Re: Star Trek Trivia (Series and Films)
Kongo?! That's interesting Rick. I haven't read TMOST in ages, so if I saw that list before, that name didn't register! Also interesting how DC Fontana made that list. I used to think it was based on certain Naval Battleships in history.I also pulled out my 1994 copy of the Star Trek Encyclopedia. It lists similar names, but a few new ones.
These include: Constellation, Constitution, Defiant, Eagle, Endeaver, Enterprise, Essex, Excalibur, Exeter, Hood, Intrepid, Lexington, Potemkin, Republic and Yorktown. That's 15 names.
There's an interesting story of how Greg Jein, (model maker, built mother ship in CEOTK and many other films, uber Trek fan and maker of the Enterprise D model used in TNG, and Enterprise 1701 for Trials and Tribulations DS9 episode) had made up a list of names way back in the early 70's based on the list in Stone's office. The story goes that the Constitution is 1700 and that all ships would logically have numbers higher then 1700. But the Constellation has 1017, a rearrangement of the 1701 numbers from the AMT Enterprise model kit decals. He deduced that the Republic was the ship with numbers 1371, based on dialogue by Kirk in Court Martial. So by that info, he crafted a list and matched some numbers and figured out the other ships that matched those numbers.
It would be interesting to see how the numbers match-up with the new CGI Lexington, Hood, Potemkin and Excalibur as I'm sure the remastering management team are quite anal about these things.
I figure the list that's in TMOST as a list in the making as it was done in 1967, as the second season began production.
