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BTW, all those quoted episode numbers is what bothered me about "Galaxy Quest." We Don't Memorize Episode Numbers. There Are More Important Things To Memorize.
Another BTW, Ju'day sounds so fake and un-Starfleet. How about we say that they really meant Judea, indicating the survival of Judaism and/or Christianity in the Star Trek era. After all, that's what most viewers will assume if the name ever makes it into the dialogue (which is probably why it hasn't). It's only a wish...(I'm an atheist, BTW).
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Um.. how bout we spell it the way they said it and not make up extraneous bullshit? Honestly..
It sounds fine, considering that we take a human-centric view of Starfleet. Having a ship class named for a word from one of those other 150 planets doesnt seem too far fetched. (i.e. Surak-class).
And besides, for all we know that was its designation as a civilian vessel. We dont even know if there are any of those vessels in Starfleet. Only that the Maquis sometimes use stolen SF ships and that that was one of the ships the Maquis used. So some Maquis using SF ships does not mean all Maquis ships are from SF. bad logic.
And, actually, I do memorize episode numbers (or i did anyway up until about the 3rd season of DS9, when i suppose my brain reached maximum capacity.) If someone brings up a TOS episode at work, i can tell them the number, and also which one will be on tomorrow. Ive known other people that remember numbers too, so i dont think Galaxy Quest was too far fetched. It actually was a quite frightening look into the geekier nether regions of my soul
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Well, to take this a little further off topic, I don't memorize episode numbers, but I really enjoyed the bit in "Galaxy Quest" about the tech geeks. "It's only a TV show" was a real memorable sentence. Of course I can identify with those "geeks" a little bit.
Oh, and on a sidenote, did anyone notice the striking similarities in the NSEA Protector's labelling compared to that of Trek ships? I think they even took the same font as used on Trek.
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Everytime I see that font, I point out that it is the font used on TNG era SF vessels...I always get funny looks as though the people I'm with can't quite believe what I'm saying...
Anyway...yes, Federation ship doesn't necessarily mean Starfleet ship. So this Ju'day class that Chakotay used very well could have been a Federation courier of some sort that isn't in use in Starfleet. If that's the case, it would also suggest that the smaller design used by Ro is not a Starfleet design, either.
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True Enough.. i probably have a printout about the font family that it came from, im just too lazy to look it up. For school ive even had to read about the history of microgramma BEFORE it was used in every sci-fi movie ever made.
Okuda just chose it because he imagined the future would require data readouts to be as thin as possible, for efficiency's sake.
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Problem is, MBE would be no good for small data readouts. It only looks good in all caps and that would be a nightmare to try and read in 10 point on a computer screen...
Eesh.
I'm doing alot of things right now with Atilla and Helvetica, believe it or not. I also seem to want to use Eastmarket and Neuropol on everything...wierd...
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Sorry, i was referring to Swiss911 fonts when i was saying thin efficient readouts, MBE.
The problem is the freeware 911 font is really next to useless in point sizes less than 14, unless you are using a utility to soften it and render it as a graphic..
There are variants of Microgramma Condensed though.. i have a shareware version called Palindrome.. Its the font used in movie era displays where Extended wasnt appropriate
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Do you know where to find all those "official" trek fonts for download? I mean the freeware ones of course. Or has anyone collected them? Really, I should spend more time on the web to find that out myself. But where to find the time..?
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10F Font Archives -- Has a good set of the more real ST fonts and some other scifi too Ralfs-World.de - �ber 1200 Fonts! -- German font site with lots of GOOD fonts!.. check out the famous fonts section for lots of genre and pop-cult goodies. Easy to navigate even if you dont speak German, but it helps.
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