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Were I drunk, I could see the Museum temporarily re-labelling a bunch of old ships to have an "Enterprise Exhibit" or somesuch for a special occasion. And creating an outsized Pre-E to go with it.
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I was just coming to the same conclusion. Heck, some might not even be real starships, just mockups. The E-nil might just be a hollow shell with just the bridge, engineering, sickbay, Kirk and Spock's quarters, plus a few random hallways and turbolifts.
You can imagine the voice of the tour guide when leading guests into the "Enterprise-B": "Now as you know, the real Enterprise-B was lost in the battle of Gah Seeyusano Maly. But we have one of her lesser known sister ships here on display and we have updated the interiors to match what you would have seen had you visted the Enterprise on that fateful day."
No doubt there's a bake sale being held at SFHQ to raise money for the "Retrofit the B" campaign, with sticklers that want to make sure the outside of the Feaux-B is accurate, right down to the font used on the hull and the banner iconography.
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Where did the link to the Museum go? It's not working.
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The image of the E-J, to be honest, looks like a rush job. The saucer doesn't seem to interact well with the hammerhead secondary structure. And the image is identical in angle to the MSD seen by Archer, which makes me think that they took Drexler's image and just modified it in a hurry to be the situation display. It's a bloody weird angle for a MSD anyway. As always they got too ambitious while also being sloppy. They could have just used Drexler's image as a nice piece of corridor artwork, but instead they had to go and add lots of flickering status lights to it.
quote:Originally posted by Joshua Bell: I was just coming to the same conclusion. Heck, some might not even be real starships, just mockups. The E-nil might just be a hollow shell with just the bridge, engineering, sickbay, Kirk and Spock's quarters, plus a few random hallways and turbolifts.
Hmmm....I think it would be intresting to have the Sarfleet Museum with few -if any- real historical ships in it at all: they could all be holographic in nature -explaining why the gangways lead into through hull of the Ambasador "C" and how some sloppy programmer flubbed and made holographic stoc Excelsior.... The gangways (once inside a "ship") would be surrounded by a holographic montage of each ship's history and the crews that made it famous.
I SO cover trek's ass.
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It's a pretty inaccurate Ambassador though. Besides, if they were going to make one new CGI model, I'd have prefered a mid-sized Dominion ship or something new from the cardassians.
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The Ambassador model was created some time ago for a project that never saw the light of day. And yes, the artist concerned knows how inaccurate it is.
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Deflector and interconnecting "neck" are really off for starters. Still, at least it's not the Reliant sneaking in.
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I dig the retro BOP far more than the STIII version. The comand pod is very mean looking whereas the STIII version's torpedo launcher makes it look like it's screaming like Mr. Bill.
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