Where they have extensively reviewed the new NX-01 ship kit. Forgive me if this has already been discussed.
Anyway they said this about the included decals:
quote:A fairly extensive waterslide decal sheet is provided. Markings are additionally provided for NX-02 Shenendoah, NX-04 Columbia, NX-05 Discovery, NCX-65 Akira, NX-103 Aniara. The decals are perfectly registered and of very high quality.
So how 'canon' are these registries!?! Did the model makers pull them out of the collective behinds or did they consult B&B?
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I think this was discussed before, actually. I have two reasons for believing these names are totally pulled from the modeler's nether areas...
1) I can't imagine anyone at Enterprise has put time into deciding what any of the other NX class ships will be named, especially considering that, according to the show, the next several are still "on the drawing board". Enterprise seems to be the only one yet built.
2) There's no way that the modeler has any connection to Enterprise, nor is there much of a chance that anyone from the show would give inside info to someone who is making, essentially, an unliscenced product.
Just my thoughts... but I doubt there's any official backing to the names.
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Although I do recall mention of the Shenendoah in an episode. I don't remember though if it was implied to be an NX-class starship.
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From memory- In a first year episode, other NX-class ships were being built and the earliest one could be launced would be a year from that episode. This excludes the Shenandoah from the list of NX-class ships.
The list is conjectural by the modelmaker.
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To add to Aban's reply, any canon ship names would most likely stem from a script reference to them. To my knowledge, there has been no scripts yet which include any other NX class ships other than the Enterprise.
As for the Shenandoah (the only other Earth Starfleet vessel named in the show!), it was implied that it was at least an older ship than the Enterprise, since both Archer and Tucker seemed to have former knowledge of it.
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I also doubt that the Shenandoah is supposed to be an NX-class ship. The Shenandoah was mentioned in "Silent Enemy," which was only a short time after they said that the next three were still yet to come.
On the other hand, Archer and Tucker seemed to be concerned about running into the new captain of the ship -- which isn't too likely if the Shenandoah is restricted to Warp 3, and Enterprise is out there on a deep-range mission. (Of course, you'd think that they'd send the next NX-class ships in different directions on separate exploration missions, rather than retracing the path of the first one...)
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My guess is that Enterprise is on some kind of a spiral course as opposed to being on a straight line away from Earth. Simply going in one direction would seem to make very little sense for a variety of reasons. If this is true, Enterprise could go hundreds of light years and still be only a few weeks away from Earth at any given time and still be exploring heretofore unknown areas of the galaxy.
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it is also the thomas sasser of thomas modles who is oing the work on the official polar lights nx-01. just as a point of interest.
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