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Posted by Daniel (Member # 453) on :

I don't know if you people really could count any of this as spoilers, but since I don't want to be hunted down and killed ...

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Okay, happy? In the trailer for the episode after "Author, author" there was a very brief shot of what looked like a Daedelus-class starship or a Daedelus predecessor. Can anyone confirm or deny? If this is true, then we have our first really canon image of this mystery ship!

Ooh! Excitement!

Comments?

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Posted by MC Infinity (Member # 531) on :

I don't think that was a Daedelaus, but then again I don't know what the thing is supposed to look like.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

To me, it looked almost exactly like Zephram Cochrane's Phoenix.

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Posted by colin (Member # 217) on :

The space ship is, I believe, the Friendship Probe sent from Earth in the late 22nd century.

As for the Daedalus, we may see ships of this class in the next series if the rumors are correct.

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Posted by Starship Freak (Member # 293) on :

Stupid question: Where is this trailer? The only ones I�ve seen, on Mr Vidiot�s and Section 31 doesn�t seem to show this ship?

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Posted by Dan Stack (Member # 516) on :

It looked like either the Phoenix of the model of the Valiant built for the Star Trek Chronology.

Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

It's probably a reuse of one of those, whatever it's supposed to be.

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Posted by MIB on :

Ummmm. Ok. I'm confused. Everyone is babbleing on about some new ship seen in Author Author's ending. All I saw in it was an Excelsior and some frighter type ship with a VERY industrial look to it. Am I missing something?

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Posted by Starship Freak (Member # 293) on :

Please, have mercy on me, where is this trailer?

Posted by Dan Stack (Member # 516) on :

The Excelsior thingie is actually part of the "Author, Author" episode. The Phoenix/Valiant style ship appeared in the advertisement for next week's episode.

Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

At the moment it is not yet available on Vidiot, but MediaTrek has it now.

I'm downloading it the moment I am typing this.

Look here: http://www.mediatrek.com/scifihq/index.html

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Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :

I wasn't going to divulge the description of Friendship One, but now that there's a screencap, oh well.

It looks just like the Phoenix with a few exceptions. The nacelle struts are shorter, the rear rocket engine has been replaced with some other device (sensors?), and the cockpit has been replaced with a globe of some sort with antennae.

BTW, who designed the Phoenix? Was it Eaves?

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Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

That thing is probably the "Friendship One" deep space probe, launched 2067, a few years after the Phoenix.

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Posted by Balapoel on :

It kinda reminds me of the early warp vessel pictured in Starfleet Chronology. I know it's different, but I think the producers were going after the same 'look'.
http://flareupload.hypermart.net/files/EarlyWarp-Vessel03.jpg

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Erm... That's the original model for Cochrane's Phoenix. It's what they based the design in FC off of. This new probe is obviously based off the FC Phoenix. Therefore, yes, there would be a correlation...

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Posted by Balapoel on :

post hoc ergo propter hoc?

Of course they are similar. However, the point is this appears to be more similar. Given the fact that the TPTB like to reuse old ideas (re: Nova class, peregrine class rehashes, karemman rehashes, and the ubiquitous antares), it's possible that they had this ship in mind.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I dunno... To me, it looks more like a cross between the FC Phoenix and the Valiant. I don't see any resemblance to the Chronology Phoenix that would be separate from the FC one.

Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :

A Theroy: After Phoenix, an unmanned deep space probe was sent out at low-warp to explore the unknown. Somehow - centuries later - it got all the way to the delta quadrent, and a planet intercepted it and used what was left of its nuclear technology to develop nukes.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

I think that's pretty much the plot, right there

Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

So, of Earth's early space travel greats, Voyager has now encountered two. Amazing how these things end up on a direct path between Earth and Ocampa...

I wonder if they'll run into Buck Rogers' shuttle for the finale.

I'm done with the sarcasm now, by the way.