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Austin Powers
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Great idea. Apart from the fact that I live in Germany and this was only on holiday - and three years ago.
But I remember the book store's name: it was "Dillons" opposite Liverpool Central station. I don't recall the name of the book.
It was a "coffee table" book - stylish, full color and about the same size as "The Art of Star Trek". I think it was blue on the outside and had a Federation badge on the front.

Hope this helps a little. Sorry, but I remember neither the name of the book nor the publisher.
At the time I just scanned through this book. I thought it was great but just too expensive.

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About the Excelsior in Trek 3, I may have to go back to the video, but I could of sworn the only reason transwarp didnt work while it chased the enterprise was Scotty removed something from the Excelsior. Captain Styles said something along the lines of "They will regret that...". The overall tone and mood of the chase out of the starbase sugested that the Excelsior was already in the middle of transwarp testing, and had already achieved transwarp, and was ready to chase the enterprise using it.

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There's loads of Dillons all over the country. I know someone who works at one. I'll check it out.

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The reason the Excelsior stalled out, sure. But I find it really hard to believe that a few missing spark plugs would be enough to scrap the whole transwarp project. There had to have been other problems with the setup.
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Yes. Possibly it burned fuel like a US cars engine. Or maybe it was extremely unstable. Or perhaps the speed increase just wasn't dramatic enough. Or perhaps advances in normal warp drive made it unecessary. Or perhaps it was successful, but it just amounted to a standard speed increase, and the over excited PR boys who dramatically called it "transwarp" were fired, and it just reverted to being called "warp, but a bit faster"?

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That book... hard-cover... blue... with a badge... I've never seen something like that... could it be one of those LUG books??

Also, maybe Transwarp was applied to new increases in Warp... but still was warp - not the funky different type(s) seen in Voyager?

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Austin Powers
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Andrew: what's LUG?
I've tried all the regular publishers' websites (simon & schuster et al) as well as amazon.com to find the book, but to no avail. Damn!

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LUG: Last Unicorn Games.
A Star Trek RPG, IIRC.

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Any recent news on this book? Never seen it myself, but if it exists...it must be added to my collection...

Thanks!
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Well, let�s continue the debate, here�s my latest scan:
Space dock "ship"

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Nice scan, but I don't think there's anything more to debate about. After nine pages on this topic, the general consensus is that some people think it's a ship, and some people don't. Without any further info from the people responsible for setting up the scene, there's no way to tell who is right.

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Yeah, I guess you�re right I just wanted to see what kind of reaction I�d get....

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I read page one and page nine. I'm extremely frightened by what the middle pages contain, and therefor abstain. I think its part of the wall, but I would be willing to say its a ship if you drew a blueprint.

Of course it wouldnt be canon.
I had an idea. Let's break into the set for Star Trek X when its being filmed, and put all of our favorite non-canon images on a CD and overwrite some of Okuda's graphics for the background monitors. Then they film it, and maybe you can see a little bit of te dreadnought or a shuttlecarrier behind Picard-clone's head. BOOM instant canonicity!!! Then they will have to listen to the creative fanboys...
going insane...., captain

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It cannot be apart of the wall, if you look at the actual film footage you can see that this is definatly a composited image with a definate matt line and the normal discolouration.
this last image was taken from a publicity photo that has been touched up, so the object in question looks like a part of the wall...but it isn't...

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Never mind.. i just read the middle pages and somebody did draw a blueprint..
can i have permission to add in to my encyclopedia?

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