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I just learned that the fighter first seen in "The Jem Hadar" had a blue glow underneath. I understand that later fighters hade purple to match the nacelles. I have good screenshots of the fighters from "The Jem Hadar", I�d like to see caps from the underside of the other version. Anyone?
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Not much of a 'cap, but...
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Well, the "thorax" was what I meant by "underneath", so those caps were what I was talking about. They apparantly switched colours to match the nacelles. Thanks for the caps, the fighters from "The jem hadar" I have thanks to Spike, any bigger caps of the purple variant?
Coincidentely, should one consider these two as separate classes, is the purple one an upgrade?
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Well, anal is a bit hard, but why not a new class? We have no idea what the purple glow is about, it could mean a new drive system, weapons upgrade, anything...
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Not that we actually have a class designation for these anyway, do we?
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I don't think we can even say for sure whether the Dominion names its ships at all, beyond whatever codenames required for coordinating missions. On the other hand, it's quite possible they do, since the Jem'Hadar have names, and both are weapons systems.
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quote:Originally posted by Starship Freak: Well, anal is a bit hard, but why not a new class? We have no idea what the purple glow is about, it could mean a new drive system, weapons upgrade, anything...
A Miranda Class with or without a rollbar or with side mounted sensor/(weapon?) pods is still a Miranda Class isn't it? Same with the Excelsior. Those are much more noticable cosmetic changes than the hue of the hull of a ships glow and hardly enough to go by to classify as anything different.
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Anal is too strong a word, but he has a point. After all, we've seen several variants of the Galaxy Class . . . the Galaxy herself has been seen to have a new warp drive system color scheme compared to other ships, insofar as the very bright near-white blue line, with sky blue around it.
Variant . . . not class.
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It may just be the difference between the physical model of the fighter's color versus the CGI version that appeared later. "Jem'Hadar" was still filmed with models.
It could also be attributed to the filtering used when filming the models. The models are simply lighted with neon with little to no color to them. The multiple filming passes are filtered to give the colors.
(That's why the Enterprise-C has a blue impulse engine in it's first appearance; the impulse engine was filmed during the warp nacelle pass rather than filtered red.)
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The color issue "could" mean the difference between a "fighter" variant and a "attack ship" variant.......LOL Nevermind, that's just wishful thinking.
Though thinking back, the blue belly ships did fire pulses solely instead of beams.
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