chrinFinity wrote:

Yeah, I was going to say. Not a problem if one of them met with its demise or was decommissioned.
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The problem with that theory is that if there were two different ships, that would mean that the second ship would have been commissioned after 2363. It's doubtful that Excelsiors were still in production, and even more doubtful that a brand new ship would have a registry as low as 42296. It would most likely start with a 7.
chrinFinity wrote:

Also this seems like a stupidly trivial thing to be arguing about.
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Arguing about trivial things is what Star Trek nerds like us do all the time.