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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] [QUOTE]I gotta say, the Oberth is a sexy-looking ship.[/QUOTE]I hate the Oberth with every fiber of my being. And not just because it's a silly design. I hate it because in almost every TNG episode it was featured in or mentioned, it was supposed to be a different class of ship that TPTB decided to nix having a new model built because of the budget. Tsiolkovsky: Where it all started. The "Oberth" class was supposed to be a new ship. Instead we got the Grissom without even any changes to the name and registry on the model. So essentially, the runabouts were the ships that finally replaced the Oberth class. Yosemite: Because this was originally the class ship for the Trieste, Okuda had to rename the class Merced. Raman: A new model was supposed to be built for this ship, but instead no exterior shots were shown, and Okuda made it an Oberth in the Encyclopedia with a completely different registry than what was in the episode. Cochrane: Script only mentioned "a small Federation ship." So they used the Oberth. Biko: Was supposed to be a freighter, and instead we got stock footage of the Cochrane from "The Drumhead." Pegasus: Supposed to be a new design. Guess what we got? And to add insult to injury, I had heard a rumor that before Deep Space Nine premiered, the plan was to use the Grissom model again to represent the three ships assigned to DS9, before the decision was made to build the runabout models. So essentially the runabouts were the ships that finally replaced the Oberths. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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