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...specifically the episode "Psirens" where Starbug flies through a spaceship graveyard, when I noticed something: One of the models was a wrecked Vor'cha! (I could also make out the Narcissus escape pod from Alien, and what looked like an Eagle from Space:1999)
This got me thinking: What other TV shows or movies featured a cameo of a Star Trek ship model? I can think of a few:
-You can quickly see a wrecked version of the TMP-Enterprise as it flies across the screen in the movie "Heavy Metal" (yes, I know it's animated, but it's still interesting)
-In the movie "Zapped," Scott Baio uses his powers to make a kit-bashed model fly across the room. The model is of the Millenium Falcon turned backwards, with Connie nacelles & pylons attached to the top "rear" of the ship (thereby making the MF the "saucer section" of the model. (Yeah, this one technically doesn't count 'cause it's also SW, but hey, I hought it was cool)
Any other instances come to mind?
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Isn't the Enterprise suppossed to be in amoungst all the background traffic on Coruscant during Episode 1? I've never seen it though (because, y'know, I'd have to watch the film again. And I'm not doing that.)
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Not a movie or TV show, but I remember some old Legion of Superheroes comic (I think) in which they showed a dump where, among other things, were a Constitution-class starship and what looked like the Jupiter II...
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OK, so shows which aren't Trek featuring Trek starships? Does Enterprise having a Constitution-class starship appear in one double-episode count? 8)
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Surely this thread only makes sense if we're talking about the use of actual physical models from Star Trek, right? I guess? I don't know, because otherwise, I mean, you can see glimpses of Star Trek stuff all over.
Anyway, there's a model of the original Enterprise in the control room at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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I was watching Trippin the Rift and in one episode there's a scene with the tos enterprise in a wreck and a drunk Mr. Spock being interviewed.
In The Simpsons the family was watching a Star Trek Christmas Special and the connie was featured.
Family Guy featured an episode of Star Trek with the connie (the one where Shatner is run over by Meg).
In a Saturday Night Live skit, there was kid playing with a spaceship that was pretty much a Playmates Ent-D with a Kenner Millenium Falcon strapped to it.
While this is not a show, when I was a wee lad the Hayden Planeterium in New York had what a appeared to be a severly battle damaged Miranda-class(Saratoga?) next to a piece of a Borg Cube. Boy I used to love looking at that ship but when the planeterium was renovated the model was apparently taken out. BASTARDS!!!
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Maybe it WAS some of the physical models from "Emissary" - I watched a special effects show showcasing Emissary - and Rob Legato blew up like three Saratogas to get the right effect.
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Well were the Saratoga models small? This model was roughly the size of the Playmates Enterprise-D toy but it did indeed seem to be a production model since it was highly detailed. One thing to note is that it did not appear to have those weird rods on the sides like the Saratoga and I think it had a rollbar. Could it have been the Reliant?
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Maybe it WAS some of the physical models from "Emissary" - I watched a special effects show showcasing Emissary - and Rob Legato blew up like three Saratogas to get the right effect.
I think I remember that show... didn't they also show how the DS9 model was built?
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