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Someone's working too hard on his new book, huh?
My little brother and I once had a massive tabletop battle with mustard and ketchup bottles acting as the capitol ships, salt and pepper shakers as fast cruisers, and various coins ('tails' side) as fighters. The eagle on the quarter reminds me of Space Ghost's ship.
And of course, upside-down plates, bowls, and saucers represent different classes of saucer ships.
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i used to love to use various objects as enemies for my metal die-cast Enterprise-D. I can remember laying down holding the ship over my face and squinting so it looked like it was flying in space... of course those die-cast enterprises were separable, and unbalanced too. THe last time i ever did that i was holding the E-D by one nacelle, when the saucer decided to separate, breaking my glasses with one pound of die-cast escape boat for the crew's families. I still shudder when i see the thing falling in Generations.
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Which, of course, explains the encounter suits...
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Is the scout the one that was introduced in "Shadow Dancing"?
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: I also sometimes pretend that my remote control is a starship...
I take some comfort in now knowing that I am not the only one who does this…
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: Depends, on the likelihood of this Darren guy having X-Ray vision.
I'm guessing that this is Daren Dochterman, another CGI industry guru. I finally got around to watching the TMP Director's Edition documentary on the effects upgrades - pretty cool stuff, plus it's cool to see Mojo & Daren & the Foundation gang talk about all their work on the project. The best of the three documentaries, IMO.
So tonight for supper, I had cabbage rolls! And each and every one looked like a little photon torpedo casing, dripping with red antimatter leakage...
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Speaking of remote-controls... when you open the back for the batteries on mine, it hangs down... and the remote is slightly curved so when you hold it a certain way it looks like those cool Phasers from the TOS movies.
How about clouds, I often have seen 'starships' in the clouds. To date, a Jemmie fighter-bug, a Steamrunner, and a Klingon BOP (off the top of my head)!
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