Harry, honestly I can't see what your talking about. I may be looking at the wrong place, but I see a Galaxy-ish saucer with two nacceles on the side facing you. Is this what your talking about?
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I think I see the object you're talking about, but it doesn't look like a Galaxy sec hull. It does look like it has Sovereign nacelles. For all we know the interview was made sometime during the production of Enterprise in prep for the release of TNG on dvd.
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i'm about to quote shatner here....
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Ok...the only thing I see that might possibly be what you're talking about (someone please highlight it or something) is about a quarter of the way in from the left and about a quarter of the way down from the top. It's kind of red and white.
Is that it?
If that's what you're talking about, that's a tackle box with the trays pulled out. Alot of artist types use those kinds of boxes for supplies and stuff.
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I just noticed that there is a Lt. Uhura figure in the pic with Okuda and the model of Jupiter. That and some kind of square TNG prop with a label on it.
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Actually, it *is* a new find. Some sort of prototype for the Type-6 shuttle, methinks. It's got the hexagonal nacelles, but no overhanging impulse drives on the aft dorsal.
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Seeing the pic of Okuda and the planet in it reminded me of my 1990 visit to the TNG art dept. I had the good fortune to have a personal tour of the by Mr. Okuda the week before they started shooting The Best of Both Wrolds: Part 2 (I was on the lot to interview Ronald D. Moore for Starlog's TNG magazine).
A few random observations...
1. The art dept was one big room and an anteroom...no one had a specific office.
2. I noticed the planet, Jupiter, right away as I walked in. I gestured at it and said, "That's cute," and Mike replied, "It's left over from the first movie," so now you know from whence it came (at least according to Mike). I also noticed that it was only painted on one side (the back was white primer), and Mike commented, "They only filmed one side."
3. I knew I was at the Art Dept. door because there was a sign in the window that read "CAUTION: ANTIMATTER HAZARD".
4. In addition to various other greeblies there, Mike had a preserved eteched brass segment from the Epsilon 9 station, which was very cool looking.
5. I didn't get to meet Rick Sterbach per se, although he was there. He had headphones on and was working on the battle bridge console transparencies.
6. Picard's desk computer was in the art dept. for repainting, so I got to play with it. It's mounted on a cheap lazy susan, so instead of the "whish" sound when you turn it, it rattles on bad ball bearings. Rrrrrrr... The paint job was sloppy to the naked eye, but at TV rez you can't see it, so...
7. Mike loaded an animation he had done of a sensor scan for "Tin Man" where the screen shows a cutaway of the titular vessel/life-form. I scored brownie points because I told Mike I knew exactly how he'd done the cutaway (he'd placed the virtual camera so close that parts of the model ended up "behind" the screen, so as it rotated you got this sense of sections being sliced away.
Unfortunately, I was there a week before shooting started, so I wasn't able to get a tour of the set.
That's what I remember off hand. It's been like 12 years!
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When I was younger, when Crossroads of Time came out, I was probably not that far away from illicit relations with the cartridge. Friends and I used to pull all nighters playing that game, as we felt it looked very damn good, and we were playing Sisko. SISKO. ON OUR CONTROL PADS! Incidentally, I did not do terribly well in many of my first year university classes. BUT IT WAS SISKO. Good Show, sir.
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As for that shuttle, it looks like one of the studies Rick made in Season 4, before ending up with Type 6. You can see his doodles in "TNG: The Continuing Mission". I didn't realize Rick had actually made a (cardboard?) model of the thing!
And as for the mysterious nacelles... The Melbourne model in "Future Imperfect" is colored much like the paint sheet for the E-D model would suggest: the ramscoops are left red, the warp grilles are blue, etc. So this can't be it.
But when the model reappears in "The Wounded", it's monocolor (looks white on screen) and the mini-nacelles have been covered by some additional parts to make the thing look more like the "full-sized" USS Phoenix. Perhaps this all-silver model seen in these photos is the Melbourne after "Future Imperfect" but before the full conversion to "The Wounded" standard?
And perhaps the bit added onto the mini-nacelles is just an early test of "now what could we do with this one to make it look different?"...
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