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Does the new edition of the future era actually include the Akira, or just the DIS future ships? Curious mainly.
 
It really, really doesn't bode well for Eaglemoss when they're getting things like this wrong. The whole point of the books/magazines is to look at the pretty pictures and comparison charts!

Come on guys, sort your shit out. Please. It matters to us and we won't buy your stuff if we can tell before even buying it that the information is all wrong!
 
Yeah I’m starting to get a little disappointed at the lack of research being put in these books. I’m concerned that their staff may be approaching a kind of burn-out, trying to stay on top of all the new designs being made by multiple shows, with a guarantee to have even more streaming on P+ in the near future.
 
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I was concerned with the level of research when the collection began years ago and was one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription early. I noted that they listed the date of the refit Enterprise to 2271, not 2274 or thereabouts.
 
What I would REALLY like would be the USS Armstrong where the central nacelle is replaced by an Einsteinian secondary hull.

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I’d love a Kelvin-pride as an XXL. In the ‘09 film we saw a huge Kelvin type saucer that is a Uber Connie in my head canon
 
We were never given a canon year for the refit, so I'm not sure of the issue.

They shouldn't have given a year at all, but just the decade really.
The five year mission ends in 2270 as per "Q2" and TMP is after 18 months of refits. The original (1993, pre-Voyager) Star Trek Chronology conjectured the year of TMP as 2271, and unfortunately that persists a lot in fandom (and IIRC, the updated 2-volume Star Trek Encyclopedia) despite it being nailed down to being at least 2273.
 
The five year mission ends in 2270 as per "Q2" and TMP is after 18 months of refits. The original (1993, pre-Voyager) Star Trek Chronology conjectured the year of TMP as 2271, and unfortunately that persists a lot in fandom (and IIRC, the updated 2-volume Star Trek Encyclopedia) despite it being nailed down to being at least 2273.

There ae three references to elapsed tim in tMP.

SCOTT: A wee problem, sir, really. Just temporary. Admiral, we have just spent eighteen months redesigning and refitting the Enterprise. How in the name of hell do they expect to have her ready in twelve hours?

KIRK: Two and a half years as Chief of Starfleet Operations may have made me a stale but I wouldn't exactly consider myself untried. They gave her back to me, Scotty.

DECKER: Sir, you haven't logged a single star hour in two and a half years. That, plus your unfamiliarity with the ship's redesign, in my opinion, sir, seriously jeopardises this mission.

So the 18 month perod is the later part of s 2.5 year (approximately 30 months) interval when Kirk was chief of starfleet operations and didn't log a single star hour. And there is not anystatement about how long after the five year mission the 2.5 year period began.
 
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I was shocked when my comic shop guy pulled a Nebula prototype Melbourne out for me this week. I don't think I've gotten a ship in over a year, so I was pretty amazed. I had forgotten I had asked for it and never gotten it. (I get mine via Diamond so I can pick and choose.) It is pretty cool!
 
I got the DS9 release of Designing Starships. Nothing I haven't seen before but it is nice to have DS9, Defiant, Klingon ships, Jem'Hadar ships etc. together.

Another Eaglemoss Spelling Mistake in the back cover though. Apparently it is the 'lastest' release.
 
Gah, great timing for Eaglemoss to decide not to produce any more STO ships - Cryptic have just announced the Legendary Miranda Bundle, which includes a sweet-looking TOS version of the ship, as seen here:

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Still waiting on my Tholian Recluse though.
 
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