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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The First One: [QB] Over time, we've caught occasional glimpses of the [i]Sabre[/i]-class starship. It's now the ship I'm owrking on for UP 3. I've always felt ambiguous about the ship, though, and here's why. . . When we first saw it (in ST:FC), it looked like this: <img src = "http://www.shiporama.org/Images/fcships/saber4.jpg"> <img src = "http://www.shiporama.org/Images/fcships/saber9.jpg"> <img src = "http://www.shiporama.org/Images/fcships/saber7.jpg"> . . .and one blink-and-you-miss-it front view: <img src = "http://www.shiporama.org/Images/fcships/saber11.jpg"> Then, when the Encyclopaedia 2 came out, the ship was revealed to look like this: <img src = "http://www.shiporama.org/Images/fcships/sabersidetmb.jpg"> <img src = "http://www.shiporama.org/Images/fcships/sabertoptmb.jpg"> . . . which was partly confirmed by the CGI view from the Movie Sketchbook: <img src = "http://www.shiporama.org/images/fcships/saber12tmb.jpg"> This was a bit of a blow for me since I'd much preferred the original UP schematic, shown as no. 13 <a href = "http://www.leenet.demon.co.uk/Images/allships.gif">here</a>. Especially when two recent images (from "The Changing Face of Evil") look like this: <img src = "http://stardock.simplenet.com/startrek/pics/the_changing_face_of_evil/162.JPG"> <img src = "http://stardock.simplenet.com/startrek/pics/the_changing_face_of_evil/163.JPG"> My point? Simple. This ship is flat. Really flat. It's easy to be deceived by the tall part at the rear of the Encyclopedia side view, but in fact what I think has happened is this: at the rear is a 'secondary hull' which goes back and slightly up. . . below it, a fin goes down and forward and broadens into an [i]Akira[/i]-style deflector hump. There is head-on image from "Sacrifice of Angels" that confirms this, but I can't find it anywhere. . . So now I apprecaite this little ship a lot more, and it leaves me wondering - why don't we see it more? After the [i]Akira[/i], it's maybe the best-detailed of the FC ships (or neck-and-neck with the [i]Steamrunner[/i] at any rate). Maybe the DS9 production staff were worried it would always be confused with the Jem'Hadar bug? [This message has been edited by The First One (edited August 05, 1999).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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