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Design Lineage -> Starship Service

I know that in this chart the "darker" color is built and the "lighter" is service... but I have a question about the lines. If you look at the Fereration, a few of the lines seem to stop short of some of the others. Example, the Akira seems to end a year or so sooner than the Ambassador right below it does (assuming that the far right is "current" with the last movie). The Sovereign does that as well. Is there a reason for that?

Jim wrote:Design Lineage -> Starship Service

I know that in this chart the "darker" color is built and the "lighter" is service... but I have a question about the lines. If you look at the Fereration, a few of the lines seem to stop short of some of the others. Example, the Akira seems to end a year or so sooner than the Ambassador right below it does (assuming that the far right is "current" with the last movie). The Sovereign does that as well. Is there a reason for that?

The lines are drawn using the service history information on the individual ship pages. If you look at the Akira class the commissioned information says 2363 - present. The Ambassador says "2330 - 2357, class remains in service" If no end date is present the system currently uses 2378. We'll take a look at the data this weekend, time allowing.

IanKennedy wrote:...If no end date is present the system currently uses 2378.

Doesn't the Prime timeline go through 2387, thanks to 2009 Star Trek?

IanKennedy wrote:

Jim wrote:Design Lineage -> Starship Service

I know that in this chart the "darker" color is built and the "lighter" is service... but I have a question about the lines. If you look at the Fereration, a few of the lines seem to stop short of some of the others. Example, the Akira seems to end a year or so sooner than the Ambassador right below it does (assuming that the far right is "current" with the last movie). The Sovereign does that as well. Is there a reason for that?

The lines are drawn using the service history information on the individual ship pages. If you look at the Akira class the commissioned information says 2363 - present. The Ambassador says "2330 - 2357, class remains in service" If no end date is present the system currently uses 2378. We'll take a look at the data this weekend, time allowing.

It isn't a big deal at all, certainly not a priority. Just something that I noticed that most people might just not even pay any attention to.

In future it might be worth flagging this sort of thing in the ship nits thread rather than starting a new one - that's what it's there for after all.

I had considered putting it into the "Main page nits" thread but it is not the "main page" nor a general load type issue and as I thought it more a potential graphics thing it is not a specific ship issue (in order to relate to the ship nits thread)... And considering that there is a "Don't clutter the nits threads" finger wag pinned to the top of the page... it seemed like a new thread was the way to go.

The anti-clutter notice is aimed at avoiding the tendency of any thread to get TR-116'd, not against adding new nits.