Here's our first proper pic (only took 7 years!), from the new Star Trek Encyclopedia:
USS Kobayashi Maru ECS-1022
- Thread starter F. King Daniel
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It's registry starts with ECS? Isn't that what the Earth Cargo Authority of the 22nd century used for their ship names?
Well, at least they did the number correctly. That's not nothing with these movies. And who knows, maybe 100 years is enough time for ECS to move from in front of a ship's name to the front of a registry number?
Wow! I love it! Now I want a diecast version of this! 
That remains debatable. After all, the Academy in the Kelvin universe considers this ship the "USS Kobayashi Maru", contrary to the impression of a purely civilian vessel we got in the Prime universe.
Also, 1022 is on the low side for a modern-looking ship in the series that featured ECS-2801 for the early 22nd century Fortunate...
The Fortunate and the Horizon already featured dissimilar pennant schemes, with only the latter applying the letters before the name. Perhaps ECS isn't as uptight about these things as Starfleet?
Personally, I doubt there "really" exists a ship as shown above. Starfleet just needs a name to go with the ship in distress for the no-win scenario, and the name stays even when everything else about the scenario changes (say, whether the ship is USS or SS, whether she's a deuterium transport or a luxury liner, whether the testee is ordered to rescue her or expected to use her own judgement, whether there are Klingons there or Romulans or Space Amoebae, etc).
FWIW, while the design on which the above ship is based met the dimensional criteria of the TWoK vessel, ECS-1022 probably does not (too flat).
Timo Saloniemi
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Yeah, but at least there's no leading zeroes.
Perhaps ECS-1022 was the registry of the original Kobayashi Maru, the 22nd century ship the test is based upon? The modern test uses a current tanker design, but keeps the original registry for posterity.
It's also only the second time we see a ship of a clear Starfleet design carry a registry other than NCC - and the first time, with the Oberth class Vico, involved the NAR prefix that is seen on Starfleet-operated shuttles in ST6 and has that comforting N connection. "NAR with USS" also connected the Raven to Starfleet, even if the design of that ship did not.
I think it's just as well that we never saw this particular Kobayashi Maru quite this close...
Timo Saloniemi
I think it's just as well that we never saw this particular Kobayashi Maru quite this close...
Timo Saloniemi
0ECS-1022?
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