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Just thought I'd note that the above post is post #359.
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Hmmm....What did you do? Reverse the pic on Bernd's site?
That definatly does not look like tape, and is meant to be a pod. That sort of throws everything out of whack. The wedge on top is definatly attached, you can tell that, and there is also some structure below the saucer (not the pod) that you can see. Those pylons for the pod are weird too. I liked the ship before we found this lower pod.
BTW, it would have been even better if I had gotten Post #359...
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Well, if you look at the picture with the Ahwahnee, it doesn't look like the pod is attached. So, the question is was the pod on the model when it was filmed?
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It may not be a pod, but rather just a stand for the ship to sit on. Didn't Walter Koenig want to get his hands on this ship after it was used? Maybe they made him a little holder for it, too...
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I found the picture at www.fleetyard.com . It's in their reconstruction page. It used to look like Bernd's, but they changed it after the newest picture was released.
P.S. I was just lucky with post #359.
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Maybe they wanted the ship up higher off the table (or whatever), so they could take the picture from a better angle...
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Did you say that there was an Cheyenne version of this 'ship on a mug' picture?
I too think its a stand... but it has that deflector dish look at the front of that 'pod'
If Walter Koening has the model... why doesn't someone ask him for a few snap shots...
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It would be nice to find out when and from where the pods on the Chekov appeared, and when they disappeared. Ed Miarecki remembered a tidbit not yet posted here: the dorsal pod, the angular light-blue thing, was not there originally, but was probably added by Okuda. Ed didn't remember if the big ventral pod had been put there by him, though.
Okuda in turn hasn't commented on this new picture yet, but given time, he might remember something new.
The screengrabs from "BoBW" would seem to show a Chekov complete with the dorsal angular pod, in the top middle of the viewscreen scene (right above the burning Nebula). The saucer seems to be darkened or cut in half so that the starboard side is not visible - if the saucer was cut, then the photo proves the ventral pod was also missing, but if it's just darkened, then the ventral pod could be hidden behind the saucer rim. In either case, it seems that the photo showing the Chekov and the Ahwahnee is a "before" photo, after which some damage was inflicted on the Chekov model for actual episode filming.
Miarecki confirmed that he added the strange looking ventral pod to the Springfield, although I still don't think it is visible in the Cheyenne-Springfield image.
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Just out of curiosity, where the heck has that image been hiding all these years? I mean, we spend 11 pages talking about this and then, oh, by the way, we've got a pretty good shot of one of the models that no one has seen before, if you're interested.
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So it is a pod, not just a stand. Damn. I kinda liked the ship until that came along...
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Just noticed the Freedom for the first time in that 2nd picture - pig ugly!!
And the SpringfieldAND the Challenger? God, I always thought they were just someone's BS excuse for some of the ships, but they're actual models!
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