quote:Maxwell - Probably NOT for Benjamin Maxwell of the Phoenix
Well, Wolf 359 took place before Captain Maxwell went off the deep end...
quote:Vega - Star about 26 ly away. Subject of Isaac Asimov's novel "Contact"
Um, "Contact" was written by Carl Sagan!
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quote:Originally posted by Shik: The Sacred Chalice of Rixx? From Betazed?
Good point! Perhaps Rixx is a city on Betazed, maybe a temple or even an ancient religious figure or deity (ancient Bolian contact perhaps? ). On the other hand Rixx could just as easily be the name of a 21st century Tellarite philosipher or the Klingon word for a kind of green putty that can be found in one's armpit one mid-summer morning.
Upon looking at this photo & other concept drawings of the NX-01 by John Eaves, I have to wonder if he has ever actually seen an episode of TOS. Especially in the second concept, he seems to think that a vessel, which came 100 years before Kirk's Enterprise, should for some reason look almost exactly like Picard's Enterprise-E 200 years later, the only difference being the Cochrane-Phoenix nacelles. No wonder Drexler ended up using the Akira as a template - Eaves gave him the idea!
Good lord my neck hurts now...
Anyway wow, I don't really see a single original concept up there. The very first thing on top [err to the left] looks like the sovi's captain's yacht.
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Klondike - Didn't Uhura mention that guy in ST3? The inventor of the transwarp-drive? Brahms - probably the musician Solaris - Stanislaw Lem's novel (and a bad Clooney-movie)? Shimoda - wasn't that the name of the chief engineer of the E-D in one of the early episodes? Khumbu - according to google a region near the Everest in Nepal (sounds reasonable since Everest and Nepal are on that list, too) Popovich - early Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich?
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quote:Klondike - Didn't Uhura mention that guy in ST3? The inventor of the transwarp-drive?
That was Thorndyke. And Uhura only mentions him in the German dubbing.
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UHURA Nicht zu fassen. Thorndykes Idee. (Unbelievable. Thorndyke's idea.)
quote:Why would they just add extra dialogue in there like that?
You'd be surprised, if you knew what they did with TOS and TAS. The dubbing is horrible.
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So mabye TAS does'nt suck in another language? It sure sucks in english.
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quote:So mabye TAS does'nt suck in another language?
The original version is brillant compared to the German dubbing. Spock tells jokes in every episode.
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quote:Originally posted by Spike:
quote:So mabye TAS does'nt suck in another language?
The original version is brillant compared to the German dubbing. Spock tells jokes in every episode.
And every episode's just about 15 minutes long. They cut more than 10 minutes for whatever reason, sometimes deleting whole subplots or creating a totally new story out of the remains. None of the figures has the same voice actor as his/her counterpart in TOS, Arex sounds like he's suffering from lung cancer and M'Ress like a girl from a sex hotline. I haven't seen the original TAS (in fact, I haven't even seen many of the german version either), but how bad it may ever be in the original version, the german version is worse.
And where the hell did they get the name Thorndyke anyway? That's not just changing the dialogue a little bit, that a concrete information they give a way for a reason.
Oh, and did anyone ask someone with more information on the list yet?
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It's the germans retaliating for that whole "nazi episode" thing.
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