Enterprise Designer dies

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(MasterShrink) wrote:

That always irritated me - why couldn't they have used NCC-1710, which would
have kept it within a sensible numbering range for the ship class?

Considering the number for the USS Constitution was never stated (nor shown)
in
TOS I don't see it as a big issue. Granted, I know a lot of books refer to it
as NCC 1700 but a few other Constitution-Class ships in the class seem to be
under 1700 as well.

-A.L.

Ships didn't (and don't) have to be manufactured consecutively in Real
Life(TM), either. Sometimes they are started, construction halted for
funding or technical or political reasons, then restarted. Since every
ship in Starfleet is NCC-xxxxx, the numbering sequence for any given
class of ship doesn't really make much difference.

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Herb Schaltegger, Esq.
Chief Counsel, Human O-Ring Society
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