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In the Making-of-First Contact-Book by Lou Anders Alex Yeager from ILM says that every ship in the battle scene got a name and a registry. Is this true, and if "yes": Got every ship in the DS9-battle scenes a name too?
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Many of the ships on DS9 got names. The ships in the opening scenes of Sacrifice of Angels did. The Curry and the Frederickson for example.
If you're refering to the large all out battle scenes, there is evidense that some of the most prominent ships did (the Setak and the Majestic) but given that there are countless little floaters way in the background of most of those scenes, it's highly doubtful that every ship created was given a name or registry.
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I'm not so sure we'd want to discover them, lest we be forced to accept such dubiously christened vessels as the USS Fat Bastard and USS Jenny, I love you, will you marry me? into the official canon. Not to mention the USS Steve Made This.
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Should we even accept the USS Alka-celsior? We don't because we all know that was an inside joke and the lables were not meant to be seen on screen. Even if we didn't know it was a joke, it wouldn't be accepted either because it just sounds too crazy. We just can't accept everything they put on screen as cannon because most of the time they're inside jokes. So of course, if there were names for all these ships and some were USS This Took To Long To Create or USS I'm A Wussy Ship And That's Why I'm Not Up In The Front, those shouldn't be accepted as cannon. They just sound too crazy to even sound real.
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Wasn't there once a USS Luke Skywalker on an Okudagram? Or maybe it was just USS Skywalker? Actually, I think there were some other joke ones at that same time...
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Today I saw "What you leave behind". There were some close-up shots of Galaxy-, Excelsior-, Nebula- and Miranda-Ships. I think that at least these ships get a name, but I couldn't see something clearly. Has anyone seen more?
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The guys over at ILM and Okuda appear to be known for its practical jokes. Such as "Medical Insurance Remaining" or "Menu: Antimatter Flambe or Tribbles a la Triskettes" etc. I wouldn't be surprised that they had a background ship with the name "USS Monica Lewinsky".
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Don't forget the USS Pastuer being built at the Skywalker Ranch
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I saw a name and registry on that Galaxy Class in WYLB on the nacelle pylon. It either started with a "T" or a "C" and it looked like NX-xxxxx. I'm not actually sure though.
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