Maybe you could mention it's secondary hull in a novel and clear the matter up ! From what you have written about other classes of ship being developed from NX parts it wouldn't be a stretch for there to be a family or generation of related ships in production - new versions of the original NX, refit style, Pioneer and maybe others.
Fair enough ! There's another thread on here regarding the new Polar Lights Enterprise kit that let's you build either the original or refit version. Unusual, I think.
Hmm... it would probably take a fair bit of time in-universe to do that. I don't recall the RW books that well; was there enough "downtime" for Enterprise during the war to fit a refit in?
Oh, absolutely. There are a lot of time gaps in the books -- especially book 2, which covers the last four years of the war -- and NX-01 undergoes at least a couple of significant repairs/refits.
Thank you for that. As much as I admire the refit design, I like that the NX-01 is more of a predecessor to the Akira class than the Constitution class. I'm okay with the NX-refit being a "running change" to the way the NX ships were built after the NX-01 was retired, or even as a later class of starship. It's definitely the next developmental step for starships, but part of the NX-01's appeal imho is that her time was before that step was taken.
For every fan that want that, there's a fan who wants the stead state" version of the Trek unverse. Not everyone will be happy a the same time.
Well, considering that the last VAN novel ended Spoiler: ENDING OF VANGUARD with Sagitarrius and Endeveaour going into the Taurus Reach not only to explore and scout, but make sure that the Shedai are truly gone, their's a change we'll see some crossover.
The books are now listed at Amazon. What's odd is that they seem to have titles - weren't the Seeker books supposed to be just numbered (Seekers , Seekers 2, etc..)? FWIW at least in the amazon listing the first book by David Mack is called Second Nature and the second one by Ward/Dilmore Point of Divergence. Note: Since they only list Dilmore as the writer of Book 2, they just as well could be wrong about the titles as well. ETA: Dayton confirmed on Twitter that they were asked to provide titles.
I wouldn't be surprised if they now had titles for merchandising and sales purposes. Pocket wouldn't want people in bookstores to miss a book because they were confused by the lack of a title, and they would want people to be able to find the book online through searches. A title cuts adds clarity. I'm only speculating -- I don't know that that's the reason -- but it wouldn't surprise me at all because I deal with the very thing in my day job.