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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Somehow I find the idea that runabouts were new to DS9 illogical. I mean, they are just bigger and badder shuttles, with no qualitative differences. Surely clumsier versions of them would have existed ever since Kirk's times? And it was just the Danube class specifically that was new... Rewatching (ugh!) "Skin of Evil", I was intrigued by the shuttle there. You remember "shuttle 13" crashing into a rock face, with Troi aboard? The wreck exterior was portrayed by a model or prop that clearly wasn't supposed to look at all like the then standard type 7 shuttle. It had a very large stern window, a long and narrow hull, a cockpit area separated from the rest of the craft by a bulkhead and a door (admittedly, some type 7s had this as well), and two very large nacelles apparently mounted on long pylons instead of being bolted to the hull. All features that are mirrored in the Danube design. To boot, this was one of the extremely few TNG shuttles that was in true deep-space interstellar transit, as opposed to ferrying somebody from a nearby star system to the ship or vice versa. (the only other one that comes to mind would be the type 7 in "Chain of Command", really. Or perhaps Scotty's "gift".) This relates to two nits: 1. A legitimate difference in warp performace wrt shuttles => consistency in the way these craft are operated. It would make sense for the E-D to have one or two "runabouts" on board, since shuttles as portrayed in the TNG TM cannot go interstellar, not at warp two max. 2. (And this is really obscure!) Remember that SWDAO on "Second Sight", about the Potemkin looking like an Ambassador on the E-D monitor readout? Well, this shuttle looks like a type 7 on the monitor, even though the model never attempts to look like one. So we can now say all such screen representations are just symbolical, and the Potemkin is really an Excelsior. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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