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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Nim</b> <br /><small>Member # 205</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,8,15,17,57,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">September 15, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">05:57 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I was thinking about the funny fact that after the Enterprise-B, the only SF-ships taller than it are the other Enterprises, in a straight line. Amb, Gal, Sov.<BR>All the other classes are shorter, even the new ones.<P>Then I started thinking, how come the founders of TNG were so clever as to name the ship Enterprise-D? Why not just B? <BR>Did they really plan ahead to such length as to weave in the -B and -C later on?<P>------------------<BR>Ready for the action now, Dangerboy<BR>Ready if I'm ready for you, Dangerboy<BR>Ready if I want it now, Dangerboy?<BR>How dare you, dare you, Dangerboy?<BR>How dare you, Dangerboy?<BR>I dare you, dare you, Dangerboy...<P>�on Flux, "Thanatophobia"<P> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Omega</b> <br /><small>Member # 91</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,8,15,18,45,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">September 15, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">06:45 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> They wanted a total disconnect. New EVERYTHING. It was originally the NCC-1701-7, of the twenty-fifth century. But then the -A came along in IV and they changed it to a letter. Why they backed it up to the 24th and -D, I don't know.<P>And you say "taller". I assume you mean in the number of decks. The Nebula class was almost certainly taller than the Excelsior class. A Galaxy primary hull, with spaces above and below...<P>Of course, you could have meant "longer", so there you might have a point. 'Course, the Prommie might be longer than an Excelsior. Not sure there.<P>------------------<BR>"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."<BR> - George Bernard Shaw<P> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Nim</b> <br /><small>Member # 205</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,8,15,19,18,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">September 15, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:18 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Yes, my mistake. Meant longer. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>PsyLiam</b> <br /><small>Member # 73</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,8,17,20,31,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">September 17, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:31 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> They didn't really "weave" in the B and C at the beginning. As Omega said, it was more a case of them wanting to leave a large number of years between TNG and TOS, otherwise, if it was just 10 or so years, everyone would be screaming "Where's Kirk?" and so on. By setting it a century, they had more freedom with characters, new tecnologies, new races, what old races were doing, and so on.<P>Regarding the B and C, when they were deseigning the ships for the observation lounge wall, it's my understanding that the "B" was just based on an Excelsior, and the "C" was just a mix of the Excelsior and Galaxy classes. All 6 of them are very "open" sculptures, so they still had a fair bit of freedom designing the C for Yesterday's Enterprise.<P>------------------<BR>"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - <I>Guido Anchovy</I><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Nim</b> <br /><small>Member # 205</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,8,18,7,23,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">September 18, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:23 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Well I think they handled it well. But the Ent-C firefight would've been nice to've seen, even though tragic...<P>------------------<BR>Ready for the action now, Dangerboy<BR>Ready if I'm ready for you, Dangerboy<BR>Ready if I want it now, Dangerboy?<BR>How dare you, dare you, Dangerboy?<BR>How dare you, Dangerboy?<BR>I dare you, dare you, Dangerboy...<P>�on Flux, "Thanatophobia"<P> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>AndrewR</b> <br /><small>Member # 44</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,8,19,7,52,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">September 19, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:52 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I think that C was Probert's original design for the D.<P>Also it was going to be the Enterprise-G but they brought it back down...<P>Andrew<P>------------------<BR>"I threw bitter tears at the ocean<BR> But all that came back was the tide..." 'I Will Not Forget You' Sarah McLachlan <BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Alpha Centauri</b> <br /><small>Member # 338</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,8,19,9,44,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">September 19, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">09:44 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Enterprise-<I><B>G</B></I>? Hmmm, didn't know this nice little fact.<P>------------------<BR>"And as we all know, a mesolytic quantumvector resonator is commonly <BR>used to polarize isogravitic plasma-flux manifolds."<P>Starfleet Academy's Redshirt Guide to the Starfleet, 62nd edition, 2376.<p>[This message has been edited by Alpha Centauri (edited September 19, 2000).] <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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