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u.s.s.?

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  • 05-02-2004 1:51am
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    pclancy
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    What does the uss stand for in star trek? I know now it stands for united states ship but what would it stand for in the future? Surely star fleet didnt develop from the us navy?


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    magick
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    United Star Ship


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    magick
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    what does NX stand for? Next Xperiment?


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    Woden
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    thats quite a good question and suggestion i don't think its every been explicity stated, perhaps new experiment


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    imp
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    I seem to remember the Star Trek Encyclopaedia saying that U.S.S. does still stand for United States Ship, but that its supposed to be a traditional thing rather something politically motivated (prolly not the right phrase to use, but you get my drift).

    Dunno about NCC or NX tho....

    }:>


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    bizmark
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    Uss stands for United Star ship
    Ncc just means militry contract (its a militry ship)
    Nx ...dont know what the N means but it it is a experamental ship


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    imp
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    Agh I hate being wrong, I had to check it in the end: 1st Edition Encyclopaedia says that in some episodes its been referred to as United Space Ship, and in others as United Star Ship.

    }:>


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    User45701
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    NX = Naval Experiment

    Also i heard that NCC is actually
    NCC = Naval Construction Contract


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    bizmark
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    so its ........
    Ncc 1701-d *Naval contract number 1701-d* Uss *united starship* Enterprise

    Pritty simple eh :)

    Militry/naval contract same thing :p


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    stormkeeper
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    Wow, you learn something new every day....


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    DMT
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    The Enterprise is apparently also the only ship to have it's NCC code preserved by adding a letter at the end.
    And then there's the Defiant.....


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    Woden
    Registered Users Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭Woden


    the rechristed sao paulo or whatever though didn't obtain a suffix or whatever i don't think, it may have turned into ncc though instead of nx, in the star trek novels sisko goes off to christen a saratoga-A the ship he was on that he lost and wolf 359


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    User45701
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    If they changed the San palo`s name to defiant wouldent it still have the sanpalo registary on the hull? They probbley gave it a paint job.

    The san palo becoming defiant and not defiant A was just a way to save money so they could re-use some old defiant battle scenes and not have us star trek fanatics zooming in and saying the name on the ship was wrong.


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