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Re: Comparing Starfighter Speeds
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lugnet.starwars
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Sat, 25 Jan 2003 03:02:47 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Andrew Summersgill writes:
> This sort of thing is what annoys me about prequels and the like - take
> Enterprise (yeah I know, different franchise) - they've already met
> Klingons, Romulans and have a ship named Enterprise that pre-dates the ship
> we "know" was the FIRST one named Enterprise, but no-one at the studio seems
> to care. And the Klingons have lumpy forheads but we "know"that in Kirk's
> time - they, erm, didn't.
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> If there's a logical explanation for all of this, I wish someone could
> provide it to me.
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> What's with all this revisionist stuff anyway?
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 to digitally add some lumps to the original Klingons and we
are set. I know there was particularly lame excuse for the original switch,
but I think just accepting the limitations of the original show is easier.
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> Turning back to this Starfighter malarkey - unless the explanation is that
> the rise of the Empire led to a technological "Dark Age", I can't think of
> any reason as to why this information would be correct. As for the twin-pod
> cloud car being faster than a TIE Interceptor, that's just ludicrous. Give
> me a TIE Int any time. The twin-pod thingy is an atmospheric vehicle - how
> can it be the fastest thing around when it has air resistance and gravity
> and stuff to overcome when a TIE Int has no such problems? And if they can
> design an engine that can speed a ship to 1,500 km/h in atmosphere - why not
> fit it onto a Starfighter and REALLY get some speed in space?!?
Yeah, I'd ignore those numbers. A snowspeeder going a thousand clicks
skimming above the snow? Sounds like someone using those numbers for gaming.
-->Bruce<--
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