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Much as I love Mr. Probert's design work, let's look at this for what it is. I mean, baseless whimpering loaded with ad hominem mudslinging from an unemployed has-been would never be paid serious attention anywhere else. Why here?
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For starters, this might be a more appropriate thread for General Trek Discussion than Enterprise Discussion, but since it's here...
One point I have to disagree with Mr. Probert about is that Star Trek died with Gene Roddenberry. Roddenberry effectively turned everything over to Rick Berman in around 1988. The Next Generation was a wonderful series to watch, and my love for Star Trek really solidified during this period. The Original Series made me a fan; The Next Generation made me a life-long fan. After that came Deep Space 9, which I think was a pretty good series. After that came Voyager which I think was an okay series overall. Also during that time we had Star Trek 5 through 9 come out. Star Trek 6 and 8 are fan-favorites. I think Star Trek has actually begun to come into it's own after the time that Roddenberry's direct influence ended.
The other point I have to disagree with is the starship design continuity that Mr. Probert raises. Other than the Enterprise-D having three nacelles and that phaser lance, there haven't really been any promidentally featured starships that have violated Roddenberry's design rules. The Wolf 359 ships were all models that never were really seen all that well and probably will never be seen in full form. Okuda, Jein, and others just independently built models, wrecked them, and shot background footage. However, I do have to agree that Voyager looked silly and unbalanced on those tiny landing struts, but I do not think that starships can't have the function of planetary landing built in as a standard feature.
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When the interviewer asked him "Do you know Brazil?", I thought he meant the movie Brazil. I hadn't noticed that it was a Brazilian site... *L*
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