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Doesn't look like any NASA study I'd have seen. No prominent rotating section in evidence, either - this isn't exactly a sister ship of the Leonov from 2010. And the engine section looks pretty much like the ones Okuda (Sternbach?) drew for the later 'grams, like the DY-500 schematic. This is probably either an Okuda/Sternbach original, or then a good fake thereof.
The text is compatible with the other "The Royale" Okudagram we know of: the mission description seen up close in "TNG: The Continuing Mission". Gas-core fission powerplant, launch date etc.
There's the obligatory Buckaroo Banzai reference there, too, under "ship type". I guess we can count that as yet another (multi-)letter "class name". Now we have at least the J and Y classes, the DY and NX classes, and the BBI and NAR classes (the latter is used as a class name in the "Up the Long Ladder" list)...
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Hmm, engine as Timo said like the Dy-500 or perhaps a cross between that and the Valiant�s engine. Antennae and solarpanels like the Ares 4. Either these are coincidences, damned good continuity, or just a fake. Btw, is the pic a scan from a magazine? I saw white lines around it when I downloaded the image?
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Also, "registry" is spelled wrong, but that doesn't necessarily indicate that it's fake.
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Cool that we have some new info now.
A question that's been striking me for a while: what the hell is gas-core fission?
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I noticed the "registery" thing, too, but figured it didn't necessarily mean anything. But it did just occur to be that this picture looks like a screenshot, but I don't recall any shot like this in the episode...
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