Yep, he's been showing up there in the Trek Literature and (more importantly) in the Trek Tech forums.
Anyway, I brought up the subject of the alleged Sovereign and Intrepid registries. Capt. Kyle Amasov asked about the DS9TM kitbash ships.
Here's his reply:
quote:Originally posted by Rick Sternbach: I've been considering offering 74600 as the Intrepid's number, though this may turn out to be official disinformation. The double-zero seems like a good starting place for a class ship. Not sure about the Sovereign, don't know that much about it.
I can't confirm anything about the kitbashed ships; I didn't see any of them in the flesh and haven't examined the episodes. Doug says he got pictures of them to do his illustrations, so I assume the models (or CGI renders) were real. I cobbled together dimensions and ship specs from what meager info I was given about each one. Some cut-n-paste data in the text that should have gotten unique numbers got missed, so there was some duplication; apologies.
So, it looks as if the 4600 number may not be just tripe after all. As Captain Kyle observed, it's about as official a number as we're likely to get.
-MMoM Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
quote:Doug says he got pictures of them to do his illustrations, so I assume the models (or CGI renders) were real.
That's funny...I distinctly remember someone saying that Drexler might have had reference photos which he based his drawings on, and that someone should email him about it. I wonder who that person was...
Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
Who said 'good news travel at transwarp'? Think it was Janeway. (Oh my god. I did it. I quoted Janeway. The end is near! )
Funny how many famous people visit those boards. And there are even more who just sit back and read them. I know it. But don't ask me who. Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
(BTW, I searched the net for more than an hour with different search engines, but this guy seems to be a myth. Not a single reference where to find him.)
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
Kyle: I did the same thing with Robert Legato. I came up with only two email addresses for the name, both in California. Pressing my luck, I emailed both of them with my request (info about the unused Wolf 359 footage), putting in a disclaimer that if they weren't the Rob Legato I was looking for, to please ignore this email. I guess they weren't, because I got no reply.
Regarding Drexler's address: I know it's out there because someone from here emailed him about the Akiraprise. He also responded in an amicable way, with some good information. Unfortunately, I don't remember who it was who mailed him. I'd be more than happy to mail him myself if someone would just give me the address.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Well, maybe Bernd has it. He's the one who got volumes worth of info ont he NX-01 from Drexler...
-MMoM Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
That's funny, I saw somewhere that the Intrepid's registry was 74650.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
What th--
Rick says that a stock Defiant can beat a stock Intrepid? Blasphemy!
Mark
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: What th--
Rick says that a stock Defiant can beat a stock Intrepid? Blasphemy!
Mark
Score one for the good guys. Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Well, nuts to you then. I happen to think the Intrepid is one admirable ship, unfortunately saddled with a less-than-admirable show.
Mark
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
...and stumpy little nacelles
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
...That have trouble staying up.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Hey! You're forgetting that the Intrepid is the only federation ship that has a hull resembling a piece of cutlery!
Ahh, you guys have no class. Intrepids forever!
Mark
[ February 21, 2002, 22:44: Message edited by: Mark Nguyen ]
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: Hey! You're forgetting that the Intrepid is the only federation ship that has a hull resembling a piece of cutlery!
Dinner-time in the Nguyen household must be a real wheeze. . . 8)
Posted by Woodside Kid (Member # 699) on :
Personally, I always liked the "U.S.S. Shoe Tree" description somebody cooked up right after Voyager debuted.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
You forgot "The Frog" and "The Toilet Seat"
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
BAH! Let them have Sternbach and Shatner.
We have Mojo. Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
We half got Okuda too, mind you...
Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
They have Shatner?
Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
They have. And his daughter.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
What are they doing to his daughter...?
Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
Good. Now I know where I can complain about "The Return".
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Don't get too excited (or envious). He's made a grand total of 4 posts, in which he does one or more of the following:
1.) Swing a promotion for "Mind Meld". 2.) Swing a promotion for williamshatner.com 3.) Swing a promotion for his recent appearance in Minneapolis.
The threads started by him have collected hundreds of posts, but he has made no more than one in each of them. And, now that the promotion is over, he hasn't showed up since.
His daughter, Lisabeth, acted as his publicist and set the whole thing up. Came in a week or so before he signed on, let everyone know he was coming. Dangling the meat in front of the dogs to get the saliva flowing...
But, Sternbach is being very good about answering stuff over there. He says he's going to try to be even more into it after "Nemesis" wraps in about a week from now.
-MMoM Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
He's working on Nemesis?! And it wraps in a week?! 8)
And why can't we get these people here? I mean, best we could ever do was a chat with Robert Hewitt bloody Wolfe. . .
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Hehe...did I mention we also have Shane Johnson and Alex Rosenzweig over there?
This is fun.
-MMoM Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
RHW? He was at the BBS as well, in the DS9 forum. Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
In this thread http://trekbbs.com/ubb/Forum8/HTML/001861.html Rick Sternbach asks for fans to send him ship's specs in an attempt to sort out what's been established and what specs "should" be.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I think Tom dug up the fact that Sternbach was on "Nemesis" awhile ago.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
We have David Schmidt, author of Starfleet Dynamics. Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
^^^^
Have you ever seen their Literature forum? Virtually every Pocket Books-editor and writer posts there. Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
And it occurs to no one to extend an invite so that they might hang with the highbrows occassionally instead of enduring harrassment by the hoi polloi?
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
We have Bernd! And Timo! And..and...you have ME!
Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
OK, I surrender! Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
YEAH! We have MOJO!
About Sternbach though, if he wants the meaty tech stuff he should shuffle his "moustached booty" over here, this is were the weighty tech stuff gets bandied about. No Major Barclow here. ;o)
Timo, Bernd you had quite a rapport with him at the startrek expertforum did you not?
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
I have a 1:1 scale replica of his Paramount office. Ask him. He knows.
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