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I wonder, if older ships are reinstated, in wartime for example, can they recieve a new, higher registry? Does anyone know what the absolute highest, and therefore newest, shipreg is?
Also, I'd like to know the most recent stardate, if not voyager then perhaps in some novel or comicbook you've read?
And no thanks, hold the fries. Have to mind the figure.
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The highest canon rego that I know of is the one for the Sao Paulo - NCC-75633, IIRC.
I can certainly see merit in your idea about reinstated ships being given higher (current) rego numbers. It comes to mind that it would be a nice way to explain why the Excelsior Melbourne has such a high number. Also, they do the same thing with cars over here in West Australia. There's plenty of old rust buckets sporting new plates after they've been put back on the road. I wonder why they don't just reuse the old plates - you'd think there'd be a good reason.
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Well, if any of the Austrailian states have changed their plates in the past decade or so, those old rustbuckets could have had plates from before the change, but were off the road. Once they were put back on, new plates were needed.
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Well the you get a new number-plate when you get a new registration... i.e. after the old-one was left to run out, you've moved interstate, you've bought a second hand car that had personalised number plates etc...
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Well, the first time I am aware of that you could actually SEE a five digit registry was in "The Wounded" .... the Nebula Class Phoenix had a registry of NCC-65420 and that could be seen in the first shot. Most of the other five digit registries in TNG were published in various sources (encyclopoedia, etc) but couldn't be made out on the screen. Even though almost every starfleet ship the Enterprise encountered had a 5 digit registry, the ships we saw close up tended to not have the registry visible (aka the Brattain, which had the registry NCC-21166 painted on the model, but the closeup shot only showed the ship name, not number). The few ships you could actually read the numbers on were the Stargazer (2893) Hathaway (2593) Bozeman (1941), Repulse (2544 - visible on it's shuttlecraft anyway) .... again, oddly enough, the old 4 digit numbers. Many of the models in the Wolf 359 graveyard scene had 5 digit registries put on them, but they were so small on screen you couldn't read them. So the irony here was that Gene Roddenbery determined early on that the way you distinguish TNG era ships were that they had 5 digit registries.... and then for seven seasons we practially never actually see any!
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TLE: Thanks but I meant the current stardate in Trek, not real life. But now that you mention it, isn't THAT stardate a bit close to 2375?
targetemployee: Very nice list. That Yamato though, do you mean that Riker's statement was uncanon?
Is the Yamato a galaxy-class? If not, I think it should deserve to be one because of the historic reference. I mean, the four japanese Yamato-class battleships were the mightiest ships of all time. Their only drawback was their bad gun-control, optical instead of radar...
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1305-E An early draft for that episode (Where Silence Has Lease) gave the number as NCC-1305-E, which didn't fit into the numbering scheme developed for starships in TNG. Mike Okuda wrote a note to the producers, requesting the number be changed, but didn't send the memo because a later draft of that script dropped the reference to the Yamato's registry number. Mike wasn't aware that an even-later draft of the script restored the scene and the incorrect number. By the time he found out, he had already prepared the markings for the USS Yamato saucer, for the scene when that ship blew up in the episode "Contagion", as well as the ship's log computer screens for that episode. source: Encyclopedia 3 http://fitz8472.hypermart.net/yamato.jpg
Does anyone have a pic of the Constitution-computer screen, NCC-8000-model and Jenolan-computer screen?
Shik
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FOUR Yamato-class battleships? Nononononono...TWO. :::thinks for a moment::: Well, two & a HALF. Remember Shinano...
:::in a dismissive British nobility tone::: Alpha's obviously never been to my site where I accidentally posted my USS Buran model about a year ahead of schedule--with an NX-100000 registry, she's not supposed to commission until the end of this year. Oops. My fault on the math. So I guess the highest one that "really" exists is J�ga, NCC-99007. :{�
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Well they had plans for four!!! (Wow, almost an argument!) Aawright, I stand erected...
Yes, the first "Galaxy" family was that of four...
Hm, don't think I've seen "Contagion". Is it sweet?
And who's this Cheryl? I mean J�ga!? And did the S�o P�olo get to keep it's registry after the Defiantation, or did the yucky NX follow?
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