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Topic: "Let's leave one out."

colin
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Member # 217

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Background
There have been discussions on the design history of the S.S. Enterprise NX-01. These were drawn out from observations of the ship 'model'. The element missing in these discussions is the opinion of the scriptwriters-how they envision this new ship.

The script, though it says very little about the hull, does do a mention to the nacelles. These nacelles are to show the connection between this old ship and the ships of USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A to USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E. There is no mention of the first USS Enterprise NCC-1701.

Questions
1.) Do the nacelles of the new ship show this connection?
2.) Does the omission of the first 'Enterprise' give insight into the writers' opinion of this ship?

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Dax
Paradox
Member # 191

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That doesn't make much sense considering the NX-01 nacelles look most similar to the TOS Enterprise than any other.

In fact, so far I can see design elements/similarities from every other Enterprise in the NX-01 except for the Ent-C.

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The Mighty Monkey of Mim
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Member # 646

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The bridge implacement is similar to the Ambassador. There you are.

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Bernd
Guy from Old Europe
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The only connection I see is that the nacelles are swept up instead of down.

This is the complete design history:
Berman: "To hell with the script, gimme an Akira!"
Eaves (two minutes later): "There you are."
Berman: "But move the nacelles up so the ship looks more like an Enterprise."

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Timo
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Member # 245

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It has to be remembered that a writers' guide would not make a difference between E-nil and E-A because half the Paramount staff would not be able to distinguish between those two ships anyway. Anybody reading those lines would either a) not give a damn to the difference between E-nil-unrefit, E-nil-refit and E-A, as long as it was "Kirk's ship", or b) already be so knowledgeable on the matter that he wouldn't need to be accurately advised anyway.

I trust the script would not even be read by the people who did the model. Instead, the script and would simply be altered if TPTB decided to build a ship without nacelles instead.

Timo Saloniemi

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