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Damn, now I'll have to go change my AMT model...
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Well, it's called a bird of prey in the Encyclopedia. And there's a large, impressive predatory bird painted on the underside. You figure it out.
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The Klingons originally had the BOP, in the form of the D7 class, and the Romulans had the Warbird, although, during a short lived alliance during the 2260's, the Klingons traded ship designs to the Romulans for cloaking devices, giving the Romulans the D7 BOP, although other Romulan ships were probably called BOPs. All though, truth be told, a race situated in unclaimed territory between the Romulan and Klingon empires called the Birdans came up with the idea of the big bird of prey, which was copied by both, the Romulans and Klingons.
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Actually, for Unseen Frontier, for our Enterprise Incident shots we're going to paint a Bird of Prey on the Klingon ships. It's a change from canon to be sure, but you know the Romulans would have done it and so would the producers had they the money!
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It certainly does, I did a retouch of the FF diagram a while back, it looked cool but the neck section gave me bit of trouble. Also I think one of the aborted TOS games depicted a Romulan D-7 like this.
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Crusher: The D-7 is NOT the Bird of Prey. The D-7 and later K't'inga are Klingon battlecruisers. The Bird-of-Prey is an entirely different affair, first seen in Star Trek III.
The Romulan Warbird was first seen in "The Neutral Zone"[TNG]. "Balance of Terror"[TOS] featured a Bird of Prey.
Also, Mark:
If you like slightly played with canon, take a look at the gentle blue glow of the nacelles of this TOS Constitution mod from a player of the game Klingon Academy. (They brighten when you go to warp.)
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I don't know what one of them is but it was going to be a PC game called Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury. The painted up D7 appeared briefly in a cutscene as it decloaked.
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yes... i remember that games hype.. i wish they had really made it! there was a promo movie included on a CD rom i bought, i copied it but then lost it to a crash. it had the most incredible animation (in the preview) the scenes of the mindmeld and the 1701 bridge with Kirk spinning around to look at the screen were the best CGI ive ever seen on moving characters.
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OH YES! I downloaded that video it was a shame it never went ahead! I wish I could see that again - anyone know where the file might be!?!
The animation was good - there was this great scene where the Enterprise is escaping from this explosion... I would have to say it is the first time that the TOS Enterprise looked like it was REAL - something that is really physical - instead of "model-y" as in TOS (although I'm sure it didn't look like that to people when they first saw the Enterprise in the sixties.)
The only thing that annoyed me in that video were those shuttles that looked like the Empire Shuttle Tydirium SP? from Return of the Jedi... and some noises sounded like Empirial ships from Star Wars etc. the tie-fighter noise? It's been a while since I saw it. I remember the bit with Spock raising his eyebrown and a closeup of McCoy... I guess that would have been one of the last things DeForrest Kelly must have lent his voice to?
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