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It looks like the kind of tricorder that was made for the background actors to hold, so they wouldn't need one of the more expensive and blinky props. As such, it could be in any number of episodes, barely visible...
quote:That Bothan/Serosian could have passed for a Romulan ship.
That's exactly what I thought when I first saw it in the episode it was featured in... the one with the psychotic hologram. And now, seeing it in detail, I see that it could have passed for a Klingon ship as well.
I actually like this model because of that.
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I especially like sphere located at the end. It reminds me of that photo of the Early Romulan Warship from the Star Trek Chronology.
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Actually, I thought the sphere was the bridge, and the window-looking thing at the other end was a rear observation port.
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I'm not positive, but wasn't this one of those cases where the "front" became the "back" in the second appearance? The sphere looks like it's intended to be the bridge, but wasn't the windowed end the control section in the episode with the psycho hologram? That's where most of the episode took place, iirc.
Oh anf FYI, the auctions are apparently going to continue till February next year, so hopefully there'll be a lot more of interest in store. The costumes and props are all very well, but it's the up close and personal photoshoots with the models that interest me. (I managed to make that sound a bit perverted, didn't I? )
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I believe that its first appearance was as the Sikarian ship in that early Voyager episode about the space-folding tech that they wanted to trade for stories. In that ep, the "observation window" was definitely the front of the ship, and it had more wing-type doodads attached to it.
However, these pictures on eBay strongly remind me of a newer version of the BoP, what with the spherical bridge, forward-swept wings and the olive green paint. But it could just as easily have been an older Romulan warbird too.
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Definitely the Sikarian ship, from "Prime Factors". Good spotting!
...It's just upside down, backside front, and with dorsal, ventral and lateral elements removed, paint job redone, and lighting scheme altered. It's curious that they ever bothered with all that. (For "Persistence of Vision", I mean - the ship was revamped just for a couple of very distant shots, not for a close-up role like that in the later "Revulsion".)
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