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..When some unknown ship whisked out of the depths of space, and ramscooped its way into your memories. Remember when we didn't know a starship was going to be on an episode until it actually aired? Yes, those are the heady days I am talking about.
For me, I recalled seeing the Excelsior in STIII at the movie theater as a young lad. It was gigantic and sleek, and had shiny, blinky doodads on its control surfaces, with a female helmsman with equally blinky doodads..well these were the days when we saw one new starship every 3 years if we were lucky.
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When Defiant first fires her pulse shasers and anhiliates a Jem Hadar bug for the first time in "The Search". I fell in love with that little ship right then.
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That was also during the time between series, so we hung on every movie, wondering if and when the next would appear....
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I will not ever forget the first appearance of the Reliant. It was the first time we were presented with even the concept of 'other class' ships, beyond the Constitution (or Enterprise/Starship Class as it was in the old days known).
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Paint me weird, but I got the biggest kicks out of seeing the convoy of gigantic Klingon freighters in "Sons and Daughters", preparing to get underway, and the tiny BoP swooping in with the grandiose agenda of "protecting" these monsters...
...And before that, out of the first appearance of the Cardassian version, the Groumall, in "Return to Grace". The camera just loved the vessel - they even invented the beautiful "top view of DS9 with ship flying above" shot for the Groumall.
Still, the Klingon jolly green giants were an order of magnitude cooler. I like my freighters big. And ugly. And green, when applicable.
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Hmm - this is tricky - trying to think about when you enjoyed the first time you saw a particular starship.
OK, clear moment - it was before the net (for me) and we all knew it was coming and it took 2 and a bit years... and then the awesome blurry credits ended - and the veil of nebulous gas moved aside and there was the Enterprise-E!! (Wish they lingered on it a bit longer).
That is a main complaint with CGI nowadays - especially in the movies - the editing is WAY TOO FAST - you can't fix your eye on any one starship for too long. Even on Voyager and late DS9 (yes the movies is what I'm mainly talking about - well FC -->) It's as if they cut it up your eye can't follow and focus to much and thus you can't tell it's CGI - which I think is CRIMINAL considering now CGI can look like physical models (if enough work is done on them).
Reading through that Communicator edition with the making of the Excelsior and Bill George? It was interesting to note how he mentioned how Trek wanted him to make his shots long... beautiful shots that depicted these slowly moving beheomths!
He was used to Star Wars where Lucas ordered him to get as much 'stuff' going on in 40 frames as possible (like 1 second).
That's why Trek effects were so magnificent in II and III.
They need to return to this - hopefully they do for Nemesis - that crash scene from the preview looks like a nice long shot.
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Given they didn't exactly go out of their way to let anybody see the Sovereign-class Enterprise design prior to the release of ST:FC, the actual first appearance of the ship was really rather low-key. Just floating in space with a nebula in the background. So we were like, "Okay. . ." Then it went to warp and I thought "Woah! 0 to 60,000,000 in no time at all!" Then, finally, you had the end of the build-up as teh Definat redshurt (He = SuXXor! Ti shood have been Dxa!) said "There's another ship coming in - it's the Enterprise!" 8)
Mind you, nobody's mentioned the first view of the refit E-nil, either. As someone said, there is no other ship. . .
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The future Enterprise-D's first appearance in "All Good Things...". Decloaking and flying perpendicular to the Pasteur and those Klingon ships - hot damn! And then firing the BFG and tearing apart the Klingon before flying through the explosion - hotter damn!
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Too bad that ship looks so silly standing still.
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In FC when a tiny Sabre class hauls ass past on the viewscreen I was shocked into saying "What the HELL was that?! I like the Akira dipping down into frame and puking out seven or eight torpedos in FC alot, too!
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quote: Mind you, nobody's mentioned the first view of the refit E-nil, either. As someone said, there is no other ship. . .
Well considering I was too young when TMP came out. The E-refit is my fave ship though.
I think someone around here DID post a rather inspirational description of their first sight of the E-refit. Mentioned how fans cheered!! When they first saw it!
Maybe I read that in a magazine like The Star Trek magazine?? I'm sure it was here though.
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The Akira-Class in First Contact. When it lauched a few torpeedos from its weapons pod over the Enterprise-E i was in love.
Also, in "Message in a Bottle" (VOY), when it comes to do the work the Nebula-Class (my old favorite ship) couldnt, it was perfect.
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It was the Akira class(and the other FC ships) for me too. When I first saw a clip of the battle I saw all these dark and unfamiliar ships with strange configurations. The Akira was the most obvious of course. I thought "what the hell was that?!" I think I was disapointed that they seemed so different from all the other ships we'd seen in the past and that it looked so dark and grim, but I was incredibly excited at the same time.
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The E-refit is my fave ship though.
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