "NAR-" etc.
NAR- in my opinion is a catch all designation for any non-Starfleet ship, first assigned to those vessels which were launched prior to the start of the Federation and haven't been heard from since. After this, any vessel where contact could be achieved another registry prefix might have been given [like an NCC for a returning member world's ship]. --- After a while, all the "missing & uncontacted" vessels would have been marked with a NAR- registry [some of these might have been found like the list on the Ficus chart] and they would then started throwing out NAR-s to present day Federation civilian vessels.
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If you look at the enhanced version and indeed the similar Mariposa screen, you can see that it says "UN Registry". Implying a relationship to the United Nations which would presumably become Earth's world government. The actual letters NAR are most likely just a code that like NCC, doesn't actually stand for anything.
[ May 29, 2002, 13:43: Message edited by: Reverend ]
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I've already noticed that UN thing, and I suspect that NAR might have a connection with the United Nations. After all, if NAR would solely denote any vessel operated by the NASA, I'd wonder why they didn't continue with using OV-registries, which were used for the Space Shuttles in real life.
As for NAR denoting any non-Starfleet vessel in the 24th century, there are numerous other reg prefixes for civilian ships (NFT, NGL, NDT). I'd say that NAR is used in the 24th century exclusively for non-Starfleet ships operated by Terrans. An Okudagram in "Unification" said that the T'Pau was in service of the Vulcan National Merchant Fleet or something like that. Perhaps there are other 'national' fleets as well, including a civilian Earth fleet, with each ship having a NAR registry. BTW, the T'Pau had an NSP-registry, which might point at the Vulcan origin.
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I've cleaned the image up, here it is.
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I was thinking how I assigned those conical structures towards the front 'the m/ar' chamber - actually after looking at the Ares, I reckon they are re-entry vehicles - the Ares has one on it in a similar position.
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It's quite possible Bernd has the same source as the original poster of this thread (or one as good), and someone did a "clean up" version for him. I don't believe that Bernd would be part of a scam or hoax, from what I've seen of him, if that's what you're implying...if not, then accept MY apologies.
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I would point out that that EAS link credits the design to someone who, unless I'm quite mistaken, seems to be our very own Reverend, starter of this thread.
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I'd agree with Tim on this one. It seems to me Rev created the design or at least helped to refine it. But it certainly is not Okuda/Paramount created given the nature of the Journal of Applied Technology website.
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The nose of the ship looks a great deal like that of the space shuttle to me. Definate NASA influence implied. Regards
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I wasn't saying that Reverend necessarily made it up. I was simply replying to what Darkwing said. I was pointing out that Bernd apparently had nothing to do w/ it, other than putting it on his site.
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