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What do you think of Sci-Fi ships that are based on or look a lot like ships of other Sci-Fi series/movies etc., or even based on/look like real airplanes??
Example 1: Star Trek's Species 8472 Bioship and Babylon 5/Crusade's Vorlon ships and Excalibur.
Example 2: Star Wars I: Queen Amidala's ship and the real life SR-71 Blackbird (link opens in new window).
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Great examples!! 8472's ships were far to close to Vorlon fighters. I could overlook it if they were designed by the same person.
Our resident retired Col.(U.S. Army) says that the Blackbird is still our best survielance air craft. Designed in the '60's and still number one!! Hell of an airplane.
After reading Franks post, I concede that he knows ship design far better then I, but the first thing I thought of after seeing 8472 ships firing weapons, was, Darn, that's a Vorlon ship.
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I don't care. I'll applaud Foundation Imaging, anyway.
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I had thought there was a bigger ship, that looked more like the Vorlon then this one, but a search has found only the same pics.
That very pic of the Excalibur is the reason I started using the Nickname. JPL asisted in that design.I have the pic as wall paper here at work. (My wallpaper at home is a nude pic from Jennicam)
Just remembered, I'm using the eclipse pic that Sol posted, for wallpaper here at work.
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Another example: The Omega Class Destroyers from Babylon 5 and the Alexi Leonov from 2010, in shape and structure the two are very similar, with the rotating section near their middle.
I don't actually mind when ships look similar, after all, its bound to happen with the amount of science fiction that's being done now. It doesn't mean that one is blatantly copying the other, just that someone came up with a different variation of a simple design. For instance, the 8472 ship and the Excalibur are both triwings, with an enlargement on the bow for weapons. I never actually thought of them being similar until reading this thread, and I still don't. After all, its also the same basic design of the Chig advanced prototype fighter from Space: Above and Beyond. Other than shape, they're different ships in many other ways.
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