You completely missed the point. I am very aware of what it was used for in TOS.
Furthermore you missed the emoticon, a little lower down.
Meaning that while being accurate, I was also being tongue-in-cheek.
Sorry if this is a silly question but what does USS and NCC mean?
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Furthermore you missed the emoticon, a little lower down.
Meaning that while being accurate, I was also being tongue-in-cheek.
I understood what you posted, I put correct information out there because correct information is important.
For my 26th Century Head Canon, (I know it's not official Canon), I have a different set of initialisms.
U.S.S. =
UFP (United Federation of Planets)
StarFleet
StarShip
N.C.C. = Has 3 seperate meanings depending on what Stage a StarShip is in
Stage 1 = Paper Work & Construction Agreement
NCC = Naval Construction Contract
Stage 2 = Physical Hull Markings
NCC = Naval Construction Code
Stage 3 = Digital IFF codes
NCC = Navigational Contact Code
U.S.S. =
UFP (United Federation of Planets)
StarFleet
StarShip
N.C.C. = Has 3 seperate meanings depending on what Stage a StarShip is in
Stage 1 = Paper Work & Construction Agreement
NCC = Naval Construction Contract
Stage 2 = Physical Hull Markings
NCC = Naval Construction Code
Stage 3 = Digital IFF codes
NCC = Navigational Contact Code
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After all, wasn't someone recently complaining about the lack of education in today's world? Posting correct information helps to educate others.
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You’re overthinking it.
It's my "26th Century Head Canon", so I will over think EVERYTHING.
I literally have a 785+ Page Word Document on what happens in my Universe in terms of Tech / Recent History progression / Organizational changes / etc.
Every detail of the world of Trek that has progressed to the 26th century is accounted for.
That's not counting additional documents & images I have that covers nearly every subject.
I even factor in DISCO along with the Spore Drive and manage to incorporate it back into the 26th century despite the shenanigans that happened in that series and how the USS Discovery ended up stranded in Nebula Storm
Yep. Canon and continuity are two different things.
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What I wonder is, why do we think NCC should stand for something? In real life, aircraft registration prefixes tend to use fairly arbitrary letters, for instance N in the US. (Before 1948, it was NC for commercial US aircraft, which is where Jefferies got it.) There are a few cases where the letters stand for the country name, like F for France and CU for Cuba, but usually it's just arbitrary letters or letter-number combos, like VH for Australia or CP for Bolivia.
We're too used to acronyms to consider this:
Also puts me in mind of old-style telephone exchange phone numbers:
en.wikipedia.org
Also puts me in mind of old-style telephone exchange phone numbers:
Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia
We're too used to acronyms to consider this:
Also puts me in mind of old-style telephone exchange phone numbers:
Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia
Yeah, but those are letters/numbers that used to stand for specific words. But letters in serial or registry numbers often don't stand for anything at all and never have. I assume that aircraft registration letters are assigned just to be different from each other, and only one country gets to have "C" as its identifier, so other countries starting with C have to be assigned other letters based on availability.
The fact that Starfleet has an "NX" prefix for experimental craft argues against "NCC" standing for a specific phrase, since it makes no sense to substitute "Naval Construction Contract" with "Naval Experimental" or whatever. So the N is probably just an arbitrary prefix used in Starfleet registries, and there would be different letters used for civilian government craft, the vessels of individual Federation member worlds, and so forth.
I guess it's like asking what the random letters on your license plate stand for (unless you have a vanity plate, of course).
In WWII, allied aircraft in Europe had code letters on their sides - two letters denoting squadron, then a third giving the plane's order in the squadron. The two-letter squadron code was just randomly assigned and didn't stand for any words.
On the above Spitfire, the "NH" in the serial number on the tail didn't stand for anything phonetic either, just a production series designation.
In WWII, allied aircraft in Europe had code letters on their sides - two letters denoting squadron, then a third giving the plane's order in the squadron. The two-letter squadron code was just randomly assigned and didn't stand for any words.
On the above Spitfire, the "NH" in the serial number on the tail didn't stand for anything phonetic either, just a production series designation.
I was surprised to learn that it wasn't an actual usage. What do they use instead in real life?
In three-dimensional space, course directions have to be given in both the horizontal and vertical planes. The word "mark" is simply a way of separating the first statement in degrees from the second statement in degrees. Here on Earth, a course direction is a single number (e.g., "come to course zero-nine-zero"), hence no separating word is necessary.
For heading or bearing relative to a ship, yes, but ST also sometimes uses "mark" when giving absolute coordinates of a position in space. That would be analogous to latitude and longitude on a planet surface. I guess in that case, the equivalent dividing word would be "by," like "32 degrees north by 71 degrees east."
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