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One of Starfleet's most famous types of all starships, the Constitution-class starships included acclaimed origional U.S.S. Enterprise. During the time of Captain James T. Kirk's celebrated five-year mission of exploration, only 12 of these ships were in existence. Constitution-class ships used duotronic computers, based on designs developed by D. Richard Daystrom in 2243. Constitution-class starships commisioned by starfleet included:
The regristry number of the Constitution (NCC-1700) is from one of Scottys's technical manual screens in "Space Seed"(TOS). Since the class ship has a 1700 number, it would seem only reasonable that the other ships of the class have higher, possibly even sequential numbers. Unfortunately, the U.S.S. Constellation, bore a much lower number, NCC-1017, (obviously because it was a simple rearrangement of the decal sheet from the AMT Enterprise model kit) and the Republic was designated as NCC-1371. These data points suggest the Constitution-class ships had regristry numbers that not only varied widely in range, but also could not be sequential. Modelmaker Greg Jein (through an amazingly complex and admittedly only barely logical means) managed to match up the various Constitution-class ships with the starship status chart in Commodore Stone's office in Starbase 11, seen in "Court Martial" (TOS). Most of these registry numbers are from Greg's conjectural list, although several are from various Starfleet charts and readouts in Star Trek VI. A few of the Constitution-class ships listed above are not fom any episode or movie, but are from the original Star Trek production office's starship list in Stephen Whitfield's book, The Making of Star Trek.
