Something I have always wondered about the USS Relativity, the timeship from the 29th century we met in Voyager, is the history of the ships name Relativity, given the high registry number *and* the "G" after it.
Obviously it had a lot of predecessors it was namesake to.
The registry number...NCV-474439-G it's already awfully high. 23rd century ships had 4 digit registry numbers, and 24th century ships had 5 digit numbers, so, what, 6 digit registry codes like the Relativity's would have likey come into use in the 25th century, at the earliest...?
(Of course, you don't need to keep adding digits like that, even with only 4 digits you could have 9999 possible combinations. But maybe the extra digit has come to signify what century ships were first constructed in.)
Anyway, then you ad the "G", it implies that there were *7* previous Relativity's. The original, and then A - F.
Now, that's no problem because you have 4 centuries between the 25th and the 29th. Almost 5 if you go fromt he start of the 25th to the end of the 29th. That's plenty of time to go through all those letters. We already are up to the Enterprise-E by the late 24th century.
But...with a name like Relativity, does that imply that all the previous Relativity's were timeships...?
Because if THAT were the case...then if time travel starships were a new thing in the 29th century, then the previous Relativity's were even unluckier and more short lived then the Enterprises!
I imagine time travel was a dangerous business. Though if you have a tame traveling starship...wouldn't you be able to foresee and prevent you own destruction...?
Then again, apparently the Federation an Starfleet had regular use of time travel in the 29th thru the 31st centuries (according to Voyager and Enterprise)...but somehow couldn't predict the fall of the of the Federation by the 32nd century (according to Discovery.) Unless it was some kind of conflict ala Enterprise's Temporal Cold War (but a Hot War version) and the devastation Discovery encounters in the 32nd century is a result f meddling in the past. Perhaps somehow created when Discovery itself disappear from the original timeline. Maybe Discovery will have to go back to prevent it.
But I get feeling that Discovery isn't going to get back, and is intended by the writers not too, given what happened in the last episode of the 2nd season that seemed to try and offer a (lame) reason why in later times their was no mention of Spock having a sister, or of something called a "spore drive".)
Plus, Discovery also shows that Starfleet - or at least Section 31 - had a time crystal powered time travel Iron Man suit in the mid 23rd century, but I'm guessing that tech was somehow shoved away like the spore drive was, put in a crate in a big warehouse somewhere, to be studied by...top men.
