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Sorry guys, I couldn�t find the old thread, so I made a new one instead U(?)SS Enterprise
Just scanned this pic from communicator. So, what�s with the USS and also the registry?
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wtf?!?!? where is that from
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Interesting. We could still say the name is not Enterprise after all, but the USS/registry combination is a 'headache-o-mat'. Please try to explain (or shall we create our own little conspiracy and erase that thing from the records, saying we never saw it and it doesn't even exist? ).
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Well, the pic as I said is from the magazine star trek communicator. As to the USS, well, the simplest explanation is to assume that two different navies use the same shortening system. HMS stands for Her Majesty�s Ship in England, but here in Sweden HMS stands for Hans Majest�ts Skepp - translated into HIS Majesty�s Ship. Our ships most certainly aren�t british So USS in this stands for something else than it does in starfleet.
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Oh, another thing, the ship is listed in the Star Trek spaceflight chronology as a Declaration-class starliner, a passenger ship. Question - any pics of starships in that book?
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Perhaps this is a 21st century american ship? Those rings could be rotating sections to create gravity, it obviously posesses a pre-Impulse propultion system so it probably shouldn't be part vulcan as others had suggested.
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I doubt it, since the ships in the book up to and after the development of warp drive have UNSS before their names, if memory serves. Also, I believe the Declaration class is either late 21st or early 22nd Century and most definitely had warp drive.
You can also argue that artificial gravity predates warp travel by several decades, since the Botany Bay quite obviously had its own gravity system.
In any case, any canon status this book had has largely gone out the window in recent years. (Not that it ever had much in the first place; how you could rectify the dating scheme of the book with Decker's line abt Voyager 6's launch date was beyond me.)
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(A point I made in the previous (U)SS Enterprise thread, but was ignored:)
The book "The Making of ST:TMP" says it's from the early 21st century, and was the first (sublight) ship to make it to the Alpha Centauri system. Non-canon, but very close to it, IMHO.
Since the TNGTM mentions Zefrem Cochrane to have relocated to the Alpha Centauri Colonies shortly after his breakthrough (suggesting they were founded even before the advent of warp drive), and the fact that the Charybdis was Mankind's third attempt to leave the Sol system (according to an Okudagram which was barely visible in "The Royale" but was reproduced in ST: The Continuing Mission) does not invalidate this.
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quote:Originally posted by Alpha Centauri: (according to an Okudagram which was barely visible in "The Royale" but was reproduced in ST: The Continuing Mission)
They mentioned it in the episode. And I guess you don't mean Reverend's Okudagram?
And about the HER/HIS in HMS: I thought they change it depending on the person being queen/king? In other words if the person that replaces the queen of England is male, they all become His Majesty Ship. Right?
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Well either way it's still going to be HMS, isn't it?
If this "Making of TMP" info is correct then perhaps the Enterprise was the 5th Extrasolar mission, since Charybdis was the third and apparently a ship called Jacob was the forth.
quote: FOLLOWUP MISSION JACOB RESULTED IN NEGATIVE TRACK
I've heard conflicting infomation on the first two missions, perhaps we could clear this up right now. Were the first two attempts sucessful or not? Okuda's literature seams to indicate that they infact failed, but what was actually stated on the show?
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Kyle: No, not Reverend's hoax, obviously. While I knew the full text on the Okudagram I referred to, I didn't remember that the same statement was actually mentioned in "The Royale". It's been over a year ago since I saw that episode for the last time.
Reverend: I don't remember any other statements than that we know now about early sublight interstellar missions from Earth. But it's pretty obvious that, if we take the info from The Making of ST:TMP seriously (which I do, until it's contradicted), that the (U)SS Enterprise was part of an early 'exploration wave', which further included the Charybdis and the Jacob.
quote:Were the first two attempts sucessful or not? Okuda's literature seams to indicate that they infact failed (...)
What can you tell more about that? Where did you hear/read this? Did Mike tell any other interesting things?
So, if two missions prior to the Charybdis and the Jacob failed, it's likely that the (U)SS Enterprise chronologically followed after the Jacob, since it obviously succeeded in its mission. Meaning that the (U)SS Enterprise was launched somewhere between 2038 (Jacob) and 2050 (to account for the 'early-21st century' info).
By the way, where did Communicator get the XCV-330 from, or did they make it up theirselves?
quote: it's pretty obvious that, if we take the info from The Making of ST:TMP seriously (which I do, until it's contradicted), that the (U)SS Enterprise was part of an early 'exploration wave', which further included the Charybdis and the Jacob.
Sounds reasonable enough.
quote: What can you tell more about that? Where did you hear/read this? Did Mike tell any other interesting things?
Well the timeline at startrek.com says that the first two were unsucessful, the Chronology and Encyclopedia simply say that it was the third attempt which may or may not imply the previous missions failing. However, I belive someone did mention that the dialogue indicated that this was the 3rd sucessful attempt to leave the solar system. I'd just like to determine which is correct although I'm inclined to go with Okuda on this one.
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quote:Originally posted by pIn'a' Sov: Sorry guys, I couldn�t find the old thread, so I made a new one instead U(?)SS Enterprise
Just scanned this pic from communicator. So, what�s with the USS and also the registry?
That should be SS. Not USS.
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quote:Originally posted by pIn'a' Sov: Oh, another thing, the ship is listed in the Star Trek spaceflight chronology as a Declaration-class starliner, a passenger ship. Question - any pics of starships in that book?
Yes, that is the first appearance of that illo, although it's based on a Jeffries sketch of a possible Enterprise from before he came up with the saucer and secondary hull idea. Try this site for more: Vessels of SF
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