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and of course, just because something was made in a fanboys basement doesnt make its a bad idea. the decals (and the Dauntless idea) are kinda appealing.. except that they dont much resemble whats going to actually be the canon truth of the matter.
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My guess is that Earth will be the big push behind the Federation, while the Vulcans will stubbornly refuse to be a part of it at first. They won't believe that Earth is capable of spearheading such a grand project. But, when Earth tries and its efforts meet with surprising success... Vulcan takes the "logical" route and joins the group. Thus, history records them as one of the founding members of the Federation while forgetting the nasty little bit about them trying to break up the whole thing before it got started. This would satisfactorily explain why Vulcan naval tradition doesn't get as preserved in the Federation Starfleet.
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Except for the fact that that totally denigrates a Star Trek race that we had the utmost respect for before Enterprise came along. And that sucks.
Honestly, this is not how I envisioned the events leading up to the formation of the Federation at all. As a matter of fact, the situation presented in Enterprise seems very reminiscent of the situation in the Delta Quadrant during Voyager's time there. Do you think that any Delta Quadrant races are going to form a cohesive union with one another anytime soon?
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quote:Originally posted by Dukhat: Except for the fact that that totally denigrates a Star Trek race that we had the utmost respect for before Enterprise came along. And that sucks.
Apart from the fact that they'd become snobby, arrogant bastards, you are right.
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um.. or it has nothing to do with that system.
letter classes in the 21st and 22nd centuries seem to be technical series 'J-class'; 'DY-class'; 'NX-class' with registries to match. kinda like the Navy, where class designation falls separate to type designation, CV-6; CVN-65, etc..
The Federation Starfleet doesnt seem to have an 'NCC-class'.. more likely it stands for something, like 'Naval Construction Contract' or the like. but its obvious that at somepoint between ENT and TOS that a separation is made between registries showing class, as all classes fall under NCC.
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Yes Mike, I know that. I was trying to put forward a theory that might LINK the two. Wouldn't have to if B&B hadn't called it NX-01.
Maybe a refit of the NC class was dubbed the NCC class - and at that time it was the first of the Federation Starfleet Starships and thus NCC was put before registries out of tradition and thusly NCC isn't an Acronym.
Maybe it was the NCB then NCC as said before.
Maybe NAR got stuck at the beginning of the Federation too!?!
Or yes, NX and the NX, NCC and NAR have NO connection what so ever (seeing as people have suggested that at least the N points to it being a Federation registry.)
Are there any other registries that are specifically Federation but don't have an 'N'?
Andrew
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IIRC, "NCC" was established to mean "Naval Construction Contract" in TMP, when it appeared on computer screens based on Franz Joseph's Star Trek Blueprints.
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