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[QUOTE]Originally posted by machf: [QB] Posted on rec.arts.startrek.tech: [QUOTE] On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:36:51 -0400, Jack Bohn <jackbohn@bright.net> wrote: >I've joked that in the future New Years seems to come in >September, when the stardates roll over. Well, Happy New Year, >we have 14 new pictures. > >I'm tempted to egotistically believe they heard my complaints >about last year's calendar. Here we have a greater variety of >ships (including an altered model!) in more interesting poses, >and, for July, my DS9 as landscape! (Actually, I really wanted >to be 300 to 500 meters further in. The place should take up the >whole field of view.) For those of us who pick out missed >instances of the name "Enterprise" on models that are supposed to >be named something else, the centerfold, "Fleet Museum", has >brought together a special exhibit of seven ships, and six of >them can be seen to be decked out with "Enterprise" and/or >"1701". This has to be deliberate, they had to paste the E-B's >registry over their standard Excelsior model. (The Motion >Picture version is still in its livery from the TMP DVD. That's >right, "No bloody 'A' ...." Somehow the TOS series production >version is sharing a berth with its own refit.) > >Let me calm down and take these in order: >I first thought the cover was the Phoenix in flight. Looking >closer reveals several differences. The title being "First >Flight", I suppose it is from the ENT episode of that name. > >A broad sweep of history is represented by the first two months. >January features the Enterprise in its first pilot "The Cage" >configuration, and with as smooth a hull as possible in a drydock >that looks like it could have been designed in the 1960s. It >includes stubbier, less graceful workbees. One could wish they >had used Matt Jefferies's sketches of work craft, but why cavil >when the workers have gone the extra step of hanging a UFP >pennant from one of the spars? (Yes, hanging, with hoses also >hanging in aligned catenaries it is questionable whether this >thing is in free fall.) >February goes to the opposite extreme with Enterprise NCC-1701-J, >created last year and still in the future of any crew we've >followed. > >March "Little Friend," is that a Scarface reference? Is the >Chaffee quoting, "Say hello to my little friend!" as the Defiant >comes alongside? > >April's "Ode to McCall" is a Lunar portrait with the Earth in the >background and a small NX-01 in the foreground. With last year's >"Ode to Bonestell", will we eventually get to an "Ode to >Sternbach"? > >May has a pair of 2150ish Klingon ships surveying ruins on a >planet. From the title, "Wrecking Crew", we can assume they are >not ancient ruins. I think I recognize the ship in the >background, but did they really show the ship in the foreground >in a show? It is so ugly. I can't even call it a Bird of Prey, >more like an Archeopteryx of Prey. > >Voyager takes on two Borg cubes in the grand manner of that show. >Veej has its Batmobile armor, but one of the cubes is wearing a >flack jacket. > >The centerfold is seven Enterprises circling the top level of the >Fleet Museum with a collection of historic shuttles, Runabouts, >and inspection pods flying around them, and walkway tubes laid >out between them. One of the tubes disappears behind the >Excelsior-B, it would be interesting to see it continue off the >page like the rest. As we go from the -nil to the -nil refit to >the -B, _C, -D, and -E, the NX completes the circle from the >new/new design of the Generations Films back to the old/old >design of the original with its new/old design. As a visual >argument, it is still not convincing. > >July, a NX-01 shot. >Aug, DS9. >Sep, battle of the ironclads from Wrath of Khan. I always love >the coral color the Mutara Nebula gives to the ships. >Oct a closeup of a Tholian ship as at least three of them spin a >web around the NX. >Nov, "Old Girlfriends", Picard's Stargazer and Enterprise >meeting. > Dec, "Faith of the Heart" I'll have to watch the ENT opening >again, but I imagine this is the same space station, here you can >clearly see a Soyuz capsule, and is that a representation of the >Hermes spaceplane, or the "abandon ship" Crew Return Vehicle? >Prophetic in not depicting the Shuttle docked to it? > >For anyone else keeping score, that's >1 from TOS >1 from TFS >1 from TNG >2 from DS9 >1 from VOY and >7 from ENT, although only 4 show the NX-01. [/QUOTE]This description gives much detail... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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