posted
Yeah, it's fanboyish, but isn't that the point? Having it go Warp 13, giving it a cloaking device, and equipping the ship with the Big Fuck Off Beam Weapon Of Doom...all fanboy ideas, all making for a delightfully silly moment when the show stopped taking itself seriously.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
And if you want to know every canon instance of phaser fire from a GCS, then you have...
1 billion times from the top of the saucer 1 billion times from the bottom of the saucer Once from the cobrahead of the Stardrive section. Once from the one on the bottom just behind the deflector dish. Twice from the torpedo launcher (wrong colour, as well).
(I'd also go with either "weapon arrays", or "weapons arrays".)
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
Also at least once from the pylon strips (at an impossible angle, but still), in "BoBW".
Did we truly never see the aft arrays fire? Sounds weird, but I'm ready to believe that. The abilities of the ship were rather grossly underused, especially the capacity for a zillion shuttles or other really cool auxiliary craft.
posted
The aft phasers were used, though not seen emitting, in "The Nth Degree" against that Cytherian probe.
It's easy to forget the budgetary limitations of early TNG - back then, the very fact that a photon torpedo took up less screen space or time meant that they used them more often than phasers. A writer at a con once said that at the beginning of TNG, every torpedo special effect shot would cost $3000, while a single phaser beam would cost $5000. Result? More torpedoes, or more importantly little direct combat at all.
Of course, nowadays it's both cheaper and simpler to do it CGI. According to Mojo et. al., the CGI folks charge for a) object design time, b) VFX shot design time, and c) rendering time, often as a single package per VFX shot. This generally means that bigger shots, like a zillion shuttles, would actually be feasible. Could you imagine the how long and expensive it'd be to shoot the race in VOY "Drive", or ANY of the fleet shots in DS9, in the old model days?
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Yeah, it's fanboyish, but isn't that the point? Having it go Warp 13, giving it a cloaking device, and equipping the ship with the Big Fuck Off Beam Weapon Of Doom...all fanboy ideas, all making for a delightfully silly moment when the show stopped taking itself seriously.
That was right at season seven's start(okay, with two or three notable exceptions)
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Registered: Aug 2002
| IP: Logged
posted
Hey, so is there any similiar profiles for the Akira and Excelsior? I have a pretty good feel for the Excelsior (the best show from the Lakota) but the Akira always seems to be talked up as some big "gunship" but what, if any exist, does the official schematics show?
-------------------- Hey, it only took 13 years for me to figure out my password...
Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
posted
Errm, I don't want to sound to harsh, but why don't you just visit Bernd's site or any of the million others that offer all the pics and views you want?
-------------------- Lister: Don't give me the "Star Trek" crap! It's too early in the morning. - Red Dwarf "The Last Day"
Registered: Nov 1999
| IP: Logged
posted
1) the only info on the Excelsior is an msd of the Enterprise-B which is incomplete/inaccurate on EAS;
2) there is nothing on the Akira in terms of what I am asking at EAS;
so how about you either prove me wrong or stop being so smug for actually making a legitimate inquiry. Besides, I'm not just looking for *any* pics or views, I'm asking specifics.
I'm not looking for some fanboy redition, I'm looking for something that may or may not be available from whatever official or semi-official sources that I may have missed in the numerous magizines and so forth I have not in my possession.
-------------------- Hey, it only took 13 years for me to figure out my password...
Registered: Jan 2003
| IP: Logged
Printer-friendly view of this topic
