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So many variants... and one solution. See below.
Ok, they're out there in the middle of nowhere (hey, that's where I live) and malfunctions keep happening, and Scotty keeps fixing them. Well, he needs for room (for his ever expanding gut...), and they add that grille, the the ball for him, by the redshirts themselves, using the Handyman's secret weapon... duct tape.
Just trying to add a little humor. But that's an idea... repairs. Huh.
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I don't think anyone has a problem with the modifications themselves. Ships get refit, after all, all the time. My specific problem is that the ship switched back and forth during an episode. But that's hardly a real problem. Beyond that, it's not whether the ship was actually modified, but what exactly those modifications constituted in the larger sense of things.
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Course it did... because of the heroic extensive use of duct tape to accomodate Scotty's gut & butt, it became standard ration during the Cardassian & Dominion Wars. See, it all makes sense now. See? See? You never see.
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Mostly because we can never understand what you are talking about.
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: Well, bearing in mind what the359 said about new ships in the com chatter in TMP E, I've gone and listened to it over and over again. I can hear the "Long Range Shuttle Lakia" part. And now I can hear what I guess is "NCC-1715," but I can't hear the "Cruiser Merrimac" part of that message. And also, I think I can hear a reference to a starship Lincoln, as well.
According to past conversations I had with Andy Probert, he said he provided several versions of comm chatter text for the Epsilon 9 scene, and that in the shortest of the sets he did he put his own name in as a gag...and that's the one they used in the film. I emailed Andy over the weekend and asked if he still had a copy of the text he wrote for said comm chatter, and he said he'd let me know if he stumbled across it. If he does, I'll give you guys the full quote.
BTW, I listened to said chatter and agree it sounds like "Lincoln".
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E, I've gone and listened to it over and over again. I can hear the "Long Range Shuttle Lakia" part. And now I can hear what I guess is "NCC-1715," but I can't hear the "Cruiser Merrimac" part of that message. And also, I think I can hear a reference to a starship Lincoln, as well.
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