I like to think Crossfields might be as varied as Connies have been shown. That triangular secondary hulled ship in the boneyard in TNG could be one, or the one in Earth Spacedock in ST3 (perhaps that IS the Crossfield)
Ship continuity.
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If we go with the "non sequential" idea, USS Crossfield could've been any # before 1030. But if a class name ship needs to be something special, it could've been 1025 or even 1020. We have no idea how many of those big ass ships there were.
Was there any evidence for a USS Galaxy, or USS Nebula? The Galaxy was supposed to be in a couple DS9 episodes, but did we ever see the name of any ship in those fleet battles?
I have no problem believing there is always a class lead ship out there somewhere. As far as the USS Crossfield, it could be long gone or still in mothballs.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought the class was always named after the first ship (excluding the NX-01).
That's how I see it too. Even if the first ship was too experimental to enter regular service, it still existed. The USS Excelsior was a prime example of one that stayed in service, whether it's version of "transwarp" worked or not.
I had to do a lot of digging, but there's a ship named USS Galaxy (NCC-70637) in Star Trek: Nemesis, on a list about Starfleet Battle Group Omega (in the stellar cartography scene just before Shinzon catches up to the Enterprise). The same registry number is just barely legible on a CGI Galaxy-class ship at the battle of Chin'toka in Tears of the Prophets (it passes over the camera's POV as it fires phasers at a Cardassian weapons platform). There's a lot of motion blur and you have to look at all the separate screencaps in the Trekcore gallery to verify it. So yeah, it technically exists, but it's nigh impossible to find out if you aren't intentionally looking for it already.
See, I wasn't sure they put numbers or names on any of those CGI ships in the DS9 fleet shots, but good to know.
Canonically, we see the Excelsior, which is mentioned by TNG as the first ship of her class. There's the Defiant, which is likewise the first ship of the Defiant class. We also see the names "U.S.S. Galaxy NCC-70637" and "U.S.S. Nova NCC-73515" on the chart in Nemesis (although the Nova has a higher registry than the two known Nova class starships seen in Voyager). To my knowledge, there wasn't a canon U.S.S. Constitution, Ambassador, Nebula, or Miranda (just to name a few better known ship classes). Does that mean they didn't exist? Not necessarily. But the idea that the Discovery and the Glenn are seemingly the only two Crossfield class ships implies that there is no U.S.S. Crossfield.
But if the class is as old as the registry implies (10 years? 20?) and they either only had those 2 ships left or only chose those 2 for refit then the Crossfield is long in the past or still at Qualor II.
Or conversely, the registries aren't indicative of the ships' age, and the two sister ships are brand-new prototypes that just happen to have a class name that also isn't indicative of another ship with that name.
I'm certain the registry numbers denote age/order of build date just as CV #'s do for US aircraft carriers and other ships. It's done a little differently with Navy ships, but CV-6 is a lot older than CV-65
It seems pretty basic to me. Now if they reserve number blocks you might get a ship with an earlier number being slightly newer than a ship with a later number, but probably not by much.
I'm certain the registry numbers denote age/order of build date just as CV #'s do for US aircraft carriers and other ships. It's done a little differently with Navy ships, but CV-6 is a lot older than CV-65
It seems pretty basic to me. Now if they reserve number blocks you might get a ship with an earlier number being slightly newer than a ship with a later number, but probably not by much.
So the Grissom is older than the TOS Constitution class? And the FC ships are all older than the Galaxy class? And all the 2XXXX registrie'd Ambassador class ships are older than the 3XXXX and 4XXXX Miranda and Excelsior classes?
Cool model, but it's not 'proof,' since the Galaxy in DS9 was a CGI model.
Well, you're simply wrong.
Well you keep telling yourself that.
Given that DDG-1000 is a thing, I'm going to have to agree and say that even your example is wrong.
