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What if the 5xxxx Registry was misinformation? It's such an advanced ship, that perhaps starfleet put the very old rego on the ship to portray that they had had this ship for years, while the internal numbers of the ship were the correct ones.
Actually, that theory sucks.
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The whole thing is a giant mistake. They probably didn't tell the different set designers what number to use. So the ship has the NX-5xxxxx on the out side and the sets have NX-7xxxxx on the inside. As for you website Nx001a use both and explain the reason to the best of your ability.
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Thanks for telling me that the Dauntless registration is wrong. I will probably stick to the old no for the prometheus since i am busy working on my website at the moment.
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Maybe the number on the plaque and the situation monitor was the one chosen by the producers, but maybe nx-59650 was a favourite number of one of the designers, or it had sentimental value. Who knows? The designers try to maintain consistency, but sometimes they boob. --------------- It is offensive. Fortunately, taste is irrelevant. -Seven of Nine, referring to Neelix's coffee from "Year of Hell"
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My opinion is that there is a lack of communications between deptments. Mike Okuda and his scenic art team made the MSD and DQ using NX-74913 while the CGI department that did the Prometheus itself didn't know the registry Okuda came up with and made up their own. Obvisiously they didn't understand the semi-chronological order of registries.
However let's assume it's older like the hull registry claims, the Prometheus was a top secret project, you think that when Starfleet named their Nebula-class ship USS Prometheus they'd say, "Hey, you can't name that ship Prometheus, we are already using it for our classified warship!" Yeah right. Odds are they'd just keep quiet.
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The Dauntless wasn't a starfleet ship and even if you say that oh they didn't go 'hang on' at the registry - they might have thought - oh its a new registry numbering scheme that they developed while we were gone... I think it was just a little ploy on the part of the alien to deceive the Voyager crew that they indeed had a brand new Starfleet ship in their hands.
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Also - I know this doesn't hold for 24th century ships - but in the Star Trek Sketchbook - Matt Jefferies said they used 1701 because the Enterprise was the 17th design and the 1st of its line (or second if you cound 00) This is screwed up when they used those earlier regos for other connie ships - but maybe they were 'tribute' ships - maybe there are lots of Tribute registries - its just that the Enterprise line of ships get the suffix.
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BTW, the Dauntless hull registry never appeared in the show, IIRC.
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Well, we did see pictures of the CGI Model later on, and it did say NX-01-A. But, as for the registry of NX-01A appearing on the MSD, well, think about this.
The MSD in Engineering onboard the Enterprise-D always had the registry number of NCC-1701D. But we know the registry was NCC-1701-D all the time. I think I've seen occasions where other computer graphics did the same thing.
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Ah, OK...in that case, I suppose the -A works.
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