quote:Originally posted by Dukhat: Miscellaneous ship info: 4. The "Sarajevo" type ship had no official class or registry, although a sketch of the ship by John Eaves is labeled "NC-27." NC-class, anyone? Also, in Eaves' sketch, the ship is labeled "Starfleet Elite Observation vessel," and was more detailed, including red bussards in front of the rear blue glowing thingies (thereby making it a warp vessel instead of a sublight ship). Unfortunately the bussards don't show up in the finished product.
Okay. I'd like to re-phrase that and call it the NC class surveyor, with NC-01 being the Elite and NC-27 being Sarajevo. So the Surveyor is really a Starfleet Elite 'observation vessel' .
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Mabye it's a spy-ship to use on the Vulcans (though this seems unlikely), or it has a subspace array built into it that allows for long-distance scanning.
Or mabye Eaves was just freebasing that day.
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The letters might also refer to ship type. The Enterprise and her classmates might be the first of the NX type, but there could have been multiple classes of NC type vessels prior to this most recent one. Say, Sapporo class (NC-01-05), Innsbruck class (NC-06-12), Lake Placid class (NC-13-19) etc. etc.
Going by that philosophy, the "NO Class" actually sounds like my vote for the Sarajevo! "O" for "Observation" and all. Eaves just drew the latter letter a bit carelessly... In that case, the Intrepid would probably be from the NC class (Navy Cruiser), the delta ships from NF (Navy Frigate), etc. In case of more than one cruiser design in Starfleet history, the pennant numbers would add another recognition feature (NC-09 class, much like the USN speaks of SSN-688 class or FFG-7 class).
Alas, such a system is vulnerable to further datapoints...
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Well, the Navy is not quite like that for you see SS and SSN are not just different sub designs, but are of different sub types. SS is the standard diesel-powered sub of various classes and designs while SSN is a nuclear-powered sub of various classes and designs. It's the same will all the other types of ships the USN has.
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I like the sound of a "NO Class". They probably have duct tape holding the warpcore together and peanut shells on the floor.... Kid Rock could play their captain.
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quote: Well, the Navy is not quite like that for you see SS and SSN are not just different sub designs, but are of different sub types. SS is the standard diesel-powered sub of various classes and designs while SSN is a nuclear-powered sub of various classes and designs. It's the same will all the other types of ships the USN has.
That's exactly what I meant. The Sarajevo would be NO-something because she's of Observation Ship type, but she'd belong to the Athens class of Observation Ships, also known as the NO-22 class and featuring the vessels NO-22 through NO-31.
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I think the "Warp Delta" should be the Neptune Class, personally. Whatdoes it resemble in dorsal view if not the business end of a trident? The "Half-saucer" Not so much...
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Just a quickie. Whats the furthest away from earth that the half saucer has been seen?
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Which, confusingly enough, is far enough out even a century later that Kirk felt he could safely leave Khan and his flunkies to run around on it.
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