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Using this site as a reference: (URL) = data from UCS stickers from Gareth's fbtb.net section I've found some disturbing stats about relative starfighter speeds: Classic Movies: A-wing = 1300 km/h* B-wing = 900 km/h* X-wing = 1050 km/h Y-wing = 800 (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) designed (...) the (...) upgrade (...) the (...) designed (...) fighting, (...) THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE! This sort of thing is what annoys me about prequels and the like - take Enterprise (yeah I know, different franchise) - they've already (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) That Klingons got lumpy heads in the first place was revisionism - Paramount simply had the budget to do it, and wanted to make them look a bit different from Terrans (Earthling is such a despicable sounding term <g>). All we need is for them (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) The explanation is that the original Star Trek art and costume department had a crappy budget and couldn't make humanoid aliens look very alien (or far-out aliens look very realistic). Just like Lucas wanted to go back and redo all three (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Now, I remember an episode of Deep Space 9 where Sisko and co went back in time to the station featured in the original episode "Trouble with Tribbles", it was called "Trials and Tribble-ations". Worf was a Klingon but he looked completely (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) The Falcon needs to be in there, appearently it's one of the fastest ships in the galaxy. It made the kessel run in blah blah blah parsecs. But like pointed out before, the speed in space would be different than a speed in atmosphere. Can (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) The appearence of the Klingons was addressed in the DS9 episode "Tribbles and Tribulations" when the Defiant crew went back in time to the events in TOS series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". In this episode they did a fairly decent job (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) (snip) (...) Now, now, that's High Cold War thinking, equating speed to power. In dogfighting, the ability to attain a high absolute speed is secondary to the ability to maneuver. For example, in WWII (always a popular referent!) Me-262 (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) In this example, there are a lot more factors than just speed vs. manoeuvrability: - Many of those 262s that were shot down were jumped during take-off or landing, when their speed couldn't help them. - That late in the war there were very few (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) One of the neatest scenes in a movie was in 'The Final Countdown' (Kirk Douglas) When a modern day aircraft carrier (Nimitz if I recall) gets sucked back in tome to Dec 5, 1941. There, Douglas has to wrestle with the decision to engage the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Well, everyone else has done the other, more basic (and useful) bits, so here's my two cents. I think the X-wing was considered revolutionary more for its balance of firepower, armor and speed. A balanced design is typically much more (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Ummm... The first Enterprise is most certainly older than anything from Star Trek... (URL) on the "Before World War II" link. The first space related one went into service in 1976 though it never made it into space. Frank (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) There was a neat SF short story I read once about a modern fighter winding up in WW I. The pilot quickly determined that the only way his aircraft was effective was to create a sonic boom shock wave as he passed the enemy fighters. I forget if (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I WAS purely referring to this in Star Trek terms. I do have some grounding in the real world! :-) Andrew. (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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