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I wasn't a great fan of the Starship Spotter text, The guy they got to write the text is decidedly TOS-era biased, which shows in the final product. Doesn't really help that the book is biased to the TNG-era.
Also, SS was a sort of stopgap project while Unseen Frontier was being worked on. At least they managed to get that out before UF got the plug pulled. Also, UF is Mojo's title. Whatever the name of the book, it won't be that.
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Has anyone else seen this page from Simon&Schuster about their 40th anniversary books? Scroll down to the (not suprisingly named) Ships of the Line entry and click on the picture for a slightly bigger view of the cover. I like how they show the various ships there (including the Botany Bay), but notice that we can see the underside of the Enterprise-J! It's obviously not fully canon, but it's about as close as they come. Interesting that they seem to have given it two deflectors, a circular one in the usual spot, plus the oblong one that we've seen before at the saucer front.
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I have to say that the NCC 1701-J looked a whole lot better topwise.
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And get out your rulers! Perspective aside, it looks like everything is to scale in this picture. We haven't seen anything like this before, have we?
And what would be new models for this book? The Ambassador and Constellation are new, I think. The Botany Bay is a little odd to be in that lineup.. And what's that under the Chaffee?
Mark
PS - Hey, the Akira is right next to the NX-01! AND LOOK, THEY'RE COMPLETELY DISTINGISHABLE!!! Sorry, old pet peeve.
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The Ambassador and Constellation have both been in the Ships of the Line calendars before. Snazzy cover, but the blurb definitely gives the impression that there won't be anything new. Poop.
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I'd guess that thing under the Chaffe is an NX-01 shuttlepod...no idea what that thing is to the left of the defiant.
Enterprise E seems to be pregnant- her secondary hull is just not that droopy.
Enterprise J looks pretty strange, but less so than the shock of seeing the D for the first time, I'll tell ya.
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The thing to the left of the Defiant ithe Botany Bay / DY-500 model we've seen before. The Chaffee must have nine lives... I don't think there's anything special about that model, and yet it's been in nearly every calendar!
Here's the image on Flareupload to simplify things...
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Jesus H. FUCK. Why can Shatner just not let Kirk DIE??
On the nice side, I'm squeeing at the reissue of some of the OLD books. I really liked the old runs & have picked up naught one of the so-called "relaunch" titles. These authors they get...no sense of story. Too wrapped up in injokes & asides & details.
The Fiction Companion intrigues me.
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