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Why am i suddenly thinking of Gangsta pimped out bat'Leths "Junior, when we picked up your bat'leth, it was rust; Now, West Kronos Custom have pimped it to be bling with a capital B!, pumpin out Opera louder than Kovort class cruser, with a shine so great, if it doens't blind hotties with targeting scanners, nothing will! Word!"
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One of those impossible to find fan-films. Heard about it a couple years ago, but have never been able to hunt down a copy. Whether it's crap or not, I don't care. I want a copy for the sake of having one.
Good catch on that, AndrewR! I'd forgotten about that one.
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Mabye it's under construction. Mabye it's not the most detailed drawing either, Jim.
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: So what happened to this film?
I like the idea of the TOS/TWOK cross-over uniforms.
Some names in there - Bill Conti - isn't he a big-time composer - did the orchestrations for the Academy Awards etc?
Anyone seen this film?
I asked Probert about it years ago - August 1998 to be precise. Specifically I was asking about the ship as I was interested in how it differed from the TOS and TMP designs. Here's Mr Probert's reply to my email... "Jim, In a message dated 8/8/98 4:43:54 AM, you wrote:
I read an article in a "Starlog" magazine, sometime in the mid 80's, about an unofficial 'Star Trek' film (I think it was called 'Yorktown II') that you were said to be providing some designs for.
Yep.
The article included a drawing of a Klingon scout-ship, and credited you with designing the "Yorktown", which was described as being a mixture of the Original Series and Movie Era type starship.
Yes, well, it would be more of an intermediate design.
I don't know if the movie was ever completed or screened , but I was wondering if you might still have some drawings or photographs of the "Yorktown", and if I might be able to obtain a copy of them?
Sorry, I can't lie to you, I do have them somewhere, but we just moved and I'd rather not dig for them through all the boxes, just now.
If that isn't possible, could you tell me if the "Yorktown" design is anything like the "Enterprise" model that was being built for 'Star Trek - Phase II'
No. A friend built that model from parts of plastic hobby kits.
(whatever happened to that model? Was it broken up, put into storage, or lost/stolen?).
I have no idea. I never actually saw the model, myself. The shots you saw were given to me when I worked on ST:TMP.
Any way, I'm glad you liked what you saw. There may be a model of that Klingon fighter out, one day; I'm talking to someone about it. Write me back, in a few months and maybe you'll have better luck with your request, okay?
Thanks, AndyP-"
Well, I wrote him back some time later but never heard from him again *sniff* Was true to his word about the model of the Klingon fighter though, even if it did take 7 years... Tried to find the film maker, Stan Woo, but lucked out on that search too. And I still don't know what the Yorktown looks like...
Cheers!
Jim.
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Jason, granted it is a rough drawing. Might even have been what caused Roddenberry to come up with the rule...? Took one look at it and said "Ick, no more of them".
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I believe it was Roddenberry's (supposed) snub to the FJ designs that established the "rules".
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