quote:Originally posted by MrNeutron: Maybe it's what the ISS Enterprise should have looked like.
Not a bad idea, really: a oppressive government would likely have kept to the "unpainted" look of the NX-01 and gone more for function than form in it's starships.
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quote:Originally posted by MrNeutron: Maybe it's what the ISS Enterprise should have looked like.
Not a bad idea, really: a oppressive government would likely have kept to the "unpainted" look of the NX-01 and gone more for function than form in it's starships.
Maybe the series "Enterprise" ends up being the Mirror Mirror universe!?!
As for opressive governments... Earthforce in B5 feels like an oppressive government (well we know it was with Clark etc) but even the feel of it before hand. Like, to make their mark in the Galaxy, it had to be through military conflict... Something that seems more like what the Narn were like. I suppose the Earth-Minbari war 10 years previous would still be very fresh in Earth's mind and thus the government and the people would still be militaristic and have darker overtones.
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The Earth Alliance was pretty easy-going up until the Minbari War, actually. Just the fact that they had GONE through such a massive conflict and nearly went extinct in it made them more susceptible to totalitarian overtures, like the US was to McCarthy-ism in the fifties. And, of course, EA warships are all business and no pleasure because the Alliance's level of technology doesn't permit form to precede function, so that has little to do with the tone of its government.
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quote:Originally posted by blssdwlf: But, the original 1701 will always to me look better than any "re-imagined" version. (And the refit-1701 will just be as untouchable ) They got them right the first time.
Amen.
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I wonder how this ship would look, with the pearlescent colors of the refit.
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Agreed that the original was very near-perfect. Truly a think of beauty, a work of art. But we can have fun with the design, since it doesn't detract. Recently I played with the design to make the pylons slightly more TMP like, moving the base conenction forward, and the nacelle connection back, with a slant and widening it. I didn't taper the pylons though. Maybe I'll post a pic.
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quote:Originally posted by blssdwlf: But, the original 1701 will always to me look better than any "re-imagined" version. (And the refit-1701 will just be as untouchable ) They got them right the first time.
So the Enterprise-A looks just as good as the original, even though a "re-imagined" version (which is pretty much what the Ent-A is) would never look as good as the original?
Buh?
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Sorry for changing the subject but when reading that site it said an error was that Spock had 3 ears. Anyone got a pic?
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The design makes it look like little has changed in 100 years. Especially when compaired to how much changes in the next 100
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Like how the Miranda, KBOP, Excelsior and Oberth didint really change in 100 years?
Mabye that's what the E-Nil looks like before they added the white panels....it could be a pic of a Connie that's 90% completed.
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Well, obviously the ships that already existed didn't change much (on the outside, anytime they beam over to an old ship, the insides look new) but the designs have progressed alot compaired to the NX and this ship.
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