The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
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posted July 08, 1999 09:50 AM
Registry Number?! REGISTRY NUMBER?!! Jesus motherf***ing Christ, do they think we're idiots? THIS is the long-awaited thing that gets all you running to the shops at the mere rumour of a new issue? This is the thing that costs, what, about �5?
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posted July 08, 1999 09:57 AM
Well, I don't know how much it would cost in the UK, but it costs me $12 +tax
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Jim Phelps
watches Voyager AFTER 51030
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posted July 08, 1999 09:42 PM
Easy on the Magazine folks; there are people out there who haven't watched the show long enough to start looking at ship details and window spacing.
Boris
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posted July 08, 1999 10:54 PM
The diagram as well as the labeling errors are the same as in the FF. Only the font is different. The German translator didn't notice the wrong labels, either. Next time they should hire me.
Lee: "Main viewport" is wrong, too. It should be "This is a window that allows to look outside" (my favorite FF quote from another issue).
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posted July 09, 1999 02:45 AM
$12? I only paid about 8 dollars at Books-a-Million.
I noticed that when I looked at the diagram of shuttle too. Did other earlier shuttles have deflectors though? The shuttles from TNG don't appear to have them.
posted July 09, 1999 03:17 AM
Yes, it costs $8 in the US but here in NB it costs me $12 Canadian so consider yourselves lucky that you get it so cheap.
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posted July 09, 1999 03:40 AM
£6 here in the UK, but I've only ever seen it in the one store (Borders on Oxford Street, London) and it's about a month late.
Still, easier than getting the Fact Files in the US, right?
The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
Member # 35
posted July 09, 1999 04:15 AM
Borders? Where's that on Oxford Street? From Oxford Circus, towards Marble Arch or Tottenham Court Road? And which side of the street?
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posted July 09, 1999 04:26 AM
From Oxford Circus it's towards Tottenham Court Road and not very far. It's on the south side of the road. Opened sometime last year. Only place I've ever seen the Star Trek Magazine, not even seen it in Forbidden Planet.
The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
Member # 35
posted July 09, 1999 04:28 AM
I think I know the one you mean. Damn, and I was there at lunchtime too. NOT that I would buy such an outrageous rip-off. Until they do some decent Steamrunner diagrams, anyway. 8)
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posted July 09, 1999 12:29 PM
Am I the only poster to these forums who enjoys other aspects of Star Trek than just the technology? I'd buy The Magazine even if it didn't have the "technical briefings" or diagrams at all... the interviews and pretty pictures are easily worth eight bucks a month, in my opinion.
But regarding the bad labeling, Rick just mentioned the other day that he noticed many of them on the Voyager schematics and is therefore now checking the diagrams before they go out. I don't expect perfect accuracy, but at least he should be able to catch a few of the more blatant ones.
posted July 09, 1999 07:32 PM
Well on TNG shuttles, there weren't deflector dishes as such - but about half way along there was a wider part and if you look front on, the 'mesh' on either side that faces forward could be for deflection purposes.
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