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Once the Excelsior is completed, a Medusa cant be far behind, can it? Fits the era and the look of the ships thrown to their deaths...
The four-nacelled Excelsior testbed would rock as well...
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One can only hope. The bottleneck here, as previously discussed, is that we're using Animation Master for the CG modelling, Karl's platform of choice. Since AM has not made many public Trek meshes (before the Gage), making these models will take the longest time. However, with the Gage looking like she does and the Excelsior and later ships to have as good or better detailing, the results should be great to see in the end.
Question for you all: given the Excelsior's status as the most common TNG Fed starship, how many do you think would have been there? We know of two officially. I'm thinking five, maybe seven tops. You?
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The Gage was the one that reminded me of the XB-70 for the engineering hull.
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Um...there should be 87,000 of them.
Heh. Seven is a nice number.
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Alright, everyone is invited to submit their ONE ship name they'd like to see in this film. We're just looking for names, which will be assigned to ships as we feel appropriate. No guarantees that the name will be used, or that it will be given to a cool ship - we just want names that we wouldn't ordinarily think were neat, but may well be from your perspective. If you're a guy who keeps comprehensive lists of ship names, I'd be careful about using canon names or those of ships that may not have been lost there.
Also, please explain the background of the name chosen. We're not only looking for proper names and places, but also neater names along the Enterprise or Voyager or Defiant line. One of the side projects that have been discussed is a sort of companion book/PDF or website that will describe the names, classes and brief histories of each of the ships involved in the battle, Hanson's original battle plan (which we've worked out, btw) and how stuff ultimately turned out. Some of this work may actually get outsourced while Karl and I continue work on the modeling and scripting...
Flare's getting a collective credit on this project, and dammit, you're gonna EARN it!
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I have a qualifier question before I delve into my ship list (33,333 entries & going strong!): Are you looking for more "multicultural" types of names (e.g., from all aspects of Earth & perhaps aliens as well) or more kind of..."publicly accessible" names (Avenger, Charioteer, Alacrity, that sort of thing)?
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Little of both. Perhaps skewed a little to the more publically accessible side, to keep people from wondering what all the wierd names are. Still intend to have 2-3 good alien names in there, though. Not likely to go for overly violent names like Avenger or Conqueror - cool as they are, there's a definite lack of such in the canon. We're not naming British warships, after all.
The main rule here is that everyone gets one, so make it a good one.
And another one, if you are among the first five or so to suggest a good Klingon name for the squadron that joins the battle later on.
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How about USS Ptichka, after what was to be the second Soviet space shuttle after Buran before they ran out of funding and cancelled the program. Incidentally, the name was only an informal nickname as their was no official name.
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USS Wright for the first flyboys. Since there is a USS Tian An Men I figure that USS Dachau, USS Auschwitz, USS Birkenau, USS Treblinka, USS Belzec, USS Sobib�r, USS Lublin, USS Majdanek, USS Chelmno, and USS Ravensbr�ck would also be fitting.
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USS Kumari to continue the lineage of Shran's old ship (hey, they should reflect the whole of Starfleet- not just earth!).
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