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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phelps: [QB] First, the Olympic reuses merely the ball-saucer of the Daedalus. The Enterprise reuses details that serve a different function on the Akira. Second, the Olympic is a one-off ship whose canonicity is arguable at best, so it really doesn't break any lineage with the Daedalus, itself a background office model whose canonicity is arguable -- hence, either of the two can be rejected. The Enterprise is a *lead ship*, the Akira an onscreen ship seen in many episodes. If the Enterprise were a one-off ship of the week, I might've been a little upset, but ultimately I would've understood that someone would modify an existing design for an episode to save money. It's been done before. However, you just don't rip off another ship to design a series lead ship. That's never been done, not to the extent of copying the little details and assigning them a different purpose. This is called kitbashing, and it used to be done when an episode was on a tight budget. I said "used to be done", because we've seen fewer and fewer such ships on Voyager. Now, suddenly we get this Enterprise. The producers probably want the Akira to quietly disappear instead, which would make the NX-01 the originator of all the tech, and the Akira a ripoff with flaws, kept in some storage dock until it was needed for FC precisely because *it* copied the NX-01 design elements without considering the technical implications. You can make up explanations like this -- still, the unusually short and uncreative design process contributes to my dislike of Enterprise. It's not that I'm prejudiced -- it's that I have a tangible reason to say that the Enterprise was designed cheaply. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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