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This night, I was surfing through the web and I came upon a collection of notes. These notes pertain to conventions that occured between 1987 and 1995. Among these notes, I found a name- Ley. Ley is one of the small shuttlepods introduced in the second season. For those who attend conventions at a regular basis, have you heard of this name and what, if any, episode does this shuttlepod appear?
(Other interesting tidbits: *the USS Horatio had a dedication plaque which shown the ship being built by Yoyodyne Propulsion and having the motto: "Damn the torpodoes, Full speed ahead!" *the Romulan scout, seen in "The Defector", has a detachable command module which can act as a lifeboat *the model in Picard's ready room is painted yellow. The color yellow supposedly can help the designers look for structural weakneses of a ship in warp flight tests.)
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my thoughts:
The Ley was noted as appearing in pre-production notetaking. Probably never made it near the label maker or the camera, judging by the fact that weve seen quite a few shuttlepods and we know the naming and labeling for all of them
Possibly the Horatio plaque was a preproduction note by Okuda, who found he wouldnt have to do it because there was no scene on the horatio bridge (just like they decided not to show the ambassador design Probert made in prep for season 1).. unless Keel had his ships plaque in his ready room (or quarters) where it might have been mounted for his shipboard scenes
The Romulan ship can separate: nice for them. I personally dont give a rats ass.
The ship was painted yellow for warp stress tests: So long and thanks for all the bullshit! thanks for the half assed explanation, but next time paint the study-model right. cheesy explanations like this just make the original mistake seem dumber... just chalk it up to artistic license on the part of the 24th century modelmaker and the issues in bed.
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Actually that bit about the yellow paint being a feature of test ships could accout for that fact that the ship apparently has no name, because its still in the early testing phase and only has a registery number for the hull....of course it doesn't explain why someone would bother to build a model of a ship in this condition.
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eh.. it could be that someone just wanted to match the brown and beige decor of the ready room.. im wondering how seriously we find ourselves taking set decorations like this
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I've heard that thing about the model being yellow before, it's nothing new. Christ, I'm surprised someone hasn't come up with reasons why the ships on the Briefing Room were flat, beige, and cut in half; or gold in First Contact. Tell me, do you see a statue and say "That's not right, he's all grey, why isn't he pink?"
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Not to mention they don't even move. And have you seen that "David" one? The hands are way out of proportion. No continuity whatsoever.
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On a small sidenote, I've also discovered a possible explanation for why Voyagers Aerowing was never used, on the same page in the tech manual.
2358 .....Captain's yacht test article docked, nonflight version.
I suppose its possible that Voyager recieved a noneflight Aerowing while in spacedock and they never got around to installing the real thing. Perhaps it was gpoing to be installed on Tuesday
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That's the generally accepted explanation for the Aerowing, Reverend. Voyager's saucer basically has a giant plug to simulate the shuttle, but the real thing was never put in.
I don't buy the bit about the yellow paint. adding that much paint would add a bit of mass to that ship. I remember reading a bit about how the refit Ent-A was not painted white in order to save on the mass. Adding a whole other coat of paint, doesn't seem very bright. Unless they removed it again afterwards.
"Mr. Thomson, lock on to all the paint on that ship and beam it into space..."
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Now this is weird. Last night "In Theory" (the episode before "Redemption") was aired on local TV. There's a bit towards the end of the episode where Picard is piloting a shuttlepod in front of the Ent-D. I'm not 100% sure but when he first hails the Ent it sounded like he said "shuttlepod Ley to Enterprise". The name is not given again. Maybe someone with the "In Theory" script, or even the ep on tape, can confirm this.
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