Good afternoon, after much of thought, I thought off creating this thread where we will discuss, Ship classes and their prefixes ! Now that, that has been cleared can someone tell me what U.S.S. stands for _
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Good afternoon, after much of thought, I thought off creating this thread where we will discuss, Ship classes and their prefixes ! Now that, that has been cleared can someone tell me what U.S.S. stands for _
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In Star Trek terms, believe it stands for "United Space Ship".
In current terms, "United States Ship" for the US Navy.
NCC is "Naval Construction Contract" and NX is "Naval Experiment".
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Yeppie ! Thank you for elaborating the matter about Star Trek prefix !
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Now I also want to know RRW, IRW, IKS and other !
For RRW I think it stands for Romulan Republic Warbird !
For IRW I think it stands for Imperial Romulan Warbird !
and IKS- Imperial Klingon Ship or Interstellar Klingon ship !
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Memory Alpha has a long list of prefixes - http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Registry
There might be some that appear in STO that aren't on there.
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VSS - Vulcan Star Ship, may be a STO only. I recall that one as I have that one vulcan science ship.
I think the Andorian ships have a special prefix as well, but don't recall off hand.
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Well I did not stray that far from correct answer ! IRW is Imperial Romulan Ship ! But it makes me wonder how is it, they didn't find corresponding names for prefixes !
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There are a few other resources out there, like this one - http://starchive.cs.umanitoba.ca/?ships/prefixes/ and for STO there is this one - https://sto.gamepedia.com/Registry
So it looks like in STO, each Federation Member does get their own prefix, though lore wise, this would only really be used for planetary defence vessels, and civilian ships.
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I'm wondering why Discovery and Glenn were not NX considering this "experimental" technology.
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I believe the NX is only used for a prototype (Post Enterprise era).
Once the second ship of the class was built, both were probably given the NCC format
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In the here and now, an experimental item (ship, truck, gun, helmet) will keep its experimental prefix until it is no longer considered an experimental platform. At that point it is either sold, destroyed, or "put on a pole". Most experimental items never see front-line, active service.
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The TR-116 rifle being a good example of that. It was developed, prototyped but never went into production as the design was abandoned in favour of regenerative phasers.
For a real world example, the Objective Individual Combat Weapon is something that never really lived up to the promise, but many ideas and concepts were spun off from the weapon and applied to other things.
There's the odd exception to the NX registry too, the Defiant for example, though still considered experimental when originally assigned to DS9, went on to prove itself in the field and the class entered production, yet the ship retained the NX prefix.
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That is true, the thing with the Defiant class is that later build ships like the Valiant suffered from perfomance issues when they were following all security guidlines set by Starfleet.
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I believe Ronald Moore also stated that the didn't make some of those changes on the Defiant because it would mean they couldn't use the stock footage, which they relied heavily on. That is why the second defiant didn't get the "A" after its prefix number.
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That is correct
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Don't know what it stands for as no official explanation is given but a tiny number of STO vessels have access to the NAR prefix for civilian/freighter vessels. Essentially used for non-Starfleet ships still under Federation control.
My Amarie has this prefix as an option and I believe the Kobayasi Maru also has it, but that cannot be flown.