If this is true, then explain the Constitution Class U.S.S. Constellation NCC-1017 as shown in the episode "The Doomsday Machine" ?
Note I said the 17** was the system Jefferies devised while designing the ship. As production designer, he would have no control over the naming of the ships or their registries save where the producers and writers chose to seek and follow his advice. However, the logical assumption is that if it were Jefferies who devised chart on Starbase 10 chart he would have done so with said scheme in mind and not the inverse alphabetical order Jein used which subsequently became the basis for Mike Okuda's (and thus Paramount's) registries in the Encyclopedia, the Operation Retrieve chart from TUC, etc.
where is it's NCC-17**.. this is a NCC-10** series constitution...
Constellation, the only possible Connie from the series with a definative registry, is a problem. The NCC-1017 number is no doubt the result of the model makers at the effects house simply rearranging the numbers from the AMT kit used as
Constellation without regard to any order or system. The only explanations for the number are:
1. It's a mistake generated in the effects production.
2. Registry numbers are not assigned in blocks or according to any system other than chronological. Ships get a number as they come up for construction. This seems to be how TNG-era registries are assigned.
3.
Constellation, despite outward appearences, isn't a
Constitutuion class starship, but belongs to an older, visually similar class. Think of it as the difference between two U.S. WWII battleships, one
South Dakota class, a second
Iowa. Very similar, at least at first glance. Note this class would not be part of the assumed
Constitution >
BonHomme Richard >
Achernar >
Tikopai upgrades.
4. Much as above except
Constellation has been upgraded from a different class to look like a Connie, the
Daedelus option.
5.
Constellation's registry has been carried forward from an earlier ship in honor of it, much as NCC-1701 has been used for all subsequent
Enterprises and the
Galaxy class
Yamato's registry was mentioned in dialogue as NCC-1305-E. I'd say this explains the supposed
Constitution U.S.S.
Eagle's low NCC-956 on the Operation Retrieve chart.
Jefferies is the one who designed the ship model.. Gene Roddenberry is the one who named them, but then again Gene diss slack off on naming each and every ship about the middle of the 2nd season and hardly did any naming in the 3rd season except where it was needed for the screen.
Jefferies' scheme was adopted by Franz Joseph for the Tech Manual (and thus is the source of registries/name in SFB and SFC), which was approved by Roddenberry and official until he chose to rescind that decision in a dispute over credits and money. If one wants to cite GR's authority, at what point in the timeline of you chose? When one set of data was vaild or when a second set supplanted it?
so your reference material is invalid.
The same could be said of Jein's scheme Okuda/Paramount adopted for assigning registries and names not seen definatively onscreen. Despite their use in the Encyclopedia and on Paramount's site, any of those designations could be completely invalidated by subsequent productions. In the absence of canon (defined as onscreen) evidence, it is up to the individual to chose which methodology to use in assigning placeholder registries for ships with undefined numbers.
Topic: Canon references for the Constitution Class Starships in TOS (Read 10376 times)