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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :

Uh oh..?

Mark

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

I assume that you refer to ...

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I don't believe we're going to see any more manuals or blueprints from Pocket Books ever again.

Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :

I like the way a lot of the questions are actually asked by startrekuk staff, and are ones that anyone here could have told them were on things Sternbach was unlikely to know anything about. I mean, they get a chance like this and they blow it. Don't hold your breath for the next installment of this regular "Ask Rick" feature! Christ, why can't we get someone of his stature here where some sensible questions might get asked?

Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :

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I believe Braga said something about ENTERPRISE stories no longer needing to rely on technological solutions; I would point out that a show like CSI does that quite well each week, and manages to get much better ratings.

Ouch.

Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :

*snort*

Notice how all of the sensible staff people gradually left the series after the end of DS9 and Voyager, and all of the yes-men seemed to stick around? There are a few good people left; and after reading Bernd's article including his discussions with Doug Drexler I certainly have a bit more respect for his design of the NX-01 within the constraints placed upon him...

But come on! Star Trek is a tech show, and the writers are ignoring the technical advisors! There's something seriously wrong with that setup...

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Maybe. If I'm going to try and give Berman some credit here (whether he deserves it or not), I think he probably meant that they were trying to get away from the week's Major Problem being solved by "reversing the tachyon stream through the polaric gate".

Of course, whether they've done that is another matter entirely.

Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :

They haven't.

Regardless what you describe isn't relying on technical solutions to save the day, it's resorting to scientifically implausible gibberish to compensate for a lack of imagination.

Good use of real science is all about technological restrictions more than technological capabilities. Any old monkey can make up a devise that magically solves all the problems.

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Ok I was going to say Berman/Braga/Pocket Books are morons - but no - does anyone think this has all come about due to the take-over/merger of Paramount with Viacom a few years ago?

Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :

Not really... there is no one to put limits and enforce Trek science anymore. Gene is dead... and I don't think Berman wants to run Star Trek like Gene did.

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

Why are they asking him stuff he doesn't know about. He doesn't design Okudagrams, he didn't design ships for Nemesis... did they even know who he was?

So.. no more interesting books, no more magazines, a movie that doesn't seem to be doing so great, not to mention a series that has problems..

Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :

For any other franchise, that'd be epitaph material.

Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :

Problem is, no-one wants to be the one to pull the plug. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and it's often been used to damn the 1969 Paramount/Desilu/Whoever execs who cancelled Star Trek in 1969. To this day, the surviving suits remain in hiding from a crack team of ninja dorks, who've sworn to exact vengeance.

Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :

"I guess Starfleet did a chop job on the ship and added a few more decks."

[Eek!]

Any comments on that?

Posted by SoundEffect (Member # 926) on :

I took it as sarcasm. I'm guessing Sternbach is as pissed as us that the higher ups keep screwing up the simple, easy to find information and substituting in any old numbers and data that comes to mind.

Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :

This might just be me, but I didn't see anything different externally on the ship. What are people talking about that the ship was redesigned?

Posted by newark (Member # 888) on :

Eaves did a number of modifications to the Enterprise-E model. These modications include additional weapons and more decks in the engineering section. There is a thread on this subject here.

Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :

In case people haven't looked through the Nemesis Concept Art thread for fear of being spoiled, just see my post in that thread, which individually is free of spoilers aside from a complete rundown on the modifications Eaves made to the E-E for the film. There's a schematic pic done by Eaves illustrating it, which was seen in the latest Magazine issue.

-MMoM [Big Grin]

P.S.
I forgot to note the expansion of the engineering hull in my post. According to dialogue in the film though, the ship now has 29 decks.

Posted by SoundEffect (Member # 926) on :

So the overall height of the Sovereign Class has jumped from 88m to 106m?

I'll treat the 'Deck 29' line the same as the Deck 26 line from First Contact until I can see a revised cutaway from the back of the bridge and count them for myself.

Posted by Dax (Member # 191) on :

Although the shape of the engineering hull has been altered, it still looks like it should have the same amount of decks. It certainly has the same rows of windows. The shape change is no greater than that between the 6' and 4' Ent-D.