Topic: Why don't Rommies have ship registries?

[111wallace111]

Old earth Navies Didn't need registries because no two ships were alike. Each ship was crafted individually by a master builder. In the late 1700's The U.S. Began standardizing design so that it could build larger numbers without needing the skilled master builder to over see each new design. by the turn of the twentieth century hull registries were needed to identify ships of the American Navy. I think that any visual markings on Romulan ships might act in the same way. Maybe each was done by a master "painter" or something like that... This was mentioned in the thread before. But IFF type devices are more likely the way to ID ships durring encounters in deep space. I was also thingking that they all might have individually tuned warp signitures.

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

Quote:
.the only time you can make out that they had some kind of ID painted on the hull is in "The Enterprise Incident" when you can see the underside of the rom-ized D-7.......but then again that was Klingon writing!

Translation:  Warrenty void if operated above Warp 4.5.  

[Magnum357]

Just too add too the discussion about regestries, ISC ships actually used "Exclusively" Hull restries instead of nemes.  All their ships identifications where completely based on hull regestries... their ships actually had no offical names assigned too them, but the crews themselves made up their own names of their ships.  Also, I believe the Klingons only offically named their Small Gun Boats/Police ships by Hull Regestries (they made tons of G-2s' that they would probably run out of names soon).  Also, I thought I heard once that most navies did not name their PFs' (if they built them) with names, just identification numbers or hull regestries (again, lots of PFs' around)

As for the Romulans, I don't see why you couldn't post Regestry Numbers.  Their is nothing in Trek that is against it that I know of (not even in SFB).