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Actually, I don't think there are any pictures of the Trinculo. (Did they even label a physical model "U.S.S Trinculo"? - can't remember.)
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I thought that was the point - that the Galaxy model was seen at an exhibition labelled as the Trinculo? Or am I thinking of the Nebula-class USS Leeds, seen in the DS9 title sequence?
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Yeah it was but why would anyone take that seriously anyway and make it a canon ship like some sites?
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I take any ship seen in the opening credits as canon. I don't accept exhibition ships as canon because the people doing them probably don't get official sanction from Paramount as far as naming goes. And I seriously doubt that the people responsible for coming up with the names on the show are responsible for the exhibition names.
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One thing boggles me anyway: Why do they even bother to label models with a new name for an exhibition in the first place?? I've seen the "Valkyrie" at an exhibition in Cologne a few years ago, and at that time I thought it had been seen in an episode - of course no one I asked knew anything about it.
So, does anyone know why they keep coming up with ships like the Trinculo or the Valkyrie - I just can't see any real reason for it?
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With the Valkyrie especially, you can still see where the lettering used to say "Hathaway"!
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IIRC, none of the ships shown on the tachyon detection grid display were identified as Constellations. And yet, there's definitely one in the episode.
As for why they relabel the models for exhibitions... why not? If they want to, they're perfectly welcome to. Why do they have to have a "reason"?
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Of course they don't have to have a reason. I was just wondering. And talking about the Trinculo: think of SoA and all those unnamed Galaxy's. Any one of them could have been the Trinculo, Galaxy, Venture, Challenger, etc. I suppose we will never find out.
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The USS Trinculo is, as everyone knows by now, a model for display at Star Trek conventions. To my knowledge I have seen a picture of it somewhere on the Net. Sadly I cannot remember which site I found it on. Sorry. I can only suggest that you type in the name of the ship in a search engine and try to find one that way - it should work as I've done it for other ships e.g. USS Challenger, NCC-71099 (I wanted to check the authenticity of the ship & not just because I'm sad! Hehe!).
Well, hope that helps . . . I shall look into the matter and get back to you if I find anything of use!
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Some of the Galaxys in DS9 had names, such as the Galaxy herself, although the Trinculo was not among them. (The Trinculo was a studio model, after all.)
I recall seeing pictures of the Model, or perhaps I'm insane.
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