People often wonder how Starfleet ships are assigned their NCC registry numbers (see this example). But before getting to the main point, let's check the ships' background information first.
Memory Alpha: USS Yorktown (NCC-1717)
Wikipedia: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
Memory Alpha: The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship
That's a pretty convenient coincidence with the 1701, isn't it?
Now that we're done with the official explanation, let's look at the following evidence:
NCC-1717
Wikipedia: Premier Grand Lodge of England
NCC-1701
Wikipedia: Yale University
Yale is infamous for its Skull and Bones secret society; linked to the occult.
"Skull and Bones Ritual Footage" (ABC)
"Bush / Kerry Skull and Bones Avoidance"
Think Leonard "Bones" McCoy in Star Trek.
Constitution-class.
FREEMASONS: Tales from the Craft (p.52)
If anyone still thinks that this is all just a coincidence, then feel free to get back to whatever you were doing.
Memory Alpha: USS Yorktown (NCC-1717)
The "United Space Ship Yorktown" (identified as SS Yorktown) was the name of the central starship in Gene Roddenberry's first Star Trek proposal to NBC in 1964. The ship was named after the USS Yorktown (CV-5), a World War II American aircraft carrier, which in turn was named after the last major battle of the American Revolution, won in 1781 by a combined Franco-American army commanded by Gen. George Washington. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 572)) Coincidentally, the historical World War II Yorktown was a class sister of the historical USS Enterprise (CV-6), after which Roddenberry ultimately named his starship. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 164)
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NCC-1717 was the registry number given to the Yorktown by Gregory Jein in his influential "The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship" article, published in the April 1973 issue 27 of the T-Negative fanzine.
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NCC-1717 was the registry number given to the Yorktown by Gregory Jein in his influential "The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship" article, published in the April 1973 issue 27 of the T-Negative fanzine.
Wikipedia: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
The "1701" was chosen to avoid any possible ambiguity; according to Jefferies, the numbers 3, 6, 8, and 9 are "too easily confused". Other sources cite it as a reference to the house across the street from where Roddenberry grew up, while another account gives it as the street address of Linwood Dunn. Jefferies' own sketches provide the explanation that it was his 17th cruiser design with the first serial number of that series: 1701.
Memory Alpha: The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship
[Jein] chose to use the registries seen in the first season episode "Court Martial" of Star Trek: The Original Series as a basis for his list.
He then claimed that the Constellation, Defiant, Farragut, Kongo, Republic and Valiant were unlikely to have appeared on the Starbase 11 chart, due to them being either not yet constructed or no longer in active service. Removing these ships left twelve, exactly the number of starships mentioned by Kirk in the first season episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday".
Jein then matched these 12 names to the 10 numbers on the chart by using a reverse alphabetical ordering. [. . .] Although he himself admitted there was little logical reasoning behind this ordering, it did lead by chance to several interesting matches. The 1701 was correctly assigned to the Enterprise, and the 1700 was very conveniently matched to the USS Constitution, the presumed first ship of the Constitution-class.
Jein then matched these 12 names to the 10 numbers on the chart by using a reverse alphabetical ordering. [. . .] Although he himself admitted there was little logical reasoning behind this ordering, it did lead by chance to several interesting matches. The 1701 was correctly assigned to the Enterprise, and the 1700 was very conveniently matched to the USS Constitution, the presumed first ship of the Constitution-class.
That's a pretty convenient coincidence with the 1701, isn't it?
Registry numbers not featured in the series, Jein made up, taking care to have them correspond with the classification numbering. [. . .] Noteworthy was, that the original designer of the Enterprise and its registry number, Matt Jefferies, has endorsed the rationale behind Jein's numbering system to some extent, "The reason we gave for the choice [NCC-1701] afterwards was that the "Enterprise" was the 17th major design of the Federation, and the first in the series. 17-01!" (Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook, p. 62)
Now that we're done with the official explanation, let's look at the following evidence:
NCC-1717
Wikipedia: Premier Grand Lodge of England
The Premier Grand Lodge of England was founded on 24 June 1717 as the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster, later calling itself the Grand Lodge of England. [. . .] It was the first Masonic Grand Lodge to be created.
NCC-1701
Wikipedia: Yale University
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony as the Collegiate School, the University is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
Yale is infamous for its Skull and Bones secret society; linked to the occult.
"Skull and Bones Ritual Footage" (ABC)
"Bush / Kerry Skull and Bones Avoidance"
Think Leonard "Bones" McCoy in Star Trek.
Constitution-class.
FREEMASONS: Tales from the Craft (p.52)
After the USS Constituion ("Old Ironsides") was restored and moored in Charlsetown Naval Shipyard (Boston), a Masonic Lodge, Henry Knox Lodge of Massachusetts, was constituted on the ship on March 17, 1926.
If anyone still thinks that this is all just a coincidence, then feel free to get back to whatever you were doing.
