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[QUOTE]Originally posted by aridas: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [qb] well, in the hierarchy of canon, the comics were officially licensed by Paramount, and all the stories were approved by lawyers and, when he was around, Gene's office. SotSF, while i love it, was made by a few fan-guys against paramount's wishes and they were later sued for it. i think that damages the credibility a bit. besides, i dont think its feasible to refit an Archon into a Connie.. its just a ridiculous concept.. there would be no original ship intact.. BTW, on the subject of the TAS ship, it suffered from the same problems as the TOS footage.. a lot of the ship footage was traced from film of TOS.. some shots of the ship show the old pilot bridge, others show the regular series bridge.. im not sure, but i think TAS has a nacelle ball problem too. [/qb][/QUOTE]I was one of the "fan guys", and no one was sued by Paramount. That is a ridiculous claim, and you shouldn't throw around claims like that without verifying them. It is also ridiculous since Todd Guenther, the author, went on to do the 1701-D blueprints for Paramount along with Rick Sternbach (I wrote the introduction to SotSF, did the color plates in the back, and contributed several ship designs) As for the contention I made in the USS Enterprise Heavy Cruiser Evolution Blueprints, which are referenced in SotSF, that the [i]Horizon/Archon[/i] class was used as a test bed for the [i]Constitution[/i] class design, let me explain. Of course the idea was born of necessity, being that the [i]Republic[/i] and [i]Constellation[/i] registries were so far off. But I was the one that decided to use Jefferies old spherical primary hulled design for [i]Horizon[/i]. I could have used something much closer to [i]Constitution[/i] if I wanted to. But we had a conception of very futuristic starship construction that allowed the fantastic reworking of one shape into another. We said that the hull components were broken down into their basic elements and reused. The spaceframe was adapted as needed. The hull was then "spun" back over the frame in layers. [i]Republic[/i] and [i]Constellation[/i] would not have looked as much like the [i]Constitution[/i] at first. More like the [i]Pytheas[/i] in my Federation Starship Recognition Chart. (This was also derived from an old Jefferies concept for [i]Enterprise[/i] -- one of his first stabs at a saucer shaped primary hull.) Later refits would bring the two testbed starships up to an approximation of the [i]Constellation[/i]. But they would always be different -- notice the fact that the AMT model used for [i]Constellation[/i] in "The Doomsday Machine" has significant differences from the 1701 shooting miniature. You could assume most of the differences would be internal though, an artifact of the adapted spaceframe. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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