{"id":127565,"date":"2020-12-06T22:16:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T19:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/discovery-retrofits-starship-registry-numbers\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T22:16:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T19:16:33","slug":"discovery-retrofits-starship-registry-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/discovery-retrofits-starship-registry-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Discovery&#8217; Retrofits Starship Registry Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Discovery&#8217; Retrofits Starship Registry Numbers<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.8-->\u201cNCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D.\u201d says a tipsy Captain Montgomery Scott in the 1992 <em><strong>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/strong><\/em> episode \u201cRelics,\u201d but what exactly does he mean? And does it have anything to do with the latest episodes of <em><strong>Star Trek: Discovery<\/strong><\/em> that introduce an upgraded version of its titular vessel with a spanking new \u201cA\u201d added to its registry? Stay with us as we learn a bit more about the alphabet, Starfleet-style.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve seen <em><strong>Star Trek III: The Search For Spock<\/strong><\/em>, you\u2019ll remember the spectacular sight of the USS <em>Enterprise <\/em>exploding above the planet Genesis after being set to self-destruct by a desperate Admiral Kirk. And chances are you\u2019ll also remember the end of the subsequent picture, <strong><em>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/em><\/strong>, where the crew is given a factory-fresh starship as a reward for saving the Earth. As the ship is revealed, the camera switches to a close-up of the saucer to focus on the alphabetical addition to the famous registry number, which now reads \u201cNCC-1701-A,\u201d the spaceship equivalent of a license plate.<\/p>\n<p>The history of how this h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened is somewhat fuzzy, but most people go along with<strong> Gene Roddenberry<\/strong>\u2018s suggestion that they grabbed the nearest identical spaceship \u2014 according to him, that was the USS <em>Yorktown <\/em>\u2014 and rechristened it to differentiate from the previous vessel. Longtime <em>Trek<\/em> designer <strong>Michael Okuda<\/strong> made his franchise debut on <em>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/em> and tells me via <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> DMs, \u201cThe first I heard of the \u201cA\u201d registry number was in the script for <em>Star Trek IV<\/em>. Harve Bennett was said to have written the 23rd-century portion of that script (with Nicholas Meyer responsible for the 20th-century segments).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amusingly, while this was happening in Paramount\u2019s movie division, their TV branch was in pre-production on the first season of <em>Star Trek:<\/em> <em>The Next Generation<\/em>, which was set on another USS <em>Enterprise <\/em>a century later. Originally they had denoted their <em>Enterprise <\/em>as NCC-1701-7, but after <em>The Voyage Home<\/em>, the <em>Galaxy<\/em>-class ship ended up with NCC-1701-D. Okuda went to work on <em>The Next Generation<\/em> after <em>The Voyage Home<\/em>. \u201cEarly notes for <em>Star Trek: TNG <\/em>listed the ship as the starship <em>Enterprise<\/em>-7,\u201d he says. \u201cFor a little while, that became the <em>Enterprise<\/em>-G. By the time I joined the production staff in February 1987, it had already become the <em>Enterprise<\/em>-D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> would also introduce the 1701-C in the beloved third season <em>TNG <\/em>episode \u201cYesterday\u2019s Enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across the franchise, this tradition has mostly been kept to the lineage of the <em>Enterprise<\/em>. The movies <em>Star Trek Generations<\/em> and <em>Star Trek: First Contact<\/em> introduced <em>Enterprise<\/em> B and E, respectively, while the <em>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/em> episode \u201cAzati Prime\u201d first showed us the 26th-century <em>Enterprise<\/em>-J. Some ships have also been given erroneous registries; in the<em> Next Generation<\/em> episode \u201cWhere Silence Has Lease,\u201d Riker names the USS <em>Yamato<\/em>\u2018s registry as NCC-1305-E, while the number stated in schematics and logs in the episode \u201cContagion\u201d is NCC-70817. Likewise, the USS<em> Nash<\/em>, as seen in several <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> episodes, has the registration NCC-2010-5, which is odd in itself. But its sister ship, the USS <em>Jenolan <\/em>\u2014 which appeared in the aforementioned episode \u201cRelics\u201d \u2014 has the registration NCC-2010, with the only commonality being that they are the same design, albeit with a vertically-flipped orientation.<\/p>\n<p>The addition also happened in the Kelvin timeline. After the <em>Enterprise <\/em>is destroyed by the villainous Krall\u2019s swarm ships in <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, a brand new vessel is constructed at the Yorktown starbase with the familiar registry of NCC-1701-A. And back in the prime universe, things were muddied even more after the destruction of the USS <em>Defiant <\/em>in the <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> episode \u201cThe Changing Face of Evil.\u201d A new <em>Defiant<\/em>-class ship named the USS <em>S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em> replaced the iconic little craft, however: the registry remained NX-74205, which it had been from the <em>Defiant<\/em>\u2018s first appearance in 1994. This was probably to nix any further design costs, especially given that, firstly, like all <em>Star Trek<\/em> shows, <em>Deep Space Nine <\/em>features a fair percentage of stock footage and CG assets, and secondly, the new <em>Defiant <\/em>was introduced in the penultimate episode of the show\u2019s run.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s look at <em>Discovery<\/em>. After arriving in the 32nd century and agreeing to go on crucial missions for the current iteration of Starfleet, she was given an upgrade to bring her <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> up to speed with what had evolved in the nine-hundred years since. The two biggest talking points are her warp nacelles, which have been now been detached from the hull, a la all Federation vessels circa 3189, and the inclusion of programmable matter, a substance made of nano-molecules that can be shaped into anything from ship controls to a bed, all adaptive to the specific user.<\/p>\n<p>However, <em>Discovery <\/em>has not just been given a new lick of paint but an entire aesthetic overhaul to the point where it looks like a brand new ship. The central saucer ball has been flattened and smoothed out, the secondary hull has what looks like a full set of armor, and the nacelles seem brand new, along with a color change that makes you wonder if they ever considered rechristening her the USS <em>Tron Legacy<\/em>. And this is where it\u2019s interesting that she now carries the registration NCC-1031-A. While large elements have changed, she is still ostensibly the same starship, much like the <em>Enterprise <\/em>refit in 1979\u2019s <em>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em>. That ship is a new upgrade from the original 1966-69 TV series <em>Enterprise<\/em> and has similar changes, from brand new warp nacelles and a whole new engine to a reshape of her lines and a fresh pearlescent paint job. But her registration? It remains NCC-1701, right up until she\u2019s destroyed, and only then is the aforementioned 1701-A registry brought into service with a brand new ship.<\/p>\n<p>However, as a certain pointy-eared Vulcan was said to say, there are always possibilities, and one of those is security. With the dilithium crisis as explained in the current season of <em>Discovery <\/em>and the amount that the ship carries, it may be that the Federation doesn\u2019t want word getting out that a centuries-old ship is now in their service with a whole lot of coal in her firebox. Thus, the <em>Discovery<\/em>-A can present herself as a brand new ship free of any past associations with the previous NCC-1031. Saying that, given the lack of continuity <em>Discovery <\/em>has previously shown to any iteration of <em>Star Trek<\/em>, it might be that they just wanted to do it, history be damned.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, her name and registry have no real bearing on her future exploits, and she will continue to boldly go wherever her commander pleases. As long as the <em>Discovery <\/em>continues to add to the quality of the franchise in the way she has these past few months, she can be A, B, C, or 7; it doesn\u2019t matter. End log.\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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