Names of the Original Series Starships ?

[Vance]

Actually, I went through this, watching the scene. The Commodore explicitly looks at the 1831 bar, the one marked with the complete tab, and then calls in for the Intrepid. I used to be flexible with this one, but the DVDs make it pretty clear.

One I don't remember as well is the 'Enterprise Incident', was the schematic labeled?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Christopher said:But there was no actual onscreen mention of Constitution or Kongo.

The Kongo was mentioned in ST VI. It was on Neutral Zone patrol when Operation Retrieve was proposed. I think it was on the diagrams shown by Colonel West (or on various readout screens, I can't remember which).

 

[Christopher]

I meant there was no onscreen mention of those ships at the time The Making of Star Trek came out, in contrast to Whitfield's claim that those two were among the names that had "been established for starships."

 

[Forbin]

Sneezy, Dopey, Happy....

 

[RIDAD]

Irulan Ghola said:
Wasn't there one called the Yamato?

Yep, it had 18" phaser banks.

 

[erastus25]

Steven Of Nine said:
They were all listed in the technical manual from the 70s. Anyone got one?

//EDIT

Never mind, I got it:

Name Registry
USS Constitution NCC-1700
USS Enterprise NCC-1701
USS Farragut NCC-1702
USS Lexington NCC-1703
USS Yorktown NCC-1704
USS Excalibur NCC-1705
USS Exeter NCC-1706
USS Hood NCC-1707
USS Intrepid NCC-1708
USS Valiant NCC-1709
USS Kongo NCC-1710
USS Potemkin NCC-1711
USS Constellation NCC-1017
USS Republic NCC-1371

There are 14 ships on that list. That would contradict both interpretations of the "12 in the fleet" line, so I kind of take it with a grain of salt.

 

[Garibaldi O'brien]

I always figured there were twelve at that time. Who's to say they weren't building more of them to replace the ones that went BOOM!

 

[Forbin]

In fact, the Franz Joseph tech manual has further listings for dozens more starships. I would also assume those were built after TOS' time period, and Kirk's fleet of 12 was all that existed at the time of that episode.

 

[sturmde]

"One of Our Starships Is Missing"

I've always loved that it was never set in stone.

The NCC numbers in "Court Martial" conflict with Franz Joseph's version which conflict with the FASA version, etc. etc.

"Only 12 like it in the fleet" implies there are 12 starships (the Enterprise plus 11 more like it... the Enterprise is like itself) with the same CONFIGURATION as Enterprise.

I've always taken that to mean that 12 of the Constitution class vessels are as advanced. Perhaps others are still running pre-TOS rigging... at least that's the assumption that's worked for me for 40-almost years.

 

[Forbin]

Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo...

 

[The Old Mixer]

...John, Paul, George, Ringo...

 

[Noname Given]

erastus25 said:

Steven Of Nine said:
They were all listed in the technical manual from the 70s. Anyone got one?

//EDIT

Never mind, I got it:

Name Registry
USS Constitution NCC-1700
USS Enterprise NCC-1701
USS Farragut NCC-1702
USS Lexington NCC-1703
USS Yorktown NCC-1704
USS Excalibur NCC-1705
USS Exeter NCC-1706
USS Hood NCC-1707
USS Intrepid NCC-1708
USS Valiant NCC-1709
USS Kongo NCC-1710
USS Potemkin NCC-1711
USS Constellation NCC-1017
USS Republic NCC-1371

There are 14 ships on that list. That would contradict both interpretations of the "12 in the fleet" line, so I kind of take it with a grain of salt.

Actually, that list is missing the U.S.S. Defiant (he registry was never shown in the original version of The Tholian Web; and I don't recall the registry number it had on the TOS Remastered version.

BUT - I think a few of those ships were lost of decommisioned; so Kirk's stement of '12 like it in the Fleet' could be reconciled to '12 active vessels like it in the Fleet".

 

[Lazergazer]

I'll go with the notion that starfleet/the Federation likes to keep the class at 12 ships (top of the line, must be expensive), so when one is destroyed they build another to replace it. All of these ships named in this thread could be starship/constitution class, just active at different times.

Rebuilding a ship that was destroyed and giving it the same name with letters attached to the end probably wasn't common. In my universe, anyway. Any other ships besides Enterprise get the letter treatment?

Seems like a logical bit of fanwanking to assume destroyed ships were replaced with new ships (and names).

 

[Forbin]

Yakko, Wakko, Dot....

 

[Vance]

The NCC numbers in "Court Martial" conflict with Franz Joseph's version which conflict with the FASA version, etc. etc.

"Court Martial" can't conflict with much, since it ONLY gives registry numbers, and not either classes nor ship names. Only the Intrepid and Enterprise are named on the chart, in dialog.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Did you know the Enterprise was originally going to be called the Yorktown? Good move, as "Yorktown" has a dated feel to the name.

 

[Nerys Myk]

^Is that because "Yorktown" refers to a particular place and event?

 

[Hofner]

Forbin said:
Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo...

Don't forget Gummo.

Robert

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.