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

[The Wormhole]

I assume "Star Tr3k" has already been mentioned somewhere.

Well, at least it doesn't have a leading zero. Hopefully, that's an Abrams thing Justin Lin can leave out of his movie.

It's not necessarily a "leading zero", but a place-holder digit. It is a common practice in everyday life.

One recent example (from a tragic real life event) is the numbers on the coffins used to identify the remains of the AirAsia crash victims. The first two sets of remains were numbered "001" and "002" (not simply "1" and "2"), considering that the number of remains could eventually go up to 172.

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.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

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.

 

[F. King Daniel]

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...

 

[CorporalCaptain]

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.

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

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

NCC-01701
NCC-02000
NX-00001

I'm a genius!

 

[doubleohfive]

If they went the Man of Steel/Dark Knight route with Star Trek, the only real, recognizable names I could come up with that would let the audience know, "These are Star Trek movies," would be THESE ARE THE VOYAGES or THE FINAL FRONTIER. I don't think any Trek producer wanting to make The Dark Knight kind of money wants to bring up memories of these two stinkers*

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

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.

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

 

[Nebusj]

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.

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

 

[M'Sharak]

Take that, Enterprise-J.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Take that, Enterprise-J.

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

.

 

[Lexx Shrapnel]

It would honestly would not bother me.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Why does it have to be NCC-0514 as opposed to NCC-514.

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