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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>CaptainMike</b> <br /><small>Member # 709</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,0,1,14,50,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">January 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:50 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Ode to the <i>Antares</i>-Class<br />by CaptainMike<br /><br />The untold decades pass<br />Empires fall in the void so vast<br />With everything changing, on what could we rely?<br />What stone to hold onto, what security in the changing sky?<br />What common thread could these eras together tie<br />Then we realize what links all of these casts<br />A ship called the <i>Antares</i>-class<br /><br />Improbable you say, what could this magic thing be?<br />A ship unhindered by bounds of design, lineage or fleet<br />Moving from Empire to Empire and even through all of the Quadrants<br />A design so magical that its design must be too complex to be glimps'd<br />Could it be a freighter? A humble cargo transport?<br />Would it be a fighter? With fifty men in a scaled version of some sort?<br />Is it owned by Terrans, Bajorans or Talarians?<br />Why is the Delta Quadrant home to some of its variants?<br />The design is ever-present, like the versions used by the Maquis<br />Or does it refer to the old freighter from <i>V</i>?<br /><br />The scholars of ship design all shake their fists in anger.<br />"We curse you, and your half-hearted "<i>Charlie-X</i>" homage, Naren Shanker!"<br />They all wonder, why would Bajorans use old Starfleet ships?<br />And why would old Starfleet freighters look like nacho chips?<br />Why couldn't they keep track that that wasnt the ship in "<i>Face of the Enemy</i>?"<br />Perhaps the Romulans made an error in keeping track of miscellany.<br />When they refrred to the Corvallen's ship as an <i>Antares</i><br />Thereby cassifying the <i>Batris</i> and <i>Xhosa</i> and all of these<br /><br />And Jeri Taylor doesnt know a freighter from fighter full of castaways.<br />She displayed her error in the novel "<i>Pathways</i>"<br />She doesn't write the show anymore, but her mistake lives in our heart.<br />All of the Maquis raiders are somehow like the ship commanded by Captain Ramart?<br />The models get recycled, their parts we are rearranging<br />The producers, their idea of continuity always changing<br />Now we have a single name for dozens of our spacecraft<br />I can only throw back my head and laugh<br />Whenever it is explained, I think it isn't true<br />To know the answer, I think I do<br /><br />The untold decades pass<br />Empires fall in the void so vast<br />And <i>ALL</i> starships belong to the <i>Antares</i>-class<br /> <br /> [ January 01, 2002: Message edited by: CaptainMike ] <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Shik</b> <br /><small>Member # 343</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,0,1,23,13,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">January 01, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:13 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> That is one of the funnier--& SADDER--things I've seen in a while. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>CaptainMike</b> <br /><small>Member # 709</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,0,2,0,47,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">January 02, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:47 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> thank you.<br /><br />*bump* <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>CaptainMike</b> <br /><small>Member # 709</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,0,3,8,30,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">January 03, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:30 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> now it has its own webpage<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/captainmike47/Stuff/antares1.html" target="_blank">Ode to Antares</a> <br /><br />*bump* <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Bernd</b> <br /><small>Member # 6</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,0,3,14,2,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">January 03, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:02 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> *wipes away the tears*<br /><br />I have never read something more moving. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>TSN</b> <br /><small>Member # 31</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,0,3,16,12,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">January 03, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">04:12 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I just like the last three lines... <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>CaptainMike</b> <br /><small>Member # 709</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2002,0,3,19,44,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">January 03, 2002</span> <span class="timeformat-0">07:44 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I'm glad Bernd likes it.. almost comes across as approval for me lifting most of those background images from his page<br /><br />maybe he'll link to it from his Antares-class section ;-)<br /> <br /> [ January 03, 2002: Message edited by: CaptainMike ] <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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