RULE NUMBER TWO: TYPE OF SHIP  

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You should be clear about what type of ship you want to do. So what type of ship are you thinking about?   

 

If it is a Star Trek starship type, which is the only type I’m working on, and so is the only type that I can help with, then it needs to have some resemblance or recognizability to THE STAR TREK STARSHIP.   

 

Note, I'm not going along with all the things that have come after Star Trek (or everything in Star Trek either!). So the starship of the show "Enterprise" violates my rules because it is too dissimilar. Also, that starship doesn't have “NCC” on it, which also violates my rules. More about that, now! Because in my world of starships, "NCC" means that it's a starship, and therefore a Starship Class. But that design is wrong anyway.   

 

I'm been way ahead of the Star Trek people, for example, as a kid, I got a set of walkie talkies, and on one, as a call sign, I put "NX01", and on the other, I put "NX02". This was the early to mid 1970's, way ahead of "Enterprise".    

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If you are not doing a starship, but a freighter, or a mining ship, or a battleship, or some other type of ship, then in my view it should have a different set of letters on it, not "NCC". You should feel free to put any other set of letters to it, like let's say maybe "DAV" to mean a battleship.  

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And if you are not doing a starship, then it should not resemble a starship, which is the mistake a lot of people make. It should be different in a obvious way.  

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But I'm only working on starships.  

 

Originally in Star Trek, the Starship was a very special type of space ship—it was a “Starship Class.” Later they demoted it down to an ordinary type of space ship, calling it a “Constitution Class”; just another space ship. Something I will correct/restore in my show. To me, “A starship” is a special type of space ship, and so is a "Starship Class", otherwise, why call it a starship?   

 

You see, it all depends on what a person wants the name "starship" to mean. To all the Star Trek fans, because of the way they use the word, their "starship", means nothing! To them, a "starship" could be any type of ship, which tells a person nothing. Because why not simply call it "a ship", because we already know that it's a ship. To them, "starship" and "ship" means the same thing. I like everything to mean something: Tell me something I don't know.  

 

This Star Trek Starship nomenclature that many people know quite well; "NCC-1701", is an identification system, to identify one ship from another. That's it's purpose, and not to be only letters and numbers on a ship for decoration. Matt Jefferies created this identification system for starships. It was meant to identify one ship from another, and not to have all the ships with the same number!   

 

It’s a neat system, that can be used to identify not only different starships, but also different types of ships. But the Star Trek People have been long ignoring it from the beginning!  

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For many years these dummies have been putting the same name and number on every starship, which shows that they know nothing of the system, and don't care to know about it. They are damaging Star Trek by doing so. But they don't care, whatever will sell is the only thing they care about.   

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What if car manufacturers put the same VIN number on every car? What if the DMV issued the same license plate number for every car? There would be no point to it! The purpose of “NCC—1701” is to identify one ship from any other ship. To add “A” or “B” or “C” is stupid! What that does is to circumvent the original nomenclature, making it at least partly unnecessary.   

 

What I’m talking about here is that they could have just named their other ships; “The A”, and “The B”, and "The C", and so on. Why bother with “NCC-1701”? Because now it doesn't tell us anything.   

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Matt Jefferies’ “NCC-1701” is a neat identification system, that would work, and work fairly well—to identify all sorts of different space ships. But what the Star Trek People have done in later years is that they have spoiled it, so that Matt’s system no longer identifies one ship from another. Sad. More about this system under rule number six: Progressions.  

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By the way, why did the Starship crew transport two whales instead of dolphins?   

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Because there wouldn't have been a porpoise to do so.