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Spoilers 31st/32nd Century Ships Revealed

Assuming Starfleet stopped building ships when the Burn occurred in 3069, and the Tikhov gets replaced regularly (indicated by the suffixed registry number), then Discovery is simultaneously the oldest, youngest, and newest ship in the fleet.

Jörg Hillebrand is posting updated analyses on the identified ship classes on Twitter - four today and three tomorrow.
(0) His Twitter: https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49?lang=en
(1) The Eisenberg-class aka Type 4: https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1327306301496582147
(2) The Intrepid-class aka Type x: https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1327311000744374275
(3) The NCC-325019 aka Type 8: https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1327315053494857732
(4) The four-nacelled, pylon-less Type 6: https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1327318395545653253
 
I’m perfectly fine with the Franklin being a Freedom class starship, despite the name conflict with the 24th century Freedom class. It’s far better than it being an NX class based on its registry, since it’s obviously not an NX class. The only real problem is that the Franklin was built before the NX-01 Enterprise, so its class should technically be a letter/letters, not an actual name.

Well, we know of zero Starfleet classes that would be letter/letters, as opposed to the Neptune class and possibly the Triton class existing.

Against that, the Franklin could be all sorts of classes in addition to being a Starship, and of course Archer's ship could also be Enterprise class in addition to being a NX (the way a Ticonderoga or an Arleigh Burke is an AEGIS, that is, the ships belong to a certain class and to a certain class of capabilities).

Timo Saloniemi
 
There’s the J class training ship where Pike was wounded. Presumably it was a Starfleet vessel.
 
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That long part sticking out of the rear is just one of discovery’s nacelles but retextured.

It’s very obvious in that untextured shot, compare it to the actual discovery’s nacelle
 
Here's something I want to talk about that kinda bothered me as it felt like a moment you would get in 'StarTrek Lower Decks'. But....

How does Tilly know the Voyager - J is 10 generations? There wasn't a Voyager in TOS and Discovery eras. Or was there? Possibly like the Defiant it would be just a different registry and they only started the lettering system because of the epic journey the original Voyager went on. But how would she know it was 10 generations? Because we've seen vessels of the same name without a letter in the registry so there could have been 3 or 4 Voyagers before the one we came to know. The Enterprise was the only ship before Voyager to have the lettering added to it. BUT that's still after Tilly's time.
OK, so maybe it's more common than we thought that Starships have letters A,B,C for certain ships that are of recognized fame but where the heck are they in the previous 700 episodes and 13 movies?

So it seems to me that the only way to explain it is that there was some class starship called Voyager in the Discovery 23rd Century era. Tilly knew of it and assumes probably that it gained infamy after her time.
 
There's no reason the Enterprise was the first ship with a letter suffix to its registry. For all we know, Starfleet had a Dauntless NX-01-A. Thus, Ensign Tilly could easily surmise from the letter suffix that there had been an original USS Voyager NCC-74656 at some point. Perhaps the USS Yamato NCC-1305-A was already in service by the 2250s.
 
I have no problem with Tilly deducing that there are at least ten generations of starships there.

What I do have a problem with:

1) Tilly seems to think this is a big deal. Her own Starfleet has existed for about a century; has there only been a single generation of starships in that time, to make ten per a thousand years seem impressive?
2) Tilly seems to devote considerable mental effort to arriving at this figure. As in, "I can calculate the properties of dark matter asteroids in my head, but how manieth letter of the alphabet was this J again...?"!

Timo Saloniemi
 
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