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[Tim Thomason]

We might have a registry number/name

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Really? NCIA-93? You just stick "CIA" in there as some sort of goofy easter egg?

 

[DaveyNY]

NX-PBY Cat

 

[F. King Daniel]

NCIA 93 is the most disappointing non-name in the history of disappointing non-names.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Really? NCIA-93? You just stick "CIA" in there as some sort of goofy easter egg?

I'm breaking it down as Naval Construction Internal Affairs. Like their cover story for getting these built (and maybe even the real story, at this point in Starfleet history) is that they're used by Starfleet's Internal Affairs division for transporting IA officers and ops?

 

[ITDUDE]

And there are now at-least 3 of those things. It was cool when it was one-of-a-kind kind of deal. Now it's just another ship. Boooring...

 

[Tim Thomason]

I'm breaking it down as Naval Construction Internal Affairs. Like their cover story for getting these built (and maybe even the real story, at this point in Starfleet history) is that they're used by Starfleet's Internal Affairs division for transporting IA officers and ops?

I was thinking something like "Intelligence Asset". I hope there aren't 93 of these things, and just mostly shuttles/runabouts fill out the NCIA registry.

I think the NCIA registry is top-secret, whereas NCC ships are public knowledge (even if internal details, a la Discovery, are secret), and NX ships are testbeds. N is Naval and denotes Starfleet (or, at least, their outer space registry), and the C here probably denotes the Contract number.

Naval Construction Contract - per fandom
Naval Experiment - probably used in homage to the experimental NX class
Naval Contracted Intelligence Asset - that it is a Construction Contract (NCCIA?) is probably implied.

 

[USS Triumphant]

I was thinking something like "Intelligence Asset". I hope there aren't 93 of these things, and just mostly shuttles/runabouts fill out the NCIA registry.

I think the NCIA registry is top-secret, whereas NCC ships are public knowledge (even if internal details, a la Discovery, are secret), and NX ships are testbeds. N is Naval and denotes Starfleet (or, at least, their outer space registry), and the C here probably denotes the Contract number.

Naval Construction Contract - per fandom
Naval Experiment - probably used in homage to the experimental NX class
Naval Contracted Intelligence Asset - that it is a Construction Contract (NCCIA?) is probably implied.

Okay, that would work for me, too. Either way.

 

[Tim Thomason]

And there are now at-least 3 of those things. It was cool when it was one-of-a-kind kind of deal. Now it's just another ship. Boooring...

I guess it's possible that NCIA-93 is the most advanced one, the only one capable of advanced holographic shielding, and the other two are just design studies or something, now used for patrols.