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Jellyfish?

Yeah, I don't get that; it was clearly a Vulcan ship from ST:Enterprise influence. I saw that immediately in the Countdown comics, before the movie came out.
 
It didn't even look anything like a jellyfish. Farpoint station, now that was a jellyfish. This thing looked more like a cuttlefish, at best.
 
 
RegentWorf, those are beautiful, thanks. I always kind of wondered how their ring "nacelle" worked.
 
I agree Jeri. We have Doug Drexler to thank for the beautiful Vulcan ships from Enterprise. They were my favourite ships from the series. I love how they evoke the Enterprise from the TMP lounge (XCV-330).

I like to think that there were more ring ships throughout the years, but we never saw them on-screen. Regardless, I think it's safe to say the Jellyfish is the 24th century successor to the older Vulcan vessels.
 
RegentWorf, you made a beautiful avatar; that slide show has some nice ones. I like the one showing his eyes close up, too. I left you a note in the Kirk/Spock thread.

EnsignRicky said:
It didn't even look anything like a jellyfish. Farpoint station, now that was a jellyfish. This thing looked more like a cuttlefish, at best.
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To me, the jellyfish part is that it appears kind of transparent or translucent.
 
Jeri said:
RegentWorf, you made a beautiful avatar; that slide show has some nice ones. I like the one showing his eyes close up, too. I left you a note in the Kirk/Spock thread.
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Thanks for the comment about the avatar Jeri. It's the first time in a long time that I was inspired to make one.

As for the Jellyfish, it looks a lot better in motion than it does static.
 
I don't mind the shape. The name Jellyfish is what irks me. What, they couldn't invent a Vulcan word for "Jellyfish" to use, or even come up with a better Vulcan name? Why not the Lirpa? It looks like one.

(And that is a nice avatar, RegentWorf. ;))
 
Praetor said:
I don't mind the shape. The name Jellyfish is what irks me. What, they couldn't invent a Vulcan word for "Jellyfish" to use, or even come up with a better Vulcan name? Why not the Lirpa? It looks like one.

(And that is a nice avatar, RegentWorf. ;))
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I agree; they should have named it the Rk't'poK-slaZhbV:rrtT/A/bCKa. Now that sounds alien. "What's that?" "Oh, that's the Rk't'poK-slaZhbV:rrtT/A/bCKa from the future!" "Oh." Bzwzwwwzww.
 
DiSiLLUSiON said:
Praetor said:
I don't mind the shape. The name Jellyfish is what irks me. What, they couldn't invent a Vulcan word for "Jellyfish" to use, or even come up with a better Vulcan name? Why not the Lirpa? It looks like one.

(And that is a nice avatar, RegentWorf. ;))
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I agree; they should have named it the Rk't'poK-slaZhbV:rrtT/A/bCKa. Now that sounds alien. "What's that?" "Oh, that's the Rk't'poK-slaZhbV:rrtT/A/bCKa from the future!" "Oh." Bzwzwwwzww.
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Now you know the name doesn't have to be that complicated. So I'll chalk that one up to hyperbole to make a point that you were fine with the name as it was, and reiterate that I still think "Jellyfish" sounds stupid. :p
 
I don't mind the name Jellyfish as a casual name. I don't think it was the ship's class or anything. They should have named it the Seleya after the Vulcan ship from ENT. It's still clearly a Federation ship, but there have been Starfleet ships with Vulcan names.
 
^It was not a StarFleet ship, though. It is a private experimental ship created by a retired Geordi LaForge to test his technology theories. Any name he gave it was purely a personal choice, rather than for a logical reason or naming system.
 
Praetor said:
I don't mind the shape. The name Jellyfish is what irks me. What, they couldn't invent a Vulcan word for "Jellyfish" to use, or even come up with a better Vulcan name? Why not the Lirpa? It looks like one.
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Well, it wasn't called the Jellyfish. It had no name at all. "Jellyfish" came from Geordi, who claimed he built the ship when he most obviously didn't.

See, what really happened was that Geordi became depressed after four movies in which his character became as useless as a redshirt on an away mission, so he made up the whole story about designing new ships just to sound important. To lend credence to his fantasy, he enlisted the help of Picard, Worf, and the electronic retard B4. Picard pretended he was an ambassador, Worf pretened he was a general, and B4 pretended he was Data in command of the Enterprise. Geordi tried to get Riker and Troi to help, since he knew of Trio's penchant for wanting to be in other Trek series' that had nothing to do with them, but alas, Braga beat Geordi to them.
 
Classic Fan said:
The whole point of it was to distance it from the usual Trek ship look.

It was funky looking and cool and fresh.
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Yeah, it's just like everything else in this movie ... it doesn't have to make any sense, it just has to look cool and fresh and funky ... :rolleyes:
 
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