Shenzhou launch date?

[Timo]

That singularly unhelpful dedication plaque may be of use in its own way after all...

Namely, it is a rare example of the Franklin format of plaques, only with extra "we made this" names. We may speculate that this is period art, and the distinctly different NCC-1701 plaque represents a newer period, to be followed by the TOS movie era style etc.

So FWIW, his would make the Discovery herself a style-mate to the old Shenzhou.

Or at least the plaques would be style-mates and possiby era-mates; perhaps ships built late in the series would keep the style of the initial ships, so NCC-1031 built (or modified) in the 2250s might hail from a class launched in the pre-Chakotay era or whatever.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[MFB]

Slightly off-topic but I would like to see a picture of the USS Kelvin dedication plaque from the Encyclopedia. I am curious where the launch date is placed. On the left side together with the name of the shipyard? Or is the layout different from the Enterprise and the Franklin dedication plaques?

 

[Tuskin38]

Slightly off-topic but I would like to see a picture of the USS Kelvin dedication plaque from the Encyclopedia. I am curious where the launch date is placed. On the left side together with the name of the shipyard? Or is the layout different from the Enterprise and the Franklin dedication plaques?

Top right. Also it is a parallelogram.

 

[F. King Daniel]

^I asked Mike Okuda about the inaccurate registry number on Facebook, he said that's how it was on the art they received. There are no pics from the set showing if it's incorrect there too.

The quote is "All glory comes from daring to begin."

 

[Tuskin38]

I didn’t even notice the incorrect number

 

[Tim Thomason]

"Stardate 2225.5"? That could mean anything these days.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Shenzhou lunch date? Sure but only if it's paying.

Are they serving Klingon Fried Captain?

 

[MFB]

Thank you very much, Tuskin38!

That's a nice design with a nod to the plaque in TOS. Maybe they forgot about it years later but that design would have worked great on the Franklin too . The Franklins dedication plaque had the rounder layout with the emphasized emblem.

 

[XCV330]

Are they serving Klingon Fried Captain?

Why yes, yes they are serving Klingon Fried Captain

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Are they serving Klingon Fried Captain?

Why yes, yes they are serving Klingon Fried Captain

I like to call it Klingtucky Fried Captain

 

[Push The Button]

From "Broken Bow" (ENT):

TRAVIS: I heard this platform's been approved for bio-transport.
REED: I presume you mean fruits and vegetables.
TRAVIS: I mean armory officers and helmsmen.
REED: I don't think I'm quite ready to have my molecules compressed into a data stream.
TRAVIS: They claim it's safe.

At launch it looked like this:

It was upgraded in the fourth season, and in "Daedalus" (ENT) we see behind its walls:

(Those circular glass panels were actually original pieces from the TOS transporter set floor that had also been re-used on TNG as well, IIRC. Will have to look for a source on that to verify, though.)

-MMoM

Oops, I had forgotten all about this. A lot of ENT was pretty forgettable, unfortunately.

 

[Satron]

My guess is June 2nd.

A Tuesday.

 

[David cgc]

amazing they kept those things around for so long, and I guess someone still has them, since STC got to make moulds for their copies. I wonder if they got sold at It's a Wrap

It's hard for me to believe that the lenses were the exact same ones as in TOS, just because they're a fairly generic piece. However, I learned a bit ago that the same kind of lenses were used in the transporter set for the TOS movies, they just had those big grills on top of them. In the introduction for the VHS version of "The Cage" that Roddenberry recorded, you can see them on the ceiling, where four of the six pads have been removed.

My guess would be that those were the lenses used on the TNG and Voyager sets (since it was the same transporter room), and someone conflated "the same kind of lenses used in TOS" with "the same lenses used since the first original series movie." I mean, even if the legend was true, they wouldn't all be original, since there were twelve lenses used in the movie set and only six in TOS (since they were on the top and the bottom). It's possible that there were still six lenses under the translucent floor of the Post-TNG version, since there was a lens-sized light element for when the transporter was activated, but it's equally possible it's just the hole from the fixture in the original version of the set.