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So the cute MACO who gets the knife is Forbes... hmm...
So does anyone have a screencap of the Yosemite Station?
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They need to get some people who's job consists of making new models for Star Trek so they don't have to keep recycling
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You know, I had a bit of an idea. You remember that planet from TOS, that was basically a copy of Earth, where the Yangs and Coms (read Yanks and Communists) were still fighting, and some bacteriological war had wiped everyone out and given the survivors really long lives? Maybe the Enterprise was thrown into orbit around that little clone of a planet. ...Probably not, but just a thought. I'd love to see ANY explanation for that stupid episode. Pissed me off to no end.
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Well, that could be logical, given 3 assumptions. One, the Aquatic vessel doesn't know how to plot a course, and Enterprise doesn't know one sector or pretty blue planet from another. This may actually be logical given Mayweather's ability to identify things. Two, the mirror planet would have a Starfleet headquarters close enough to the "real thing" to fool Starfleet officers. This is of course, assuming that they detected a Starfleet Headquarters and wern't just going by what they assumed should be there. It would be like taking a trip, and as you get closer to home, making the turn into your driveway just assuming it would be where you left it. Nobody thinks that it won't be there. Thirdly, well I can't think of a thirdly, my firstly was my thirdly.
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Of course, with the Spheres and Expanse collapsing, and with these weird subspace vortices they're travelling in, all manner of things could have happened. Perhaps an alternate Earth from an alternate reality was pulled into our reality, so the solar system and pretty blue planet do look the same. And perhaps the aquatics were screwed up by the whole collapsing-of-the-spheres-thing, or perhaps the alternate Earth wasn't pulled into our universe until after the aquatics left. I don't really believe what I'm saying, but I don't really believe what Berman and Braga say either, usually
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quote:Originally posted by MrNeutron: As to the Bay Area in that screenshot, here're the nits to pick:
1. The hills to the lower left aren't underdeveloped. That's all the Marin headlands. It was undeveloped then, and likely to remain so, as it's a big park area.
2. Since the hills are all green, and that usually only happens early in the year, it's probably sometime between January and March.
3. Enterprise Starfleet HQ as seen in the other screen shot is located at Fort Baker, the cove just showing down-left of the shuttlepod's left wing.
4. The Presido at the right of the bridge appears to be well forested, maybe too much so for the 1940s, but I can't say for sure.
5. The water texture makes the whole think look like it's a 1/100th scale model. Fake-o-rama.
6. San Francisco used to have a lot more piers than it does now. If this were OUR 1940s you'd see lots of piers and ships along the edge of the city at the top right.
These FX guys need me as a SFHQ consultant.
Another Note on the Bay Area Screencap
If it is 2154, we know that the Oakland Bay Bridge bridge is still around (perhaps there are homeless people living in it ala Gibson).
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I distinctly remember Trip telling Mayweather to "land on that pad behind the command center" so they were obviously seeing something that looked quite enough like Starfleet HQ that they thout it was Starfleet HQ. So are they really in 1940 or not.
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