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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Griffworks: [QB] I don't think it's a matter of "obliterating the Klingon Empire". I don't recall anyone saying that. All they were going to do is shoot in, rescue Kirk and McCoy and shoot their way back out. Not like they were rushing all the way to Quonos or anything. BTW, I'd like to clarify what Mr. Sternbach actually said in the TrekBBS thread: [QUOTE][b]Posted by Rick Sternbach:[/b] Well, I found some data. Actually, found the chart. I haven't read this whole thread to see if anyone else found it, but here are the ships: USS Eagle, 1701-refit type silhouette, NCC-956 <-Edited USS Potemkin, refit silhouette, NCC-1657 USS Excelsior, Excelsior-type silhouette, NCC-2000 USS Endeavour, refit silhouette, NCC-1895 USS Emden, refit silhouette, NCC-1856 USS Ahwahnee, refit silhouette, NCC-2048 The graphic I have says "Initial Operations." I've forgotten if there was more to the show'n'tell. Rick [/QUOTE]This information that he found is most likely for the first stage of the assault, going by "Initial Operations". Possibly the first page of the Operation: Retrieve charts? He definitely hasn't given us everything and this shouldn't be taken as the definitive listing for the planned operation, IMO. And Mike Okuda, thru an email response to [b]Capt. Robert April[/b], later says in the same thread: [QUOTE][b]Mike Okuda responded:[/b] Thanks for the note. If I recall correctly, the charts visible on film/video listed only ship names and registry numbers. One can probably glean some class designations from the ship icons in the diagrams. I don't have the original art handy (I think it's archived on Syquest disks, which I don't have the ability to read, even if I could find the disks themselves), but I recall giving the info to Bjo Trimble, and I'm pretty sure she used most of it in her revised Star Trek Concordance. I might note that some of the ship registry numbers came from Greg Jein's interpretation of the starship chart in Commodore Stone's office in "Shore Leave" (TOS). Other registry numbers came from Franz Joseph's Starfleet Technical Manual or his Starship blueprints. In still other cases, the ships and/or numbers did not come from either source, but were consistent with some fleet status charts I did elsewhere on the Enterprise-A in Star Trek VI. (In other words, there's something that just about everyone will disagree with, but I also hoped that there would be at least something that almost everyone would agree with.) I should also point out that I prepared several charts for the rescue briefing scene, and that not all of them ended up in the final cut of the film. I don't recall which ones were used, or which ones ended up unseen. I do seem to recall that there was at least one chart that had quite a number of registries - mostly, I recall, from FJ's work - that ended up unused. -Mike[/QUOTE]So, Bjo Trimble's Concordance likely has all the information we'll ever see on the matter of the Operation: Retrieve charts. However, it's possible that there are errors. Certainly, not all of the information has been brought to light, as indicated by Mr. Okuda's commentary above. So, now we just need to get some insider information on the charts seen on the E-A bridge in ST:VI and then we'll have about as much info on ship names and registries as we can suck out of that movie. ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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