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Kind of off-topic, did anyone else notice that the name of the USS Repulse's Type 7 shuttle was revealed on the TNG DVD's? A photo was shown of the model with the name D'Alison.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Phlox: A photo was shown of the model with the name D'Alison.
Cool. On which disk set?
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Wow... I never noticed that you can see the Repulse out the shuttle bay doors... that's cool... Only Second season, too. And this is the same season that produced Shades of Grey as the season finale.
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So who or what is D'Alison? I already tried google, but no luck there.
As for "Shakaar", I've just watched the episode to be sure. There is a vulcan, but his name is not mentioned. We don't see his ship or hear his rank. When the camera cuts to the scene, he and O'Brien are already playing. When he grabs Quark's mug and Bashir tells him that he can't continue playing with his shoulder, the Vulcan only says that he'll loose the game if he leaves the bar. Nothing about his ship at all. The script doesn't seem to be the final version. From what I saw the Vulcan and O'Brien behave differently, their lines were altered and the whole B-plot was shortened. Furthermore we got a view of the station some time before this scene, and there was no ship docked, neither Starfleet nor any other.
The Vulcan's name is not mentioned in the credits, allthough the Companion (the book) does indeed list his name.
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"And this is the same season that produced Shades of Grey as the season finale."
Well, that's because they ran out of money. No doubt from doing things like showing the Repulse out the shuttlebay doors...
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This has come up before, but was "Shades of Grey" purely budgetary in origin, or did the writer's strike have something to do with it?
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Thought it was a little bit of both...at least the strike was the cause for the season to not start until something like late November in the first place....
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The tale told elsewhere (I read it recently, possibly in the TNG Companion, but I can't recall precisely where now) is that they were considering a BoBW sort of thing for the end of season two, but didn't have the cash. Hence Hurley's hurried clip-script.
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Maybe it had something to do with the huge number of visual effects in the penultimate episode, "Peak Performance"? Having the Hathaway and the Enterprise engaged in simulated combat, resurrecting old sets and maybe creating new ones, not to mention the Romulan and Ferengi ships, probably amounted to a rather large drain.
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