Naval Commisioned Carrier, maybe?

In Diane Carey's Book Best Destiny she writes NCC as "Naval Construction Contract". Perhaps the number is assigned to the ship before it is built?

So what does "NX" stand for? "Naval Xenophobe"? "Naval Xylophone"? "Naval X-File"?!

From what I understand, NCC doesn't stand for anything. Niether does NX. They were just made up.

The NCC 1701 was taken from a couple of different Science Fiction magazine covers depicting different spaceships of which the design of the Enterprise was borrowed from. I think I read this in "The Making of Star Trek: The Untold Story" by Herb Solow and Robert Justman.

I think (its in my garage, and I'm at work) that the TOS tech manual says that NCC stands for Naval Construction Contract. I know the Franz Josef blueprints are canon. Is the Tech Manual (also Franz Josef) canon?

I always assumed NX stood for "Naval eXperimental", since the Defiant is a prototype.

The NX is experimental. This is confirmed by the tech manual. The Excelsior had an NX in ST III and IV. The thing that I would like to know is what does NAR stand for? It was the prefix of the Raven, Seven's former ship.

Non-Aligned Registry, maybe? It would work for the Raven, but does it show up anywhere else?

Mon-Aligned Registry is a very good guess. And works for all ships I know of (the Raven and Cilivian Oberth-class science ship in TNG "Hero Worship", maybe?)

ANP

What about MY post? No one's talking about MY post...;-)

And what does NSP, the prefix of the Vulcan ship T`Pau (from "Unification") stand for?

"Naval Science Project"?!

In the Star Trek Encyclopaedia (revised edition) it says that NCC doesn`t stand for anything. It simply came from the fact that some planes have NC on them, and one of the producers decided to add another C because he liked the look of it.

Maybe NSP is in Vulcan?

In the book "Ships of the Star Fleet" (which is a very good book for anyone interested in starships) it is called Navigational Contact Code. I personally think it stands for Naval Construction Code.

In the TOS Tech Manual, NCC stands for Naval Construction Contract. In addition, the same source (is it canon?) appears to reserve ship numbers in blocks of 100's. For example, the Constitution class is all 1700s. The scout class is all 800s. The (never built) Dreadnought class was 2100s.

I always thought NCC stood for "Naval Class Cruiser."

Nope, cause the original Enterprise was Constellation class, the Enterprise-D was
Galaxy class, et cetera ad nausem

Sorry, KND, but the original Enterprise was a Constitution class, not a Constellation class (as an aside, the Stargazer, Picard's first ship, was a Constellation-class ship).

Although "Star Trek" canon says that the NCC stands for nothing, in the Star Trek universe, it has to stand for something, and "Naval Construction Contract" sounds good to me. As Aaron Dotter suggested, the number likely comes first and the name later, and the numbers are uniquely assigned (except for the NCC-1701A,B,C etc, a special case). I just wish that The Powers That Be would made a decision on this one.

I feel so stupid.


" And I go on, as always, alone." Scully, 'Emily'

K.n.d., don't feel stupid. I could regale you with tales of things I've done that would make a Constitution/Constellation mix-up seem intelligent.

Oh, and Steve: the Enterprise A-E is not a special case. In the TNG episode "Contagion", the USS Yamato is registry number NCC-1351-E, or something very similar.

The USS Yamato had a regestry number of NCC-1305-E in "Where Silence Has Lease". It had a diffrent number (no suffix) in "Contagion".

In "Contagation", the Yamoto's regestry was NCC-71807.

Aha! An actual TNG nit! Haven't seen one of those in a while. Bravo, Cabe!

Thanx, Deuce. Go, Charles!

I feel that the Powers that Be changed the registry code for the Yamato between "Where Silence Has Lease" and "Contagion" so that the Enterprise would be a special case. There are many examples of more than one ship with the same name (Defiant leading the way), but none of them have a letter suffix in their number.

NCC means naval construction code...before i found out i thought it meant number code clearance!

Case closed! Now, lets try to find out what NAR, NSP, NGL, NDT and NFT stand for!

After asking what NSP stood for, I got a sudden idea. Non-Stafleet Prototype! Like NX, but for non-Starfleet vessels. One problem, though. The T`Pau was not a prototype!

It's a conspiracy! NCC actually stands for "Nitpicker Confusion Causer" and is a plot from TPTB to confuse us all and distract us from the more blatant nits on the show!

I had heard that NCC was supposed to be a cross between the US and Russian numbering system.

Conspiracy, eh?

The Relativity (Which Is A Wells-Class Vessel... The Class Is Named After H.G. Wells *sp?* Who Wrote "The Time Machine") Had The Registry Number NCV-474439-G... I'm Guessing NCV Stands For Naval Chrono(something) Vehicle...