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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

So the new Entertainment Weekly (with Jennifer Garner on the cover) has a 3-page minicle with beauty shots of Enterprise's bridge and Archer's quarters, complete with some neet little zoom-ins.

On the bridge, there's zoom on Hoshi's UT, on T'Pol's scanner, & on the dedplaque. For the record, it reads:

ENTERPRISE
SPACECRAFT NUMBER NX-01
JONATHAN ARCHER, COMMANDING
This is then followed by a huge block of tiny-print names of crew members, including the seemingly immortal Berman, Braga, & GR. Finally, the "where no one has gone before" quote is formally attributed to Zefram Cochran on it.

Speaking of Cochrane, among the items in Archer's quarters along with a picture of his college water polo team is a small bronze tabletop-sized version of "THE STATUE." That's right, Zef in all his "hand reaching majestically towards the stars" glory. What a trinket to have.

Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Shik:
Speaking of Cochrane, among the items in Archer's quarters along with a picture of his college water polo team is a small bronze tabletop-sized version of "THE STATUE." That's right, Zef in all his "hand reaching majestically towards the stars" glory. What a trinket to have.

You think whoever made the statues had to pay ol' Zef loyalty for using his image? [Big Grin]

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

We'd already seen the plaque from the StarTrek.com QuickTime tours.

Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :

It's the second time we get a plaque that will be outdated the moment there's a change in the ship's duty roster. The Enterprise-E captain's yacht had a plaque with Picard's name on it, but that was a bit more excusable since it was essentially a private craft for Picard - perhaps the whole plaque was an unofficial addition by Picard himself?

Archer doesn't even have the luxury of replicators to create a new plaque if he's dethroned by another commander...

Timo Saloniemi

Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :

Having a plaque for a command stating who the CO is and other "oddzenendz" is current policy, or at least custom in many US military commands. Often there is even a picture of the skipper to go along, in the event that someone forgets what they look like I suppose. Not generally the same thing as the building/launch plaque but they could be I suppose.

Such plaques are usually of type that can be locally made/modified and are as snazzy as possible.

It would seem consistant that at least on a human ship that such attention to spit and polish would remain.

Posted by Spekkio (Member # 729) on :

Oh heck yea, when I was OCS with the Marines we were always being marched by the plaque with the CO (name and picture) on it. Big fun, let me tell you.

Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :

I'll be damned... now we've got canon proof that the TNG Starfleet is commanded by an Admiral who's at least 300 years old! [Razz]

(This'll be great ammunition for the next time someone starts going overboard with trying to interpret and rationalize canon...)

Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :

Aw, come on. Trek could indeed use a Buford Early type of character (see the Niven-wannabe works under the "Man-Kzin Wars" title). Or a long line of Beeblebroxes ("A minor mishap with a time machine and a contraceptive vending machine", or words to that effect).

Timo Saloniemi

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Is/Was Gene an El Aurian!?! [Smile]

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

The weird things is... that would work :

Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :

Looking at the actual picture of the plaque, I noticed a few things:

-It's nicely in the style of the TOS Enterprise plaque.

-I can't see the quote well; does it say "man" or "one"?

-It doesn't look like the quote is attributed to anyone, let alone Zef.

Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

It says "man"

The only time the quote or any variation of it was ever attributed to anyone was the supposed ST4 plaque (as seen in Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise) that says, "-taken from the Starfleet charter."

Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

Look in the magazine. It's in there.