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Starship Freak
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One of my favourite types of starships are those obscure ones we only get to see as displays on computer screens or as models, like the nebula variants, or as part of mattepaintings.
I was wondering, there is an episode in which Nog is a captain sometime in a future timeline. Isn�t there a screen behind him showing us his ship? Anyone has a screencap?
Are there any more rare starships I have forgotten? These I know: nebula variants, daedalus, starship in starbase in ST:III, shuttle in starbase 74.

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Timo
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The episode you want is DS9 "Visitor", but I'm afraid I've never seen a screencap of Nog in front of a MSD - there are some of him on the Defiant, but that's all.

What mystery ship did you see in STIII? I thought there were only two ships there, the Excelsior and the Enterprise, plus some shuttles.

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AndrewR
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Well, I reckon that there is a vessel 'docked' with in spacedock... have you got the Art of Star Trek? Good... go to the page with the lovely double page spread of the Enterprise and Excelsior in Spacedock... there are a few shuttles flying around - but if you look towards the central core - then down - on one of the large 'prongs' - there is a airlock/shuttlebay in the wall - and a ledge sticking out... then docked next to it is what looks like some sort of fat cargo ship - it has a tetrahegal body with a 'deflector dish' barely seen on the front - and it is topped with a small saucer section which has two small thin nacelles attached... on top of the tetrahegal section near the saucer...

Another way to find it it look at the blue windows of the arboretum on the Enterprise then go to the bottom of the engineering section then look a bit further passed the ship to the actual physical middle part of the station - then you see this ship docked - its in shadows - but its definately not attached to the wall... if you fiddle around with the contrast you can see more detail.

Andrew

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First of Two
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You know, I've looked and looked for that, and I still can't see it. is it one of those 'magic eye' things?

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grb
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I thought we decided a long time ago that shape in the pciture was actually part of the side of the spacedock. Why would the model makers make such a strange ship, costing alot of extra money, to just sit barely noticeable in the backround?

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Laz1701
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Why would they do that? Maybe to see if people noticed it and then discussed it ad infinitum trying to figure it out.

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Sol System
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I have this image on my mouse pad, and it has always looked like just part of the central column, to me.

On the other hand, part of it vaguely looks like an Oberth...though where the extra shadow would be coming from on an Oberth is beyond me.

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You have a Star Trek mousepad? You geek! :P

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Sol System
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I also have one advertising "golfsupplies.com" or somesuch, an artifact from a horrible, horrible occupation. Which would you rather look at?

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AndrewR
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Well - equally said and done is why would they build the space dock with such an asymmetric odd structure coming off one of the jutting out structures.

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Sol System
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Yes, but we don't know that it is assymetric, do we? There might be one on every side. We only get to see one, you know.

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AndrewR
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fine, but when you fix the contrast you can see a saucer section - esqu part and two long parts near the saucer sectiony thing - which COULD be nacelles... plus the shadow cast on the wall next to it would meet the 'ship' if it was joined to the wall - there is a gap...

Andrew

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Aban Rune
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Will someone PLEASE post this pic or link to it or something. I have no idea what this picture looks like...

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Starship Freak
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Well, try this link: http://w1.314.telia.com/~u31412331/old/starbaseshipbig.jpg - As far as I�m concerned, I don�t think it�s part of the starbase structure. The shadowing seems to suggest a free structure. I still say it�s a cargohauler.
Back to my original question: Are there any more of these rare starship sightings, models, mattepaintings, computerscreens??

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Black Knight
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From that pic, if anything, I would have to say that it is some kind of cargo, parts ferrier that just jets around inside the station. I don't see any nacelles and it doesn't really look like it would stand up to warp speed. And it does seem independant of the main wall.

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