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A few comments on this latest addition to Ex Astris databases. There are fewer points of controversy there than in the other two new databases, but one can always find a nit to pick...
"Imperial Romulan Warbird" is spoken in "Face of the Enemy", but not really seen abbreviated. Perhaps it's actually abbreviated as "IRWB", to stay more consistent with "PWB"?
A "Romulan interceptor" is no match to Quark's Treasure in speed in "Little Green Men", but might still deserve a mention. So would the unseen Romulan "troop transport" the scientist in "Eye of the Needle" offers to summon.
Where does the name "Bird of Prey" come from for the "Balance of Terror" vessel type? It's not in the dialogue of that episode, but it might very well be in "The Deadly Years". If not, then it's simple fanfic and not canonical hard data.
Finally, a suggestion: could the images of starship exteriors and interiors from the Gallery be cross-linked to the Database entries, in addition to being available directly through the Gallery? A one-stop data dump on a given starship class, including full visual documentation, might be fun! Unless, of course, it means that the Database takes nineteen minutes to load.
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Also, BoT mentions that Romulan ships from the Terro-Romulan War era had birds painted on them, too. Might want to mention that.
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Just for the hell of it, I might add that Romulan "birds of prey" were called "warbirds" in novels and such for years. I'm pretty sure they were utterly unidentified.
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What about the Tubular Romulan ship seen in the Chronology and Encycs.
What is the URL to the Romulan page?
Also - I heard like that tubular early Romulan ship and the Daedelus Class, that there was a similar early Klingon ship too!?! Never EVER seen it though.
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What about the Tubular Romulan ship seen in the Chronology and Encycs.
What is the URL to the Romulan page?
Also - I heard like that tubular early Romulan ship and the Daedelus Class, that there was a similar early Klingon ship too!?! Never EVER seen it though.
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quote:Originally posted by Galen: Speaking of that tubular Romulan ship, does anyone have a scan of it?
That reminds me...I spoke to Greg Jein some years ago about that Chronology Romulan ship model, and was disappointed to hear he had taken no pix of it before handing it over to Okuda and company. I would have liked to have seenthe details. He said he was going to try to get it back to take some pix...I think a phone call is in my near future...
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quote: Also - I heard like that tubular early Romulan ship and the Daedelus Class, that there was a similar early Klingon ship too!?! Never EVER seen it though.
I've never even heard of that, were pictures ever published? anyone have a scan? It could be one of Kor's old D-5s
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Never heard of that. I don't think it's in the Encyclopedia or the Chronology, and, as far as I remember, we haven't seen Klingon spaceships from the distant past. Well, unless you count the Barge of the Dead...
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This klingon ship is like the Tubular Romulan Ship and the Daedelus - not ever seen on screen... (I'm not counting the Daedelus on Sisko's desk.)
Andrew
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Did Greg Jein build the Daedelus AND the TRS (Tubular Romulan Ship)? If so, maybe that rumour about the Klingon equivalent might be able to be checked with him. As mentioned earlier, maybe the models were taken from him before any pictures were able to be made of them?
Andrew
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: From the Neutral Zone Database:
That elevation drawing of the Romulan "Tube ship" appears to be more wrong than right. The "wings" are completely wrong in both shape and size, the nacelles are too long, the front end is wrong.
I bent and skewed the scanned photo around and was able to extract what I think is a elevation of the ship that is much closer to reality, but I can't figure out how to upload it. Help!
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quote: Did Greg Jein build the Daedelus AND the TRS (Tubular Romulan Ship)? If so, maybe that rumour about the Klingon equivalent might be able to be checked with him. As mentioned earlier, maybe the models were taken from him before any pictures were able to be made of them?
I take it this would be the same bloke who also did the S.S. Valient and a DY-500 model, I say this because they all seamed to be in the 1st edition chronology.
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