Gagarin is one of the best of the drop.
Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
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Fantastic resource, thank you!
One of the Inquiry Class named USS Rustazh, the searching that name on Google gives me a non-Canon Klingon from 'The Final Reflection', there are some real people with that name, but no one that I can find with some significance.
All the Luna Class names and registries come from the books, the Akira Class USS Rabin comes from First Contact production documents.
All the Luna Class names and registries come from the books, the Akira Class USS Rabin comes from First Contact production documents.
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Although I think the new ships are really fugly, I'm still really happy that modern Trek continues to lean on tie-ins for lore.
And in the 800 years between there and Discovery, they decide letters are the way to go, hence U.S.S. Excalibur NCC-1664-M or whatever it was.
The Reliant is tiny, the Gagarin is a midsize frigate and the Sutherland is perhaps more of a multirole ship like the Nebula.
If the Inquiry is more of a rapid reaction battleship, it would make sense.
Or perhaps Riker was just trash talking Commodore Oh. Either way, it worked.
One of the little touches that shows how bizarre and alien the distant future is.
I want Discovery to have an Enterprise in it but with the registry NX-01-Z just to mess with everyone.
There was an Excalibur NCC-26517. So it doesn't make much sense (at least to me) that Starfleet would suddenly decide that the original Exalibur deserved a suffix. Instead of six-digit registries I think Starfleet should've started over with a new prefix.
In Voyager's "Relativity" the time cops' ship had a registry starting with NCV-, although I think it was inconsistent between the VFX model and dedication plaque.
Nah, even worse, USS Dauntless NX-01-Z
Wouldn't make any less sense in-universe than the original Dauntless NX-01 registry did. 
I have faith of the spleen!
I imagine an off-screen conversation:
HARRY: Wait, so they named a new starship after the original USS Dauntless?
TOM: So it would seem!
HARRY: The NCC-01?
TOM: Yes.
HARRY: But they added a letter suffix?
TOM: Yes.
HARRY: But only the Enterprises get those!
TOM: ... I guess Starfleet changed their mind?
HARRY: And they gave it the NX registry prefix? The one Starfleet only gives to experimental ships in honor of the United Earth NX class?
TOM: Well, it is an experimental ship!
HARRY: So its registry is NX-01-A?
TOM: Yes.
HARRY: Like Archer's Enterprise?
TOM: Yes.
HARRY: So it has Archer's ship's registry, and it has an Enterprise-type suffix... but it's named after the Dauntless?
TOM: Yes.
HARRY: I swear to God, it's like Starfleet Operations just doesn't even care about our traditions anymore!
Come on, this isn't a DSC episode. There wouldn't be that much dialogue. 
So they mention these are the ‘6th’ generation of Starfleet vessels. Let’s do the math:
1st gen: pre-TOS and TOS era
2nd gen: TMP movie era
3rd gen: Let’s just call this the ‘Excelsior’ era (or Lost Era)
4th gen: Pre-TNG and TNG era
5th gen: TNG movie era
6th gen: PIC era
And rough dates:
1st gen: 2161-2269 (108 years)
2nd gen: 2270-2300 (30 years)
3rd gen: 2300-2350 (50 years)
4th gen: 2350-2370 (20 years)
5th gen: 2370-2390 (20 years)
6th gen: 2390-present
This is of course just my interpretation. Clearly there’s an issue with the 1st generation being over a century long (unless anything before 2245 doesn’t count.) Plus other questions such as where the Ambassador class fits in, and the 420XX registries of the Excelsior II in comparison to its design. And of course the DSC season 1 ships
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Why not, I still find it funny the "fake" USS Dauntless had NX-01-A as its registry number. Gotta love an alien of the week troll!
