NX Registry System

posted on June 26th, 2010, 8:30 pm

Hi, I was a bit curious because I am personally having a side project that is self paced that is a pack of ENT era ships. And I was wanting to be sure exactly how does the NX Registry system work? Is it like NCC where no two Starfleet ships of the same time can own that number? Or does it go by the number of its class? Because if it is the number in the class, than that means I could have all the classes have a NX-01 as its starter. But if not, then it means that I'm going to have to make sure none share a reg.

Examples:

Enterprise (NX-01)
Columbia (NX-02)
Defiant (NX-74205)

So, which is the safest conclusion?

[Tyler]

posted on June 26th, 2010, 8:34 pm

Last edited by Tyler on June 26th, 2010, 8:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Federation Starfleet uses NX for a prototype, Earth Starfleet uses it for ships after the prototype too.

Earth Starfleet is a different organization that does things a little differently, and according to the show NX is their NCC.

posted on June 26th, 2010, 8:37 pm

for enterprise era ships, only nx class ships (like enterprise and columbia) should get the nx reg.

for ships from tos onwards, anything that is experimental (like the excelsior nx 2000 or the defiant) can have nx

if u are going to mix them then its gonna be messy lol.

posted on June 26th, 2010, 8:42 pm

the ship like enterprise nx01 is nx but other classes have different prefix such as intrepid nv01 those letters appear to be the class name or summit

posted on June 26th, 2010, 10:41 pm

NX = Naval Experiment
NCC = Naval Commissioning Code.

posted on June 26th, 2010, 10:51 pm

Wrong Starfleet.

posted on June 26th, 2010, 11:46 pm

well space fleets do tend to come from either the navy or the airforce so cud mean the same just not in enterprise lol but rest of starfleet tend to

posted on June 27th, 2010, 1:01 am

So, overall only the NX class gets such a registry? I thought that the Ent era, the standardized Registry of NCC was not yet established. Though my point is not whether I should use NX or NCC. It is rather how does it work, is it like NCC where two ships in the same time cannot share the same number? Or is it by the actual number ship of its class (Where you could have two NX-12 registries of different classes because they are different classes).

Let me also give it a bit more description.
In NCC registered ships, I know that you cannot have the same number on two ships in the same era of time (more specifically simultaneously). Like, you cannot have two ships numbered as 17800 even though they are different ship types because it is already under another ship's registration.

I am asking if the NX system works the same or if it goes by the number ship of its class instead of universal registration.

posted on June 27th, 2010, 1:18 am

From what I can tell, it works the same.  And odds are, since there are only 2 of the NX ships (NX-1 Enterprise and NX-2 Columbia I think) that once they are sure the ships work right, the next production run would be NCCs.

posted on June 27th, 2010, 1:25 am

well as a far as i'm aware in the ent era the letter prefix is the class name and the number is the model number so nx01 was the 1st nx class were nx02 was the second then they give them names like enterprise and columbria to give them charactor (and sounds better than saying captain of the starship nx01 lol)
but after the federation was formed they used nx for the experimental vessels and used uss for the mass produced vessels

posted on June 27th, 2010, 1:53 am

I remember reading somewhere that the NX 2000 for Excelsior stood for Nacelle eXperimental since it was supposed to be a transwarp ship. So I'd definitely buy the Naval Experimental thing also. Which also makes sense given the NX-01 was the first warp 5 test ship with a full crew compliment. (as opposed to the delta warp sled) (At first I thought it was in Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, but it turns out not to be from that, so I don't remember where I came across it but I do remember it that way)

posted on June 27th, 2010, 3:38 am

In the enterprise era they used the NX on all NX class ships (presumably because they were NX class ships). After that time once the federation was fonunded the prefix was changed to NCC and was standardized for all Starfleet ships save for prototype classes (which still receive the NX prefex). Now USS was used on all Starfleet ships post enterprise era to denote United Space Ship (insert ship name here).

As far as the registry goes no ship shares the exact same number save for the Enterprise, which we all know as NCC-1701, they keep the number and just add a letter after the number to denote the next ship in line. Starfleet could presumably use the same registration number followed by a different letter for other ships that carry the same name (the only time this would occur would be when a newer ship replaces and older one with the same name) however save for the Enterprise no other ship has been shown to do this. Example there have been more then one starship Defiant, Endeavour, and Saratoga, yet none of them carried the same registry number. And obviously there is no real explination (cannon wise anyway) as to the numbering system they seem to use. Most TOS era ships had 3 to 4 digit registries where as TNG era ships had from 4-5 digit numbers.Most of the time the newer classes (Nebula, Galaxy, Deifant) carry a 5 digit number where as older ones (constellation, miranda, excelsior) have 4 digit numbers. The thing that throws it out of whack is that you will see some older ships with 5 digit numbers and that really doesnt make sense based on previous numbering conventions. So with that I hope you can make some sense of this. Good luck.

posted on June 27th, 2010, 1:15 pm

Registry numbers don't make sense because we were never told how they work. If they were sequential, in build order, they would work. That's the only way I can think to make sense of them.

posted on June 27th, 2010, 2:15 pm

i think the 1701 for the enterprise is for sentimental reasons as the enterprise ship have always been the flag ships

posted on June 27th, 2010, 2:40 pm

Registry numbers don't make sense because we were never told how they work. If they were sequential, in build order, they would work. That's the only way I can think to make sense of them.

Originally the were supposed to be sequential, as in TOS any constitution class ships were in the 1700 range. The USS Constitution was NCC 1700 and other ships followed that trend as they were built such as the enterprise being 1701. However tehy then threw that out the airlock when they showed us the USS Constellation being NCC 1017, that threw everything out of order, even though other constitution class ships were still in order. The real reason for the 1017 was because they simply used another Enterprise model in the episode with rearranged numbers to make it different.

I recall reading somewhere that reigistration numbers denoted ship class and ship number. Example the Constitution class NCC 1700 was the 17th ship class fielded by starfleet and 00 meant she was the first of her class. Which could make sense, as in TOS they didnt have full replicator mass production yet and they didnt build ships en masses, and when the TNG era came around they did have replicator technology and did build more ships, meaning they may have gone to 5 digits because it was entierly possible they could build more then 100 ships of a certain class.