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There's a horrible-looking film I saw in the video store called something like "Mutants on the Bounty" and the "ship" is the upside-down command pod from the Romulan Warbird in the three-model "Adversary" set from AMT, connected directly to the aft vertical dorsal thingie from the same model, with some other, familiar-looking bits tossed in.
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1. The use of said Star trek model has to be an actual use of the thing as a space ship in whatever TV show/movie it's featured in. (i.e. no use as desktop displays or toys)
2. It doesn't count if the model actually represents what it's suppposed to represent (i.e. the Enterprise shown in Futurama was in fact the Enterprise)
3. No parodies (i.e. the SNL skit where the Ent-D was stuck on the end of a much larger "Love Boat" model in when Patrick Steward guest-hosted)
So Peregrinus' entry is a good example of what I'm looking for. To add to that, I was in Best Buy the other day, and noticed the cover of some T&A flick taking place in the future. The cover showed such large-breasted B-movie actresses like Julie Strain in futuristic getups. Anyway, their ship was Chakotay's Maquis raider. (At least that was the picture on the cover; I didn't bother to buy the thing & watch to see if it was in the movie b/c I didn't want to know that bad).
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Not physical models, but several CGI models from Voyager(Baxial, Steth's ship, Kes' Ship and a few others) were used as "extras" in space scenes in Firefly. That seems to happen quite often nowadays in sci-fi shows, presumeably because the same CGI artists are working on them all. The Firefly CG model appeared in the Battlestar Gallactica mini-series.
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Are you sure about that? Zoic, the effects company for Firefly, has never done any work for Star Trek, at least according to their webpage. Not to mention that space scenes in Firefly tended to be rather empty.
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Whoops. I was wrong about the movie/model combo. "Mutant on the Bounty" (summary here) featured this fugly kitbash of a Y-Wing.
The movie I was thinking of was a horrid little piece of poopie called "Spacejacked". As you can (painfully) see, the ship consists of the two elements I mentioned before, the lower fin is a wing from the Klingon Bird-of-Prey from the same model set, and the upper extension abaft the command pod is the Ferengi Marauder.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Isn't the Enterprise suppossed to be in amoungst all the background traffic on Coruscant during Episode 1? I've never seen it though (because, y'know, I'd have to watch the film again. And I'm not doing that.)
It's Andy Probert's Enterprise study model (the horrid thing with the cardboard cone nacelles) that flies back and forth outside Amidalia's window. The flying police car from Blade Runner is there as well.
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With it's Federation Bold registry no less. The makers of "Spacejacked" should be beaten with an oar.
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Are you sure about that? Zoic, the effects company for Firefly, has never done any work for Star Trek, at least according to their webpage. Not to mention that space scenes in Firefly tended to be rather empty.
I don't know for sure how the ships appeared in different series. The idea that artists who worked on more than one sci-fi series may have slipped models from one into another to fill up the screen is just a theory of mine. What I am certain about is that it did somehow happen.
The Baxial, Kes's ship and Steth's ship all visited Niska's station in Firefly, as well as a couple of other ships that look vaguely familiar.
BTW, I found that Julie Strain movie I was talking about earlier. It's called "Baberellas," and here's the cover showing the Maquis raider, among...uh, other things...
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It cant be a bad movie if it has a oscar winning actress like Julie Strain in it!
IMPOSSIBLE!
Well, it still looks better than Catwoman.
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