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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Just to clarify a minor point... Even if (and when) I believe in the existence of a ship shaped like FJ's drawing, I never ever want to create the impression that I would think USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ever looked like that. The FJ ship ("Achernar") could be a prototype, since all the images bear the registry NCC-1700. Or then a separate class (which is what SotSF says) with possible sub-variants of its own. But Kirk's ship in canonical Trek never looked like that. I can easily buy several variants of a single ship, each introducing new tech. The deflector dish or the nacelle endcaps or other similar protrusions would be very realistic targets for modification. (And given the TOS footage confusion, I'm ready to accept variable-geometry features, too.) But I can only buy one major alteration of hull form, like in TMP. And you still have to offer me a bargain price. The FJ ship requires a major alteration of hull form from the norm represented by all of Kirk's ships before TMP, both for the saucer and the secondary hull. If the saucer suddenly grew gigantic Mickey Mouse ears, that wouldn't be a major alteration. It's just an addition. But when it becomes slightly less curved than it used to be, that's major. It means everything that existed before has to be torn down and rebuilt. I can't understand why they'd do that for TMP, but I can accept one such impossibility per starship history. RW examples of such idiocy abound. A second one I cannot. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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