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Originally posted by Shipbuilder:
E-J nose "thingy" is a deflector, sort of NX-01'ish actually.

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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:36:51 -0400, Jack Bohn wrote:

>I've joked that in the future New Years seems to come in
>September, when the stardates roll over. Well, Happy New Year,
>we have 14 new pictures.
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>I'm tempted to egotistically believe they heard my complaints
>about last year's calendar. Here we have a greater variety of
>ships (including an altered model!) in more interesting poses,
>and, for July, my DS9 as landscape! (Actually, I really wanted
>to be 300 to 500 meters further in. The place should take up the
>whole field of view.) For those of us who pick out missed
>instances of the name "Enterprise" on models that are supposed to
>be named something else, the centerfold, "Fleet Museum", has
>brought together a special exhibit of seven ships, and six of
>them can be seen to be decked out with "Enterprise" and/or
>"1701". This has to be deliberate, they had to paste the E-B's
>registry over their standard Excelsior model. (The Motion
>Picture version is still in its livery from the TMP DVD. That's
>right, "No bloody 'A' ...." Somehow the TOS series production
>version is sharing a berth with its own refit.)
>
>Let me calm down and take these in order:
>I first thought the cover was the Phoenix in flight. Looking
>closer reveals several differences. The title being "First
>Flight", I suppose it is from the ENT episode of that name.
>
>A broad sweep of history is represented by the first two months.
>January features the Enterprise in its first pilot "The Cage"
>configuration, and with as smooth a hull as possible in a drydock
>that looks like it could have been designed in the 1960s. It
>includes stubbier, less graceful workbees. One could wish they
>had used Matt Jefferies's sketches of work craft, but why cavil
>when the workers have gone the extra step of hanging a UFP
>pennant from one of the spars? (Yes, hanging, with hoses also
>hanging in aligned catenaries it is questionable whether this
>thing is in free fall.)
>February goes to the opposite extreme with Enterprise NCC-1701-J,
>created last year and still in the future of any crew we've
>followed.
>
>March "Little Friend," is that a Scarface reference? Is the
>Chaffee quoting, "Say hello to my little friend!" as the Defiant
>comes alongside?
>
>April's "Ode to McCall" is a Lunar portrait with the Earth in the
>background and a small NX-01 in the foreground. With last year's
>"Ode to Bonestell", will we eventually get to an "Ode to
>Sternbach"?
>
>May has a pair of 2150ish Klingon ships surveying ruins on a
>planet. From the title, "Wrecking Crew", we can assume they are
>not ancient ruins. I think I recognize the ship in the
>background, but did they really show the ship in the foreground
>in a show? It is so ugly. I can't even call it a Bird of Prey,
>more like an Archeopteryx of Prey.
>
>Voyager takes on two Borg cubes in the grand manner of that show.
>Veej has its Batmobile armor, but one of the cubes is wearing a
>flack jacket.
>
>The centerfold is seven Enterprises circling the top level of the
>Fleet Museum with a collection of historic shuttles, Runabouts,
>and inspection pods flying around them, and walkway tubes laid
>out between them. One of the tubes disappears behind the
>Excelsior-B, it would be interesting to see it continue off the
>page like the rest. As we go from the -nil to the -nil refit to
>the -B, _C, -D, and -E, the NX completes the circle from the
>new/new design of the Generations Films back to the old/old
>design of the original with its new/old design. As a visual
>argument, it is still not convincing.
>
>July, a NX-01 shot.
>Aug, DS9.
>Sep, battle of the ironclads from Wrath of Khan. I always love
>the coral color the Mutara Nebula gives to the ships.
>Oct a closeup of a Tholian ship as at least three of them spin a
>web around the NX.
>Nov, "Old Girlfriends", Picard's Stargazer and Enterprise
>meeting.
> Dec, "Faith of the Heart" I'll have to watch the ENT opening
>again, but I imagine this is the same space station, here you can
>clearly see a Soyuz capsule, and is that a representation of the
>Hermes spaceplane, or the "abandon ship" Crew Return Vehicle?
>Prophetic in not depicting the Shuttle docked to it?
>
>For anyone else keeping score, that's
>1 from TOS
>1 from TFS
>1 from TNG
>2 from DS9
>1 from VOY and
>7 from ENT, although only 4 show the NX-01.

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Hey! What's that supposed to mean?

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...but I've always pictured you as a Zak-Dorn with glasses anyway.

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That's the one of the ugliest ships I've ever seen.

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