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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] Mim: You're not being patronizing at all. This is what I love about Flare: We're all starship experts to some degree or another ;) [QUOTE][qb] 1. The model bore NCC-623 in STIV 2. The model bore NCC-640 in "The Naked Now" 3. Okuda doesn't recall having relabeled it Therefore, 4. Someone other than Okuda relabeled the model, or alternatively Okuda's recollection is inaccurate.[/qb][/QUOTE]Let's analyze this, shall we? First, the model was labeled Grissom NCC-638. The ship gets destroyed, but in the next film it's used as filler in Spacedock. It wasn't until Okuda wrote the Encyclopedia that we even knew that there was a possibility that the model was relabeled and re-regged as Copernicus NCC-623. When you inquired to Okuda about the name and number, he mentioned that he saw a photo ILM took of the model. Whether his memory was faulty or not isn't important right now: what's important is that he did in fact see said photo showing changes made to the model. [QUOTE]Originally posted by o2: [qb]Did anybody ever asked the question why the production staff went into the extra work of relableing the Grissom from ST III when this effort is not visible in the movie?[/qb][/QUOTE]Simple: Because someone told ILM to do it. Someone knew that the Grissom was destroyed in the previous film and didn't want the ship labeled the same as that ill-fated vessel. But that person didn't know how ILM was going to arrange the shot. ILM just happened to film the model in such a way that the name and reg changes weren't at all clear. So now the question is: What registry number did ILM use, 623 or 640? I think it was always 640. Mim thinks that it was 623 and then was changed to 640 during filming for "The Naked Now." Okuda pretty much clears the air about this when he said that production on the episode was too rushed for [i]anyone[/i] to have changed the info on the model. And if the VFX guys would have had the time, why wouldn't they have relabeled the registry to match the dedication plaque that Okuda made? Why "640?" Would it be worth emailing Okuda with this esoteric question that in all likelihood he won't remember anyway? Even if he says something like "Yeah, I thought it said 623 but I must have been mistaken, since this screencap clearly shows 640," that's hardly a definitive answer. The only real way to know is to uncover this mysterious photo of the Copernicus Okuda saw, and that's pretty much impossible. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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