The USS Kelvin
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I hate that registry.
Yes, but the question was about the Kelvin's class, not whether anyone likes its registry. And since everyone and his brother already knows how you feel because you keep bringing it up at inopportune times (and your signature already says this anyway), let's just try to answer the OP's question without hijacking his post, K?
Anyway, there's a possibility that even if the class of the Kelvin is not stated in dialogue, there's a good chance that a dedication plaque will be made with that information. And as far as the ship being a new class, in "real-world" Trek it certainly is, since we've never seen it before. But as far as the movie is concerned, the Kelvin might be a brand-new ship or an older vessel for its time. We'll just have to wait and see.
BTW, can we change that huge picture he posted into a link? I'm going crazy with my scroll bars.
Anyway, there's a possibility that even if the class of the Kelvin is not stated in dialogue, there's a good chance that a dedication plaque will be made with that information. And as far as the ship being a new class, in "real-world" Trek it certainly is, since we've never seen it before. But as far as the movie is concerned, the Kelvin might be a brand-new ship or an older vessel for its time. We'll just have to wait and see.
BTW, can we change that huge picture he posted into a link? I'm going crazy with my scroll bars.
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It's definitely a class that has never been seen in Trek before, so we can't know anything about it, including how it's named or anything like that (class could be named for the lead ship, with letters, with numbers--heck, it could be named Fred for all I know). Its registry is, as pointed out, inconsistent with others we have seen before as well.
You hate a series of numbers that hold no importance to the plot whatsoever? Why?
Agent 7 just doesn't have the same ring, sometime you need a zero or two.
Personally, I LOVE the USS Kelvin. I think it's a Trek geeks dream ship. It is reminiscent of 'fanon' designs (old FASA role-playing game destroyers, Franz J., etc.) but with incredible new detail and feel.
I'm completely shocked this ship doesn't make every Trek geek with a 3D program not go
.
Come on!
I'm completely shocked this ship doesn't make every Trek geek with a 3D program not go
. Come on!
Ah this is Star Trek, absolute zero is apparently more than -273 degrees if Geordi is to be believed.
I believe there is an even smaller version of this ship:
the Kelvin Klein.
the Kelvin Klein.
Well, yeah.. but if you know you're gonna build more than 1000 of somehting, the leading zero assures that you're not missing a trailing digit that's substantial.
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Personally, I LOVE the USS Kelvin. I think it's a Trek geeks dream ship. It is reminiscent of 'fanon' designs (old FASA role-playing game destroyers, Franz J., etc.) but with incredible new detail and feel.
I'm completely shocked this ship doesn't make every Trek geek with a 3D program not go
Come on!
Oh, it's pretty obvious. The Kelvin is a Saladin class destroyer, formerly USS Rahman (NCC-514) until refitted into an observation configuration that added a dorsal pod with a big sensor/deflector dish and a shuttlebay for survey craft. The observation mission called for a new name in the thematic group of Earth scientists, rather than in the thematic group of Earth warriors that had characterized the original destroyers. It also called for adding the letter O in front of the registry, in a system that was in use from the early 23rd century to the last years of TAS.
Her sisters were later refitted in a somewhat different manner, receiving a modern PB-31 or 32 warp nacelle in the ventral mount and getting a bit of extra bulge on the superstructure to house new systems. That turned them into credible modern combatants, as portrayed on several ST2 bridge graphics, while the Kelvin perished in a supposed non-combat task and never got a PB-31 engine.
Timo Saloniemi
Her sisters were later refitted in a somewhat different manner, receiving a modern PB-31 or 32 warp nacelle in the ventral mount and getting a bit of extra bulge on the superstructure to house new systems. That turned them into credible modern combatants, as portrayed on several ST2 bridge graphics, while the Kelvin perished in a supposed non-combat task and never got a PB-31 engine.
Timo Saloniemi
I've got a feeling this will simply go down in history as the Kelvin class for lack of a better reference unless something else is said or shownin the film.
Oh, it's pretty obvious. The Kelvin is a Saladin class destroyer, formerly USS Rahman (NCC-514) until refitted into an observation configuration that added a dorsal pod with a big sensor/deflector dish and a shuttlebay for survey craft. The observation mission called for a new name in the thematic group of Earth scientists, rather than in the thematic group of Earth warriors that had characterized the original destroyers. It also called for adding the letter O in front of the registry, in a system that was in use from the early 23rd century to the last years of TAS.
Her sisters were later refitted in a somewhat different manner, receiving a modern PB-31 or 32 warp nacelle in the ventral mount and getting a bit of extra bulge on the superstructure to house new systems. That turned them into credible modern combatants, as portrayed on several ST2 bridge graphics, while the Kelvin perished in a supposed non-combat task and never got a PB-31 engine.
Timo Saloniemi
Proof that anything can be explained away!
Sounds totally believable too!
that thing on top looks like an eyeball
It's a Badass Class starship. Captain Robau built her himself.
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