Still nothing conclusive on nacelles up/down, as far as I can tell.
Posted by Kosa (Member # 650) on :
Im pretty sure that at Trek Today i read that the nacelles where to be slightly lower than the saucer section but i cant go back and read it again because the article has mysteriously dissapeared from the site. It will probably be back soon.
[ July 08, 2001: Message edited by: Kosa ]
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
TVGuide legal issues, from what I can glean online.
And the comments about the nacelle position were just TT slapping itself on the back and saying "we brought you this info and this and this and it was all correct" when in fact it was just the person who posted the story guessing that the nacelles were lower.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
As I've had my SNL moment over in the Enterprise forum, I'll now go ahead and state that I find it hard to believe this is the ship. It's an Akira. Yes, yes, blah blah blah, ship histories, and so on. But it's an Akira. I suppose the bottom may look significantly different. But it's an Akira.
Of course, in all this surge of negative emotion, I can remember a year or two or more ago when there seemed to be a large number of fans clamoring for the next show to take place on an Akira, and some of us continually saying that would never happen, because every show gets a new ship. Well. I guess we were wrong.
Now I'm just worried about some of those other fan suggestions of the same era. Type XX phasers? Ultra-quantum torpedos? Ship captains that happen to share the names of particularly eager fans?
Posted by Daniel (Member # 453) on :
Just go read my posts in the thread under Enterprise. I'm not willing to retype my comments. I'm so depressed.
[ July 08, 2001: Message edited by: Daniel ]
Posted by Captain Stark (Member # 70) on :
The German Star Trek News Site (treknews.de) has the pictures from the TV Guide up and they also set up a comparison between the Enterprise and the Akira. Pretty interesting. I wish I could read German.
Frell!!!
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
TWO WORDS:
ENTERPRISE FORUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FOR GOD'S SAKE YOU'RE GONNA GIVE ME AN ULCER POSTING THIS EXCRETORY MATTER IN HERE!
EX-SQUEEZE ME, MISTER MODERATOR SIR, DON'T YOU THINK IT MIGHT BE TIME FOR A LITTLE THREAD RELOCATION???
PLEASE!!! I BEG OF YOU!!!
(Honestly, I think I'm taking it rather well, don't you? )
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
This is a thread about a starship. I think it fits in nicely with this forum.
Mr. of Mim, we need to talk. That vein on your forehead is protruding pretty far. If you aren't careful, it'll explode. You need to relax. Drink a couple cases of fine German beer, and then make out a check payable to me for $2050. I'll tell you the address to send it to as soon as your intoxicated, um, er, I mean relaxed.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Will Roy be joining us?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Who's Roy?
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Your buddy from Vegas.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Oh. I get it. Siegfried and Roy. Ha ha ha. This screen name is not from the Las Vegas weirdos, it's from the hero of Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Niblungen and Norse mythology.
Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
With the tigers! I saw them once.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Hey, I like tigers. Oh crap, that probably hasn't helped my case any. Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...MISTER MODERATOR SIR, DON'T YOU THINK IT MIGHT BE TIME FOR A LITTLE THREAD RELOCATION???"
Move a starship thread out of the Starships Forum? I should think not...
Posted by NightWing (Member # 4) on :
It looks like the nacelles are upwards:
And it also looks like the pod between the nacelles is upwards as well...
And what do you think will those weird globes on either side of the catamaran nacelle braces are?
[ July 09, 2001: Message edited by: NightWing ]
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Doesn't matter. It's still too big, too disc-shaped, and too 'TOS'-y. We may not necessarily be looking for something that looks like Masao's designs, but something between FASA's Romulan War-era ships and the Daedalus class should be managable... *grump*
--Jonah
P.S. No one listened to me when I decried the Enterprise-E as derivitive either. Haven't we learned anything about Eaves yet?
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
I think I'm going to cry.
Either that or I'm going to vomit...
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
When a television show can cause the onset of medical reactions, you have a problem.
Posted by NightWing (Member # 4) on :
At least the design doesn't allow for a saucer seperation... At least, I don't think the warp-core is in that little pod.
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
*faints*
Oh, I guess the Akira did predate the Galaxy and stuff after all.
Posted by NightWing (Member # 4) on :
Hmmm... Looking at the bigger scan of the ship it may still be possible for the warp core to be in teh pod. Maybe n those days the thing was much smaller.
Also, take a good look at this picture taken from the Best of Both Worlds scrapheap:
IIRC this is the New Orleans class... But it look a hell of a lot like the pre-Enterprise.
[ July 09, 2001: Message edited by: NightWing ]
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
NightWing:
You'd better not let Bernd hear you say that. He'll have a heart attack...er...something.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
This is the New-Orleans class. How again does it look like the Pre-E?
Posted by Akula (Member # 319) on :
I can only say 1 thing about that ship, 1.Timeline!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Joshua Bell (Member # 327) on :
Goodness, you'd think the bits were already final.
Why is everyone assuming that Eaves is done with the design? The Enterprise-E underwent redesigns up until the last minute. Merchandise - like the Playmates starship toy - didn't match the design seen on film.
The fact that the design is *so* close to the Akira leads me to suspect it's just a drawing board version. I'd wager it's only as close to the final ship as Sternbach's dangling-nacelles design was for Voyager - the pieces are in the right place but there's still lots of tweaking to do.
The tweaking will be important to us fanatics but unnoticable to the masses - replace phaser strips with laser turrets; replace the organic saucer with something more classical; similarly de-organify the catamarans. Tah-dah, something that has a nearly identical silhouette but placates us geeks.
It will probably be back soon.
)
This screen name is not from the Las Vegas weirdos, it's from the hero of Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Niblungen and Norse mythology.
