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Subject: 
Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space
Date: 
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:38:45 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Brian Tobin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, James Wilson writes:
> > 
> > ROTFLMAO!!!  "Truth?"  It's not called Science _Fiction_ for nothing!!!!!
> > 
> > That said, there's way too much information there.
> > 
> > James
> 
> True, but good science fiction has enough grounding in reality to make it
> believable and maintain continuity with itself. While Curtis Saxton takes
> this to an extreme, I find nothing wrong with using the best reference
> possible to ascertain and maintain the internal "truth" of the SW
> universe...Besides, otherwise, the ILM model makers' loving, dedicated
> attention to detail and scale would be wasted...  :)

Fair enough, and I enjoy a good sci-fi tale as much as most geeks.  I just
get a big kick out of it when people start arguing about the size of the
"real" prototype from a movie.  Especially the ones that are completely CGI!
Or cartoons - ever heard a couple of geeks arguing about the layout of
equipment inside Speed Racer's Mach V?

> 
> By the way, what does ROTFLMAO stand for? • "Rolling on the floor laughing my a@@ off"
> 
> -Brian

Cheers,
James



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  Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
 
(...) Yeah, James, I know what you mean! I didn't mean to come across as being so militant about this stuff. Believe it or not, I don't sit and obsess about SW scale and such, or spend lots of time researching it (heck, I've only made it through a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)

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  Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
 
(...) True, but good science fiction has enough grounding in reality to make it believable and maintain continuity with itself. While Curtis Saxton takes this to an extreme, I find nothing wrong with using the best reference possible to ascertain (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)

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