posted
When finally recieving the February 2000 issue of Star Trek: The Magazine, I quickly turned to the section on Digital Muse. There is a nice picture of the Majestic and Sitak exploding from "The Sacrafice of Angels", but there was something that struck me as odd in the right side of the picture. There is a Federation starship, far in the background, turning downward and away from the camera. It looks like an Ambassador! But it also looks like an Excelsior. But the position and size of the nacelles and deflector dish make it look like an Ambassador. Anyone want to take a stab at it?
------------------ "The things hollow--it goes on forever--and--oh my God!--it's full of stars!" -David Bowman's last transmission back to Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey
posted
I'm looking at the image right now, and it's an Excelsior. Way too sleek to be an Ambassador, I think.
I may scan it in later.
------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
posted
It is definately an Excelsior design. It is too long, it's navigational deflector is too small, and it is too flat, as if the saucer is only seperated from the secondary hull by that squat neck the excelsior has. The relatively long visable nacelle also glows blue from front to end just like the new renditions of the excelsior since flashback.
IP: Logged
posted
I need that magazine. It hasn't came out here yet. Can someone scan the pic?
------------------ Calvin: "You don't think humans evolved from monkeys?" Hobbes: "I sure don't see any difference." Federation Starship Datalink - Starship site of the new millennium.
posted
That's not the part of the image I was thinking of... That one's too small to even wonder what class it is...
------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
posted
Between the nacelle and weapons pod of the Miranda is the ship in question. The deflector dish is visible, therefore the ship is heading somewhat toward the camera, but also still going to the left of the screen. Because of this, the size of the nacelles and everything may be different from what they really are. But at the angle it's turned, it sure looks like an Ambassador to me.
------------------ "The things hollow--it goes on forever--and--oh my God!--it's full of stars!" -David Bowman's last transmission back to Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey
posted
It's only barely tripped towards the camera. It almost has to be an Excelsior, for reasons gone through every other time we've done this. And besides that this one is so far away, why bother making it an Ambassador?
Registered: Mar 1999
| IP: Logged
.
Printer-friendly view of this topic
