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Nope, i think not! This ship seems to be a hybrid: the front is unknown for me, but the rear is definitly the rear from one of this older subwarp-freighters seen in TNG (exp. the Batris) and the Xhosa (Kasidy Yates Ship from DS9).
BTW, where is Gothenburg in Sweden? Or is it swedisch for the german word G�teborg? I made my holiday in Sweden! Great Country!! I envy you!
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Oh, it�s "english" for G�teborg. I try to translate it since any englishspeaking would wonder about the letter �. And, thanks, I like living here, it�s great!
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It's on the west coast, almost exactly opposite to Stockholm. I actually went there two weeks ago. Very nice, pIn'a', I like what you've done to the place.
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Actually, here's some info about the Skreean ships from the DS9 Companion. It seems that all the background ships (the ones that you can't see all that well 'cause they're too far away) were kitbashed from model kit parts of airplanes, tanks, etc. Too bad no one took any photos of these...
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Interesting. I believe the episode w/ the Skrreeans was also the one where, if you turn on the closed captioning when they first board the station, they're saying things like "far out" and "groovy"... :-)
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Dukhat: Hey, I didn�t know that, that would mean that we are seeing an unknown amount of new designs. It didn�t say how many, did it?
Nimrod: Thanks..I try..
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The ship on the foreground could be the Norkova turned upside down, instead of a customized variant. "The Passenger" has underside views of the Norkova that seem to match this topside. Timeline-wise, the model was last seen as the Norkova and would next become the Xhosa, so it would make sense for it to be in the Norkova configuration in "Sanctuary".
One could in this case argue that the Skreeans had purchased some Federation or at least Alphan ships to help with the evacuation, since this ship design is normally associated with Alpha freighters and AFAIK never ever seen in Gamma. (There's that one ship in Delta in "The Chute", though...)
Then again, the old Promellian ships seem to be utilized as native Skreean ships in "Sanctuary", so perhaps we cannot make the above statement. Or then the Skreean refugees rented that ship class from Alpha as well - perhaps from the Klingons who are seen using it in "Sons of Mogh"? I'm not sure I believe the Skreeans would have built any of those ships by themselves, given how they were portrayed as a rather monolithic agrarian culture. Their old enslavers (was it D'rogarians?) might of course have built and then abandoned those ships when the Dominion attacked.
------------------ "The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity�s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something." Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
[This message has been edited by pIn'a' Sov (edited August 18, 2000).]
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Well thanks! Looks like any other StarTrek-very-old-freighter. Must be some kind of modular design for the folks at the modell-department. I don't want to guess how often they have used this modell as freighter or reconfigured it for the same purpose.
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Of course the Skreean ship can't be an upside-down Norkova. The Norkova has those big containers hanging underneath, while the Skreean ship doesn't have them atop it.
Instead, the Skreean vessel appears to be the Xhosa turned upside down. For some reason, the freighter model was modified from Norkova to Xhosa between "The Passenger" and "Sanctuary". Was it just for the needs of "Sanctuary"? Quite intriguing, considering that the VFX folks had their hands full creating that big refugee fleet, and seemingly used the Promellian cruiser unmodified.
Could some other episode have required the model to be so reconfigured? Perhaps the ship was going to be used in some DS9 or even TNG episode predating "Sanctuary", but was dropped from the aired version of that episode?
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