I recently got my hooves on the script to "Best of Both Worlds". Right there on the opening of Act One, they earmark the ship that Hanson and Shelby arrive on as a "Transport Class", and otherwise refer to it as "the other ship" or "the transport ship".
I'm guessing that this means that at least in the script, the ship that we see was meant to be some unimportant ship, or at least not meant to be given much thought in the grand scheme of things. Thus, why they used the stock footage of the Repulse.
Mark
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
Just because it's designated "Transport class" doesn't mean it's not important. On the other hand, even "Transport" ships like the Merrimac(k) got a name and class although they weren't even shown in the episode.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Well, I'm no expert on TNG scripts, but I thought that such details would be added by Okuda prior to the FX crews going to work. Whoever wrote the ecript wouldn't know or care what class this ship would be meant to be, since it's not an important point.
Only point where this theory falls down is that the later mention of the Melbourne as destroyed at Wolf 359; however, that may have more to do with the fact that it was the ship Riker was offered command of than anything else. . .
Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
quote:Originally posted by Austin Powers: On the other hand, even "Transport" ships like the Merrimac(k) got a name and class although they weren't even shown in the episode.
Not in the script. Those ships got numbers and classes on background Okudagrams for other episodes.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
[thbbt] nevermind
[ February 21, 2002, 13:20: Message edited by: CaptainMike ]