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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :
Registry Number?! REGISTRY NUMBER?!! Jesus motherf***ing Christ, do they think we're idiots? THIS is the long-awaited thing that gets all you running to the shops at the mere rumour of a new issue? This is the thing that costs, what, about �5?
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Well, I don't know how much it would cost in the UK, but it costs me $12 +tax
Posted by Jim Phelps (Member # 102) on :
Easy on the Magazine folks; there are people out there who haven't watched the show long enough to start looking at ship details and window spacing.
Boris
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---a Writers' Test from the Original Series Writer's Guide
Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
The diagram as well as the labeling errors are the same as in the FF. Only the font is different. The German translator didn't notice the wrong labels, either. Next time they should hire me.
Lee: "Main viewport" is wrong, too. It should be "This is a window that allows to look outside" (my favorite FF quote from another issue).
------------------ "The past, the present and the future, they exist as one, they breathe together." (Annorax, VOY: "The Year of Hell") Ex Astris Scientia
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
$12? I only paid about 8 dollars at Books-a-Million.
I noticed that when I looked at the diagram of shuttle too. Did other earlier shuttles have deflectors though? The shuttles from TNG don't appear to have them.
Yes, it costs $8 in the US but here in NB it costs me $12 Canadian so consider yourselves lucky that you get it so cheap.
Posted by Identity Crisis (Member # 67) on :
£6 here in the UK, but I've only ever seen it in the one store (Borders on Oxford Street, London) and it's about a month late.
Still, easier than getting the Fact Files in the US, right?
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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :
Borders? Where's that on Oxford Street? From Oxford Circus, towards Marble Arch or Tottenham Court Road? And which side of the street?
Posted by Identity Crisis (Member # 67) on :
From Oxford Circus it's towards Tottenham Court Road and not very far. It's on the south side of the road. Opened sometime last year. Only place I've ever seen the Star Trek Magazine, not even seen it in Forbidden Planet.
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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :
I think I know the one you mean. Damn, and I was there at lunchtime too. NOT that I would buy such an outrageous rip-off. Until they do some decent Steamrunner diagrams, anyway. 8)
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
*lol*
To be fair, silly labels aside, the magazine really does present some nice pictures. And the behind the scenes design stuff is very cool.
------------------ "And give me back my evil heart so I can see you as you are." -- John Linnell
Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
Am I the only poster to these forums who enjoys other aspects of Star Trek than just the technology? I'd buy The Magazine even if it didn't have the "technical briefings" or diagrams at all... the interviews and pretty pictures are easily worth eight bucks a month, in my opinion.
But regarding the bad labeling, Rick just mentioned the other day that he noticed many of them on the Voyager schematics and is therefore now checking the diagrams before they go out. I don't expect perfect accuracy, but at least he should be able to catch a few of the more blatant ones.
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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Well on TNG shuttles, there weren't deflector dishes as such - but about half way along there was a wider part and if you look front on, the 'mesh' on either side that faces forward could be for deflection purposes.
------------------ "Ooh, FASA." - The Shadow, aka Frank G - June 1999
Posted by Black Knight (Member # 134) on :
A John Eaves sketch on the Insurrection shuttle called those an impulse intake. IIRC
The Type-10 shuttlecraft from the Defiant, and the Delta Flyer have deflectors.
------------------ "If I get lost, I'll just follow the ship infront of us."-Ensign Nog
Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
Where it says phaser array, should it not be the deflector?
Doesn't the shuttle have four or six phaser strips?
U.S.$8 is almost the exact equivalent of CAN$12.
Lee: There is some good stuff when you analyse the diagrams yourself.
------------------ Doctor: "Run along. I'll reattach any severed limbs. Just don't misplace them." (Voyager: "The Killing Game")
Posted by bonecrusher on :
Hey hasnt Star Trek Magazine been out in publishication out of the US for a long time?? Cauz Pedro's Shiporama had the Akira Class schematics like 6 months ago! So tell me if it has been out of the US for a while?
Posted by bonecrusher on :
Oh sorry continuing.... he (pedro) had the Akira, Prometheus, the streamrunner, and some other schematics of other ships for a long time! So is this enough evidence that it has been shipped out of country 4 a while!
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Pedro was lucky enough to live in an area where the magazine was being test-marketed.
------------------ "We kid around a lot about people who are cyclopses, but seriously; if you're a mythic figure you've got challenges that no one should have to deal with." -- John Flansburgh
