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It seems fair enough.. I guess that steps "backward" until the older technology becomes more refined, or experimental "improvements" on lasers or fusion warheads can't be impossible. I'm sure that we can probably find parallels in modern history with circuits or high explosives or something..
Butter's better for you! No, it's margarine now! Nuh-uh, new stuff shows it's butter! Hardly - margarine's better as of this morning!
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Incidentally, looking at Masao's Furious and Spectre classes, they should fit in without too many problems in their existing form.
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: Butter's better for you! No, it's margarine now! Nuh-uh, new stuff shows it's butter! Hardly - margarine's better as of this morning!
Unfortunately probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference if you gave me two pieces of toast one with butter and the other with margarine. Oh well.
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Oh no... that doesn't equate... the line between toleration and wretching is quite thin, and it has been passed many times by those execs in the last few years.
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Before I revamp everything to placate ENT, pilfer ships from Masao, and start preferring butter to margarine, I'll try and fill the TNG era gaps. There are plenty of one-off mentions that need a) a spaceframe to go with them and b) an explanation as to why Starfleet would only use them so rarely in the vicinity of our heroes.
I've pimped certain one-offs into twosomes - Rigel and Zodiac are a destroyer/scoutship pair now, and so are Freedom and Andromeda. I don't want to get rid of all the unknowns that way, though. There's the Sequoia, and Wraith just made her a good freighter based on Eaves' early holoship sketches. There's the Bradbury, and I made her the Voyager study model and a corvette, as the registry range was a nice match. And then there's the Surak, that simply became the ENT Surak rather than the Sternback Vulcan sketch.
But what to do with Chimera? A 57000 range registry, but I'll NOT make her another 1:2 scale Galaxy kitbash! One reference only, in "The Die is Cast". A support ship? A light border patrol ship? A rare dreadnought? A floating casino?
Any ideas for alternate Merced, Goddard, Zodiac, Andromeda or Rigel descriptions are also very welcome. Preferably with excuses for their rare appearances. The ASDB stuff is good, but I primarily seek pairings of names with existing models, study models or Paramount artist sketches. Even convoluted pairings. And that's not what ASDB is about.
Oh, and the ugly Elkins has an identity crisis, too. Unfortunately with a registry too high to conveniently fit any of the above classes.
Just had an idea for a crash produced escort vessel at the beginning of the Cardassian war; using some of the ideas you mentioned in PMs, Timo. After the war some kept on as border patrol vessels, after upgrades/mods.
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A bump mainly for the benefit of Revanche, who's doing a great job reviewing the grammar and typography. New version with Wraith Stuff additions and a few other changes now here...
BTW, reviewing isn't purely an exact science. While Dan is busy turning the pidgin into English, others are quite welcome to suggest changes in content, other interpretations of source material, and general things like "stop whining for attention".
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Oh, damn. I can't stand the cybersound of a guy in tears... There, there. Hey, I'll change the "Caspian subclass" to "Shelley subclass", okay? I'll even call the three-nacelled Hokule'a the "Medusa subclass". Feel any better?
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And is she the USS Yeager Voy-bash, or the USS Elkins one?
The Elkins is still waiting for a class designation. Or perhaps "class" and "Elkins" shouldn't be used together in a sentence. Anyway, I used "Philadelphia class" in one entry for this experimental design that should have remained invisible, but I'll happily go with Baracas if it was meant for this design. Have to invent a reason for the LN-64 lookalikes bolted onto her, though.
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"Baracus" was coined when Mojo and I first got the pics for the model of the USS Centaur that we'd convert for UF (the model ultimately showed up in the ST Mag). When we saw how ugly the model was, and specifically all the gold-painted greeblies, Mr. T immediately came to mind. Hence, Baracus-class.
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