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Steven Kodaly said:
I think the idea was to have two-letter designations for Starfleet ship types (all starting with N for Navy) and single-letter designations for civilian/commercial designs.
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Jensaarai said:
The Stingray is designated "NY-01," which I think means it's a "'something' gun ship" if the wikipedia page on hull classifications is accurate.

Maybe "gun ship (nuclear-powered)?"
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NavySeel said:
Can't find much that seems to fit NY, I think it would make more sense for Star fleet to come up with it's own, the N is Navy, marking it as a Military ship, and the Y is for Patrol/gunships. The X can be Exploration.
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The real world answer is that Gene Roddenberry wanted the Enterprise to have a hull number similar to aircraft tail numbers, which is where the NCC-#### designation came from. The with the Excelsior they introduced NX-#### for experimental and/or class leaders. The NX "class" is a bizarre exception because one of the show runners wanted it that way.

I don't know how it's being handled in the quest is going to handle it, but in Canon there are only NX and NCC designations and I don't think there's an acronym or in universe reason for NCC.
 
Kartr_Kana said:
The real world answer is that Gene Roddenberry wanted the Enterprise to have a hull number similar to aircraft tail numbers, which is where the NCC-#### designation came from. The with the Excelsior they introduced NX-#### for experimental and/or class leaders. The NX "class" is a bizarre exception because one of the show runners wanted it that way.

I don't know how it's being handled in the quest is going to handle it, but in Canon there are only NX and NCC designations and I don't think there's an acronym or in universe reason for NCC.
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NX other than for the NX class, is purely used for experimental ships, when the design proves itself it is re-registered under NCC. But yeah, no cannon established meaning to NX or NCC, although lots of theories.
 
There's a semi-canon backronym that it stands for Naval Construction Contract, but it's not really official or anything. NC is the registration prefix for civil aircraft in the United States, and CCC was the same in the Soviet Union, Roddenberry just combined them because he thought NCC sounded better than NC.
 
Hiss, Yoyodyne. If we invest in the company early we might give them to funds needed to actually make less crap tech, or at least prove early not to rely on them.

On the other hand, investing in them might actually be what allows them in Quest-canon to have enough funds to survive and lobby for priority while providing us with explodium warp tech and we could strangle them at the crib by not funding them. That and the industry growth would be useful long-term. More free industry for more expensive ships and even higher passive industry increase.
 
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