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It's good she's getting the care she needs to get back in action!π
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I like the fact that you have created a ship registry number that reflects the interim period from four digits to five.
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Well, everything I do is typically in the "four digit period" (with a few 3 digit leftovers tossed in for good measure 
In this instance I was merely following convention in terms of the source material.Β Todd Allen Guenther, who wrote Ships of the Star Fleet: Akyazi-Class Perimeter Action Ships named the first ship of the class Akyazi, and began the registries for her, her class, and descendant sub-classes with NCC-1010.Β I simply took the 10 and another number of minor significance (as well as a name of some personal import) and used it on my custom build.Β Since I had taken some personal liberties with the original design by stirring in several of my favorite sub-class details into one ship, I figured the number 1089 was far enough removed from the original 1010 to prevent stepping on anyone's toes.Β I believe his book had already assigned another name (of a sub-class design) to that registry, but I just pretend that some shipyard desk jockey came up with another name during construction long before the first coat of paint hit the hull.
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Thanks for that book name. I will have to see if I can find a copy. I'm afraid my eyes are older and do not always see the best magnification on the monitor. I see now that what I thought was '10189' is '1089'. Still, I suspect that some is the rapid jump from four digit to the five digit registry numbers, as exemplified with the NX-74205 on USS Defiant in STDS9. I wondered if this included registry numbers for every shuttle, escape pod, and work pods manufactured, if not a lot of starships went down the ways in that eighty year period. Of course, the 'NX' prefix threw me at first, until I remembered that the Lindbergh Ryan monoplane "Spirit of St. Louis" carried the registry number NX-211, with the X used to denote an experimental vehicle. Also, the prefix 'N' is normally used in US aviation, while sub-prefix's can be used to denote commercial (C), State (S), or private (P). Thanks for the feedback. I love the ships in dock images, but one point puzzles me. Why the large wedge is open in the bow? Is it some access for various plug-in modules? Best of Luck in your endeavors.
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Thanks!Β
Well, the original Excelsior from The Search for Spock was NX-2000 before graduating to NCC in later films and series, so yeah, "experimental" is pretty much the understood and agreed upon explanation for NX in the Star Trek Universe as well.Β Of course, there was over a century between The Original Series (TOS) and DS9, so 4 digits to 5 digits probably does cover a greatΒ many ships over that vast period of expansion.Β Then again, a great many of the numbers might have been reserved but never built or commissioned, so there is probably some chaff there as well. Β Most of what I do however (render-wise), is within a "Post-TOS" 25 year span, mainly covering the original film period (TMP-TUC), so I've never gone higher than 5308 thus far.
As to the missing wedge in the Akayzi class ships, I'd have to read the book again to know for sure (it's been awhile), but I suspect aside from any In-Universe engineering rationale, I think it just "looks cool."Β Within Trek fiction's justification bubble however, the area clearly houses the forward torpedo launchers and the ships primary navigational deflector.Β Since a good deal of these ships' design is devoted to keeping a low profile, both for purposes of stealth and combat superiority, that could explain why these features are kept in line with the primary hull, but still doesn't necessarily explain such a vacuous region, unless it was also an attempt to lower the ship's overall mass and/or create more defensive cover for the primary weapons and shields.
Certain subclass designs actually have huge sweeping structures dangling far below the ship's ventral section, but at the cost of a "low profile" I think they actually work to help shield the ship even better.Β Aesthetically, I'm not fond of the feature, so I've never incorporated it into my version.
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I`ve always loved these small, odd looking ships. 
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They are pretty cool aren't they?
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