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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [QB] I dont consider 1991 such a long time ago. Maybe I'm getting old. "Thin Ice," DC Star Trek: The Next Generation (volume 2) Annual #2. Written by MJF, drawn by Matt Haley. Haley was a new comic artist at the time, and i didnt see anything out of him till half a decade later when he did some Legion of Super Heroes stuff. Haley was a good touch for the Trek comics, especially for those of us used to seeing the utter sewage that Pablo Marcos or Peter Krause drew in the monthly version around that time (to be fair, they are good artists, just not great studies of Star Trek's 'look').. In that issue, Haley also came up with a great design for pre TNG era cadet uniforms, showed a Belknap-class training ship and an uprated (1701 refit style) version of FASA's Larson-class, the USS Caspian NCC-5507. The ship in question was the U.S.S. Marco Polo, NCC-7219, identified as Challenger-class on a computer-display readout (probably done by the letterer, not the artist, but it could have gone either way), and then shown as a Constellation-Constitution hybrid on the page, exactly as described in our false info. But the comic was released in late summer 1991, probably just BEFORE BoBW2 aired.. and as comics go, that means that it was several months old, the work on it being done 3 or 4 months prior (even more time, allowing for the fact that Paramount was requiring advance approval of all continuity at the time, as per the 'continuity purge' that occurred, causing Peter David to leave).. So this comic was probably being drawn before the third season ended, and well before planning was being done on even BoBW1, let alone the ship graveyard in BoBW2. And comic artists working for the trek series at that time were given some studio information, like advanced stills, etc.. especially for adaptations, but usually nothing so technical as background miscellanea.. they just got to see likeness shots of the actors ahead of episode airings. And with Haley being a newbie, doing a one shot stand alone story, he probably wasnt included in one of the DC studio tours I think its more likely that the comic itself is the source of the erroneous description.. i.e. a fan read the first Okudapedia and saw 'Challenger-class' written for the Buran, and thought it must be the same type seen in the comic [/QB][/QUOTE]
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