Someone made mention that the Main Engineering of a Constitution class ship is in the primary hull, and not in the secondary hull. This was during the TOS era. But in STII, we see that the main engineering was somehow relocated to the secondary hull. That must have been one hulluva refit.

Quite some weeks ago, I saw a poster of ships named Enterprise. This poster predates the TNG era, since the Ent-C is said to be an Alaska Class (a very flat Primary Hull and Warp Nacelles, horribly stretched Constitution secondary hull). As well, the Ent-D is said to be (correctly) Galaxy class, and while the shape is correct, the dimensions and the diagram itself is not.

In that same poster was something interesting: the diagram for the refitted E-nil was called the testbed for the "Enterprise Class". As well, it also mentioned that E-A was also dubbed as Enterprise Class.

This kinda makes sense, considering the different shapes of the original, and newer Constitution Class, as well as the sudden changes in engineering location. Officially, we call the refitted E-nil and E-A Constitution Class II or Constitution Class refit.

What do you think?

(Side note: I believe the poster was printed sometime in 1984)

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You know it just occured to me; the Galaxies are to have a real long life span. According to reports the next Trek show will take place about 15 years in the future. My pt. is the Galaxies should be in it and I bet they will have had a huge overhaul by then, too.

In this rumored new series I'd think that the Excelsiors would finally be retired, too

*NOT A $$$$ CAUSE IT'S NOT FACT*

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"Everything I needed to learn in life I learned from Optimus Prime."

Rule #3 : Whenever someone under you screws up make sure you teach them a lesson more so than you punish them.

The change between the TOS and TCFS Enterprises was so great that making them different classes was by no means unlikely. Especially if there were ships of both specifications in use at the same time.

But ST VI had those blueprints labelled Constitution class. After that all the various types of Constitution vessels have been labelled as sub-class or type or variant rather than as class.

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