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What kind of ship is the Tubman supposed to be?
Is that supposed to be Sonia Gomez?
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Tubman's a Constellation, and yes, that's Yummy Sonia as she gets over her shy clumsiness to take command of a shipload of cadets when hostile aliens attack the unarmed heap, knocking out both Geordi and the accompanying Academy escort ship.
And shortly after this mission, Sonia gets a third breast graft and transfers to the Starfleet Striptease division on Mars.
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Here are the bridges I am now confirmed about:
The USS Exeter from TOS Second Series (movie era)...this was in a story arc featuring the "Worthy," and Bill Mumy was one of the writers!! This looked like the Ent-A bridge in ST:IV (it was a Connie-refit), under command by Captain Styles of STIII fame. You don't see very much of this one.
There was also an Oberth-class, which was not part of Starfleet, which was "The Tabukian Syndrome" (sp?) which also featured Captain Sulu and the Excelsior.
In comic issues 49-50, there was the USS Pacific, a Miranda-class ship, which had an unusual bridge, an odd funked up STI-IV era starship bridge.
In TNG, I've now seen the bridges for the USS Marco Polo, and the USS Tubman. Were there any others?
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I've got one with the Stargazer's bridge, but it isn't too different from what has been established from what I remember.
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Ah, yes, I have that one. Although in one of the overhead drawings, it featured separate helm/nav consoles. We all know that in "The Battle," it had STI-IV movie-era helm/nav console.
There also were some renditions of the TNG Battle Bridge. One of them was a sort of "scaled-down" version of the main bridge (with a scaled-down tactical rail). Though they switched it to the one that was seen in "Arsenal of Freedom" for later ones.
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Wasn't the Battle Bridge in "The Arsenal of Freedom" almost identical to the one seen in "Farpoint"?
For that matter, how can they draw the Battle Bridge wrong? It was seen about 15 minutes into the first ever episode, ferchrisake.
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As would I. However, it's possible that the artists of the time had only been given pre-production materials, headshots, and the series bible to go with. I recently found the re-print of DC's first TNG comics in a bookstore clearance bin, and they played it VERY fast and loose with the details back then. Sets were often pink and pastel, all the ladies were B-cup or more, the Enterprise looked curvier and was never consistent between frames... Hell, some of the officers even wore capes!
(tries to grasp the complete lack of any editorial oversight: fails)
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Yup. In the first (only?) six issues of the series, the writers over-embellished a LOT of things, in this case adding a married couple as secondary characters. They were the relief helm/nav/conn/ops (I dunno if they'd figured that part out yet) officers, and were constantly arguing. And yes, their uniforms had capes, boots and bare legs a la Superman without the blue (the upper tunic was the same, but that's about it). I think they were called the Bickers or something - I'd have been able to forgive their uniforms as an alien cultural thing like Worf's sash, but they were emphatically human.
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I read a book recently where an officer had a cape. He was an imposter, but I would think someone would have noticed if it was that out of place...
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Augh, you're gonna make me look through that detestable book again, aren't you? Story ideas were... par... for merchandising comic books of the day, but the art was FAR from being anything acceptable. Pre-1990s, it was a rarity for any Trek comics to remotely resemble the shows they're based on. You should try to dig up some of what the old DC Excelsior looks like, when the artists had maybe two pictures and watching the movie on video to work with.
Why? Where in the hell did they get the idea that people in the future would dress like super heroes? Even superheroes dress better than that.
And did they even think to make the capes actually go with the rest of the uniform? Why Green? To complete the gag reflex in the back of my throat?
*shudder*
I just find it impossible to believe that any art department (even one in the 80's) would green light this. And I find it even more unacceptable that TPTB at TNG would allow these artists to continue to exist. I mean... it bears no resemblance to anything on the show...
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