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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

OK I found this elsewhere on the web - it says it is from Insurrection - it is definately not Data and the Admiral's ship.

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Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

It's from a game and was created by the art guys producing the game. It was never in any movie and I don't know what that line means about it being in Insurrection. Most likely a typo. They meant the title of the game more likely than not.

Actually, after i re-read it, it says that the Valkyrie 1 appeared in Insurrection. Maybe the Valkyrie 1 is supposed to be the scout ship that Data stole.

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Posted by Identity Crisis (Member # 67) on :

There was an article about the game in a recent issue of the ST Magazine. They said that they used Data's scout ship as a starting point for the design of the Valkyrie fighters. I think that this got rather garbled by whomever wrote the above copy.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

That thing looks pretty sweet...

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Posted by Black Knight (Member # 134) on :

Well, just because some moron screwed it up, it shouldn't go against the designers because that is definately a well designed ship.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

You should see the buzzards on the bottom. I saw some very nice pics of those in the ST Magazine. Very nice design.

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

From Venture (Armada) to Valkyrie. I guess this is suppose to be the Valkyrie-II. I wouldn't be surprised to see a few people now insists that the scout ship is Valkyrie-class.

I'm reminded of Cargile's Banzai-class fighter, anyone remember that? It's a pretty cool design. BTW, what happened to him anyway?

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

He's at Sci-Fi Art, at least what will be left of it...

Anyway, I thought about Paul's ship the second I saw this beauty.

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Posted by Sidewinder (Member # 50) on :

What the hell is a Kam'Jahtae?

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Posted by kiltedbear (Member # 1138) on :

In the most recent issue of ST: The Magazine there is an article about this ship and where it comes from: The Valkyrie was designed for the upcoming PlayStation game ST:Invasion. In this game, you are the pilot of one of these fighters. based on a starship named the USS Typhon. The Typhon is a prototype for a new class of starship that serve as dedicated fighter carriers, something IMHO that Starfleet has needed for years.A contemporary of the USS Defiant, the Typhon is designed to go into a fight, take a licking and keep on ticking. It has a "fortress mode" it engages when it goes into battle.

The game designers adopted elements of the scoutship, shuttlecraft and captain's yacht from INSURRECTION when designing the Valkyrie fighter. Personally I think it would be a great replacement for Starfleet's aging fleet of Peregrine fighters.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Does it also launch VeriTechs from two battleships glued on as arms?

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Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

No, but it CAN be easily hijacked for enslaving the human race by an artificially intelligent pop star.

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Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

Pretty cool design. If the blurs on that 'wing' are supposed to represent a registry, it's a very odd one...

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Posted by Identity Crisis (Member # 67) on :

What? This registry?

Looks like NX-??117 to me. I would guess 85 for the ??.

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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :

I love the design, but I read NCC-25117

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

What an interesting insignia on that ship... Looks like the Pilot - Auxiliary craft insignia from Starfleet Dynamics to me

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Looks like 25117 to me, also. Not that it makes any difference, anyway. :-)

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Posted by Sidewinder (Member # 50) on :

What the hell is a Kam'Jahtae?

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Posted by spyone on :

a new hostile alien race introduced for the game.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Descendants from the ancient ancestors of Naut'Zoe-Fahnee.

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Posted by SCSImperium (Member # 397) on :

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Cargile

A family member. Why, I simply must meet the man who shares my last name. Since all Cargill/Cargiles descend from Donald Cargill in the United States, that makes him a relation to me.

Anyways, the thing looks like a Delta Flyer sans any Borg technology molded into the Cardassian Union insignia.

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I remember that quote from Non Sequitor. Though, to be more appropriate, it would have to say:

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Does anyone think that this is the first non-canon ship that is good enough and true to the starfleet style enough to become honourary cano?

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Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

The design is cool and I'd like to see it canonized. But it is certainly not the first non-canon ship which deserves to be canonized.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Here's the Typhon, the carrier ships for these fighters. A little different, but interesting...

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Posted by Nemesis (Member # 255) on :

Is there some place in the net where i find more pictures of the fighter? I'm currently trying to build a model of, but haven't found enough picture yet!

BTW, i've read in a german Playstation-Magazine the Hur'q (or so) will return in this game (mentioned in DS9 "Sword of Kahless"). If i'll find the magazine i can try to translate the story, as far as i know the story sounded very good.

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Posted by chrono on :

I'm glad you like the fighter at the top. It took awhile to get the scanner to get it right.

As for the carrier, I don't like the design it too NON-StarFleet for me.

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Posted by Yakaspat The Trekker (Member # 355) on :

I couldn't agree with you guys more, this fighter is awesome, so much more simplistic and agile looking than the previous fighters we've seen onscreen. It reminds me of the little Bajoran fighter seen in "The Maquis" TNG, if I'm not mistaken...I had the Micro Machine of it a couple years ago.

Anyway, has anyone seen any schematics, like a nice three-view, of this fighter yet? I'm thinking of adding a fighters page onto my site, and this would be a great way to start things off.

I've seen the Magazine article on the ship, but the images were tiny and would be impossible to present as schematics. The images in the magazine HAVE to be out there somewhere, but a web searched turned up nada.

If anyone finds anything on this fighter, email me, please! [email protected]

Thanks,

Lance http://thetrekker.homestead.com

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

I agree it looks like it could do some real damage. Not exactly the peaceloving side of SF.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

It's pretty but the "intakes" on the back of it looks like it's for atmospheric flight. It seems the trend goes for evolutionizing away nacelles.
I'd like to see more of the Insurrection-scout, the Talon-class? That's canonized and should replace the Danube in all heavy-runabout areas.

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