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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I submit that none of us subscribe to either approach outlined by Boris in its entirety. As tech nuts, by nature none of us can be simple "John Q Nielsen" types, as it's what's going on behind what this average viewer will see which interests us. Likewise, the practical tech-head will not be completely faithful to the documentary approach, but will have his theories tempered by what's seen on screen. Case in point: NONE of the standard control consoles in Trek are labeled with anything remotely useful; at best, it's random number and letters which tend to correspond to initials of the production crew. And in the cases of TOS and ENT, virtually no labels at all except where it's supposed to serve a story purpose. The common sense person will not even notice this, while the documentary person must assume that the controls are all operated from memory of the operator, or some such nonsense. WE cannot accept either, and it is each individual's resting point between these two extremes which causes all the debate (and a good share fo the fun). The same can be applied to the current debate on ship numbers: Most people will be okay with 59650, some will accept 74913, and the rest of us have to reconcile both within the context of the Trek universe. There is obviously no real answer and will not be unless someone involved in the production comes up with an answer, since most fans will equivocate a person's job with Paramount as having some measure of real authority over the matter, which is not always the case. Mark PS - for the record, I think it's a case of the ship being started ages ago, put in mothballs somewhere, and then restarted when the technology became practical. I'm of the opinion that the Prommie was sitting in some spacedock somewhere undergoing final integration when she was stolen, and they simply hadn't gotten around to repainting the ship yet, despite the modern look to it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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