Oooooh. Vertical leviathan. Me much likey. Finally something to show that all ships need not be the same size/orientation.
Andrew Probert discusses his 2010 SotL Calendar Submission
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Oooooh. Vertical leviathan. Me much likey. Finally something to show that all ships need not be the same size/orientation.
Mr. Probert, you're the best; you're the best, and I don't care what they say about you. It baffles me how Paramount brought in that sideshow phoney of a producer (Y'know the guy) and let him run the show for as long as he had. I beg to ask you if it was true that G.R. did like him as much as the sources say, or do you think it's just a coverup to give Berman legitimacy. I believe its just a bunch of bunk.
Mr. Probert, you're the best; you're the best, and I don't care what they say about you. It baffles me how Paramount brought in that sideshow phoney of a producer (Y'know the guy) and let him run the show for as long as he had. I beg to ask you if it was true that G.R. did like him as much as the sources say, or do you think it's just a coverup to give Berman legitimacy. I believe its just a bunch of bunk.[False friends are worse than true enemies.]
a few years ago i did a study on the drydock model from TMP for a client, part of the kitbash parts they used to connect the panels gave the impression they wanted them to be a kind of hydrolic mechanism so that the dock would expand/contract allowing for the best fit to its current "patient"
it went even further with later versions of drydocks, ala adding hinges to the panels for even greater adaptation.
as example, here's the parts i'm referring to
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/zz153/AnyStarModeler/ddk-m-Model.png
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Well, being that these docks are apparantly deployed in a zero-g environment, the vertical warbird could just park "sideways" in the dock if it needed to. Couldn't it? Then you just rotate the work platforms on the dock 90 degrees, and...presto! Surely the Romulans are smart enought to figure that out. I mean they've got the tame sigularities powering their ships, and that kick-ass ale, so...
You're right of course. But IIRC the vertical warbird would have been quite a bit bigger. That certainly seems to be the case from the illustration Mr. Probert is tantalizing us with in this very thread.
In any event, the comment was about Romulan drydocks not being as "flexible" as Starfleet drydocks.
Didn't catch that you were referring to size rather than orientation. Maybe there are some sort of expansion joints or somesuch not readily apparant in the illustration?
I think the whole thing boiled down to the rectangular nature of the standard television set, and how a ship with that high a vertical profile would be tough to get completely in the screen in anything but a long distance shot.
How many years later and the effects work of TMP still reigns supreme. There is a reason that I rank it at the top for trek tech purposes.