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Regardless of originality, the final version doesn't look realistic enough...too many parts and such, with no solid form.
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Jim Phelps
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Well, Frank, if it makes feel you any better, DS9 was originally supposed to be an asymmetric pile of equipment put together by various races over a period of thousands of years. But then Berman/Piller remembered that it's got to be something everyone can recognize and easily draw (like the Enterprise), and they instructed the Art Dept to do something different.
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Boris: I'm glad things turned out the way they did.
Andrew: FWIW, most complex life is symmetrical.
Elim: I know. This is Star Trek, after all.
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But it doesn't have to be a complex biological ship... just a... uhm, biologial ship.
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By "complex" I mean "more complex than a jellyfish."
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On behalf of the sentient jellyfish of the world, I take offense.
But in the case that that's what you meant, I quietly resign to the Corner of Retracted Statements.
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Life on Earth is symetrical. There is no inherent reason that it should be so on other worlds.
(Ok, so there is symetry throughout the universe. But life is a chaotic system, and it is only by chance that the symetrical species have beat out the asymetrical ones. For a good example of an asymetrical intelligent species, read The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.)
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I can see where they didn't like one and four. As soon as I saw those, I realized he was heavily under the influence of the Jem'Hadar ships. However, it looks like he had his eventual design basically down in number two/three. In fact, that one could easily be a different design of Breen ship. Probably smaller, I'd say...
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Actually Sol, according to "The Biology of Star Trek", it would be extremely unlikely for an extraterrestrial vertebrate lifeform to develop assymetrically. Has to do with fetal development, IIRC.
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Wow! I'm really looking forward to get the Magazine myself.
While I can accept the asymmetry, there is only one thing that annoys me: All alien ships have no windows at all lately. It is obvious that this is intended to avoid scaling problems, but I wouldn't call this realistic, even if it's a battleship.
I haven't seen the Breen battleship on TV, and I'm in need of a rough size figure. Any guesses?
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