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mmm, CAPITALS, would be nice Jacob, plus maybe some paragraph structure.
Can someone add that to the FAQs??? It's been awhile since I looked at them, so it may be there....
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Regarding the discussion of the painting that appears as the front gatefold of The Art of Star Trek. Yes, it IS an Ambassador class, not a "early version" of the D as the book erroneously claims (Andy Probert himself crossed off the D and wrote C there when he signed my copy). He said the painting in question was produced because one script called for an Ambassor class starship to appear in the final shot of one 1st season episode, and he painted it for a matte shot (with blinking lights to be added in post) where the ship would be seen waiting in the distance as the E-D flew towards her. But, he said, TPTB decided to use a stock Escelsior model shot in its place.
I'll have to ask Andy about it sometime...but I suspect he may have added the planet and stars later. I also have to ask why the pylons seem to come directly off the hull, which would have given the ship one helluva wide ass!
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It WAS done in the episode with the Binars. A matte painting of the D and the spacedock interior was used for shots where you could see the "gangway" attached to the docking port at the base of the D's neck.
Adn personally, I'd take a matte painting of a new ship than yet another kitbash of existing parts slung togethetr whilly nilly.
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I feel that the most likely explanation as to why we see so few ambasadors is that the SFX guys were too lazy to do a cgi for em. They were probably used with other fleets which saw more action as they were still a good sized ship and could take a bit of punishment(a la "Yesterday's Enterpirse").
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