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Actually, my last name is pronounced "new-ee-ehn" as one syllable.
Weapons: a SD has plenty of obscure weapons emplacements on its bottom side, which are seen firing in the movies. While the latest batch of Saratoga pics DOES show a couple of small gun turrets on the front that can point downwards, but that's too much of a blind spot for me.
Bridge: Well, common weak points. Doesn't stop me from considering the ship ugly IMO. I just don't like it.
Huh, so Nguyen is like saying "New Zealand" without the Z, the l and the d? I once saw a chinese movie where they pronounced it Niong, is all.
I don't remember the Earth Ships in "The Fifth Element", the ones who tried to attack the growing ball of fury in the beginning. I seem to remember thinking the ships were interesting, but I've only seen the movie twice, and not in this century. Does anyone have any screencaps of the earth battlecruisers in "Fifth Element"? I think they share some traits with the S:AaB-heritage, see.
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Cartman, I love the Hyperion and the Warlock cruisers; functionality, if done well, looks good. Not done well, like that, it's just boring. It may be efficient, but it's boring as all heck.
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That's why I hate the Hyperion and the Warlock cruisers.
Nothing like 70 meter long turretts tracking an enemy at molasses speed. Even Starblazers made more sense.
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He's embarrased because it's really pronounced "gwen".
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To be perfectly honest, the pronunciation of my last name depends on who you ask. Depending on the dialect, it can be "new-EE-ehn", or "new-EHN", or "nuh-GWEN", or "GWEN", or "nuh-WEN", or simply "WEN". I myself was taught to pronounce it "NEW-yen", and that's what I generally stick with.
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Can I think of you as "Nygwen"? Like "Penguin" but with a "N".
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A couple of notches higher than other trashy tramp courtney luv. But that's just common sense. And since I'm a swedish monarch I can't make political statements, apparently.
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quote:Originally posted by Cartman: "this is a flying brick with greebles all over it..."
Spaceships should be flying bricks with greebles all over them, dammit. Me, I've always preferred the gritty, industrial, utilitarian, almost dystopian look of ships like the Omega-class destroyer, the ISD, the Sulaco, and the Saratoga that have every cubic inch of their hulls dedicated to functionality to the bright-shiny-and-smooth-as-a-baby's-bottom designs that riddle Trek but would be better at home in a gallery for modern art...
well, those brick looking ships, had they have warp drive onboard...would be the equivelant to using a chainsaw to cut subspace, instead of the razor sharp knives that Star Trek ships use...
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Doesn't stop me from considering the ship ugly IMO. I just don't like it.![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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