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Fitz: The shows and movies are canon. That's all. Stuff like the encyclopedia is semi-canon...we assume that everything in it comes from the show, but if there's a contradiction, the show wins. The Fact Files have included erroneous information in the past, so it tends not to be trusted.
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The Chekov is a springfield-class starship USS Chekov - NCC 53702
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Fitz, it was in ST6, but that can't be considered the prototype of the Springfield class. Based on her registry, many people have conjectured that the Springfield might be either Miranda or Excelsior class. The Springfield class is based on Galaxy parts and so would not be in ST6.
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Timo Is the registry on the USS Chekov NCC-57302? I think, not completely certain here, that there is a USS Springfield in the episode "Eye of the Beholder".
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OK, our hopes and/or dreams for a 'starships' book...
-I'd really like to see some beauty shots of each ship examined - not just Doug Drexler's diagrams from the Encycs.
Margret Clark?? Was saying something over at Trekweb re Pocket Books and new ship/station artwork... She never went into detail - but it sounded like a lot of unneccessary counterarguments... If they are serious about such a book - and they want us to BUY it they have to impress us... If they can make delicious artwork like the E-A/E-D over the blue planet (A History in Pictures), The DS9 station/runabout and E-D with shuttle (for calendars/the making of DS9) and several beauty shots of the E-D in nebulas and such for diaries and calendars - they can do it for the other ships. She said that they needed the 'models' - crap - I reckon by the end of DS9 it was 100% CGI wasn't it... and the ships looked great! And they would be all saved in the Foundation's Computers. PLUS any physical model can be 'scanned' into computers - MUCH more easily than making CGI models from scratch. That covers all the ships... I don't reckon the problem is models etc. its the red tape.
Andrew
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I just received a reply from Okuda. He doesn't want any graphics related to the picture to be made or spread. And I agree with Aban and Andrew that pestering or ignoring him on this won't do good to anybody. It simply isn't worth it to "grab what we got and run", since Mike has so much to give to Trek fans (in books and other forums, even if he won't indulge us directly) and might not like being inconvenienced by what he has done already.
So please do not place any graphics on websites, or even spread news of the picture beyond this forum, no matter how unlikely it would be for Paramount or Pocket Books to go hunting for Mike's head if a "leaked" picture was spotted. The odds of that are not our problem, but they are Mike's.
All that said, Bernd is a mean artist And in fact the only thing he has trouble with as an artist is some red lines on ramps - the rest is 99% perfect! (It is a NO hull after all, just with a few extra windows - sorry about that.)
Stuff like the encyclopedia is semi-canon...we assume that everything in it comes from the show, but if there's a contradiction, the show wins. The Fact Files have included erroneous information in the past, so it tends not to be trusted.
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