1) Watching First Contact on DVD, and I turned on the closed captioning, and I found a ship that some of us might have had confused. On my starship list, I have a USS Manson commanded by a Captain Luxby, which was apparently heard in the comm chatter. Well, in closed captioning, after they mention the Lexington (and it says Lexington, not Lexicon), there is a line that says this "LUXI: This is Commander Luxi on the Madison..." Therefore, we have a USS Madison, not USS Manson
2) On the information pages on Miranda variants, four ships are shown. The Reliant, the Brattain, the Bozeman, and the Saratoga (31911). Now, the first problem I notice is that all 4 diagrams have the nacelles having the front, rounded grill as being red, like a Bussard Collector. Second, the Brattain appears to have the wrong diagram again. She has the roll-bar, but she also has that little block on the side of the nacelle, which is similar to the thing on the Saratoga. Is these supposed to be there or not? Also, the Brattain lacks any windows whatsoever. Unfortunatly, the next page they show a screenshot and the ship clearly has all the windows a regular Miranda should have. Now, the Bozeman also has some problems. The little probes that stick out of the sensor dome are missing, the add-ons to the impulse engine area are missing, and so is the bottom pod! The Saratoga then also appears normal.
3) In the article on Eden FX, they show a book that is supposed to contain all the FX shots of ships and stations and other stuff. First off, where can I get this book?! Now, besides that, they show an actual page from the book, and it's the CGI Model of the Prometheus. On it, it says the Prometheus has a length of 414 meters. I don't seem to remember that being the same length that everyone else uses for the ship, so I dunno. Also included on this page is a PHONE NUMBER for Digital Muse. Anyone care to call and see if they can get their hands on those books?!
Anywho, I think that's it. BTW, love the new cover design for the magazine!
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"No, 3 & 6 are mandatory, so you only have to do them if you want"
Alex, fellow classmate, trying to explain an assignment (2/2/01)
Boris
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I'm not the Boris Skrbic on the Grafitti Wall website
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"You put the geeks on the left and the stalkers on the right and you run for daylight up the middle"
- William Shatner, discussing a Star Trek Convention on EW-
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"No, 3 & 6 are mandatory, so you only have to do them if you want"
Alex, fellow classmate, trying to explain an assignment (2/2/01)
(1) go to: http://flareupload.hypermart.net/psupload.htm
(2) click "browse"
(3) locate your file on your C drive in the window
(4) click "upload"
That's it.
Ben
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Ripley: When we throw the switches, how long before the ship blows?
Parker: Ten minutes.
Ripley: No bullshit?
Parker: If we ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space.
Alien (1979)
Anywho, here it is:
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"No, 3 & 6 are mandatory, so you only have to do them if you want"
Alex, fellow classmate, trying to explain an assignment (2/2/01)
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"Lately I've noticed that everyone seems to trust me. It's really quite unnerving. I'm still trying to get used to it."
- Garak, "Empok Nor"
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"Yar, a lesbian? That girl had a sex drive! First, Data in Naked Now, then, in
Hide and Q, she hits on Picard! "Oh, if only you weren't the captain..." God! If
Denise Crosby hadn't left the series, she'd've slept with the entire senior staff by
now!" Jeff Kardde - March 7, 2001
1. Different bridge module which is almost the same as the one that was almost used on the refit model for ST1.
2. The lower sensor dome area is much enlarged to look like the bridge module.
3. There are sensor spikes extending from the lower sensor dome.
4. Big Cargo bay extensions on the back of the model.
5. Sensor pods connected to the areas where the nacelle pylons connect with the ship.
6. Sensor pod connected on top of the cargo bay extensions.
7. Sensor pod connected to the bottom of the cargo bay extensions.
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[Bart's looking for his dog.]
Groundskeeper Willy: Yeah, I bought your mutt - and I 'ate 'im! [Bart gasps.] I 'ate 'is little face, I 'ate 'is guts, and I 'ate the way 'e's always barkin'! So I gave 'im to the church.
Bart: Ohhh, I see... you HATE him, so you gave him to the church.
Groundskeeper Willy: Aye. I also 'ate the mess he left on me rug. [Bart stares.] Ya heard me!
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"...I know this board in secret, intimate ways which are beyond your comprehension.... Let's just say that people should *not* be telling me what to do; it should always be the other way around."
-"Red Quacker", conspiracy theorist and contemporary lunatic
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"No, 3 & 6 are mandatory, so you only have to do them if you want"
Alex, fellow classmate, trying to explain an assignment (2/2/01)
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"No, 3 & 6 are mandatory, so you only have to do them if you want"
Alex, fellow classmate, trying to explain an assignment (2/2/01)
How come everyone else in the world gets that magazine before I do!
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Signature for sale! For a mere price of $20 per letter you get this wonderful little space to say your own things. Get it now while there's still space!
The DS9 war Mirandas did have some modified hardware, though - they had those pod-mounted impulse engines. This may not have been as major a refit as it sounds like, if the pod really is (semi-) detachable. Just connect the power lines feeding the rollbar phasers to the impulse engines instead...
Timo Saloniemi
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"No, 3 & 6 are mandatory, so you only have to do them if you want"
Alex, fellow classmate, trying to explain an assignment (2/2/01)
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"The Internet. Is that thing still around?"
-Homer Simpson
[This message has been edited by Galen (edited March 12, 2001).]
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"Let's make sure history never forgets the name... Enterprise"
- Alternate Picard, "Yesterday's Enterprise"
quote:
Did the Bra/ittain have a rollbar? If so, it shouldn't be any different than the Reliant. If not, it was the Lantree-type, which they totally left off...
Ah.. mais non...
Br[a/i]ttain definately had a rollbar. The rollbarless thing is an Encyclopedia error. They obviously popped the Relian's rollbar off to make it the Lantree, and had to modify the model again to put it back on again for the Br[a/i]ttain (IIRC there're pictures of this very modification in The Continuing Mission) So adding a greeble-box on the side was probably not out-of-the-question...
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"People have the right to discriminate based on religion."
-Omega, Jan 26
"There is no "seperation of church and state" in the Constitution"
-Omega, Jan 30
"A private business has the right to refuse service to any person or group, be they KKK, black, gay, or neo-nazi, regardless of reason."
-Omega, Feb 24
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"Oh for fuck's sake, stop your moaning,
If you fancy a threesome at this time of night, you can't get start getting choosey about which particular three!
-Queer As Folk, UK
I love it when people finally declare the answer to something. Especially, an issue like this, a SWDAO, which simply needed Daniel to say exactly what happened.
Perhaps we should let him decide the Melbourne issue, as well.
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"I WANT A POST VOY SERIES STAR TREK ORIGINAL MESSAGE WAS LOOKING FORWARD NOT LOOKING BACK."
-Darkstar