I seem to recall that in TOS the 'NCC' designation referred to "Constitution Class" yet all Federation starships seem to have that designation, regardless.
Shouldn't the Enterprise-D be NGC-1701, for example?
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Welcome Woody. Please take our tour and refer to the help center as and when. You've a couple of questions here, ideally they should be posted in their own threads.– Jiminy Cricket.Commented Aug 11, 2022 at 13:37
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9"I seem to recall that in TOS the "NCC" designation referred to "Constitution Class."" You probably should've done some checking to confirm that before posting this question, as that recollection is almost certainly inaccurate, meaning that this question is based on a false premise.– LogicDictatesCommented Aug 11, 2022 at 13:54
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5"NCC" stood for "Naval Construction Contract", and I believe that the "NX" designations were said to stand for "Naval Experimental".– Jeff ZeitlinCommented Aug 11, 2022 at 14:09
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1memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/NCC#Background_information– ValorumCommented Aug 11, 2022 at 17:41
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2@JeffZeitlin "'NCC' stood for 'Naval Construction Contract'" is aprocryphal/not canon, originating in Franz Joseph's 1975 Star Trek Blueprints.– LexibleCommented Aug 11, 2022 at 20:39
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'NCC' is a registry prefix not an abbreviation.
A second letter indicating the aircraft's airworthiness category followed the N and preceded the identification numbers. These airworthiness indicators were; "C" for standard, "R" for restricted, "X" for experimental, and later an "L" for limited, (for example, NC1234).See FAA guide
Jeffries (the creator) was mistaken about the letter "C" being for "commercial" planes.
The last "C" seems to have been added by Jeffries for mostly aesthetic reasons. MA Wiki
