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I'm not terribly experienced at doing LCARS screens so I'm afraid this one isn't particularly good. But I needed the practice so here it is anyway.
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Quite nice. Isn't Project Wildfire the codename for the secret lab in The Andromeda Strain?
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Uh, wasn't Shelby's first name Elizabeth? And I mean established in BOBW, not the "New Frontier" novels I've never bothered to touch.
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Very kewel, Kris! Lots of kewel in-jokes in that one. Interesting ideas for weapons in that Systems Summary list, too. "Zero Pointe Vacume Warhead"? I like the sound of that one.
The diagram of the "weapon" things for Saratoga from "Emissary" is very kewel. Wish I could make out the text! I also think that the last weapon on the Systems Summary list is a nice touch. Wonder what woulda happened if they'd used THAT!
"Siegfried", Project: Wildfire was indeed from "The Andromeda Strain".
"MinutiaeMan", Shelby's first name is given as Elizabeth, so maybe this is another "CMDR Shelby".
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quote: Shelby's first name is given as Elizabeth, so maybe this is another "CMDR Shelby".
No, it's just me trusting gthe Encyclopedia too much.
I have a confession to make: I failed to actually check my copy of the Trek Encyclopedia last night. There is no mention of Shelby's first name that i can find in it, just gives her entry as "Shelby, Lieutenant Commander", no other name info givn. Elizabeth Dennehy played the role of Shelby, which is where the first name for the character given in this thread likely comes from. I'm pretty sure that must be where I got it, anyhow. I'll make a point of watching the two-parter BoBW today or tomorrow and see if it actually gives her first name. Kinda doubt it, tho, as the Encyclopedia is usually pretty good about that sort of thing....
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it is a nice LCARS Rev. Have you tried using the 'new' colors? (I realize that you are setting the time frame for this one between the BoBW episodes).
I noticed in Nemesis that the LCARS 'buttons' seem to have bevelling - and I thought these might enhance the look even more.
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Only quibble is that the DS9 tech manual said that quantum torps were tested in the '50s, so it is possible that there were a few units laying around ready to go.
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quote: it is a nice LCARS Rev. Have you tried using the 'new' colors? (I realize that you are setting the time frame for this one between the BoBW episodes).
As I said I don't do LCARS screens very often so I haven't yet looked at the more recent pallets that they have been using of late.
quote: noticed in Nemesis that the LCARS 'buttons' seem to have bevelling - and I thought these might enhance the look even more.
I'll probably incorporate that into a civilian data screen that I'm planning on making soon, but as you said this one is specifically dated to the TNG era so I can't very well use the bevelled look here.
quote: Only quibble is that the DS9 tech manual said that quantum torps were tested in the '50s, so it is possible that there were a few units laying around ready to go.
I know but on that timescale Starfleet should have had some Q-torps ready by BOBW so for this screen I'm saying that the project is still a projected 30 months from completion.
I suppose that I should at least point out that my idea of "Project: Wildfire" is a hastily assembled team charged with finding something, anything that can give the Federation a technological advantage over the Borg. This includes theoretical physics, acquired ancient technologies and what I have list here which is stalled, half forgotten or pie-in-the-sky weapons systems, some of which may have spent decades in mothballs. I was going to illustrate some of this in the communication but I edited it out so that I could make the text fit and be legible. It was something along the lines of; "Don't ask me what that last item is all about, it was an eleventh hour attachment made by someone on the Federation Security Council. I was told that it was for Captain Riker's eyes only and that I was not to ask any questions, I suggest you do the same."
quote:"Don't ask me what that last item is all about, it was an eleventh hour attachment made by someone on the Federation Security Council. I was told that it was for Captain Riker's eyes only and that I was not to ask any questions, I suggest you do the same."
Ha! That's a good one! You should try to rearrange the LCARS framework a little bit (maybe stretch the whole canvas vertically) so you can fit that in...
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My only remaining problem is that the Saratoga's outriggers were specifically stated by Okuda to be sensor booms. That, coupled with the fact that we didn't see them shooting those things at the Borg cube, leads me to believe they're not weapons.
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