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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Identity Crisis: [QB] The Akira article (in #119 I think) is a real break from the norm. Lots of text and some of it seems to completely new. They tend to follow the DS9 TM but even point out one instance where the TM doesn't make sense (number of forward torp tubes). There are mistakes: they give the Thunderchild a different registry than the Encyclopedia. They say that the USS Spector is the ship from MiaB (okay, possible, but it's still an odd name) but give it the registry that we normally associate with the Thunderchild. And which episode is the USS Rabin from? The large picture is gorgeous. It clearly shows that there are four forward torp tubes in the weapons pod. Harder to make out how many rear tubes there are, it could be 2, 4 or even 6! The accompanying schematics are very accurate when compared to the imagery from the Star Trek magazine pictures. One mystery is where are the other three phaser strips (the article copies the DS9 TM by saying there are six, but only three are visible, and we have schematics of all five views). Similarly there isn't an obvious lower torp tube, but torp tubes are easier to hide than phasers strips so that's no real problem. All five shuttle bay doors (two aft, three forward) are clearly marked. They seem confused as to where the shuttle control tower is, the text places it at the rear of the saucer but the schematic places it in the weapons pod. They mention saucer separation - an idea I first saw at UPII but they keep the bridge on the saucer rather than taking it (and a slice of the saucer) with the enginering hulls as UPII did. The don't tell us where the warp core is which is vital to understand if saucer separation is to make sense. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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