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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] Not necessarily since bridge modules can be swapped out. In regards to the Yorktown & Shepard transmissions, time for another script extract. [i] STAR TREK IV : THE VOYAGE HOME APPENDIX A. N.D. STARSHIP DIALOGUE (as it appears in Scene 42) VERSION 1 Starfleet command, this is Captain Joel Randolph of the starship Yorktown reporting. Emergency channel Zero-one-three-zero, code red. It has been three hours since our contact with the alien probe and all attempts at regaining power have failed. All non-essential crew have been given hiber-sedatives to slow down consumption of life support reserves. Our chief engineer is attempting to deploy a makeshift solar sail with which to focus and absorb radiation from a nearby sun we are orbiting. We have high hopes that this will, if successful, generate power to keep us alive indefinitely. If you would patch us through to Engineering Control we could link up with the technicians there and hopefully lick this problem. We will keep you posted on our condition. Starfleet, and inform you of any further developments. Captain Randolph out. VERSION 2 Starfleet Command, this is communications officer Trillya of the U.S.S. Shepard reporting on emergency status code zero one nine five. Our condition remains the same, the probe has neutralized all power supplies and we are functioning on reserves only. All attempts to reinstate main power have failed. Captain Clampett has quarantined all but minimal support crew due to failure of Bio- Sterilization capsules containing Vegan D virus, which has already killed fifteen crew members. All aboard are believed to be infected. Atmospheric regeneration and reclamation systems are not functional, and all medical supplies are spoiling due to refrigeration shut down. At present condition life support systems will be exhausted within eight hours. Starfleet, please advise...? [/i] For the record I checked out the DVD and while it's certainly not as audible as the Yorktown message, the Shepard message can be heard in the background and what little I could make out seams to be consistent with what is in the script. As for the Yorktown itself, my interpretation of events goes something like this:- The Yorktown in ST:IV was an old refitted Connie like the E-nil and was due for decommissioning, so when Starfleet decided to give Kirk another ship they chose to give him the old Yorktown a final refit (the early stages of which we saw in ST:V) rename it as the E-A and give it a five or six year stay of execution. This didn't bother Captain Randolph or his crew much since they were due to be transferred to the new Excelsior-Class Yorktown anyway. For me this neatly explains why how Starfleet came up with a new ship so quickly, why it was decommissioned and mothballed only a few years later and how there could be another Yorktown flying around in 2293. Of course the E-A doesn't have to have been the Yorktown, it could just as easily been another old Connie. However since the Great Bird thought it was a good idea, I don't see any reason for it not to be. Of course everyone is free to come up with their own versions since I doubt that there is any solid "evidence" one way or the other. I would however like to point out in regards to the MSGTTE manual's entry regarding the E-A; that book was written before ST:VI in which the E-A was decommissioned and was apparently under the assumption that the E-A was brand new (probably due to the Transwarp label) so it really can't be counted as a reliable source in this regard. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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