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Early Enterprise-D comparison

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Years ago I had the STNG Magazine issue #1 in my hands and it offered up the entry into a whole new world that was just starting. On a double page spread was the newly minted Enterprise 1701D with a comparison to the original TV show 1701. It was a simple art marker colored side view, but I thought it was awesome! The saucer was bigger than the whole ship! I am sure I have that issue buried somewhere in the attic, but I haven't seen that artwork in many years till I happened on it yesterday. Andrew Probert's comparison:

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I love this kind of stuff. I'm not a collector of magazine clippings, or anything like that from the show, but when I see things like this ... it makes me wonder why! Makes me want to flip through it and just soak it in ... soak it ALL in. It's good to know that TNG was even more celebrated at the time, than I realised. Seeing the interest and love it was afforded is such a plus for me, being a fan of this show.
 
I had these magazines! My girlfriend at the time's father was a truck driver for news and magazine distribution, and used to bring them for me. They then all made fun of me for liking it. I barely noticed as I already had my face buried in the articles. There was obviously so little imagery at the point, the show was barely at the halfway point of season 1, so every image was pure gold.
 
Another great thing about those early issues are the quotes from some of the actors. In hindsight they are amusingly naive.
 
I have an old TV Guide issue with early Voyager stuff. Back before the show aired and I found out what a disappointment it was going to be. Anyway, in it is an earlier design concept for the ship. Not too different.
 
FASA put out a wildly inaccurate view of the E-D around 1989. Back then it felt like it took years to get good production pics and behind the scenes info. That slowly changed in the 90s with non-fiction..book after book. It's made a slight comeback these days, and we actually will have a model planned for Discovery right off the bat, and a tie-in novel too.

King Daniel Beyond said:
I'm fascinated by these very early fan made diagrams of the Enterprise-D, calling her a Centurian-class battlecruiser with a top speed of warp 50! I can only imagine they were made after seeing one or two clips or stills of the ship and before the series premiered.
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Holy crap that's way off.
 
Tosk said:
Another great thing about those early issues are the quotes from some of the actors. In hindsight they are amusingly naive.
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Yeah, the only thing Patrick Stewart referenced was the Binars. Wonderful creatures was mostly all he said. Translation: Are we canceled yet? I really don't like living in LA.
 
tharpdevenport said:
I have an old TV Guide issue with early Voyager stuff. Back before the show aired and I found out what a disappointment it was going to be. Anyway, in it is an earlier design concept for the ship. Not too different.
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The first Voyager TV Guide cover had some interesting anomalies. Janeway was still called Elizabeth, not Kathryn if I remember correctly, and she had shorter (her own) straight hair similar to later seasons but less full. Also on the cover was Tuvok, and he clearly had a different uniform. Same design but the black part was navy blue. You could see it plainly next to Janeway's regular black uniform. This was before everyone was doing Photoshop composites so it wasn't that.
 
Are you sure it's TV Guide you're thinking of? Tuvok wasn't on the first Voyager TV guide cover, Kathryn (Not Elizabeth) Janeway was on it alone. (With the different hair as you noted.) Tuvok joined her (along with Chakotay) on a following cover, but I don't see anything weird about his uniform.
 
Elizabeth? Not Nicole as played by Genevieve Bujold? She did feature in some of the earliest press releases...

If not it seems that woman has had more names than most of interpol's wanted list
 
Tosk said:
Are you sure it's TV Guide you're thinking of? Tuvok wasn't on the first Voyager TV guide cover, Kathryn (Not Elizabeth) Janeway was on it alone. (With the different hair as you noted.) Tuvok joined her (along with Chakotay) on a following cover, but I don't see anything weird about his uniform.
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maybe it was in the internal photo. It was in that issue though.
 
Kevin Wolff said:
VCR's were available but still relatively expensive in 1987. I imagine someone sketching live while watching the show, like a life drawing class.
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i'm thinking it's maybe that, but from a preview or commercial. The "warp 50" thing is obliterated in "Encounter at Farpoint" when they max out at warp 9.7, and "Centurion series" when Picard calls the Enterprise "Galaxy class"
 
I'm relying on memory. Bad idea. But yeah, I do remember
Spot261 said:
Elizabeth? Not Nicole as played by Genevieve Bujold? She did feature in some of the earliest press releases...

If not it seems that woman has had more names than most of interpol's wanted list
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From wiki:
The character was originally called Elizabeth Janeway, after the noted writer of the same name. However, after Geneviève Bujold was cast, she requested the character to be renamed "Nicole Janeway". So I must have read this part in starlog, not tv guide.
 
Tosk said:
Are you sure it's TV Guide you're thinking of? Tuvok wasn't on the first Voyager TV guide cover, Kathryn (Not Elizabeth) Janeway was on it alone. (With the different hair as you noted.) Tuvok joined her (along with Chakotay) on a following cover, but I don't see anything weird about his uniform.
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I don't see the uniform anywhere either. I can still picture it, but maybe it was color cast in the printing of the photo. It stuck with me because I thought that the blue looked really cool and that they were not just copying the DS9 uniforms. It sucks getting old in the 21st century.
 
Tosk said:
Are you sure it's TV Guide you're thinking of? Tuvok wasn't on the first Voyager TV guide cover, Kathryn (Not Elizabeth) Janeway was on it alone. (With the different hair as you noted.) Tuvok joined her (along with Chakotay) on a following cover, but I don't see anything weird about his uniform.
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I remember Voyager's shape being a bit different in that TV guide- same overall design but more..robust. And there was a big picture of Janeway, Chakotay and Tuvok sitting behind the central railing.
 
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