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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)

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AKuz said:
I am in favour reusing prefixes with -letter on it to preserve a sense of history and continuity.
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Okay, first, the NCC? It has a meaning. Admittedly, going by comments of the creators it was just initially a way to leave the impression of a registry for the UFP, but the later, licensed work 'Star Trek Blueprints' calls it out as meaning Naval Construction Contract.

That is to say, Starfleet tracks its vessels in the registry by a completely random number in canon given that commissioning dates of ships are all over the place. In fact, there's multiple Constitution class ships with NCC numbers in the upper 1600s, and the lowest numbered Constitution has NCC-956. The earliest vessel on the registry, USS Essex, is a Daedalus class with NCC-173 and spotted in 2173, while the USS Heart of Gold as a ship of an unknown class active in 2364, nearly two hundred years later, with NCC-42. It was also a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Basically, canon Starfleet ship numbering is a mess, with a large number of wide ranging registry number often only loosely corresponding with a number sequence that rises over time.


So basically, the entire thing is a mess and the UFP might well say 'append a letter designation to this construction contract because we've earmarked it for a very well known name and it shall be that ship rebuild.' Or Oneiroswriter may say 'the numbering system I use holds, and that says new classes get a new line of numbers, starting at xx00, and the (xx) increments with every new class.'
 
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aeqnai said:
Relativity also was labelled NCV instead of NCC, and was from a VOY time travel episode, which is like, one step short of Threshold in terms of canonicity IMO >_>
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Correction: A VOY time travel episode other than Year of Hell or Timeless. Both are damn fine episodes and remove any potential continuity snarls because the resolution is negating 99% of the episode in a crazy awesome manner.
 
pheonix89 said:
Correction: A VOY time travel episode other than Year of Hell or Timeless. Both are damn fine episodes and remove any potential continuity snarls because the resolution is negating 99% of the episode in a crazy awesome manner.
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...point. My mind was mostly on Endgame when I typed that. *shudders*
 
Hazard said:
So basically, the entire thing is a mess and the UFP might well say 'append a letter designation to this construction contract because we've earmarked it for a very well known name and it shall be that ship rebuild.' Or Oneiroswriter may say 'the numbering system I use holds, and that says new classes get a new line of numbers, starting at xx00, and the (xx) increments with every new class.'
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OneirosTheWriter said:
USS Renaissance, NX-2601, Renaissance-class, at Utopia Planitia Berth 3
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The computer programmers lost the fight on the Renaissance numbering. It was hard fought, but still, they lost.
But of all the things to fight about this is so far down the list...
Anyway! Let's stick with the mostly consistent registry system the QM has for us, yes?
And never forget the value of good propaganda and the ability to trade on a name. Or a number.
 
pheonix89 said:
It's MOSTLY banned. Kirk didn't get in any trouble for his stunt in The Voyage Home, after all.
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It was literally at the point where everyone in the Sol System was gonna die, and we haven't had a deliberate time travel incident since. Time travel methods like those Kirk used are Class-III-A secrets, after all.
 
The Federation's science isn't mad.

Mostly because madness stays the hell away from Federation science for fear of negative space wedgieing reality so hard it goes poof. And I'll leave unclear if the 'it' refers to madness, or reality. I mean, they'd manage to negative space wedgie making coffee, so...
 
I'm actually a little sad at the lack of Nash right now.

She's one of our most capable, experienced, and effective officers and she's been on the sidelines since Celos.

She was in command during the Battles around Kadesh, she ended the Syndicate as an effective space force within months and commanded Enterprise for ten years even through the worst of the Biophage.

And now we've got wars on both sides of the Federation and she's not there. She was busy commanding the boring denouement of the Syndicate space campaign when the GBZ commanders were chosen and when we put together a force for the Licori intervention Thuir will almost certainly get the nod there for his experience.

It's just kinda funny that when the borders of the Federation are heating up one of our most capable officers is... somewhere else commanding a paper formation for the last year.
 
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If you want that kind of speculation, just think how much raw data we are supplying to the Cardassian/Syndraxians research teams on Federation Tactics, Shield Regeneration, Hull design and Weapons Development ......
 
Well that Sydraxian derelict is going to give us a great big huge look into anything they could possibly have that we don't.
 
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