Paramount should leave out the star trek titlle for Trek 3.

Look, as I've many times (many times) there is precedent for three digit registry numbers, like USS Grissom NCC-638, so why does the Kelvin need a leading zero, or place holder digit. Why does it have to be NCC-0514 as opposed to NCC-514.

 

For the same reason why the Enterprise is larger and Khan has a British accent...

...The Neroverse.

Yeah, yeah -- I realize the Kelvin was numbered the way it was BEFORE Nero came along, but perhaps that method for numbering ships by using placeholder digits that was being used by the Kelvin was going to be changed in the prime universe (to the method we all know from previous Treks shows/movies), but after Nero did his thing, they had other things on their plate to deal with, so they tabled that change in registry numbers, and stuck with the method the Kelvin was using.

I'm sure we can come up with other reasonable explanations, too. It's not like we fans never needed to invent reasonable explanations for perceived inconsistencies before. It's what we've been doing for almost 50 years.

 

Perhaps it's not a placeholder at all. Maybe it's a size thing. Scouts like the Grissom get three digits, huge cruisers like the Kelvin get four. NCC-514 and NCC-0514 actually aren't the same registry.

Or, you know...

 

Precedent? How about NX-01 instead of NX-1?

 

NCC-01701
NCC-02000
NX-00001

I'm a genius!

 

It is kind of sad that such iconic titles have been wasted on such mediocre efforts.

"You know, the two of you could drive a man to drink."
--Leonard McCoy

 

It's not a number zero. It's the letter O. This was the fifteenth ship of that name.

 

I'm waiting for the 82nd version of the enterprise...
...The Enterprise DD, or simply "The Double D".

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It would honestly would not bother me.

 

Maybe whichever bureaucrat at Starfleet Command is in charge of distributing registry numbers, just decided to change their mind?