"If it's on my land, I can kill it. This is by law.
Then, aminals have no souls and so they don't feel suffer. God created beasts for man to use, eat, and kill. I don't hunt any real game animals. I just mostly go for little birds, coons, cats, and squirils. None are indangered and there are plenty. They need thining out so they don't starve in the winter."
This guy needs to be either locked up or invited to Flare.
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Invited him to Flare!? Are you crazy!? We already have all the insanity we can handle here! No! Perish the thought! Watch five hours worth of reruns of Small Wonder this instant!
Anyway, as an aside that goes back to the OP, I read through most of those conference notes. There's some interesting stuff in there I didn't know about. For instant, I didn't know that the writers had flirted with giving LaForge actual sight. However, I didn't want to know about Marina Sirtis sitting on a young Wil Wheaton's lap and "sensing" him get excited. Yuck.
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quote: Ok, have we seen any ships with an NX registry painted yellow? Nope...and the NX-01 does not count since it's more copper-ish.
Nope, but then again, we've never seen a starship in such an early stage of development, remember that Picard's model wasn't even named, only numbered.
quote: As for the Aeroshuttle, maybe the components of the test article version were used to create the Delta Flyer...which would somewhat explain why the crew never even thought of using the thing.
I think you missed the point, a nonflight test article means that the thing can't fly, it's not a real ship, its just mockup, an empty shell...perhaps it has some components and materials to simulate the mass, density, EM emmissions of the real thing. I dout that it has anything useful enough to build the Delta Flyer.
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Mock up or not, that test article version has to be able to go through atmospheric conditions, subspace radiation, and other -ish that the real thing would go through... and how would an empty shell do that?
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Easy, its made out of Duratanium (or is it tritanium?) either way its the same stuff as Voyager's hull and is protected by the very same shields as the rest of the ship. It doesn't need engines, a gravity net or a cockpit with nice plush seats and ensuite waste extractor to just sit there and be a lump of metal.
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the whole function of a non-flight test article would be to cover the docking mechanism that the real thing would occupy, and maintian the ships silhouette/mass despite the lack of the real thing... so it WOULDNT have to got through atmoshperic whatever.. because its a NONFLIGHT version. Basically a aerowing shaped panel to keep the docking port from rusting
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Okay fine then, it's just a cover that is made of the same stuff as Federation starship hulls...damn I hate the fact that it was never used or mentioned.
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JANEWAY: This calls for a "tougher-than-the-average-type-12" shuttle...
PARIS: Don't you mean Class 2?
JANEWAY: Ah....shutup yah smug git!
*THWACK*
JANEWAY: Mr Tuvok, have we built the Delta Flyer yet?
TUVOK: Not yet Captain, its still ther third season...
JANEWAY: Bugger, oh well then we'll have to the Aerowing...
CAREY: Uh, Captain...remember at Utopia Planitia when you told me to make sure that the dockmaster replaced the non-flight test article with the real deal...?
JANEWAY: Yes...
CAREY: Well I did remember to get one...but then I traded in for these magic "insta-shuttle" Ferengi beans...so we're kinda stuck with that lump of metal...
JANEWAY: Well thats just great! Go away and don't come back until the seventh season, where I intend to have you killed!
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