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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jon Palmer writes:
> I'd like to disregard this movie's many faults and talk about some of it's
> cooler aspects in regards to .space (.geek included cuz, well, trek=geek)
Geeky?!?! Die by my Bat'leth!
:^)
> If there is one thing that stuck with me after I left the theater, it was
> how graceful the Romulan warbirds looked in the battle. If this movie had
> anything it had a fairly cool space battle (for a while). I *adore* those
> new Romulan ships.
Agreed. That was an awesome sequence. I especially loved how the ships
were firing those volleys out. And they FINALLY acknoweledge the fact that
those ships only have so many torpedoes!
> Don't get me wrong, I've always loved the Next Generation Era ships --They
> looked huge, powerful and elegant.
>
> What I love so much about these new ships was how friggin *wide* they
> looked. Seeing them slowly move through a huge arch, banking and ascending
> out of the normal "horizontal plane" (not sure if that makes sense but it's
> just nice to see spaceships that move "up" and "down" in space)
The banking shots were nice. I'll always remember that scene from ST:VI,
where Chang's Bird of Prey is sitting below Enterprise and blows a hole
through it's saucer.
> Here's a good picture of one of them:
> http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/valdore-screen.jpg
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> Yes I know it's fairly conventional. But it looked really cool and *wide*.
> Call me weird all you want but I really want to make a SHIP similar to this
> now. I keep seeing this giant wing or beam banking through these huge
> turns.
>
> Granted no one could ever make something even close to this big in minifig
> scale. These are like 900 meters wide. (2583 studs/67 feet)
>
> But I think something that was about 7 or 8 feet wide would look nice and
> imposing.
Ah, the curse of anyone who wants to model Star Trek in Lego. You'd
probably have to change the color though, neh? At least the plasma colors
are easy. Good luck. I look forward to seeing it one day.
-Stefan--Star Trek Rocks!!!-G.
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| (...) Well... other then the fact the Enterprise-E has 24 decks, not 29/30... it was good. :) It could have lost the whole Shinzon/Picard connection, kept the Remans (Do these look like mutated Romulans to anyone else?) and Romulans, and the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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