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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I'm starting a new thread to branch off from the TNG Remastered discussion, because I've got a few other questions of my own here... [QUOTE][b][URL=http://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/3/1919/4.html#000059]Originally posted by PsyLiam:[/URL][/b] I do seem to remember a story where the motor mechanism on the BOP model got stuck. Weren't all BOPs from that point onwards seen with their wings stuck up (at least until the CGI model was introduced)?[/QUOTE]If they were using the original movie model, then I think that story makes sense. [URL=http://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/3/1919/5.html#000060]Jason is right[/URL]; I don't think we saw a BOP in wings-down mode again until... hmm, let's see... "Rascals" was partly reused stock footage from "Yesterday's [i]Enterprise[/i]," but also had a new shot with the three ships in orbit in formation, IIRC. "Reunion," "The Mind's Eye," "Redemption," "Unification," and "Firstborn" in TNG, then "Past Prologue" and "Blood Oath" in DS9, all had BOPs with their wings up. But [i]Generations[/i] showed the Duras sisters' BOP only with the wings fully down. Could the model have been repaired/refurbished for the movie? That seems like a likely scenario. Either that, or else it was CGI. (Except for the reuse of the explosion from [i]The Undiscovered Country[/i], of course. *sigh*) Finally, I would bet that a lot of the BOPs in "Way of the Warrior" were little expendable styrene models purchased and built specifically to create greater numbers in the fleet. They could've been whichever configuration the effects guys chose. Now, I've got my own question, and the main reason for starting a new thread... [i]what's supposed to be the significance of the different wing modes?[/i] I've heard all sorts of stories about the ship putting the wings down so the disruptors could be placed in "optimum firing position," but that doesn't make sense if the cannons were targetable anyway. I'm also not quite sure what the difference was supposed to be between having the wings straight-horizontal, and having them raised slightly. The only time that makes sense would be for the landing mode, but in the original movies, we saw the wings raised much higher than they were in the TNG configurations. (I guess that might lend credence to the story that the motor got stuck?) Also, am I the only one who things that the later-DS9 episodes showed BOPs with a different wing-angle than the original model? I've always thought that the [i]Rotarran[/i] and its sister ships didn't have their wings as far down as earlier ships did. Anyone have any ideas, other than BILC? (Because It Looks Cool) ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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