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I happen to own quite a few of the DC Comic "Star Trek" collection. I've known people have been speaking of DC Comic Trek Bridges for quite some time.
I know about the bridges of the USS Exeter and USS Pacific from the books. There are some I'd like to see, particularly the mentioned USS Tubman, and perhaps some other bridges that were shown in TNG.
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I actually got to work on it a little this past weekend, sorting through some pictures. The amount of screencaps we've amassed is vast, and we have to whittle it down to the best representative caps to put on the website. When the sorting is done and thumbnails made, then the coding can begin in earnest.
My weekends of late have been eaten up. Parents moved three hours away this year, and I've been needed to landscape and finish basement and glaven before the snow falls. Stoopid family guilt...
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Marco Polo was a "Challenger-class", before we figured out what a Challenger-class ship actually was. Imaginer a Constellation-class saucer and upper warp pylon assembly mated to a modified Constitution-class secondary hull.
Tubman was a more traditional Constellation-class ship, though artistic license made it a bit curvier than usual.
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The Marco Polo from the SCE novels is a Sabre class, so mabye the old version did not survive....
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I guess so: the Marco Polo was in the gateway's novels IIRC. The only high point in the series, really. Mabye I'm off on the source and the da Vinci is the SCE ship....
I named one of my Sabre models Marco Polo after it, so I'm biased.
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One of the SCE novels (I'm not sure which, but an early, already printed one, since I have read it!) lists the four SCE Sabers in operation in the mid-2370s as the Khwarizmi, Musgrave, T'Pora and da Vinci. If the Marco Polo was in SCE use, she probably wouldn't have been a Saber, or then would have been acquired (or destroyed) between the two references.
Of course, SCE is likely to operate ships of other types as well.
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I think (upon reflection) that it was not an SCE ship but I know it was a Sabre: the ship's captain was killed in combat, Riker was commanding Enterprise while Picard fucked off on some "save the universe" missionj that only he could accomplish and Troi was given command of the Marco Polo as the only available bridge officer.
They gave a good, detailed description of the ship though....as in the SCe books, the Sabre is (correctly) scaled to 179 meters long (not the misprinted length from the DS9TM).
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The Marco Polo bridge looks very much like the TNG Battle Bridge (Ent-D) set used in TNG, which is not too surprising since the Stargazer was also a redress of that, as well as the Hathaway's bridge.
I must say, the Tubman bridge looks quite unusual though. That forward helm/nav console looks more like something you'd find on a Prometheus, Nova, or Intrepid-class vessel.
The comics had a few other funky bridges. I happen to own a bunch of the old DC Comics Trek series, so I know what some of the other ones are like.
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