-------------------- I'm slightly annoyed at Hobbes' rather rude decision to be much more attractive than me though. That's just rude. - PsyLiam, Oct 27, 2005.
Registered: May 1999
| IP: Logged
capped
I WAS IN THE FUTURE, IT WAS TOO LATE TO RSVP
Member # 709
posted
I havent since wednesday.
Ive theorized about a TOS version of the bird-of-prey based on the one in this ep. I figure it would be without the Romulan design influence.. grey hull, not green.. no feathers painted on.. without the wings being foreswept.. etc and of course less hull detail to make it fit better with its TOS contemporaries.
And if it was going to have guns on the wings and warp on the body, it would probably have the warp nacelles on the top of the rear hull, like the unproduced variant Matt Jefferies came up with in his D7 design concept sketches. Maybe I'll draw up a conjectural desgin and post it.
[ November 25, 2001: Message edited by: CaptainMike ]
-------------------- "Are you worried that your thoughts are not quite.. clear?"
Registered: Sep 2001
| IP: Logged
posted
Can't anyone see the overall shape similarities!?! Of course it wasn't what was really happened - its nice that working backwards we might get some sort of concensus!
-------------------- "Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." - Jim Halpert. (The Office)
posted
Andrew: Don't you have anything better to do than to try & prove that yet another Klingon ship design is actually even more old than we thought it was?
-------------------- "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
Registered: Jun 2000
| IP: Logged
posted
The Klingon ship you speak of was in 'Friday's Child,' not 'Errand of Mercy.' From "The Star Trek Compendium": "The Klingon battle cruiser was first used in the third-season 'Trek' episode 'Elaan of Troyius': in this show a 'fill-in' design was used, an animated flat-iron shape with a rear fin that resembles something out of the 1939 Buck Rogers serial. Glowing a bright orange on the Enterpise viewscreen, it is seen for several seconds and vanishes without ever becoming distinct."
Registered: Mar 2001
| IP: Logged
Printer-friendly view of this topic
