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Rain Robinson in "Future's End" insists that the Soviet Union was indeed dismantled by 1996, probably pretty much in the same manner it happened in the real timeline. And there's no good reason to assume Robinson's timeline wasn't the main Trek one in that respect.
There's nothing to say it wasn't founded again, though, to survive all the way to the mid-24th century and the Tsiolkovski dedication plaque. "Survival" being defined by the same terms as the "survival" of France, of course, given the birth of a world government in the 22nd century.
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One difference between the Trek timeline and ours is that Trek-verse exists in a world without the Star Trek TV show. This means all of us would suddenly vanish from existence (worst-case scenario) or be posting on a Lost in Space forum (pretty bad as well).
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Perhaps the USSR was resurrected after WWIII. Or possibly the place names were just changed back to the Soviet ones; strange as it may seem there is a lot of nostalgia, in Russia at least, for the days of the USSR and a lot of respect for Lemin, Stalin et al. I imagine at least some, if not most of this, is due to Soviet conditioning though.
On naming starships for Soviets: I doubt it'd be appropriate to name them for Stalin and the other unsavoury types, but military leaders (We've seen the USS Zhukov, after all), should be OK, as should scientists. I'm sure there are plenty from the Tsarist period as well; possibly also members of the Provisional Government, such as Lvov and maybe even the less radical socialists of the period, Mensheviks and so on.
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I concur, this looks incredible. But then, I already said that via e-mail.
As for the "Eff the Okudists" attitude... my personal belief is that Matt Decker's Constellation is actually NCC-1710, but was strangely transposed on the camera due to the intense gravitational and energy fields emitted by the Doomsday Machine.
...Either that, or one of the strange effects of the planet killer's anti-proton beam was to lift the paint markings off the hull and put them back in different positions.
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Just to open a big can of worms: The numbering system probably was sequential in tOS when there was only one large Starfleet shipyard and became non-sequential once additional shipyards were built and bega making ships without realtime communication with the other yards. It explains the two Yeagers too!
....and the Defiant is 179 meters long!
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Let's not go down this road. I only asked because I was curious as to whether it was a placeholder or not. It's his universe & I don't care.
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I'm going to say that Connies are all numbered sequentially from 1700. The 1600s and 1800s on the SB 11 chart are ships of other classes. I agree with Minutiae on Constellation's registry. That makes the most sense to me.
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As for the Constellation, the registry was just painted on wrong during her last overhaul and there wasn't enough time to fix it.
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