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I recently saw some pictures of the Starship Enterprise as she was designed for the Star Trek series that would've been produced in the late 70's if the Motion Picture had not been made. At the time the series was titled "Phase II"(according to the encyclopedia anyway!) My problem is I can't find the web site which had the pictures. Can someone help me!?
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Prakesh, I'd like to see those pics...
jamesdwright, try looking on, uh... *thinks* Do a search for The IDIC Page, I think there are some pics of a model there, and there's also photos in The Art of Star Trek, and a more specialised book Phase II: The Lost Series.
I'm hoping to get hold of a rare collectible very soon - the Enterprise Flight Manual, which was the technical guide for Phase II writers!
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Thanks for replying to my question, I knew I wasn't seeing things. Now if only I could remember where I saw those pictures of the Phase II Enterprise!
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The pics at the IDIC page are of a model completed by Brick Price, who was contracted to produce the studio model. Personally I think it was "finished" too much like the movie E - it's in a Planet Hollywood or something?
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Thanks for directing me to the IDIC web site, I found what I was looking for there,now I have a question. Would the Phase II Enterprise have been a longer ship than the Motion Picture Enterprise?
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There is no way of telling for sure since no acurate diagrams have been published to my knowledge. At a guess I'd say they were about the same, possibly the movie sauser was bigger so it probably made the E-ref the longest.
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I'll try to throw together a graphic in the near future, since I have some views of the Phase II Enterprise drawn by Matt Jefferies. My guess is that it would be roughly the same size as the movie ship; maybe a little smaller in places, like its TV predecessor.
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I did notice several differences between the Phase II Enterprise and TMP Enterprise, particularly the bridge, the sensor dome on the saucer underside and the nacelles. The nacelles of the Phase II ship appear to be longer than those on TMP ship, that's why I thought the Phase II ship might be longer.
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Right now I couldn't say. Give me a little time The torpedo launchers are in the same place, but instead of the two-tube block, the Phase II E literally has two tubes in the same location. The ship lacks a lot of the movie model's detail, but certainly the bridge detail (not the internal layout; a lot of the Phase II sets were recycled for the movie, and some of them - sickbay beds, corridors and more - have been used up until the end of TNG!), the saucer underside detail, and portions of the engineering hull (including the deflector dish detail) are different.
Photos are hard to come by but I've just won an eBay auction for a copy of the "Enterprise Flight Manual", which was the writers' technical guide. Expect some interesting posts as soon as my exams are over...
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