Jim Phelps
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1) Designing the Breen Ship (with John Eaves). Several nice preproduction sketches with labeled systems, as well as a small three-view CGI blueprint set. Unfortunately they do not show what the configuration of systems on the radically different FINAL version is supposed to be, or give any specs other than that. BTW, Doug Drexler fleshed out the ship from Eaves sketches and did the basic 3D shapes for Digital Muse to build on.
2) The Okudagram-article doesn't have the Defiant MSD, but it's got something even better: a perfect 3D exterior side-view of the Equinox with the central section cut in MSD style (remember the MSD scanning cursor looking for that generator?). Finding the size should be a breeze if we assume that the eight decks span 110 feet (six 13' and two 16' decks according to Rick Sternbach).
As for the visible MSD section, it shows that the impulse reactors span decks 1 and 2 (huge reactors), with two deuterium tanks on deck 3. The warp core spans decks 5-8, with Engineering on deck 7. The nav deflector spans decks 6 and 7, while the forward torpedo launcher is placed on deck 5. That's all I can say with relative certainty.
There is also a briefing on the Cardassians (with Galor blueprints), as well as an Enterprise Design Lineage (large foldout with all six ships on it). I find these briefings relatively uninteresting as they pretty much rehash the manuals, barring a few comments derived directly from episodes. Also, a holodeck/replicator briefing, as well as a Bormanis article on weaponry (really basic with an interesting bit about a 75,000 volt stun setting on Pike's lasers).
NEXT ISSUE: Delta Flyer technical specs, blueprints and design history (Yippie!). Kazon tech briefing with raider description, as well as a Vulcan tech briefing with Vulcan ships.
Boris
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Ooh, weaponry. Zathras ask for scans of all weapons stuff, but no-one listen. Very sad.
And I can't wait to see this Equinox side-view. I'm VERY glad that I'd temporarily abandoned my attempts to recreate it from the paltry vidcaps I have!
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Delta Flyer next month? I hope so, I was looking forward to it when I first saw it in the next issue section then it was a no-show for 3 issues now.
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Jim Phelps
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I posted the Equinox Okudagram and measured it out using Rick Sternbach's 110-foot eight-deck-span. Overall length: 220 meters this way, 200 meters assuming the human is 1.8m tall.
Boris
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I am still waiting for the new issue. I had gotten used to it arriving about 3 days prior to the release date listed in the previous issue. Not this time. Sep. 23 has come and gone and it still has not arrived in my area.
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Really Galen? Same here. The major bookstores over here haven't gotten #7 of The Magazine yet. Usually they get copies in a few days early too so this is starting to piss me off that it's late.
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Jim Phelps
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Ok, I got mine specifically in New York City, Midtown Comics (you go down the Seventh avenue from the Penn station and it's in 30-something Street). Haven't seen it in any of the other comic shops, magazine stores, etc. Where is this published anyway?
Boris
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Jim Phelps
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BTW, here's an implication. Is Nova a Pathfinder shape or The Pathfinder with an Ent-nil like refit? Rick Sternbach's comment about an admiral saying "You're not using that, are you?" might be interpreted as using the actual ship as opposed to merely the shape. Should that be the case, then the two are the same length. And we all know what this could mean...
Boris
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I'd guess it's published in NYC. *checks...*
*O_o* It comes from Norwalk, Connecticut. And yet Frank cannot get it...
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Norwalk is closer to New York than to me, although to be honest, I've never done an extensive search for the magazine; I've just never seen it.
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Jim Phelps
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I doubt that it is that much in demand, since the contents are very much specialized. The conceptually similar TOS and TNG sketchbook never sold that well (which is why there won't be a DS9 or a VOY one according to Margaret Clark), and then the DS9TM isn't usually seen in every bookstore. I'm trying to grab every issue to get the designer sketches/interviews and blueprints while they're out.
Boris
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---a Writers' Test from the Original Series Writer's Guide
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If that is true, it will be the smallest ship that is able to seperate.... I thought seperation was a large ship only thing??
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