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I was just thinking about this. Is it possible the NX-Class starships are variants of an "N-Class"? The N-Class could be lacking the Warp 5 Engine as well as a few other bits of technology, and possibly have a slightly different design. Kinda like having the DY-Class be a variant of the D-Class.
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Maybe, but until we learn of more Pre-Federation vessel classes other than the few that have been mentioned, it's really up in the air. Personally, I think the letter designation for ship classes is pretty stupid.
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I didn't say it wasn't canonically consistent, just that I thought it was stupid.
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Looks like a tiny boo-boo -- I doubt that Mudd would have been able to flee from the Enterprise in a late 21st-century freighter that couldn't break Warp 1.8... (Travis Mayweather grew up on a J-Class freighter.)
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Mudd could have gotten a new engine for his freighter...
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Archer did seem to imply that those old freighters would (or could) be upgraded to warp 5 engines. Maybe.
But evidently they weren't, since Sulu commented in "Friday's Child" (during the Klingon ruse of false Federation distress calls) that a freighter might be capable of warp two.
(Of course, this was back in the day when Kirk was always flying around at warp one or two, so it might not have sounded so bad at the time . . .)
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That doesn't seem to fit in with anything, actually. If Mudd's ship is an older ship refitted, then it can go fast enough to give the Enterprise a fair chase. If Mudd's ship is a new ship, it can go fast enough to give the Enterprise a fair chase. Either way, there are cargo vessels in the 23rd century that go faster than warp 2.
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Hey didnt Capt Pike get messed up on a J-Class training vessel?
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I need to dig out the episodes in question, but I thought the dialogue referred to them as "Class J" cargo ships, not "J-class"...
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quote from ST ENCYCLOPEDIA "Pike suffered severe radiation injuries in 2266 as a result of an accident aboard a class-J training ship."
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