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In the attack of the planet inhabited by Borg, 8 bioships combined their firepower into a single destructive weapon, focussed by a ninth ship at the center.
Concerning the ship at the center, I've always had this feeling that it could be of a different configuration. Could this be a new design so briefly seen it was missed?
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Well, unlike the Death Star, those ships are going to take a lot more effort to destroy. And I agree that each bio-ship will vary since they are all organic.
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CGI-wise though, each bioship seen in the episode are from the same model, so to speak. Yet the ninth ship looks different -- it could be a variation on the bioship design. Are we seeing a new ship here?
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Just which part is the front on that thing?
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It it the same type ship, but 'transformed' to recieve the 8 beams. The front opens up, and the base of the wings are moved foreward. There are also some extra 'spines' in this configuration.
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If you look at the shape of the ship, and it's technology you'll notice a LOT of similarities between these ships and the Vorlon ships (not to mention the Excalibur from Crusade!!).
This is because the SFX creaters from Babylon 5 are responsible for the SFX of these ships on Voyager. They also made the Krenim timeship from 'Year of Hell' (the ship looks a lot like Babylon 5 )
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Actually the people who created the ship for Voyager formerly did B5 is Foundation, (until season 3), currently (read season 4 thur Crusade) Netter Digital is doing the CGI. Yes the ships do look a bit like Vorlon ships. Actually I really don't buy ships have planet killing fire power, they can't kill Voyager with one shot, but they can focused burst that kills a planet that would minimally require a this much power "assuming Earthlike composition and mass of 5.9x10(^)24kg, is:
U = 2.4 x 10(^)32 joules."
Btw these number where done by Star Wars Technical Commentaries by Curtis Saxton, (these number where done for the Death Star, but since it's killing a planet it's the same difference). If you would like to check out his number for planetary destruction here is his URL: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ds.html#power.
Finally I have to say I rather perfer the Vorlon Planet killer.
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1: Voyager has shields, a planet does not (usually). 2: It took 1 fast hit by 1 ship to knock Voyager of cource. It took 9 ships with a continues burst to crack open a planet.
And I think Species 8472 has the coolest planet killer. The Vorlon Planetkiller looks nice, but we haven't seen it in action
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