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The Rigel class was (almost certainly) never a model. It was the class assigned to the USS Tolstoy, which came from the dialogue in TBoBW which was changed from the actual names that were put on the model. It was reported for a very long time than Okuda had displayed a picture of a ship like the one you have pictured there which was the Rigel. Chances are, given the latest evidence, that the model was actually the Niagara, which looks different than that, but has about the same shape.
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Well, I'm pretty glad that the Intrepid Prototype wasn't used. With some tweaks, it could be an interesting smaller ship, but I wouldn't have liked it as Voyager.
The Yeager is most definately a kitbash of Monogram's Voyager model and their Maquis Raider model (the ones that were sold separately, not the ones that were scaled to each other). I looked at mine together and they fit just right to make the Yeager.
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The original USS Voyager prototype was lower because the producers at the time found out that there were no ships in the 73xxx range. But Rick Berman decided on 74656 for Voyager's registry. And of course Rick Sternbach likes to use unused ships he created so most likely he used the prototype to create the Prometheus. This would explain why many of the things he drew that were never used ended up onscreen in a modified version.
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I have some old magazines reporting on the development of Voyager... from 1994... anyway Originally The Voyager was supposed to be an older ship that made its mettle in the Federation/Cardassian Wars back before TNG started... Voyager wasn't going to be a new spick and span ship... supposedly the Captain was supposed to a sort of hero in that war for doing some valiant effort... which if you think about was eventually encorporated into Janeway's background - I can't remember which episode but she was talking to Harry Kim about it.
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I think the episode was "Prey", the one where the Hirogen are hunting a Species 8472. Janeway was talking to Seven, not Harry, about the importance of compassion and she told Seven a story about how when she was a lieutenant, she helped a wounded Cardassian soldier even though they were at war with them. I guess this proves that Janeway fought in the Cardassian/Federation war....
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I was wondering, I've only ever seen screen caps from the opening scene to A Time To Stand with a big "43" watermark in the bottom right hand corner... and they Vid caps are pretty... unclear... can anyone out there do some lovely vid caps of this scene please!?!
Andrew
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