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colin
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A majority of the fans accept the registries given to the Constitution Class starships. If matched to the chart, the list is alphabetical. This leaves only C, D, or E being the letters that are available to begin the names of the unknown starships. This is no threat. Simply, a matter of fact.

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TSN
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Just because those ships are alphabetical doesn't mean the other two are. There's nothing to say that the alphabetization (is that a word?) of the known ships isn't just a coincidence. You can't be sure they whole thing is in order. Lack of evidence to the contrary does not constitute proof.

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Malnurtured Snay
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I agree with TSN.

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spyone
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Sadly, the definition of "Starship" varied from episode to episode. In some, "Starship" meant any warp-capable ship. In others, it meant only the Constitution Class ships. In others, it refered to the newest ships Starfleet had.

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Daniel
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I agree that alphabetization may be just a coincidence. It might be noted that all or most of the Constitution-class vessels might be named after famous naval vessels. The Constitution and Enterprise we all know about, the Hood was with the British navy and destroyed by Germany's Bismarck During WWII, I think the Potemkin was a famous Russian battleship on which the crew mutinied for lack of better treatment during the period of TR's great white fleet, and I'm sure the others have equally intriguing places in history.

If you follow Todd Allen Guenther's (admittedly noncanon) Ships of the Star Fleet, most of the ships are named like that. Registry numbers are placed in numerical order with the anomalous ones explained as being older ships brought up to the standards of the class. Or ships destroyed and new ones rechristened in their honor, registry number kept for "record-keeping purposes".

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Masao
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I'd like to point out that Guenther got all the names for Constitution variants from the lists in Franz Joseph's Starfleet Technical Manual. I guess he got the names from those mentioned in the Eps and in The Making of Star Trek. Don't know how he got the registries, though.

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The359
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How many starships are actually listed in "The Making of Star Trek"?

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Masao
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I don't have a copy, but there were several lists of suggested names for the 12 starships. IIRC, the number of suggested names exceeded 12.

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