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Looks good for a start! I think the front section is rounder in the Chronology photo, but the flatter nose does make the ship look more distinctive.
I've always wondered how fans could ever think that the Romulans had no warp drive when even the (formerly) semi-canon warship of the time had nacelles!
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It's not supposed to be the exact same ship as the one in the Chronology (simply because those pictures are nowhere clear enough to use).
I think a compromise like Sternbach described would be interesting. Large warp-ships, with smaller impulse ships (including early BoPs) carried aboard warp carriers.
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Why do I hear the Flash Gordon music in the background whenever I look at those Chronology ships?
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Harry, cool looking ship. Those ships from the chronology really look old in comparison to the Romulan ships seen in Enterprise. It is great to see a Romulan ship being rendered here. Are you going to have any other views of this ship?
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Well they might go close to the Speed of Light?
The whole thing that screws EVERYTHING to do with Romulan warp history is Picard's line about Romulans getting warp drive a century before Insurrection!
I SUPPOSE you could say what they had before wasn't a reliable form of sustained warp - and that these earlier Romulan ships could only frog-hop from one point to another? Like only 10 Light Years at a stretch?
Maybe in Romulan ships the bussards are still for collecting interstellar hydrogen but the tubes are some other sort of drive?
I've always thought that that design for Early Romulan ships was a good one - and gave a good feeling of the 'chain of tech'. It was contemporary with the Daedelus Class I reckon - and cause the Daedelus is in the FUTURE from "Enterprise" - these ships might be too.
Pity we never saw who ever did that Romulan Ship - their version of an old Klingon Ship. All the ships in Enterprise are too 24th century.
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As good as harry is, he's still trying to make a design that's a cross between Flash Gordon and Lynch's Dune into something Star Trek. It's just not very romulan looking in shape. ...and it looks like a big green toilet paper holder from the side.
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quote: The whole thing that screws EVERYTHING to do with Romulan warp history is Picard's line about Romulans getting warp drive a century before Insurrection!
Picard says nothing of the sort.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: As good as harry is, he's still trying to make a design that's a cross between Flash Gorgon and Lynch's Dune into something Star Trek. It's just not very romulan looking in shape. ...and it looks like a big green toilet paper holder from the side.
DOUGHERTY: We can handle the Son'a, I'm not worried about that...
PICARD: Someone probably said the same thing about the Romulans a century ago.
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Picard only said that people thought they could handle the Romulans circa 2270, and it turned out they couldn't. He doesn't specifically associate that with the Romulans getting warp drive. Warp drive is only mentioned as having been responsible for the Romulans transforming from "thugs" into an empire.
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: As good as harry is, he's still trying to make a design that's a cross between Flash Gorgon and Lynch's Dune into something Star Trek. It's just not very romulan looking in shape. ...and it looks like a big green toilet paper holder from the side.
Yes, with improvments I hope: it's just a lost cause to make that look cool or more likely than it already does. It's a tin can made to be 50's retro for the Chronolgy and not a serious design. If they had shown this ship in the episode with the Romulans most people would've laughed their ass off and changed the station. Probably for good.
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