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USS Tsien. After Tsien Hsue-shen, a chinese rocket scientist who worked for JPL, kicked out of the country for being a communist in the 50's. I think Arther C Clark named a ship after him in the novel for 2010.
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Arthur did. The Tsien in 2010 was the first ship to land on Europa, beating the Leonov by burning all their fuel to achieve a much higher speed, and banking on finding water on Europa to hyrdrolyze into fuel for the trip home. Unfortuantely, after landing the Tsien was dry-humped to death by a giant horny lichen.
And the Excelsior is getting painted now. We're also scripting a second teaser involving this model and the work of a new contributor who will be handling certain VFX. The new teaser will involve some recorded dialogue that will help describe the tone of the overall piece, and how the story will basically be "re-created" from audio clips and black box recordings from the battle, the starships, escape pod distres calls, etc. Ought to be a lot of fun.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: USS Kumari to continue the lineage of Shran's old ship (hey, they should reflect the whole of Starfleet- not just earth!).
Agreed. While I was always conscious over the years to make my shiplist reflect all of Earth & not just the Anglo cultures, in recent months I've been rethreading it with alien influences as well. You'd be surprised how easy it is to come up with "alien-sounding" names. Some of the ones from Earth sound it at times.
quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: Arthur did. The Tsien in 2010 was the first ship to land on Europa, beating the Leonov by burning all their fuel to achieve a much higher speed, and banking on finding water on Europa to hyrdrolyze into fuel for the trip home. Unfortuantely, after landing the Tsien was dry-humped to death by a giant horny lichen.
And then was dismantled by the Europans, revered by Sir Lawrence Tsung, & honored by the Chinese crew of Galaxy when she was crashed there.
Also, 52043? Interesting.
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Yep. Per the first page or so, we intend to both keep and explain the presence of both Melbournes at the battle. It's always bugged me that the Excelsior Melbourne was just flying at the cube and not bothering to fire. We've scripted a reason, and in fact a whole plot point around it. In involves Klingons.
Timo suggested 52043 also on the first page or so, and while we haven't officially asked permission yet, we'd like to use it.
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Yep. After all, you could be talking about the man, the machine, or the company!
[Though the second someone suggests a USS Microsoft, I'm gonna punch you in the neck.]
Hey, anyone know of a really, REALLY detailed look at the TMP-movie style shipboard phaser turrety things? I can't find one online for the life of me - and I gotta show Karl how they're not just little bumps in yellow rectangles.
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Since you need names for some of those extra Excelsiors anyway, you could have one of them be the USS Righteous (NCC-42451) from the Star Trek Borg game. The ship was under attack and destroyed at Wolf 359, although it was resurrected by Q if you completed the game, that's not important. It's a good name and the game wasn't bad either.
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: The USS Auschwitz? Jesus Christ.
And yet only one of those names I wrote was not a death camp.....
The Tian An Men, Redemption Part II, aired 1991, was named in honor of the slaughtered people at the square, so how would Nazi death camps be any different if being named after places where people were slaughtered?
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quote:Originally posted by Shik: This reminds me of the ruckus some made when I mention I gave a Galaxy the name Diana, Princess Of Wales.
I wouldn't bother causing a ruckus over it, but it does make me feel slightly queasy.
Then again, that's probably because in London the only thing to be named after her was a disastrous circle of concrete that had to be closed because people didn't realise wet things were sometimes slippery.
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