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I emailed Okuda about this a few forums back, and his reply was that, from his point of view, the registry of the Dauntless had no corolation to any real Starfleet ship.
I tend to agree with that sentiment.
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I know there are some pictures of the 3D model of the Dauntless which show the registry on the hull, and I think I remember the hull saying NX-01-A. In fact, the pictures are in the Star Trek: Action Book (which I believe was just updated with Insurrection stuff). It also has a copy of the MSD for you to look at.
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I reckon the registry used was meant to imply the whole new nature of the ship's propulsion. I doubt, if the Dauntless was a real ship, that they could then re-fit it with a normal warp drive as they did the Excelsior when the transwarp experiments failed.
So the Dauntless was a one-off, unless it worked - or that was what they were meant to think. After all, maybe Starfleet's method of assigning registries is so impenetrable, the alien couldn't figure it out and therefore had to cheat to avoid making a mistake. And you think the crew were just going to turn around and reject this opportunity because the registry didn't seem right?
This pic from Pedro's site shows that the CGI modeled is labeled NX-01-A, why the MSD says NX-01A is unknown. I guess Mike Okuda made a mistake when making it.
The original registry of the USS Defiant was NXP-2365WP/T. NX-01-A could of been some sort of temporary registry testing slipstream. But who cares? The ship was created by an alien trying to get revenge on Voyager, it isn't related to Starfleet. The only thing it even has in common is just that it was built to resemble a Federation vessel.
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The First One: "After all, maybe Starfleet's method of assigning registries is so impenetrable, the alien couldn't figure it out and therefore had to cheat to avoid making a mistake."
Hell, we can't even figure it really. All we have are best guesses. Although the chronological order theory works, it still isn't proven that's how Starfleet makes them.
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*sigh* OK, guys, new rule: whenever you feel like taking this stuff just a LITTLE bit less seriously - i.e. like making a joke out of it all, horror of horrors - be sure to put in a (�) sign to indicate it's a joke, so that some humourless so-and-so doesn't immediately come along and correct you.
This has been happening a lot of late. Hobbes, what do you think I was saying? Exactly what you just said.
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The name Dauntless has military written all over it. I doubt a budding Starfleet based on peace and exploration would call their first ship that. It's like renaming Pioneer 10, Destroyer 10. Makes little sense in that regard.
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Cargile Johnson is right! I mean, Dauntless? Then again, Valiant isn't exactly fitting either as a ship of exploration. . .
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