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MMoM, did you do screen caps of Message in a Bottle?
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Well, MMoM, apart from the obvious, every ship in every episode ;-) I would apprateciate a shot of the lunar module model hanging in the car in 11:59
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Just have him put it on mute and that should help.
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It sucked. It had no redeeming features whatosever. At least with "Threshold" you could come out of it saying "Dude! Janeway and Paris turned into these hyperwarp amphibians, and they did it, and totally had kids! I'd like to see how they handled THAT during his next performance review!"
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Yah... also, I'm pretty sure that there are no plans to build a mile wide super-structure in the farm belt any time soon. Placing such a supposedly monmumental event in the then-so-near future was pretty stupid.
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Placing it in US Midwest was just for the benefit of the audience. In reality, Millennium Towers or comparable structures were erected all over our planet in the then-so-near future, either as actual millennium celebration mcguffins, or then as megalomaniac corporate headquarters. Had there been a little less recession and a little more (and thicker-walled) bubbles on the stock market, monument-building could even have become the trend of the 2000s.
Besides, the US Midwest that was building the Tower was already paying taxes for a space program a zillion times more advanced than the one funded by the US Midwest that was watching the episodes... One has to scale down the relative significance of the Tower investment a bit when one remembers that it would only be two years until the launch of a highly capable interstellar probe, nine years until a manned Saturn mission, and four years SINCE the last use of a manned interplanetary vessel capable of interstellar transit! (Granted, we don't know if DY-100 or even Nomad were US programs, but the Saturn mission certainly appeared to be.)
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I reviewed the GEN scene and, unfortunately, it appears that the screen just has the Robert Fox's info looping, nothing on the Lakul. (Which means that the graphic giving the Lakul's info, similar but with some different values according to the TNG Companion, was not shown onscreen.)
After consulting the Companion as advised for the flight start stardate, the complete text of the graphic is as follows:
quote:VEHICLE ID: S.S. ROBERT FOX REG NUMBER: NFT-1327 REGISTRY: EL-AURIAN VEH CLASS: WHORFIN FLT START: 9683.7 DESTINATION: SOL III MANIFEST: 248 PASSENGERS 17 CREW PROPULSION: YPS PULSE FUSION MAX RATED SPEED: WARP FACTOR 4
BTW, as for the Lakul, the Companion says its registry was NFT-7793 and its flight start was 9683.3. Presumably, the passenger and crew manifest figures would be different as well, since Scotty said she only had 150 people aboard. (Surprisingly, the Companion misquoted the Robert Fox's complement as 267 instead of 265, but the screencaps show that the display itself was not in error, and I therefore assume this was simply a typo in the book.)
-MMoM
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Reexamining the first of my caps, I see that the display did have a section for the Lakul, but for which only the last few lines were seen. Those passenger/crew manifest figures are different from those of the Robert Fox. Listed are 138 passengers and 12 crew, totalling the 150 Scotty mentioned. Too bad we still can't see the registry...
-MMoM
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Yeah, but she had quite short hair in Aliens. She was also John Connors' foster-mother in Terminator 2: Judgement Day - she skewered Xander Berkeley through a milk carton - where she also had a bit of a curly mop. . .
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