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Well, clearly, the only solution is to add war. Lots of war.
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Seconded. Lots of war is good - and good for business.
OTOH, if this means we get to see more of the lesser known models we were dicussing a while back, than I think we can live with the tradeoff. We can always rewatch DS9 battle episodes!
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folks, you have no IDEA how much war is in this book! There is so much phaser fire I think the book will be hot to the touch... It's just that these particular skirmishes don't involve very much Defiant action.
Seriously, I don't mind in the least, based on Mojo's descriptions. I'd much rather see new (unseen!) ships than just more shots of the Defiant.
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quote:Originally posted by Mojo: folks, you have no IDEA how much war is in this book! There is so much phaser fire I think the book will be hot to the touch... It's just that these particular skirmishes don't involve very much Defiant action.
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Of course, one "Unseen Frontier" you could haeve shown would be the yards where Starfleet is constructing various prototype Borg Buster ships, including the Defiant. Area 51 in space hee hee.
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quote:Originally posted by mrneutron: Of course, one "Unseen Frontier" you could haeve shown would be the yards where Starfleet is constructing various prototype Borg Buster ships, including the Defiant. Area 51 in space hee hee.
The Valient-Class lives! ;-)
You could use a bunch of conjectural/rejected sketch ships such as the U.S.S. Nova, complete with quasi defiant details and launchers, from before they made it into a science vessel. Or some of the other early defiant stuff, personally I liked the defiant painting that showed a pair of underslung intakes.
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I know that the popular topic is more towards battles and wolf 359 and that sort of thing, and I realize that the contents of the book are probably pretty well thought out at this point, but I just had a really cool idea. (Wish I'd thought of it earlier.)
What if you were to show a shot of the meeting of UFP, Romulan, and Klingon representatives form the first time at Nimbus III (from STV) in 2267? It would be so cool to see a shot of the planet, with a Connie, Bird of Prey, and D-7 in orbit, side by side. You could use (mainly) pre-existing cgi models since you have the TOS-style Connie and BoP, and the D-7 could probably be modified from the K't'inga. It would sooooooo rock!
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Well, there was a kit that was a set of miniature Connie, D-7, and BoP models, and had a pic of the three of them on the box, but don't you think it'd be a cool addition to the book? (Or a book?)
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It may not be exactly those ships, but I do have a shot in the book of a Federation, Klingon and Romulan ship working together...
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When things were much simpler - back in the hey days of TNG - I remember seeing "The Chase" for the first time - everyone had their distinctive 'main' ships and phaser colour and transporter pattern, ship colour and nacelle glow. I loved how we got The Enterprise, A Klingon Vorcha, Romulan Warbirds, Cardassian Galors and even a Yridian vessel! All we needed was a Ferengi ship!
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If I may pipe up and attempt to smush people's hopes.
From what I've seen of photos of the dress-up-as-characters crew, even the most uber-hardcore fans who go all-out with the painstakingly hand-tailored replica uniforms and makeup and the like, have, in my experience anyway, always still looked a little lacking in the realism department. It strikes me as odd, Mojo, that you're demanding better-than-TV grade CGI models for the shippy goodness then turning around and asking for what will almost certainly be far-less-than-TV-grade human models.
I've heard that the staff Klingons at the Star Trek Experience have a half-decent makeup budget behind them. Mightn't you expect better-grade stuff there?
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