Which site was that?Back around the turn of the Century I was playing around with an "in-universe" Trek website (which might still exist in some Geocities graveyard) and digitally kitbashed some "prefit" versions of a few 23rd Century ships
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"Sister ship" for the Constellation
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And a Connie that falls midway between an NX and the Cage version.
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Except, at least from the captions, L'Rell called them D-7's more than once. Unless "K'Tinga" translates literally to "D-7"....I look at it simply as D-7 is the Starfleet designation for that type of ship. K't'inga being the actual Klingon class name.
Well...... of course! Those captions were produced using a standard Starfleet Universal Translator, for our benefit.....Except, at least from the captions, L'Rell called them D-7's more than once. Unless "K'Tinga" translates literally to "D-7"....
D-7 .... K'Tinga. It's the same ship!
Might be the way the Universal translator dealt with it.Except, at least from the captions, L'Rell called them D-7's more than once. Unless "K'Tinga" translates literally to "D-7"....
D-7 .... K'Tinga. It's the same ship!
Well...... of course! Those captions were produced using a standard Starfleet Universal Translator, for our benefit.....
Yeah..... that'll work.
Might be the way the Universal translator dealt with it.
They are both essentially the same type of ship, one just has a greater capacity to do damage.
So to StarFleet, the K'tinga could be labeled the D7A.Since Enterprise established the D5 somewhat the D4 .. So the D7 is a ship class.
I don't recall what I called it. Something like StarfleetHistoricalDatabase.com. It's probably dead.Which site was that?
I'm even ok if that distinction was always there, even though they looked different from TOS to TMP - after all Enterprise is remains a Constitution class even though it's waaay more different looking.I've always been content to go with the SF designation was D-7, the Klingon name was K'Tinga. NATO had it's own names for Soviet aircraft on top of whatever the Soviets called them, so not a new concept.
It also makes practical sense to combine them as they have a near identical silhouette, something something identical ships of different scales potentially confuses the audience if they are ever in the same shot (see the BoP).I'm even ok if that distinction was always there, even though they looked different from TOS to TMP - after all Enterprise is remains a Constitution class even though it's waaay more different looking.
And you can hear them say D-7 in Klingon. “Day Soch”Maybe the translator when the D-7's came to help out vs CONTROL. But when L'Rell was introducing them in the cavern or whatever, it was only the on-screen captions.
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