Happy April Fool’s Day. In reality I love all Starfleet ships equally. Except for the USS Equinox. That’s a garbage ship for garbage people.

  • teft@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    S stands for superb or superior. It comes from Japanese and UK class grading systems.

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      7 months ago

      and UK class grading systems

      Uh… I’m British. There’s no S here.

      Thanks though.

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        7 months ago

        So the source i read maybe was wrong about the origin. It still means superb or super and is above A rankings.

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          7 months ago

          I always thought it originated from comic books where nerds would rank powers of various heroes and the S tier was named for Superman because he was in a tier of his own.

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            7 months ago

            Nah, it comes from Japanese grading systems and was then introduced to the West via video games.