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Wasn't that a model of the Nebula at the end of Generations, I remember them sprucing her up a la the E-D for the movie - i.e. the six foot model of the Enterprise was stripped down and repainted, I think they did the same for the Farragut.
Andrew
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Hello, i'm new around here and would like to say hi to everyone. I had a question about the post saying the Norway CGI didn't have enough detail so it hasn't appeared outside of FC. Okay, to my understanding, when a model is built for television, it doesn't have the same level of detail as a model built for a motion picture. So, for that reason, the TV models aren't used in movies (at least not without being refurbished or upgraded first). So if the Norway was built for a movie, shouldn't it have more than enough detail for the smaller TV screen(even if it wasn't AS detailed as the other FC models)? Also, i could swear I did see a Norway in SoA;I'll have to watch the tape again to be sure.
As far as Steamrunners and Sabres, both of them were seen in "Tears of the Prophets" and the final season episode where the Breen attack Earth and retake the Chintoka system
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Well we could always say that the Norway mesh was lost and they never bothered to make a new one. Though I have a similar question about the Sovereign-class, if there's been a CGI model made why not put it in DS9?
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Well, if lack of detail was the reason, it may not be that they couldn't use it, but that they just didn't want to. If none of the people working on DS9 liked the ship, they wouldn't have used it. Just guessing, though...
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Isn't it logical that they wouldn't be part of the main fleets during the battle scenes in DS9? I mean, they'd be sitting ducks. They're slow, lightly armed, and the only thing they have going for them is perhaps decent shielding.
Logic also dictates that these medical ships would not lower their shields to evacuate casualties. This has something to do with the phaser fire and torpedoes all over da place
So...they'd be used AFTER the battle scenes we have seen...so that's why we didn't see them when we were seeing dozens of different ships at once.
No excuse for not having them at DS9 during the war though, during shots of the station. Cheap blighters prolly didn't even think of making another model or CGI of the Olympic...
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Our new Captain has got a very good point there!
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Even if the Olympics were well armed and well shielded, it would still be unwise to set them at the frontlines. Think of all those injured people on board. If an Olympic got hit, dying and nearly-dying people fly all over the place because of the impact. Safety first!
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Ya, but as I said, Floating around DS9 would have been the perfect place. I'm sure the infirmary on DS9 wasn't equipped to handle ALL those casualties.
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But what WAS DS9 equipped to handle? It wasn't a real starbase capable of supporting Federation starships - I bet there wasn't even an antimatter generator aboard originally. It was a Cardassian mining and intimidation station originally, and probably relatively useless as anything except a floating cargo port and entertainment center during the first two seasons. The upgrades in the third season turned it into a gunnery outpost of some sort. But we never heard if there were upgrades to turn it into a fleet supply station.
Perhaps the starships in the Bajoran system did not use DS9 as their main supply depot at all. Perhaps only Martok's office was really located there, and all the other fleet activity was centered around Bajor? Then the hospital ships would be there, too, and not near DS9.
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