That is the old solicitation cover and Chains of Destiny was a really early idea for the series title.
Here's a direct link to the final cover.
And here's another just to be sure.
Final cover for Raise the Dawn
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That is the old solicitation cover and Chains of Destiny was a really early idea for the series title.
Here's a direct link to the final cover.
And here's another just to be sure.
Thanks Defcon. I got the second one to work. Kevin
Very cool cover, can't wait to read it.
As Wesley said in The Dauphin only 19% of the Galaxy had been charted.
Can anyone read the registry of (possibly) the Robinson on the cover of Plagues of Night? It looks like 71842:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/145164955X/ref=dp_image_z_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/145164955X/ref=dp_image_z_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books
It's 71-something-42. And 718 would be consistent with the numbering for Galaxy-class ships like the Odyssey, Venture, and Yamato, although the Challenger is 71099.
After Googling a larger image, I think it's 71842. And like Christopher said, that would be consistent with other ships of its class.
More importantly, why is the Defiant still carrying an NX registry in 23...81, is it? I'm still woefully far behind on my Trek lit, so I'm just guessing at the year.
Anyway, surely it's earned an upgrade out of experimental status by now. NCC-74205-A sounds pretty cool to me.
More importantly, why is the Defiant still carrying an NX registry in 23...81, is it? I'm still woefully far behind on my Trek lit, so I'm just guessing at the year.
Anyway, surely it's earned an upgrade out of experimental status by now. NCC-74205-A sounds pretty cool to me.
More importantly, why is the Defiant still carrying an NX registry in 23...81, is it? I'm still woefully far behind on my Trek lit, so I'm just guessing at the year.
Yeah, I thought they should have got rid of the NX once they replaced the original Defiant at the end of season 7. But since they didn't, I guess it's meant to always stay designated NX. Go figure.
I do recall reading something on Memory Alpha once, where Ronald D. Moore said that he'd envisioned the replacement as the Defiant-A, but it would have been cost prohibitve to repaint and reshoot the model for only one episode.Yeah, I thought they should have got rid of the NX once they replaced the original Defiant at the end of season 7. But since they didn't, I guess it's meant to always stay designated NX. Go figure.More importantly, why is the Defiant still carrying an NX registry in 23...81, is it? I'm still woefully far behind on my Trek lit, so I'm just guessing at the year.
Still, that doesn't mean the poor ship can't get its proper designation in the litverse.
I do recall reading something on Memory Alpha once, where Ronald D. Moore said that he'd envisioned the replacement as the Defiant-A, but it would have been cost prohibitve to repaint and reshoot the model for only one episode.Yeah, I thought they should have got rid of the NX once they replaced the original Defiant at the end of season 7. But since they didn't, I guess it's meant to always stay designated NX. Go figure.More importantly, why is the Defiant still carrying an NX registry in 23...81, is it? I'm still woefully far behind on my Trek lit, so I'm just guessing at the year.
Still, that doesn't mean the poor ship can't get its proper designation in the litverse.
At that point, weren't most of the shots it was appearing in computer generated? Though, considering the amount of stock footage in use on the show, that still would've led to the same problems.
^yes, it was CGI, but yes, there was a metric buttload of reused footage in WYLB from previous stories, so it would've meant doing a new texture for the model and then reshooting the footage or shooting new footage.
Good point on the Excelsior class. My take is that the class was in series production from the 2290s through the 2340s, accounting for the broad range of registry numbers as well as their ubiquitous presence from the 2360s on. With a 60 year production span, there could reasonably be several hundred in service by the TNG era.
As for registry numbers, my take is that they are allotted chronologically, but if, say, a few hundred in the 26xxx range were blocked off for the Ambassador class, it would have taken 3-4 decades to actually build all of them. I don't think they are all in mothballs quite yet. Remember, we saw the Exeter defending Vulcan in the last Destiny novel.
Did you stop watching TNG movies or reading the books when the D was destroyed? Was TOS over 3/4 of the way through Search for Spock?
I love the ships and stations of trek, but the equipment is destroyed same as people die. It is realism.
I've been reading "Best of Trek #10", and there are quite a few comments to the tune that Trek had been ruined, or would never be the name, after the destruction of the Enterprise in STIII.
If that is the case, Star Trek should have been over for them at the openning of TMP since the Enterprise was pretty much a completely different ship inside and out. Different uniforms. And . . . OMG . . . why do Klingons have turtle shells on their heads!?!
With the Excelsior ships I always figured that they were probably the, best quality, cheapest and fastest-to-assemble of the 2-drive section ship that Starfleet had, and until something else was designed that could be put together very quickly, the Excelsiors were the work horses of Starfleet, and thus why Starfleet kept building them (that's definitely the impression that I got from "Tin Man" when Captain DeSoto is talking to Picard and Riker and mentions that Excelsior ships tend to go just from star base to star base).
I'm suddenly picturing a return of the Janeway death threads from a few years ago if DS9 is destroyed...
They could always bring back DS9. Maybe tow Empok Nor to the wormhole and make it over, lol. Extreme Makeover: Cardassian space station edition.
