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I was in the same boat as Jason when the Defiant first open up her can of whoopass pulse phasers on the Jem'Hadar. I was expecting some torps and was curious as to where the phasers would come from... then... phoom, phoof, phoof, phoof....
That was very sweet.
I also remember being completely floored by the FC ships. "What!?! 4 new ships!! At once!!! oh... my... goodness...." I remember I went home and tried to sketch them out from memory.
I'm too young to remember anything before TNG. I don't think I even saw movies 1,2 or 3 in the theaters. I think 4 was the first one I saw on the big screen.
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The E-nil; I can't remember the first time I saw it but really every time it just look so... Enterprisy . That is THE ship. I can remember seeing the refit for the first time in TMP though, even on TV that looked good. I mean, yeah the movie did drag a bit but that first shot of the Enterprise in dock must have looked amazing in the cinema.
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The first ship I fell in love with was the Enterprise-D when I saw the third season.
And then I saw the 5 minute TMP view of the Enterprise after refit...
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quote:"What!?! 4 new ships!! At once!!! oh... my... goodness...."
Sorry, I refuse to believe anyone managed to identify there were exactly 4 new classes on first viewing. Why, even a year later Utopia Planitia still had it at nearly six (although two of them were obviously duplicates). And what everyone thought was the Norway was the Akira from another angle. No retconning of nostalgia allowed, Alan! 8)
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I counted four new designs watching the battle for the first time. It's not impossible.
I surprised the hell out of a friend of mine when we watched Generations for the first time and I caught the split second shot that the registry (the whole frame) was reversed during the crash of the saucer. He didn't think I could catch something that happened so quickly, so it wasn't until the movie was out on video that we could freeze-frame that spot and confirmed i saw it reversed....gotta be quick!
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It was? I have to look that one up immediately... Hey wait, impossible, I'm at work at the moment...
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I remember the Steamrunner totally confused me when I first saw it. I remember seeing the shot of it from the front and underside firing its phasers while moving downwards. For some reason it looked like a Constitution refit to me. Even though I knew they wouldn't still be using them and it didn't look right, I couldn't work out any other posibility. Makes me feel like an idiot now.
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I found out later, the reason the Generation saucer was reversed for one shot, is that they dragged the model directly into a mirror and filmed the mirror instead of the ship. That way they could film the saucer getting insanely close without risking damage to the camera. They must've forgotten to 'flop' the frame back so the registry was right.
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I seem to recall there being problems with Steamrunners looking like Constitutions fairly often over the course of DS9, which always surprised me, because you wouldn't think they'd look anything alike.
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I'm going to be anti-Simon and go with the obvious. The Refit-Enterprise in TMP. Yeah, it dragged, and had far too many SFX. But there's a world of difference between watching a purple cloud for 4 hours, and watching...that ship. It's perfect. Perfectly balanced, designed, everything.
And for an honourable second, the Defiant. First thought "Cool, it can cloak!". Second thought "Cool, it has actual running lights!". Third thought "What the fucking hell were those phasers?!"
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Actually, I've seen where the problem lies - it's in the front view. Small shots of the Steamrunner in the background from the front do look like the Constitution - flat-looking saucer, large deflector dish below, struts coming up from that at roughly right-angles to each other (and at their ends, what appears to be nacelles, even though they're just the Bussards on the sides of the saucer). . . it's uncanny.
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I have no clear memory of seeing the refit-E in the theater (I was only five...), but I've seen it on big-screen TVs enough to know my heart lurches every time I see her...
The Defiant had a wonderful debut, but something unfortunate happened... They changed the sound effect for the phasers, which crippled the way I view the ship...
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Well, I've loved all the jemhadar ships, Defiants, Vorchas Brel's and a whole bunch of other vessels. But the first one that I ever saw that hit home was the Imperial Romulan Warbird.
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. That is THE ship. I can remember seeing the refit for the first time in TMP though, even on TV that looked good. I mean, yeah the movie did drag a bit but that first shot of the Enterprise in dock must have looked amazing in the cinema.![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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