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Any names known besides Cochrane, Drake and Tereshkova? I heard rumors about a shuttle 'Terra Nova' being assinged to the ship, obviously information from the second edition Encyclopedia. Probably the same type of information as the Steamrunner-Hiroshima.
Are there any notes? Background information? What were the names of the different ships seen throughout the show? I'm sure the CGIs had names, at least. Maybe even the physical models were relabeled for new shots.
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This "Terra Nova" is a misinterpretation of "Tereshkova". The Tereshkova (type-9) was displayed on the shuttle chart in the Encyclopedia. The name is only barely legible, but it's definitely Tereshkova. However, some claim that the name is actually "Terra Nova", like the famous Ships: Expanded list from the Star Trek Archive site by Joe Creighton(http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~djc/startrek)
Terra Nova doesn't make sense anyway, since shuttles are supposed to be named after famous scientists, explorers, artists, etc. The Shuttle Tereshkova is probably named after Valentina Tereshkova, the first Terran women in space (onboard the Voskhod-2 or 3, I think).
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Perhaps it's grammatical convention to refer to "Terrans" in the royal we?
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OK, so no Terra Nova, thanks. (But I think there was a runabout of that name in one of Taylor's novels).
Thinking of it, is there a reason we don't get alien names for the shuttles?
Maybe it was just from a novel or comic or whatever, but I remember the shuttle 'Zee-Magnees'. Does anyone know it? Hmm...
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Dr. Daystrom was a recipient of the Zee-Magnees award, mentioned in "The Ultimate Computer."
The shuttle "Terra Nova" may be an unintentional crossover from one of the novels. There was some small-scale interstellar craft called the Terra Nova in Jeri Taylor's novel "Pathways."
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Considering how many times the Bussard ramscoop was useless, forcing Voyager to send in a shuttle, you can probably fill in the empty space at the tip of the nacelles with shuttles as well.
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of course, that must be here they keep the two delta flyers that dont fit in the shuttle bay!
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The Terra Nova from Pathways was indeed a small starship. I haven't read Pathways, but Ships:Exp lists it as a 'prototype ship'. Perhaps a seperate class? Still, I'm fairly certain there's no canon or semi-canon Shuttle Terra Nova.
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In Pathways, the Terra Nova was an experimental starship that crewed two people, probably a runabout prototype. It existed several years before the current TNG era, before Janeway was a command officer. Her father and fiance were taking it out on a test cruise and crashed on Tau Ceti, killing them both. It has nothing to do with any shuttle that was ever on Voyager, and is an experimental new class of vessel.
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