You mentioned "for the audience, and the fanboys". So it's not just your personal preference we're talking about. So, why isn't "ENTERPRISE" or "VOYAGER" or "CONSTELLATION" cue enough?
Matt Jeffries Intentions / Federation Vessel Hull Numbers
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I'm not a fanboy?
Not the only one, no.
Ok. Can you just accept that it's MY opinion and leave it at that, and recognize that maybe, JUST maybe, there's one or two other people who agree with me?
I asked you a simple question, out of genuine curiosity, and all you could come up with was 'No'. That's not what discussion boards are for, you know. Now I'm done fishing.
I asked you a simple question, out of genuine curiosity, and all you could come up with was 'No'. That's not what discussion boards are for, you know. Now I'm done fishing.
Sorry, I didn't have a whole lot to add to the discussion.
I asked you a simple question, out of genuine curiosity, and all you could come up with was 'No'. That's not what discussion boards are for, you know. Now I'm done fishing.
Sorry, I didn't have a whole lot to add to the discussion.
All right, no problem then.
Though not seen onscreen, we do have the comm chatter outside Epsilon 9 mentioning the scouts Revere NCC-595 and Columbia NCC-621 as well as the dreadnought Entente NCC-2120 from TMP. One would have to decide for one's self how much weight to give them and what they imply about the TMP-era fleet and registries, but they are another data point.
It is funny, I've used this image a number of times in the last year and a half and you're the first person to notice that I changed the name.Is my eyesight failing me or is that top ship not Matt Decker's ship at all? I read Constantinople. Was that change intentional?
Shaw,
Hahahahaha, good one
Hahahahaha, good one
If you've got a date in Constantinople she'll be waiting in Istanbul! Even old New York, was once New Amsterdam! Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way!
To throw another wrench into things here, what class is the Republic believed to be? Kirk mentions her in "Court Martial" as "United Starship Republic, number 1371".
Was it ever explicitly said the Republic was a Constitution Class?
On a purely personal level I've always liked the idea that registries denote specific classes, and ideally shouldn't be repeated unless necessary (though that's certainly been broken by many fanon sources). The closest equivalent I can think of from another sci-fi series would be the model numbers in BattleTech, which has many designs whose overall service lives have lasted decades, if not centuries, through successive variations. Those individual models usually share variations on their model code, but said code is unique to each design.
I move that the 18" AMT model be declared the Bonhomme Richard class and that all starships with registries lower than 1600 and previously assumed to be Constitution class, like the USS Constellation NCC-1017 and the USS Republic NCC-1371, are, in actuality, Bonhomme Richard class starships.
All in favor, say "aye."
All in favor, say "aye."
