quote:Originally posted by Cartman: furthering my suspicion that they'd blown most of their effects budget earlier in the season...
I always thought that they blew most of the effects budget for the season in the final 10 seconds of that episode.
(Still, wasn't it great, eh?)
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The funny thing is, according to the DS9 Companion, the effects guys went way overboard with the number of ships (compared to what the writers were originally envisioning). Ironic, but still one hell of a cliffhanger!
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Huh. I was blown away when I saw them all... The added impact really worked to make Starfleet more plausable to me- the notion of a fleet of only a few dozen starships.
Plus....you yearned for a reckoning with the Dominion.
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quote: Was'nt the beam fired from the defense sails in season one green though? I always thought the station had some Cardassian emplacments intact....
Hmm... Which episode would this be? Even the tractor beams ("Dax" et al) seem to be yellowish IIRC.
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Hmm...mabye it was yellow....I dont recall 100%.
It would've been pre-WOTW, of course...
I gotta re-watch my DVD's (though I cant find most of them from when I moved!) I was thinking of "Dax" though.
Still, a yellow beam speaks of cardassian weaponry (to me). Trek races (except the Federation) tend to color-coordinate their weapons with their starship colors....no idea why.
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Does anyone have/know of online pics of the DS9 studio model?
I've googled, but cant find much save for some grainy scans. I already have the pics at SSM and EAS- I'm looking for closeups of the window arrangments and the panels on the docking pylons in particular- those details are absent on the model I'm building and I plan on adding them as custom decals or paint.
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the provided screengrabs all how the defense sail with only one rotating laucher extended but the DS9TM shows both sides deployed (how they could both retract into that skinny tower elides me).
Which is correct? Is there a shot of the defense sail with both launchers extended?
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No.
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It's only one turret. As noted, it would be impossible to fit two into the sail. Sternbach himself has noted that when he wrote the book, he missed out or got many details wrong, as he was working on Voyager full-time as their technical consultant.
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Thanks- that makes my job of removing the caps of the extended launchers much easier.
I am going to have the dorsal sail launcher on the starboard side (as shown on the screencaps) and the ventral launcher extend from the port side (to provide total coverage). This is as far as I've gotten. It takes about half an hour of carefully drilling (with a cylindrical paper drill so the launcher cap is not destroyed- only removed) for each hole. I'll have to scratchbuild the tractor beam emotter on the sail's face as well- the kit only has a gaping hole there for some reason.
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