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Don't you hate it when you loose work you spent time on... I just lost a final - more detailed diagram of the Challenger class for UP3... (see other thread). Oh well.
Anyway here is something I did... its a chart - of starships - shillouettes... I remember seeing a TOS ship shillouette - with a heap of strange starships on it from TOS and the TOS movies... a friend had it. I think it was either from FASA or Starship Battles!?!
anyway - seeing as we don't have diagrams that all look the same - I went and did a shillouette chart similar to that FASA?? Brown and White chart...
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Akira is too big, Niagara design is non-canon, etc. etc. etc.
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anyway... Niagra I included cause... y'know people around here I think have begun to accept her and the Freedom with open arms...
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The Freedom has a valid basis, though, but the Niagara does not.
But, the chart is...uh...comprehensive.
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Frank: If they had a Freedom model to make their diagram from, what makes you thin they didn't also have the Niagara (or a picture of it, anyway)?
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Oh all the ships - i.e. length etc. except the Freedom, Niagra, Nova, New Orleans, Cheyenne, Challenger, Sydney, Curry, Centaur, Prometheus and Yeager were originally from a chart done by Adam Hienb*** SP?? aka the Vorlon - from a few months ago... I just made them all shillouettes and added the other ships... i.e. they were the scans from the encyc - but they were his measurements - I just used it as a basis for the chart...
oh and it was done on the quick...
and yes I wanted it to be as 'comprehensive' as possible cause there is NEVER a comprehensive chart around...
thanks Frank
Andrew
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Theory - maybe the practice model they build like the one for the New Orleans... or maybe another ship from the same mould!?!
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My trust into the Fact Files schematics has been compromised recently when I saw the Sydney schematic that was pretty inaccurate, although nice pictures of the ship were available. I assume that only the basic structure of the real Niagara looks as depicted, maybe there are no Ambassador components used at all. I also wonder what the saucer hull of the Freedom class is made of. It's obviously a far more extensive modification of the Galaxy class saucer than it is on the New Orleans and the Cheyenne. The same could apply to the Niagara.
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1) "Yesterday's Enterprise" precedes "Best of Both Worlds". (duh!)
2) By "Second Chances" and "Emissary", the model already sports an altered secondary hull, with the unlikely modification of new stern contours that cannot be the result of gluing in more parts.
The two-part question now goes: does "Data's Day" explicitly show new footage on the Ambassador model? If it does, are the ramscoops shuttered (this is the easiest way to distinguish between the E-C and Yamaguchi configs)? I haven't seen the ep, so I wouldn't know.
If the answer is yes to the former, no to the latter, I feel relieved. If the answer is yes to both, then I think I have solid if circumstantial evidence of navicide to present to the court!
If the secondary hull of the Ambassador really changes between "Yesterday's Enterprise" and "Data's Day", with no new footage of the Ambassador model seen in between and no appearance of the Ambassador during "BoBW"... Isn't the logical conclusion then that the modelmakers gutted the E-C model for spare parts to be used in "BoBW", then reassembled it using a new mold of the secondary hull (the original having been lost when some fan stole the prop for USS Princeton - oh, how I envy that putative bastard!)?
I ask the jury, isn't it rather unlikely that the secondary hull of the Ambassador model would receive new contours just because the modelmakers *felt* like re-casting the whole major component in a different shape? Isn't it a *strange coincidence* that this type of ship disappears from Starfleet use for a while, and suddenly the modelmakers are filing and puttying and cutting and welding their model to make the primary hull to fit into the secondary one "again"? Ladies and gentlemen, I say there can be only one conclusion - that a horrible crime of mutilation has taken place, and the severed lower body of the victim is now languishing with three, I repeat, THREE nacelles forcibly bolted onto it without consent or mercy.
I now give the podium to my honored opponent, Timo.
Thanks, Timo. Ahem, your honor, I only ask this: can available starship components from the time of filming of "BoBW", more specifically saucer halves and Galaxy-style nacelles, be correctly matched to the secondary hull of the Ambassador photographic model? If not, I suggest that charges be dropped at once. Also consider this: if a component of a *photographic model* was used to create a ship, why did we never see it featured prominently on screen in "BoBW"? With these questions, I rest my case.
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