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Wow, he wanted this thread to be just yes and no, but by the second page, we are already having a real discussion about this. Ok, we now pretty much know that they screwed up from the point of view of a true trekkie/trekker. We all love the show a little bit too much, but it is not a bad thing really(every human has to love something a little too much). I think that we would all love for this to be real somehow(I am pretty sure that there being alternate quantum universes is a real theory, although I did like the movie Galaxy Quest), but we really do have to remember sometimes that they have to stay in business. We the trekkies and trekkers of Startrek have to remember that we do not make up much of the viewing population that contrubutes so they people at Paramount Pictures can get paid and feed their family. Sometimes we will just have to deal with a small error that will make enough money for them to keep the show going. Other viewers will love the new ship and we have to accept that. We should either stop getting pisted at this small problem because we know they won't change it or we can admit that we are just doing this to let out some steam.
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*registers vote* I think it's alright. Not the best, but it'll do. *thinks the vague answer may spare him*
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In one of the Enterprise posts, I had originally said how disappointed I was at the design. On reflection, however, I think I was a little too harsh. I was basing my thoughts on The_Tom's blurry scan, which actually made the ship look WAY more like the Akira then the TV Guide poster did.
In retrospect, looking at the poster, I can actually see that it does look more like a pre-design (Check out some of the 22nd century ships at Steve Pugh's site and you'll see what I mean). I'm still not happy that it's shaped like the Akira from above, and I still also think that the "pod" thing at the rear of the ship looks too anachronistic. But I'm starting to like the design a little more. And who knows? Since this ship seems to be a prototype, any other Starfleet ship we see should be a different design anyway. So maybe we will get to see a plethora of "new" ship designs which have been badly lacking in recent years.
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Don't get me wrong, I think it's a kickass design -- for a contemporary of the TOS Constitution!
--Jonah
P.S. I don't have a problem with the Olympic class having a spherical primary hull because the Daedalus already established that as a possibility two hundred years before. Everything in canon and fandom up to this point, however, indicates the perfected disc-saucer was a product of the 23rd century.
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Peregrinus, what canon says that no ships in the 22nd century had saucers? Just because Daedalus had a sphere doesn't mean EVERY class at the time had a sphere...
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