quote:Originally posted by Spike: But that's not in a row with the other ships.
Besides, who says that all the things on the chart have to be connected? Maybe it covers 3 different topics: milky way early human warp vessel ships named Enterprise
Major advances in Starship Design Major Advances in Warp Drive Starships to use in your period specfic writing assignments Things to make Flarites nuts with specualtion Background scenes not intended for close scrutiny
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I'd say it's ships that were Enterprise - remember no Generations at that time. Or if you want to put it into 'real' terms - maybe the E-B was refitted (or all Excelsiors could be refitted back and forth) between the two types. (Depending on mission etc.)
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It could just be "Important Ships". An early warp craft, Kirk's famous Enterprise, Kirk's... other famous Enterprise, Excelsior - The Great Experiment, Enterprise -C - destroyed while saving a Klingon colony and paving the way for long lasting peace, and the current flagship belonging to Starfleet's most advanced ship class, the Enterprise-D.
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Again, I dont think it necessarily needs to mean anything groundbreaking. Those ships simply represented the various classes of the Enterprises'at that time (in Star Trek production history). They represent those ships in the same capacity as the "models" in the conference room of the Ent-D.
Obviously they represent a historic lineage, judging by the sequencial registry, and thus serve a 'certain' importance in the Earth/Star Fleet/Federation history, much as the 'warp ship' and so forth does.
Based on known facts, ca. 1993, this is really the most plausable and obvious explaination to this 'display'. This coincides well with the 'current' (as in 1993=current) 'facts' posed in the first generation of ST:Encyclopedia and ST:Chronology, which these models were all originally represented in.
This makes the most sense both in retrospect and probably in ca. 1993; it's just unfortunate that all of the later representations of these ships in "Generations", "First Contact" and "Enterprise" contradict the display in question.
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Maybe it's a school project. Someone has to do an essay on Quadrants in the Milky-way. Someone does something on the differences between the Refit 1701 and the 1701-A
Someone on "Transwarp, the great experiment or just a new class of starship"
Someone on "Ambassador Class, where are you?
And one on: "Donald Varley: Competent Captain or reckless moron?"
Andrew
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I'm wondering...why is Mike Okuda keeping a bottle of Holy Water on his desk? And what are those two starships are on his desk?
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Y'know, Spikey...I still haven't seen a lot of screencaps from Season One that I want to see. Particularly the Wolf 359 shots in "Emissary." Have you already done these and I just missed them, or what?
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Ouch... I guess someone ended up with DS9 Season One while expecting something else in the mail. Lucky them.
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