I�m suggesting that we do the same with the junkyard. I have my own site with the best screencaps I�ve been able to manage. http://w1.314.telia.com/~u31412332/misc/qualor.htm
There are some nifty ships in those scenes, some of them we haven�t seen anywhere else. So, where are the modelpics? Are there any? Where are better screencaps?
Where is the discussion?
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"The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity�s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something."
Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
The row of photos with "Excelsior class prototype?" on them look identifiable enough. The leftmost is very probably the flat prototype, and what looks like a lower port nacelle of a four-naceller is just an extension of the primary hull (so that it's not just a saucer but actually a U-shape, with darkened "corners" - see Ben's schematics). The centermost is a surefire four-nacelle Excelsior prototype. The rightmost photo is the least certain of the three, but the nacelle arrangement strongly suggests a slightly damaged version of the center ship (with the movable pylons moved a bit). However, the ship seems to lack most of her saucer - perhaps this is one of the heavily damaged BoBW ships? It seems unlikely that the four-nacelle proto model would have been damaged much, since it was pretty much intact in Okuda's recently taken picture.
Challenger class ID should be pretty much confirmed by now. The unknown saucer below it is very likely to be from the Excelsior prototype with two Oberth nacelles and an almost-finalized secondary hull. And the unknown below the Klingon/Romulan battlecruiser seems cobbled together from Imperial Star Destroyer parts, and is highly likely to be the other Talarian ship, the one with four wings - but that's also an uncertain identification.
Ungnh. I was supposed to finally get my copy of the TNG tape 4.1, with both "BoBW2" and "Suddenly Human". That should help me a bit with this Talarian identification at least. But the delivery to the local sci-fi shop was late. Perhaps next week...
Timo Saloniemi
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"The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity�s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something."
Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
Timo Saloniemi
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"The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity�s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something."
Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
IIRC, the only known models used were:
A Klingon Battlecruiser;
Stock footage of the Princeton, Melbourne, and Buran;
The flat Ex-study;
The 4-nacelled Ex-Study;
The Phase II Enterprise Study;
The Tyrus particle fountain (minus the bottom base);
Some Mirandas;
Some Antares-class freighters.
There were other models which we can't yet identify, but were probably not Star Trek-related, as Okuda had confirmed in an email I had sent him. There might also have been some Enterprise-D's that didn't come out of the mold right.
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Lisa: "Don't you remember the story of Oedipus?"
Homer: "Maybe five dollars will refresh my memory."
Lisa (angrily): "Oedipus was the story of a man who kills his father and marries his mother!"
Homer: "Uggh! Who pays for that wedding?"
Shabren's Final Prophecy: Star Trek: Legacy
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"The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity�s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something."
Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
I wonder if they tried using as many of the models as possible... then we could be facing things like
the Edo god
the ships from The Outrageous Okuna
the Tamarian ship
The Telarian plague ship
The pod from the nth factor
The ships from Booby Trap
The Husnok ship...
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Homer: I'm gonna miss Springfield. This town's been awfully good to us.
Bart: No, it hasn't, Dad. That's why we're leaving.
Homer: Oh, yeah. [pokes his head out the window] So long, Stinktown!