Need a registry number.

[sojourner]

Hey, working on some details for some new ship art I am doing. I need a registry number range that would fit in with ships built around about the 2350's to 60's. I did some searching but my google fu seems weak on the subject.

Any help is appreciated. Hmmm, wonder if there is a better forum for this thread?

 

[Timo]

There's some basis for arguing that, after fiddling with all sorts of strange systems for four-digit registries in the 23rd century, Starfleet started with NCC-10000 in the first decade of the 24th, and then added a thousand units per year, or at least ten thousand per decade. That is, a ship from the late 2340s such as O'Brien's Rutledge would rightly have a 57000 range rego, while a ship from your time brackets might plausibly have something in the 60000-69000 range.

Known ships with registries like that include Nebulas, Akiras, Norways and some kitbashes of the Voyager, hence possible predecessors of the Intrepid class which culminates that design trend before the trend evident in Nova and Sovereign takes over. So, round, smooth lines, but quite possibly some spoonish rather than saucerish primary hulls, too...

IMHO, of course.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[sojourner]

^Thanks Timo, just the kind of information I was looking for!

 

[Unicron]

Sometimes it's fun to come up with whatever suits your ideas best. For my TBBS flagship, the tactical frigate USS Geronimo, the registry is NCC-76881. I got that by using G (the 7th letter of the alphabet) and inverting 1886, the year Geronimo finally surrendered to the American government. It happens to also conveniently fit the range for the Sullivans class, but I'd still have kept it even if that weren't the case.

 

[sojourner]

^Yeah, I just wanted to make sure I was getting in the "ball park" with the number I chose.