Spacematic
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Nice ship (and cute shuttlebay)! Reminds me of those old FASA freighter designs. It doesn't look particularly TOSsy or even Trekish, but I like it nonetheless and can picture him zipping around the galaxy in it, schilling substandard merchandise.
Harry Mudd's ride was cooler though, if the ship seen in the new movie is in fact meant to be the same one from TOS, minus it's golden shield:
Harry Mudd's ride was cooler though, if the ship seen in the new movie is in fact meant to be the same one from TOS, minus it's golden shield:
It was never seen on screen in TOS.
I'm not certain of this, but I think the word was that the craft was apparently there in the original, but just not able to be seen from the shots of the station they used. When they rebuilt K7 for DS9, they added the Spacematic in and made sure it was noticed.
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I'd love to see a close-up of the TOS-R model for.comparison. But I don't suppose there are any pics out there...?
It's a series of moving images projected on a screen.
The ship used in STID was shown to belong to a member of the Mudd family in the IWD comics.
But that's not important right now. :rimshot:
That was a nice callback to TOS. I don't get why it was necessary to throw that in there, unless they meant to set up an appearance of Harry in the next movie.
I realized after looking at HD screenshots that I don't think they put it in the TOS-R version of K7, which is a real shame.
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x15hd/thetroublewithtribbleshd0105e.jpg
I could have sworn I remember reading somewhere that they included it, but the bay sure looks dark and empty there.
Ah well. It would have been a neat bit of continuity.
Say what??? I'm sorry, but this makes absolutely no sense to me.
Can you provide citations for your claims that it there was a model of it made for the original TOS and that it was on-screen in TOS-R?
Memory Alpha would seem to indicate that the model was built for "Trials and Tribble-ations" but was never actually seen in the episode any better than this and this.
Now that I see these screencaps, I'm presuming that the little splotches I see, impossible to make on on TV when it aired, are in fact of the model, which would make the answer to my first question in the thread, "no".
edit - OK, so you are retracting the TOS-R claim, I see. I concur that it isn't there.
Other way around, it wasn't a setup for Harry, it was a callback to their official comic book series (which is a rather obnoxious thing to do I think), In the "Countdown into Darkness" comic series they encounter Harry Mudd's half-Bajoran daughter and impound her ship.
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Now that I see it.... Doesn't really look very "trek" to my eyes. I suppose it's intended to look a bit run down, like mr jones.
I love the name "Spacematic", so retro.
I like that it looks like some kind of shuttle that has had jerry-rigged modifications bolted on to it, which seems very Cyrano Jones.
I like that it looks like some kind of shuttle that has had jerry-rigged modifications bolted on to it, which seems very Cyrano Jones.
It looks more like a ship from Space 1999 than something from the Trek universe, hammered together out of spare Eagle and Hawk parts.
You just have to try different search term combinations in Google image search, like:
spacematic K7
spacematic jein
k7 tribbleations model
etc.
I had good success with the first three you suggested, but nothing star trek related came up when I tried the "etc."
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