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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] A few days ago I found a guy selling some old 1970s-vintage fanzines online. One of them, to my utter delight (I squealed with glee like the little geek that I truly am ;) ) was [i]T-Negative[/i] #27 from April of 1975, published by one Ruth Berman out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In case you don't know, this is the document that contains Greg Jein's original article on the [i]Constitution[/i]-class registry numbers. That's right. You heard me. I found it. Scans: http://lobotomy.pleh.net/~flareupload/uploads/646/Jein1.jpg http://lobotomy.pleh.net/~flareupload/uploads/646/Jein2.jpg http://lobotomy.pleh.net/~flareupload/uploads/646/Jein3.jpg http://lobotomy.pleh.net/~flareupload/uploads/646/Jein4.jpg http://lobotomy.pleh.net/~flareupload/uploads/646/Jein5.jpg The article runs from the bottom half of the first page to midway through the second column of the last page. This is a pretty damn cool find, to me anyways. The original source of the infamous non-sequential registry scheme. As you can see, Jein himself readily admitted that it was a little on the shaky side, but his research is impressive and his compilation is articulate and convincing. No wonder Trimble and Okuda believed him. It's pretty interesting to find out that the [i]Eagle[/i], [i]Endeavor[/i], and [i]Essex[/i] originally had references in the scripts of "Journey to Babel" and "Amok Time." (And, as a futher side note, that the [i]Exeter[/i] from "The Omega Glory" was originally to be the [i]U.S.S. Agentina[/i], the [i]S.S. Beagle[/i] from "Bread and Circuses" was to be the [i]U.S.S. Lord Nelson[/i], and the [i]Defiant[/i] from "The Tholian Web" was to be the [i]U.S.S. Scimitar[/i].) And how about that display? He alleges that it comes from Scene 44 of "Space Seed." (I don't know if it's there or not, but I think it *is* the one that Scotty was looking at in "The Trouble With Tribbles.") It's doubly cool because A) it gives us a canonical reference for the use of the term [i]Constitution[/i]-class from within TOS itself, something that has long been thought not to exist, and B) it gives us a DIAGRAM of the TOS phaser banks! Awesome! Yes, I know. I am a truly mighty monkey. :cool: -[b]MMoM[/b] :D P.S. This is my little present to y'all before I go on vacation for a week. I'll see if the accolades are still flying when I return... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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