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Ok...I know this has been touched on before...and, yes, I did go back through old threads to see if there was something I could add to, but I didn't find one... so here's my thing:
I was watching a taped episode of Enterprise yesterday and I happened to pause it as the last ship in the opening credits before Enterprise swoops down from above. And I noticed what looks like a saucer at the front of the ship. You can just barely see it, but it's fairly clear.
I don't remember anyone mentioning this before, but has anyone else noticed this? Anyone drawn up a preliminary schematic of this ship?
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Yes, I actually noticed this as well, but I didn't know if I was just seeing things or not.
I hope that this is actually an Earth Starfleet ship, because then the possibility of seeing it in an episode is good. However, it was shown after the Phoenix and before the Enterprise, so it could have been built any time between 2063 and 2151.
-------------------- "A film made in 2008 isn't going to look like a TV series from 1966 if it wants to make any money. As long as the characters act the same way, and the spirit of the story remains the same then it's "real" Star Trek. Everything else is window dressing." -StCoop
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I bet on some Vulcan pointing out that "Forbidden Planet" is a stupid movie because saucer is the most illogical spacecraft shape possible, and the Earth engineers getting all agitated and determined to prove otherwise.
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Maybe people wanted even spaced quarters or people used to fight over who could have a 'window room' - so they made saucers so more people had access to a window!?!
-------------------- "Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." - Jim Halpert. (The Office)
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No kidding, huh. WAY to state the obvious. Anything else you'd like to clue us in on? Like, that you can't open these windows to let fresh air in? 8)
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I always thought that this was the ship that Archer (as a kid in the first episode) was buiding a model of. It was the ship his father designed and built.
But i did notice it looked like the saucer sections of the other ships...
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The ship boy-Archer was building had no saucer. And I think that Enterprise was the ship his father designed and built. However, his father died before Enterprise was completed.
That's just what I picked up, I could be wrong though. They could've been talking about a different ship. But I think part of the emotional tie in was that Enterprise was the ship that Archer's dad was building but never got to see fly.
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It wasn't so much the ship that his father was building, as the engine. I mean, I'm sure the shape of the ship has something to do w/ the warp drive, so Archer the Elder probably had some say in that. But it was the the warp-five engine that was the main thing.
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