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 Constitution
Class Studio MiniatureOne of Starfleet's most famous types of vehicle, the Constitution class starships included the acclaimed original U.S.S. Enterprise. During the time of Captain James T. Kirk's celebrated first five-year mission of exploration, only 12 of these ships were in existence. ("Tomorrow is Yesterday" [TOS]). Constitution class starships commissioned by Starfleet included: Constellation (NCC-1017), Constitution (NCC-1700), Defiant (NCC-1764), Eagle (NCC-956), Endeavor (NCC-1895), Enterprise (NCC-1701), Essex (NCC-1697), Excalibur (NCC-1664), Exeter (NCC-1672), Hood (NCC-1703), Intrepid (NCC-1831), Lexington (NCC-1709), Potemkin (NCC-1657), Republic (NCC-1371), and Yorktown (NCC-1717). Constitution class ships used doutronic computers, based on designs developed by Dr. Richard Daystrom in 2243. ("The Ultimate Computer" [TOS]). The registry number of the Constitution (NCC-1700) is from one of Scotty's technical manual screens in "Space Seed" (TOS). Since the class would seem only reasonable that the other ships of the class would have higher, possibly even sequential numbers. Unfortunately, the U.S.S. Constellation ("The Doomsday Machine" [TOS]), bore a much lower number, NCC-1017, (Obviously because it was a simple rearrangement of the decal sheet from the AMT Enterprise model kit) and the Republic was designated as NCC-1371. These data points suggest the Constitution class ships had registry numbers that not only varied widely in range, but also could not be sequential. Modelmaker Greg Jein (through an amazingly complex and admittedly only barely logical means) managed to match up the various Constitution ships with the starships status chart in Commodore Stone's office in Starbase 11, seen in "Court Martial" (TOS). Most of these registry numbers are from Greg's conjectural list, although several are from various Starfleet charts and readouts in Star Trek VI. A few of the Constitution class ships listed above are not from any episode or movie, but are from the original Star Trek production office's starship list in Stephen Whitfield's book, The Making of Star Trek. Constitution Class Names and Registries
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