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Is that 2541 even genuine? What's the deal with the "cursor pass highlighting"? Who's the resident katakana expert?
This could explain the 2544 rego of the next close-upped TNG Excelsior, the Repulse (or her close-upped shuttle), of course... Since 2544 is solid canon, 2541 works just fine for me, too (even though it steps on Belknap toes...). And didn't we have some confusion about a 42296 close-up with the wrong name in DS9?
"The ulimate measure of a man is not where he stands in times of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Since this is Web translation, it also have some incomprehensible texts. The word which cannot be translated is a capital letter or garbled .
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Well, I understand the first two paragraphs pretty well. It kind of falls apart after that. But the point in the beginning seems to be that, by looking at the negative of that first image, they think that someone has erased the registry number from the photo.
And it seems that the Japanese name for a phaser is "feiza". Fascinating.
Oh, and I don't know if "fur point" is a translation error, or what, but "Encounter at Fur Point" sounds like a bad porn title.
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And, on a lighter note, I love bad translations from the Japanese language. It's given us such gems as "All your base are belong to us" and the comment in the article enshrined below:
What must not be published will surely be written here.
-------------------- . . . ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
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Japanese katakana has a limited ability to transliterate the many sounds and spellings of English, so it can get pretty weird when you go from English to katakana and back to English again. "Phaser" is transliterated into Japanese with katakana for "fe-i-za," so comes back out as "feiza." "Fur" and "far" are both transliterated as "fa-a," so the computer makes its best, albeit incorrect, guess
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One wonders why the Japanese translation of "Farpoint" isn't [Japanese word for "far"] + [Japanese word for "point"].
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quote:Originally posted by Timo: Is that 2541 even genuine? What's the deal with the "cursor pass highlighting"? Who's the resident katakana expert?
This could explain the 2544 rego of the next close-upped TNG Excelsior, the Repulse (or her close-upped shuttle), of course... Since 2544 is solid canon, 2541 works just fine for me, too (even though it steps on Belknap toes...). And didn't we have some confusion about a 42296 close-up with the wrong name in DS9?
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The picture certainly looks like someone erased the registry number.
Besides, both Hood and Repulse were named after British battlecruisers. If there were a Renown, it would complete the trio.
Where does 42296 come from: aired material, photographic evidence, or something reported by Okuda? I'd consider the priorities in that oreder...
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The images from CultTVman's SF Modeling Forum in 2001. I was very surprised that the true registry number of USS Hood was NCC-2541.
I got permission to the writer of the thread, and put what emphasized the outline of original images on my site.
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