Challenge: Identify who is holding the saucer

Discussion in 'Star Trek - The Original & Animated Series' started by TrickyDickie, Mar 11, 2012.

  1. TrickyDickie

    TrickyDickie Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Good Luck to all! :techman:

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  2. scotpens

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    Doesn’t look like Richard Datin. Is it Volmer Jensen?
     
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    Looks too small the be the 11' model. Maybe the Phase II ship? Don Loos?
     
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    That's Thomas Townsend Brown. And that saucer is not from Star Trek.
     
  5. Christopher

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    Thank you. I didn't know who Brown was, but here's some more information:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Townsend_Brown

    Apparently he was a researcher in a fringe-science field called electro-gravitic propulsion, and that's supposedly one of his prototype flying discs.

    I think people today tend to forget the extent to which the original Enterprise design was inspired by the "flying saucer" imagery that was pervasive in the mass media of the '50s and '60s. So when we see something that was independently modeled on the flying saucer image, we see the Enterprise in it.
     
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    When I see a saucer-shaped object, I don’t automatically think of Star Trek’s Enterprise. Flying saucers appeared in dozens of sci-fi movies made during those decades, not to mention thousands of either dubious or obviously faked photos.

    However, by posting this in the Trek Original Series forum rather than Science and Technology or Miscellaneous, the OP threw us a bit of a red herring, wouldn’t you say?

    In any case, one thing I’ve learned from this thread: In fuzzy photos, all balding, middle-aged white men look alike!
     
  7. TrickyDickie

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    Right you are! :techman:

    I wanted to see if I could pull a few legs on this one.

    The superficial similarity to the underside of the Enterprise saucer is interesting, though. A casual glance can cause you to do a doubletake for a second.
     
  8. Christopher

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    And you even went as far as to label the image "1701Dish.jpg" to mislead anyone who checked the filename? Or did you find it with that label already on it?
     
  9. TrickyDickie

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    Hey, I wasn't going to make it easy. :p