Which Lexington?

[AslanC]

Okay I have a problem.

In TNG Episode "Thine Own Self" the Enterprise rendezvous (off screen) with the USS Lexington (listed in the Encylopedia as NCC-14427 and an Excelsior class). The year is 2370.

In the DS9 Episode "Explorers" the USS Lexington NCC-61832 is said to be docked at the station, giving Chief Medical Officer Elizabeth Lense a chance to visit with her former classmate, Dr. Julian Bashir. The only ship seen docked is a Nebula class. The problem is she is returning from several years in Deep Space (episode year is 2371), so she can't be the one that met with the Enterprise.

Grrrr...

I am almost ready to scrap both of these class and say that it was an Ambassador that docked at a lower pylon, and we just couldn't see it

This is the kind of continuity things thatc hap my butt!

Adivce? Input? Help?

[Dan Stack]

Doesn't seem like a continuity problem at all.

If the TNG episode just mentioned the ship while DS9 showed it then I'd go with DS9. The Encyclopedia should be secondary to the actual shows. As for the rendezvous, it may be stretching things, but Lexington could have been on her mission when she met Enterprise.

[AslanC]

In Thine Own Self the Lexington is ferrying Troi from her class reunion.

Doesn't sound like a deep space mission to me

This is the problem.

Why would there be two active ships named Lexington?

[Lancer]

Originally posted by AslanC
Why would there be two active ships named Lexington?

Bureaucratic error, that's why.

Bob: "Hey Joe I need a name for this new ship they are building over at Utopia, any ideas?"
Joe: "Yeah, the Lexington just got decommisioned. Why not use that?"
Bob: "Great idea. I'll use that."

-- next day ---

Bob: "Joe, have you used the Lexington name allready?"
Joe: "Yes, why you asking?"
Bob: "Oh it's nothing, forget I asked."
Bob (muttering under his breath): "I'll be damned if I make myself look foolish by telling him I confused the Lexington with the Plexington."


I know it sounds silly, but with an organization as large as Starfleet is these things are bound to happen.

[Dan Stack]

Originally posted by AslanC
In Thine Own Self the Lexington is ferrying Troi from her class reunion.

Doesn't sound like a deep space mission to me

This is the problem.

Why would there be two active ships named Lexington?

Ahhh... But her class, they were having their reunion at a really odd place, somewhere in... ummm... deep space.

Seriously, I would go with the one seen on DS9 and use any logic possible to justify TNG.

Hey, could the TNG one have been a civilian ship?

[Capt Daniel Hunter]

I would just go with the DS9 one. Heck, you could always argue that the Lexington was back in Federation space for supplies or some such thing, and ferried Troi because they were in the area.


I wouldn't worry too much about it. Besides, since when has canon ever bothered you Aslan?

[Don Mappin]

Originally posted by Capt Daniel Hunter
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Besides, since when has canon ever bothered you Aslan?

Exactly. I about spit out coke with laughter when I read the original "problem."

[Capt Daniel Hunter]

Originally posted by Don Mappin
Exactly. I about spit out coke with laughter when I read the original "problem."

Well you know Aslan. He likes to make us work

[AslanC]

See... I try and run canon and everyone laughs.

I try and find an in canon way to reslove the discrepencie and everyone laughs

Angst... shame... woa... plight... misery... etc...

Here's what I decided to try and balance the two ships.

The original Lexington (NCC 14427) was an Excelsior. She was aken out of active service in 2365ish and shunted to the Federation Diplomatic Corps for use as a transport. This would bring her under the control of say the Merchant Marine maybe.

After the Nebula gets toasted at the battle of Chintoka or some such, the old Lady Lex is given a fast refit and rolled out for the last half of the war.

Now with their need to have ships active until the fleet is rebuilt, she avoids the decomissioning block for one more year.

Does that work?

[Capt Daniel Hunter]

Originally posted by AslanC
See... I try and run canon and everyone laughs.

I try and find an in canon way to reslove the discrepencie and everyone laughs

Angst... shame... woa... plight... misery... etc...

Well it was hard to refuse the invitation

As to your idea, if it works with your setting go with it. personally, I don't like the diea of having two Lexingtons in service at once. My take on it is the Excelsior reference was an error (someone accidentally called up a decomissioned Lexington instead of the currently serving one). Such things are not unknown In fact there is an old 19th century frigate called HMS Unicorn in Dundee (where I live) which is a tourist attraction today. However until the 1960s she was the base for the Royal Naval Reserve in Dundee. During WW2 she had to be renamed due to the fact that there was an actively serving HMS Unicorn, and officers being sent to the serving one kept being misdirected to the sailing ship.

Talking of Lexingtons, my TMP era campaign just restarted aboard the Original unrefitted Consitution class Lexington. Though they'll soon be reassigned to a brand spanking new Constitution refit Intrepid (when Lexington goes in for refit)

Urm, what was my point?