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Hello All,
I have gone back and revisited the poster that I created detailing the insignias/division badges for the Constitution Class Starships. My first version featured only 12 vessels of the class, so based on critiques and research, I found that in the second season of the original series that the producers created a list of names for the vessels. That list totaled 14 ships consisting of the names Constitution, Enterprise, Farragut, Hood, Yorktown, Lexington, Kongo, Defiant, Constellation, Valiant, Intrepid, Potemkin, Excalibur and Exeter. While this list is not considered canon I believe that since it was written by the production staff that it includes some merit in the Star Trek universe.

Another thing that I did was try to offer an explanation on the numbers lower than 1700 since the Constitution was the lead ship of the class. So as a result, I reasoned that ships's with 17xx numbers would be new builds and that ships of the 10xx and 16xx were older model ships that were refitted to Constitution class specifications, A theory that I have is that the Constellation Class was built before the Constitution but still had the same dual hull, dual Warp Engine configuration, so they could easily be updated and refitted to the new Constitution standards and Starfleet decided to keep the original names and NCC numbers for record keeping reasons instead of issuing new ones.

Now to give credit where credit is due; The background orthographics of the Constitution Class Starship was made using the Jaynz Starship Toolkits, the insignias for the Constitution, Farragut, Hood, Yorktown, Lexington, Intrepid, Potemkin and Excalibur were based on the ones created by Doug Drexler and Geoff Mandell for the USS Enterprise Officer’s Manual, The insignias for the Enterprise, Constellation and the Exeter were based on the on-screen insignias created by William Ware Theiss, The insignia for the Defiant was based on the insignia created by Mike Okuda and the insignias for the Kongo, Valiant Starfleet Command and the UFP were created by me. Overall layout created by me.

Description

Hello All,
I have gone back and revisited the poster that I created detailing the insignias/division badges for the Constitution Class Starships. My first version featured only 12 vessels of the class, so based on critiques and research, I found that in the second season of the original series that the producers created a list of names for the vessels. That list totaled 14 ships consisting of the names Constitution, Enterprise, Farragut, Hood, Yorktown, Lexington, Kongo, Defiant, Constellation, Valiant, Intrepid, Potemkin, Excalibur and Exeter. While this list is not considered canon I believe that since it was written by the production staff that it includes some merit in the Star Trek universe.

Another thing that I did was try to offer an explanation on the numbers lower than 1700 since the Constitution was the lead ship of the class. So as a result, I reasoned that ships's with 17xx numbers would be new builds and that ships of the 10xx and 16xx were older model ships that were refitted to Constitution class specifications, A theory that I have is that the Constellation Class was built before the Constitution but still had the same dual hull, dual Warp Engine configuration, so they could easily be updated and refitted to the new Constitution standards and Starfleet decided to keep the original names and NCC numbers for record keeping reasons instead of issuing new ones.

Now to give credit where credit is due; The background orthographics of the Constitution Class Starship was made using the Jaynz Starship Toolkits, the insignias for the Constitution, Farragut, Hood, Yorktown, Lexington, Intrepid, Potemkin and Excalibur were based on the ones created by Doug Drexler and Geoff Mandell for the USS Enterprise Officer’s Manual, The insignias for the Enterprise, Constellation and the Exeter were based on the on-screen insignias created by William Ware Theiss, The insignia for the Defiant was based on the insignia created by Mike Okuda and the insignias for the Kongo, Valiant Starfleet Command and the UFP were created by me. Overall layout created by me.