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Does anyone have any pictures of the fancy Darth Maul Sith Vulcan Infiltrator ship?
Also, how would the Warp Sled fit into the nacelle lineology? They start of using crazy stub-nacelles in FC, rings in ENT, nacelles in TMP, and rings again in TNG?
Does anyone have any pictures of the fancy Rick Sternbach-designed-Vulcan-ship-that-was-only-a concept-and-never-realized-on-screen-but-was meant-to-be-an-Apollo-or-somesuch?
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The "Vulcan Shuttle" was always intended to just be the standard shuttle for the ship, as seen in Andrew Probert's hanger deck matte paintings. I don't think it became thought of as a "Vulcan" design until later.
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Yeah, but we did se a vulcan merchant ship of that design as well.
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It would be interesting to learn if the model was modified in any way for these appearances.
As the Tosk ship, it was photograped as if it were really, really small (it fit entirely between the jaws of one of the docking ring berths), and had cockpit windows that didn't match the original exterior windows. My copy of "Captive Pursuit" isn't sharp enough to reveal modifications. Perhaps TPTB didn't even bother to remove the prominent IDIC signs, and thus didn't do any close-ups?
In "For the Cause", the ship was much larger again, docked to an upper pylon - probably pretty much the same size as in "Unification". Again, I can't tell if there are modifications there, but the aft end of the ship (pointing to the right, and hidden partially by the pylon) seems to have extra bumps on it.
Speaking of the IDIC sign: anybody think that the sign could in fact be a stylized perspective view of a Vulcan warship?
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"Speaking of the IDIC sign: anybody think that the sign could in fact be a stylized perspective view of a Vulcan warship"
While I was eating Marshmallow Alphabits this morning, (The kind with the swirly numbers), I thought of why TVs are not usually produced in such designer colours. But I also thought of this as well. So, with regards to the quote: Yes.
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I thought there was another design by Sternbach. It looked like a more angular Miranda with vulcan nacelles... picture a Sabre going backwards... which I reckon was inspired by the Sternbach Vulcan prototype. I also remember seeing this picture in the Making of DS9 book and Art of Star Trek in some of the quick renderings of possible DS9's with ships docked and about it.
Andrew
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