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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phelps: [QB] Mojo: thanks for the clarification of the Foundation's move to Star Trek. I needed to know the details. As for the book: It's preferable to maintain consistency with previous specs when the previous specs are right. It's fabulous that you kept the original and refit Constitution specs, the K'tinga specs, the Enterprise-E specs, the Voyager specs, etc. However, watch this: Doug Drexler made an alien ship size comparison chart for the Encyclopedia. Although he ordered the ships by size, Doug did not intend them to be to scale. Nevertheless, most ships were to scale, except for an oversized Vor'cha and another ship I can't remember. Along comes Rick Sternbach, who's fabulous in everything Voyager and TNG, but does not know DS9 as well because he didn't work there. He's making the DS9 Tech Manual, and needs some specs. He looks at the Encyclopedia charts, misinterprets them as being to scale, and takes the worst ship imaginable as the scale reference: the Vor'cha. So we get a K'tinga at 340m instead of 214m, a Bird of Prey at 157m instead of 110m, etc. These absolutely nonsensical specs are published and republished in the Magazine, and other books. Your book comes along and corrects a lot of that, because we finally have people with some sense looking at them. But, there are still places where the original Encyclopedia charts themselves were wrong, and where Rick Sternbach accidentally corrected the specs so that they are good enough for you to keep them. Jem'Hadar fighter was about 45m long according to the Encyclopedia, which is absolutely nonsensical, yet Rick accidentally scaled it up to 68m. That's a bit closer to the probable value of 100m. It would be good if these "accidentally correct" specs were replaced with something more analytical. If they aren't, maybe it's OK. Just pointing out how much error, yet how much influence there is at the official level. The Super Star Destroyer remained 5 miles long to this day in official publications, even though it's quite obviously 11 miles long in the movie and by the fact that it's bridge tower is identical to that of a regular Imperial Star Destroyer. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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