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The S.S. Santa Maria had a BDR registery. Perhaps the "N" regiteries are only for vessles attached to the federation government and institutions. Or perhaps the owners of that ship were big Blues Brothers fans.
quote:An official Romulan abbreviation showed up in late-DS9 okudagrams, but I don't recall what it was
That was PWB.
The Klingon Toron-class shuttle had NCD-31775.
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: 2.) Number of times the word naval has been used to describe anything in Star Trek, much less Starfleet proper: 0.
Not so... When Worf was explaining the need to assign a captain the same accomodations as an admiral he said ... ahem... "It is naval tradition."
I believe there have been a couple of other similar instances of that kind of correlation as well... oh, and there's the fact that the entire rank structure is based on the Naval structure.
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I don't think that's the Klingon shuttle. While they did reuse that basic design for several different ships, that doesn't look like the exact configuration of the Turon-Class. Looking at the Turon Class schematics, it doesn't have the same large P/S engines and it dosen't appear to be quite as long. I think it's actually the Iyaaran shuttle from (TNG" Liaisons").
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Agreed with the above - that's the Iyaaran shuttle. Still not a Federation member race, but perhaps they bought their shuttle from a UFP vendor?
The Yridians don't appear to be a member race, either. In the Charts, they were simply dropped in an empty spot somewhere in between Klingon, Cardassian and Romulan space, to retain full liberty in positioning the Carraya camp somewhere within Yridian intelligence reach. There are plenty of other non-members scattered around the blue-background areas - one can assume they are either surrounded by small bubbles of independent space, or located above or below UFP territory.
As for the deeper meaning of NCC, here's hoping it will remain a mystery forever. So far, there hasn't been anything in ENT to explicitly contradict the idea that she's NX class and other ships in the fleet are of AF or H or GGD classes... I personally hope this idea will be reinforced later on.
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I like the happy parallel between Matt Jeffries' 'NCC' prefix and the 'CC' prefix of the U.S. Navy's cruisers. After all, Gene did maintain that the Star Ships were Starfleet's heavy cruisers. It's a nice fit.
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Jeffries wanted NC and added another C. (I thought the US prefix was NC?) And that as it so happened the Soviet prefix was CCC. So it was a nice combining of the two.
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Have we seen any Federation ship that didn't have USS?
What about the Raven from Voyager? The dedication plaque read "The Raven" and had an NAR registry. Then, it suddenly was addressed as U.S.S. Raven. I don't know if NCC was ever applied, though.
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The S.S. Beagle was a vessel in the Federation merchant service. I'm sure there have been others, though none are springing to mind.
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