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quote:Originally posted by Griffworks:
quote:Originally posted by CaptainMike20X6: The script identified the character that was played by Vijay Armitraj as Captain Joel Randolph of the USS Yorktown.. the other cameo there was Go-Go Jane Wiedlin playing LCDR Trillya, comm officer of the USS Shepard, which was dead in space, and the power failure released a plague from the medical stasis field. She was relaying messages from Captain Clampett.
Huh...?
Yer havin' us on, ain'cha...?
actually not.. one of the old Starlogs i dug up has a picture of Jane filming, sitting at an Uhura station on a darkened bridge set, with an out-of-costume Nimoy directing her. She was wearing a random wierd alien look.. (pale tinted skin, forehead ornament and funny hair. She played Joan of Arc in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure also.
This awful page has a cap of her on screen as Trillya, although the benid the scenes photo that i need to find the motivation to scan is much clearer
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quote:Originally posted by Futurama Guy: Dunno about that one. We have not yet actually seen any ships being built at Spacedock...just, at most, garaged there.
The Excelsior was built there.
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No, Excelsior was built at the San Francisco Fleet Yards. That doesn't mean or say anything about Spacedock.
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quote:Originally posted by CaptainMike20X6: [QUOTE]actually not.. one of the old Starlogs i dug up has a picture of Jane filming, sitting at an Uhura station on a darkened bridge set, with an out-of-costume Nimoy directing her. She was wearing a random wierd alien look.. (pale tinted skin, forehead ornament and funny hair. She played Joan of Arc in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure also.
This awful page has a cap of her on screen as Trillya, although the benid the scenes photo that i need to find the motivation to scan is much clearer
Y'know, as many times as I've seen that movie, I never caught that! Thanks for the info, Cap'n Mike. I shall now watch the scene more carefully.
And thanks to Reverend for quoting the script for us. I've got that stuff saved to my Hd on my 'puter at home and will be a joyously happy geek next time I see that scene and can read along w/the background as Jane Weidlin tells us about the moments of the crew onboard Shephard, as they crew die of some horrible plague....
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Is there a reason why Space Dock couldn't have been a part of the San Francisco Fleet Yards complex or vice versa? Space Dock could have been placed in geosynchronus above the city of San Francisco and served as a huge starship hanger and mega star base in the San Francisco Fleet Yards complex.
I am reminded of all the navy bases and Newport News Shipbuilding in Chesapeake Bay. From the air, it looked like one big navy mega base for the Atlantic fleet to me. It was pretty impressive.
I would have thought in ST III and IV that we would have seen more stations, orbital dry docks, and starship traffic around Earth and Space Dock. Was there a let's clean up Earth orbit campaign after ST: TMP? What happened to the orbital office complex? And when we see McKinley Station in TNG where is Space Dock? I don't think that they would have dismantled it and replaced it with something else. I guess McKinley Station could be on the other side of the Earth from Space Dock.
Utopia Planetia as shown in that "Voyager" episode certainly looks huge and consists of multiple dry docks and a huge space station like complex. Looks like the orbit around Mars is just filled with hardware that supports the shipyards, I would have thought the same would have happened to Earth orbit.
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quote:Originally posted by CaptainMike20X6: This awful page has a cap of her on screen as Trillya, although the benid the scenes photo that i need to find the motivation to scan is much clearer
Well here are the two angles of the Yorktowns' Captain Randolph.
...and here is the best I can do for the Shepards' Commander Trillya. It is zoomed in and cropped at 4x original.
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Triton, look at some pics from the Space Shuttle or the ISS. Space is big and dark, especially at synchronous altitudes. You'd have to be very big and very bright to be spotted from any appreciable distance, and then only if the spotter is looking in the right direction.
Some of the people on here who are much better at trigonometry than I will have to tell you what part of the Earth Spacedock is over, but it's a ways out. The San Francisco Yards are a lot less massive, and thus a lot lower. McKinley Station (whenever it was built) is at a much higher latitude (Alaska) and wouldn't be visible anyway from most of the angles used.
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