THE MILLENNIUM FALCON - Ship Of The Week #2 11/29/14

[Locutus of Bored]

Then perhaps instead of unnecessarily providing a rundown on everyone who worked in the Star Wars art department instead of the guy who worked in both Trek and Wars and mentored Andrew Probert that I was using as a relevant example to his post, your energies would be better spent correcting the issue I was replying to, namely the insinuation that the SW ship designers were thoughtless and careless?

OK, you think it's unnecessary to give credit to the people who did the design work that was ascribed to someone else, I don't. Sorry that offended you.

I have no problem giving credit to the other people who did the design work. That's a ridiculous strawman. In fact this whole stupid thing started because I was refuting the point that the designers of SW were careless and thoughtless.

The point was, you came into the middle of a discussion to provide an unnecessary "correction" when I was using Ralph McQuarrie as an example of a --singular-- designer of Star Wars ships, because he crossed over between both franchises and mentored Andrew Probert. Naming every single ship designer in the Star Wars franchise would have been irrelevant to my point and unnecessarily long. And your correction wasn't even one of the ships I was talking about anyway.

 

[J.T.B.]

I have no problem giving credit to the other people who did the design work. That's a ridiculous strawman.

No it isn't, it's a direct response. You wrote that I had "unnecessarily" posted credits for the pirate ship/blockade runner design. But McQuarrie didn't design it, it's as simple as that.

In fact this whole stupid thing started because I was refuting the point that the designers of SW were careless and thoughtless.

The point was, you came into the middle of a discussion to provide an unnecessary "correction" when I was using Ralph McQuarrie as an example of a --singular-- designer of Star Wars ships, because he crossed over between both franchises and mentored Andrew Probert.

Again, you think it's unnecessary, I don't.

The sentence I quoted was "Yeah, they were designed by that clown Ralph McQuarrie." "They" was referring to "the ships in Star Wars" from the previous quote. That sentence as it stands is not correct, so I added something intended to clarify. It certainly wasn't meant as a personal affront, nor did I imagine it would blow up into a thing. I already said sorry to offend, my thought was only to provide more information for other readers.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

The MF has the best ion cannons in the galaxy!

 

[Orac]

What was Ship of the Week #1? I can't find the thread.

 

[3chordboy]

What was Ship of the Week #1? I can't find the thread.

t'was the boat from The Last Ship series...

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=259333

 

[Orac]

Thanks 3chordboy.

 

[davejames]

I admit the design itself isn't all that terribly interesting or memorable, but that's kinda where most of the charm comes from-- watching what looks like an inelegant hunk of junk bank and twirl through space and withstand blaster fire and perform all kinds of cool maneuvers that it doesn't look like it should be able to do.

And it also looks like a real, functional ship that someone in that galaxy would actually use to haul cargo or smuggle goods around in.

 

[Admiral2]

Awesome. But the franchise has far awesomer. Where's mah Nebulon-B?

Mark

Actually, I cnsidered adding it to the list of ships, but at the time I didn't know the name...

 

[MacLeod]

Where is the option for it's a peice of junk?

 

[Dr. Funkenstein]

Like the original Enterprise, they gave the ship a personality and life of its own. That, and that alone, is the only reason I really like it. I was ecstatic when Farscape came along and literally gave their ship a personality and life of its own, too.

So it's definitely in my top 3.

The actual design doesn't do anything for me, however. But when I see it on the big screen again, I know it'll give me that surge of adrenalin or whatever it is that makes the hairs on my arm stand up.

 

[Turtletrekker]

The Millennium Falcon is awesome! Seeing the Falcon in the trailer was the only part of it that got me excited. The rest of the trailer was just "meh".

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Talkin bout the MF: It's one bad MF.

(Awesome!)

 

[Leviathan]

I've just never found the Millennium Falcon to be a particularly original, inspired or esthetic design. It's basically a flying saucer with a lot of random greeblies stuck all over it. And those cargo-loading mandibles in front -- just how are they supposed to work?

She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.

...anyone who did NOT reply with that: HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME.

 

[Jedi_Master]

Iconic ship. Epitomized what made the Star Wars universe so appealing... it was REAL, and really fast.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Prior to the Falcon, were there any relatively high-profile spaceship/starship designs in sci-fi that were asymmetrical? Seems like it should get points just for that.

 

[Push The Button]

Unlike the Enterprise, which was designed as a best guess of what an actual space faring vessel might look like someday, the ships in Star Wars had no such thought or care put into their designs.

Yeah, they were designed by that clown Ralph McQuarrie. What does he know about proper spaceship design? I hope that slacker never worked on Star Trek or mentored any of the Trek designers and poisoned them with his carelessness.

.

 

[Samurai8472]

Meh. Too old. Maybe 30 years ago.

Some of us appreciate the au natural look

 

[Richard Baker]

The Falcon's design makes a lot of sense if you use the forward mandibles for grabbing a large cargo container and holding it in front of the ship during transport. The off set cockpit allows you to see around the container and the off set dish is not blocked.

Lucas also conceived of it landing horizontal but flying vertical with the cockpit at the top. The only time you saw that sort of flight was in RotJ when it was inside the Death Star.