Well, would it be safe to say that Starfleet would have some of its own freighters, and not everything would be farmed out to the Merchant Marines?
Names of the Original Series Starships ?
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Wasn't there an offical list of starships established for TOS? I seem to remember another list in "The Making of Star Trek", I think Gene Roddenberry approved the final list?
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Indeed, doesn't the FASA Trek RPG postulate the existence of a Starfleet Merchant Marine, a shipping organization that operates directly for the government and hauls freight where nobody else dares go? A reasonably reasonable proposition, if you ask me...
Also remember the "Red Ensign" fleet that supported the RN "White Ensign" primary combat forces in WWII. Many of the ships operating in the convoys were under government control but flew the Red Ensign, including a bunch of "partial combat conversions" such as the catapult-armed merchantmen (CAM) and merchant aircraft carriers (MAC) that retained full or partial freight-hauling capability. Part of the Federation's mercantile fleet might be under government control for such contingencies, too - but not constantly thus employed, as the Feds don't constantly fight, at least not in the 23rd century.
(Although to nitpick, Starfleet would not have "freighters". The military term for such ships is "transport", which encompasses all types of load, be it bulk, goods, passengers, cattle, troops or mounts.)
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The list in TMoST was actually a suggested list of names. However, we know that that didn't really limit writers and producers if they really wanted something else. For instance the name Scimitar was the ship name used in the original draft of "The Tholian Web," but it was later changed to Defiant. Neither Scimitar nor Defiant appear on that suggested list of names.
It's a shame really since Scimitar sounds rather exotic and perhaps a bit alien and would have made Starfleet seem more inclusive and less American and British centric.
TMoST also suggests that the Farragut was destroyed, while "Obsession" only says that half the crew was killed by the vampire cloud, not that the ship was trashed.
Scimitar has been used as the name of several Royal Navy vessels.
Regarding "freighter" versus "transport": good point but as Starfleet is paramilitary at most, possibly not necessarily true.
There is another option (seen on blueprints): cargo ship.
LT74
There is another option (seen on blueprints): cargo ship.
LT74
To be precise TMoST actually reads "The following names have been established for starships:". That lists the operative one for the first and second seasons. Yeah, there's Defiant, but that's under Freiberger's control. When he shows up, unknown starships appear while professors and computer experts disappear. It's a mad house.
As to Farragut's destruction, we know practically none of the details of their encounter with the vampire cloud. If they were in a Star Trek standard orbit (i.e. about to drop straight to the ground if the power goes) or some such, losing half the crew could have set off a chain of events resulting in the ship's loss.
According to the Star Trek Encylopedia, here are the names of all the Constitution class ships:
Constitution NCC 1700
Constellation NCC 1017
Defiant NCC 1764
Eagle NCC 956
Endeavour NCC 1895
Enterprise NCC 1701
Essex NCC 1697
Excalibur NCC 1664
Exeter NCC 1672
Hood NCC 1703
Intrepid NCC 1831
Lexington NCC 1709
Potemkin NCC 1657
Republic NCC 1371
Yorktown NCC 1717
Some of these were commissioned after the original 5 year mission as there were only 12 then.
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