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I've gotten the calendar shipped from Amazon. Here is what we have:
Cover: Klingon BoP firing on E-D. Disrupter fire on the port nacelle. A representation of the battle over Veridian III
January: E-D and the Farpoint "jellyfish" aliens. A representation of the scene from "Encounter at Farpoint" where the aliens leave the planet.
February: USAF fighter running after the E-nil and desintegrating. Possible representation of "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
March: E-D facing off several Romulan Warbirds in the Neutral Zone
April: E-D leaving a drydock? with Voyager's Aeroshuttle following.
May: The now famous image of Columbia NX-02 crash-landed in a desert. In the scene are two runabouts (both clearly identified as Rio Grande), two speedboat shuttles (type 12), an Argo dune buggy/ATV (not necessarily from the Argo), and two modified type 6 shuttles (one from Voyager, another from a possible medical ship with a registry NCC-13370). The type 6 shuttles may actually be of another type.
June: E-nil encounters what I describe as giant space bacteria or virus.
Center: Battle of Wolf 359. We have a damaged Oberth class ship (possible Bonestall), a Galaxy class ship, three Excelsior class ships, a Nebula class ship (possibly Bellerophon), A Miranda class ship with rollbar so it's not Saratoga, and a refit Constitution class ship... that is actually firing phasers.
July: E-D and a new Starfleet ship. The new ship is probably best described as arrow-shaped with the bridge at the direct fore-front or arrow-tip, if you wish. The nacelles connect at end of the oblique sides of the arrow.
August: The E-nil if she had been given the NX hull treatment.
September: Deck 16 of the E-D's saucer as we see the captain's yacht with Picard on board approach and dock.
October: E-D as she's about to warp away from the approaching stellar shock wave and exploding Amargosa Observatory. Representation of the scene from "Generations"
November: "Yesterday's Enterprise" E-D facing off against a Klingon K'Vort class BoP as the E-C is getting away and entering the temporal rift to get back to Narendra III and her own time.
December: E-D, an Intrepid class ship, and a Defiant class ship observing a yellow star in very close range.
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That Wolf image soinds intresting...though I swear to all assembled that I'll take out that FUCKING CONNIE REFIT and replace it with something more fitting.
I so swear it!
March sounds intresting.
I'll go pick one up tomorrow if there's time before work...maybe I'll actually scan the damn thing and send it to Starship Freak this year (I procrastinated badly with last years: it's still in my work locker waiting to be scanned!).
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I'm looking forward to seeing whatever this July ship is. Sounds like they are overall giving us new material and not just stuff re-hashed from existing models. We have new ships, damaged textures, and of course the glaring errors we love so much.
The book with "budgetary problems" that Clark is describing is the much-lamented Unseen Frontier book that Mojo was working on with help from myself and others. Also, I've a vague recollection of the E-nil encountering a space whatsit like that in TAS, no?
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The "giant space bacteria" in that picture of the Connie is the ancient insectoid ship from the debut episode of the animated series, "Beyond the Farthest Star."
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Well, I never saw any episode from TAS, so I didn't know about that insectoid ship. I don't mind having a refit Connie at Wolf 359... after all we did see the wreckage of one. I'd just rather not have a Galaxy there. At that point in time, the only reason a Galaxy would be there is if she was newly commissioned and was on her very early missions or newly launched on trial runs. It's already bad the Yamato was alost so early on, I'd rather not have another Galaxy lost so quickly. And these artists sure like using the E-D cgi model. It's used in most of the images.
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Hmm, so that's what happens to Columbia... at least the producers did say they weren't going to blow her up on screen.
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Hope you liked Novembers image (the Enterprise D is by Dave Clark, and the Ent-C is by me and my compadre Simon Coles) with the image done by our good friend Alain Rivard.
As for the Wolf 359 image...it's shite to be honest. Adam did a really crap job on it.
quote:Originally posted by Dat: And these artists sure like using the E-D cgi model. It's used in most of the images.
There are 3 different models there. One done for the show way back when, one done by Gabe Koerner for the end of Enterprise and another million poly monster by David Clark.
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Err sorry - but I'm going to have to comment on that E-D model. No offense Matt but the Armagosa picture - even at that little size is, well crap.
It's very fake looking. The lighting looks flat - like it's interacting with a plastic hull. The escape hatches are dull looking. The windows look fake at the front (the typical "oh all light must be blinding white light with no other tones or hues - because inside that window is someone talking to a wormhole alien") Thank god I got whats-his-face out of that idea - can't remember his name - he did that cool Daedelus and a lot of bridge renderings. He stopped doing the 'light = empty white' and it looked more realistic.
The shock wave in Generations had more substance (I watched it the otherday) and the observatory itself looks fake next to the shockwave and the ship.
Do something about that blocky Enterprise-D PLEASE!
The Columbia looks nice - didnt' someone comment on something about the columbia in another thread - now I realise what you are talking about.
The TAS pic... looks like space-sperm! It'll be cool to see another TAS 'scene' rendered realistically (or at least semi-realistically)
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quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: But Jason -- there was a Connie-refit at Wolf359.
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No, just a secondary hull that looked the part. Trek re-uses enough of it's model parts in other designs that I feel it culd be part of something else- I just dont buy that a Connie refit is still in service when ships like Enterprise were obsolete waaaaay back in STIII (almost years prior to the battle).
So I'll either use a image from some other SOTL calander or insert a model (though I doubt I'd get the lighting right doing that).
Or maybe I'll be an ass and have a space-suited figure firing a hand pahser!
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