quote:Originally posted by Lee: Yes. Curious though, what made the producers turn around and ask for 'some changes' which actually resulted in an almost totally different ship? The only thing that survived was the basic shape and detailing of the saucer.
That may have been discussed in the video, I'll rewatch that and get back with you (all).
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: I thought the most popular theory amoung fans was that Jeri Taylor wanted the ship to me more curvey, because it had a female captain. No idea if that's true or not.
Rick did mention that they wanted it more curvy but not why. This was referring to the model with the other registry.
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That design looks far more formidable that Voyager's sissy little "stub-nacelles".
It represents the large scale of the ship better as well: Voyager never really seemed like something so much larger than the Connie Refit (though, it's supposed to have far more -if never shown- internal volume).
It just does not look as manuverable visually, and I think they were going for something that looked more like a sparrow than a hawk...
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I think it had to do with the change of the ship to being brand-new (I'd have prefered the "Cardassian war veteran" thing, but in hindsight a brand new ship as the UPN flagship show made more sense than a rusty old workhorse). I looked at "The Art of Star Trek" this morning, and it notes that the model Rick Sternbach built served to "send Richard James' team back to the drawing boards". I'm guessing that they took one look a the model, plain didn't like it, and asked for something new.
Interestingly, a current thread on TrekToday by Sternbach suggests that the producers didn't care all THAT much - as long as it had the requisite features (torpedo launchers, phasers, two nacelles, and a shuttlebay) the writers had all they needed for their stories.
Note for example that Rick incorporated all sorts of neat stuff that were rejected... Deployable nacelles, AWACS pod, absorption shield fins, aeroshuttle, etc. Nothing was used in the end, or if it showed up on the model, it never got used. IIRC, they never really even acknowledged in dialogue that Voyager's warp nacelles could even move, no? The bioneural circuitry was a Macguffin that was never visible on the outside, either.
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So, what did they actually care about on Voyager? Somehow, the production team didn't seem to have the same kind of enthusiasm as the DS9 crew...
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Well their lack of enthusiasm did not prevent Voyager from being among Trek's best....
oh wait.
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What is annoying is that we've never gotten a good view of the defleector of that model/ship.
The closest view now is in one of the caps above which show a side view of the entire design - the area around the deflector seems to have an Enterprise-B shape to the hull.
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What is annoying is that we've never gotten a good view of the defleector of that model/ship.
The closest view now is in one of the caps above which show a side view of the entire design - the area around the deflector seems to have an Enterprise-B shape to the hull.
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What is annoying is that we've never gotten a good view of the defleector of that model/ship.
The closest view now is in one of the caps above which show a side view of the entire design - the area around the deflector seems to have an Enterprise-B shape to the hull.
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There are no such pictures online, to my recollection. I once asked Rick about it, and he said it's basically just like the final product's secondary hull - one of the few major parts of the design to remain untouched.
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