USS Kelvin - class name?
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Robau Class
Saladin class. Formerly USS Rahman, before the dorsal pod and the O-as-in-Observation spyship prefix were added.
That leaves open the collective subclass name for the dorsal-pod conversions. Do we have a theme of old scientists of note here, or a theme of rivers of Scotland?
Timo Saloniemi
That leaves open the collective subclass name for the dorsal-pod conversions. Do we have a theme of old scientists of note here, or a theme of rivers of Scotland?
Timo Saloniemi
To give an actual serious answer to the OP's question: No, the Kelvin's class (or the other kitbashed Kelvin-type ships of the fleet, or even the new Enterprise herself for that matter) were never given class desginations. The only ship that even had a dedication plaque was the Enterprise, and it said "Starship class" to match the info on the TOS Enterprise's plaque. However, there's no actual proof that the nuEnterprise is even a Constitution class ship.
Expendable-class
...What was the spatiotemporal anomaly that caused the ST:FC starship designs to acquire class names from the get-go? Was Jaeger or Eaves the only designer in Trek history obsessed enough to invent such things even when the writers had no immediate demand for them?
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
No class name was ever attached to the USS Kelvin, officially or otherwise. Like the USS Reliant from STII - FASA called it Reliant-class, fandom called it Avenger-class and the old novels and comics called it Galaxy-class. The name we know it by now, "Miranda class", comes from the 1994 Star Trek Encyclopedia and was given it by people with no connection to the makers of Wrath of Khan, or ILM who designed and built the model.
Hmm.. A couple of Voyda McIntyre novelizations of the TOS movies speak of "galaxy-class" ships operating in the same time period, one of them carrying the author's original character Mandala Flynn on a mission of extremely long range exploration. Nothing about those descriptions seems to connect the "galaxy-class" ships to the Reliant, though.
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
This.
I seem to remember Kirk was hoping to get command of one in The Wrath of Khan novel.
One of DC comics' "Who's Who in Star Trek" specials calls the Reliant "Galaxy class", complete with various views.
The FC ships were given class designations because the people in charge of Trek at the time were the kind of people who did that sort of thing. The people in charge of Star Trek '09 weren't.
Never named by the production team. Memory Alpha has this, from their entry on the "Kelvin-type":
Memory Alpha said:
Slight tangent, why does Memory Alpha say George Kirk was a Lt Commander when he's addressed as Lieutenant in the movie? Lt Cmdrs are addressed as "Commander".
The promotional website (Apple wasn't it?) had profiles of the ships and characters briefly, it listed the Enterprise as a constitution class vessel, but the site, no matter how officially run isn't canon. Her dedication plaque says "Starship Class".
The Kelvin is just...the Kelvin, that's it.
The Kelvin is just...the Kelvin, that's it.
His rank insignia matched that of a lieutenant commander in the movie.
The dedication plaque of the original Enterprise said "Starship class" even though it is thought of as Constitution class, and indeed that has been used in dialogue in the other shows.
Hell, I was surprised they stuck with Starship class in the movie. In Enterprise the changed the plaque on the USS Defiant to say Constitution class. Maybe changed isn't the proper term since I don't think you see the Defiant's plaque in The Tholian Web, but I'm sure you get what I mean.
