NCC Numbers to Choose From

[EnsignHarper]

And I don't recall seeing what
NCC stands for?

No Can Comprehend.

Ok - the serious reply: Jeffries said that he combined the aircraft registry letters of the US and USSR, to show the 'United Earth' thing....plus it sounds good.


there is a guy on Etsy who makes this little pieces that look like the little make and model emblems on your vehicle. All of them are very geeky - a sh**load of Star Wars/Dr Who/Whatever (want to drive a Mitsubishi Gojira? well now you can!), including of course, a NCC-1701 and one with the bloody D Of course I have good old 1701, and couple of times have gotten it noticed!

 

[Robert Comsol]

According to Franz Joseph's original USS Enterprise Blueprints, Star Fleet Technical Manual and Diane Carey's novel Dreadnought!, it stands for "Naval Construction Contract". One of those 80's fan made blueprint packs used "Navigational Contact Code", which I think sounds a bit more swish.

I believe "Naval Contact Code" works best and here is some reasoning on that behalf.

And I still don't buy that assumption that "MK IX/01" stood for NCC-1701 (which Greg Jein seriously suggested).

The schematic displayed a starship mounted LR (longrange?) phaser, so it stands to reason that "MK IX/01" referred to the phaser (since the small print clearly identified it belonging to a starship of the Constitution Class).

If I look at a component of a starship I'd like to know the compenent's number, not the component number of the ship itself.

Bob

 

[Shik]

Yeah, I wrote in my history that it means nothing, just a simple prefix denoting federal vessels randomly chosen by computer. Could've ended up being SQX.

 

[CrazyMatt]

I'll go with Greg Jein's solution. First of all, it's based in something seen in an actual episode. Secondly, it shows commendable deduction and reasoning. Finally, it's been essentially adopted as canon, and who can argue with canon (intentional loaded question)?

I know some of you admire FJ, but his solution that every starship except those we are told the registry numbers of during the series is sequential, well.... that simply makes no rational sense to me.

 

[Robert Comsol]

Sorry that I feel compelled to disagree. First, the interpretation of the meaning of these numbers on that starship status chart remains open to debate.

Secondly, I think that Greg Jein performed commendable deduction and reasoning in the first part of his treatise only (here is my "why"), before his pet theory (reading the names from bottom to top and then match those he selected with the starship status chart ).

It has become some kind of quasi-canon because the Jein proposals were adopted by Bjo Trimble's ST Concordance and Okudas' ST Enyclopedia, and because Okuda put some of these on the hulls of the CGI starships in TOS-R.

Bob