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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [qb]Me, on 5 May 2003: <blockquote>"Also, where did you get the name and registry of the [i]Oberth[/i]-class ship in Spacedock at the end of [i]Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home[/i]? According to the <u>Encyclopedia</u>, it's the [i]Copernicus[/i] NCC-623, but what is the source of this information?"</blockquote> Okuda, on 28 May 2003: <blockquote>"If I recall the name and registry number of the [i]Copernicus[/i] came from a photo from ILM that showed the [i]Grissom[/i] model as it was used in the end of ST4."</blockquote>[/qb][/QUOTE]In your email conversation here, Okuda never comes out and says that 623 was the ship's registry. That was something you pointed out to him based on what he wrote in the Encyclopedia, and he was just agreeing that he saw a photo of the model with a different registry than the Grissom's. Based on what we actually saw printed on the model for its first use in TNG (640), and also based on Okuda's comment I quoted, it seems to me that in this instance, he or his old notes were just wrong. He was also wrong with the registries of several of the BoBW kitbashes, not to mention info from Okudagrams that [i]he himself[/i] created and yet the Encyclopedia entries are different. It's a lot of information to keep track of over the years (and he probably never thought that he'd be writing a Trek encyclopedia years after the fact), so it's understandable that he wouldn't get everything right (and quite frankly, what he did get right is pretty amazing in itself). [QUOTE][qb]I've thought about respectfully querying him further as to just how confident he is in the firmness of either recollection, and particularly as to whether he thinks it possible or plausible that the model might have actually been relabeled without his knowledge and/or recollection. I'm not sure I still have his e-mail address though. Does he still frequent the TrekBBS? What channels are people generally using to ask him stuff about the remastered TNG project? [/qb][/QUOTE]Personally, there's no way in hell that I'd ever bother him about something like this now. He's a super-nice guy, but I wouldn't try to hold him accountable about what he thought he saw in some photo almost 30 years ago. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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