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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov: [qb]I thought there was a shuttle visible in the bay when Scotty and Kirk toured the ship. The hangar was definitely open and you could see something inside. I just saw TMP at the cinema two weeks ago. :confused: [/qb][/QUOTE]I just watched my old pan-and-scan copy of the original TMP. In that version, the shot is fixed primarily on the cargo bay area, so I guess I just assumed that the often-shown matte painting (seen in books like "Art of Star Trek" and "Mr. Scott's Guide . . . ") was actually showing the rest of the shot. Crap. :-) There *is* a workbee in the shuttlebay. I thought there might be something larger behind it in the almost aft-on shot from the travel pod, but it's hard to tell on my wee-tee-vee. This would serve to explain that idea everyone has always had (which perplexed me) about how the Surak was a Vulcan design . . . I always assumed it was just a regular Starfleet shuttlecraft with a regular Starfleet warp sled, one that just happened to be registered to some Vulcan authority. Actually, though, given the fact that the docking port on the back matches the docking port on the travel pod precisely, and given that the warp drive technology appears to be decidedly non-Vulcan (i.e. not ring-warp, and using the "louvered-looking" engines a la the Enterprise in TMP), and given that the Enterprise had to have been in possession of something more than workbees, one could try to make the argument that what has commonly been thought of as a TMP shuttle (at least by me) *is* a TMP shuttle. Hmmm . . . wonder if it's in the director's edition anywhere? G2k [/QB][/QUOTE]
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