Shaw's recent art/research projects
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I always have issues seeing them on desktop on my end.
They'll show as broken pics because Trekbbs is defaulted to https and Shaw's server where he hosts his images is http. Most modern browsers will block showing the http images on a https site.
Yep. Same thing happens with my schematics site. Never felt the need to use https.
I thought this might be the appropriate place to ask:
I recently watched Requiem for Methuselah and probably the best part of the episode was seeing the 33-inch Enterprise model in scale.
I was looking at shaws drawings posted to cygnus-X-1 and thought: is Polar lights 1/350 model equivalant in size to the 33inch model?
I recently watched Requiem for Methuselah and probably the best part of the episode was seeing the 33-inch Enterprise model in scale.
I was looking at shaws drawings posted to cygnus-X-1 and thought: is Polar lights 1/350 model equivalant in size to the 33inch model?
Close. 32.5" long built.
Yeah... what he said. That's why I include both images and links, even for smaller images that I didn't used to.
All my stuff is falling behind the times. My old systems are unable to even see many forums I used to post to, and I can only see this one with a work around (which could end with the next update to TrekBBS' software). I'm not online enough that not being able to see most sites on the internet is worth the expense of getting an up-to-date system.
I haven't seen a 1/350 model in person, but I would guest that my 33.75" model and the 32.5" models would appear the same size to most people unless right next to each other.
Of course my obsession with the Enterprise on the table in that episode is why I scratch built my studio scale model (and chose to detail it as it looked at that time). After updating my two-thirds studio scale study model (22.5"), it looks great in images now... but the studio scale model is still the one I find myself staring at from across the room.
While we had a string of good weather (for working on models) over the last couple weeks, I was personally under the weather and couldn't take advantage of it.
I did put this model together for my doctor last month...
My appointment happen to be on the 48th anniversary of the first flight of the Enterprise.
On a different subject, I came across a video a while back by someone in the Navy pointing out all the "errors" he noticed in Star Trek. Having grown up with the Navy all around me, I was nodding along with what he was saying. But the longer I pondered the subject, the more I questioned my position. Not everyone has had a close association with the Navy, not even the people behind Star Trek over the years.
This made me reconsider The Cage. The two most influential people in that production were Roddenberry and Jefferies... both of whom served in the Army Air Corp. Then, while watching Gamera (Gammera- The Invivcible, 1965) I noticed that some of the Air Force personnel had a dark band on their sleeve while others didn't... so I looked into it and looked at The Cage uniforms again (from a non-Navy point of view).
This is what I came up with...
I should point out that even when they moved towards something more like the Navy, they still stumbled a bit
The real issue for Trek has been trying to avoid dealing with members of the audience not understanding the difference between the rank of Captain and the position of Captain. Neither Pike nor Kirk really needed to hold the rank of Captain to command the Enterprise in TOS (though the rank is more justified for Picard commanding the Enterprise D in TNG).
I think they could have believed in their audience more. After all, the film Ice Station Zebra (1968) didn't worry about Rock Hudson's character being the Captain of his sub while having a rank of Commander.
The real problem (for me at least) shows up in TMP. Kirk assume command of the Enterprise, takes the rank of Captain, and demoted Decker to Commander.
Those familiar with our navy know that it is quite common for the CO and XO of a ship to hold the same rank, so in later movies having Kirk, Spock and even Scott hold the rank of Captain isn't that odd. And in TWoK Kirk takes command of the Enterprise without demoting himself or Spock.
All that makes Kirk's actions in TMP seem rather bad. He could have stayed an Admiral or assumed the rank of Captain without demoting Decker from the rank of Captain. It only seems justified if you think the rank and position are the same... but if you know they aren't, Kirk comes off looking like a jerk in that movie.
Also (while not as bad), Riker could have kept the rank of Captain from the fourth season on while still serving as XO on the Enterprise D. For a lot of the history of our last Enterprise (CVN-65), the CO and XO both held the rank of Captain.
At any rate, this view of The Cage uniforms also explains Roddenberry's statement that everyone on the Enterprise is an officer.