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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] The thing is, most of the viewers [i]don't[/i] think it looks like an Akira, because they have no idea what an Akira is. How often has an Akira featured as "guest ship of the week" (as the Intrepid model was in that DS9 ep whose name escapes me)? I've asked a few friends who are big enough Star Trek fans to be able to identify a Nebula-class ship, and they hadn't noticed until it was pointed out to them. The fact is, the vast majority of [i]Enterprise[/i] watchers don't spend all their time on the internet looking at ship designs. While they'd probably be able to pull the Defiant out in a line-up, they'd stumble at how the Ent-B looks different from the Excelsior. And they'll have no idea about background CGI ships that have never been featured in an episode. You can argue if it's the same or different (I think it's an obvious "homage", to avoid using argumentative words), but the truth is, less than 10% of the viewers have any idea that it looks like a 24th century ship. "You can't tell me that it's a coincidence we haven't seen all these other ship classes you talk about. If there were Akira-style ships in the movie era, we should've seen them in TNG, as we did the Mirandas and the Excelsiors." Oh, yes. In the same way that DS9 was FILLED with Ambassador class ships. We saw Mirandas and Excelsior's in TNG because the powers that be had 6 Starfleet models available to them for the first 4 years, and only one additional one after that.. One was the Enterprise-D, and so could only be used for sister ships. And one was the Enterprise-A, which couldn't be used because it was "movie property". That leaves us with the Ambassador, which wasn't available until season 3, and the Excelsior and Miranda. So obviously they are going to use them. You don't throw away nice ship design. And the reason they've never made much of an attempt with the Ambassador is (I guess) that visually, it's a bit too similar to other designs. The Excelsior and Galaxy are a fair bit different visually, but the Ambassador is close to both of them. The Miranda looks very different. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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