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USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

I think the Discovery and Enterprise robots look absolutely ridiculous, but hey...that's just me.
I don't understand why they were introduced for one shot to not do anything, especially since in a couple scenes, a key dramatic moment in the episode would turn on the fact that someone needed to pull a lever and lock themselves into a room with a bomb. Use one of the robots to drop the blast door! Explain why the robot can't, at least, or even better, don't introduce robots that aren't going to make any difference to anything right before you're going to do something where a robot would be super-helpful.
 
I don't understand why they were introduced for one shot to not do anything, especially since in a couple scenes, a key dramatic moment in the episode would turn on the fact that someone needed to pull a lever and lock themselves into a room with a bomb. Use one of the robots to drop the blast door! Explain why the robot can't, at least, or even better, don't introduce robots that aren't going to make any difference to anything right before you're going to do something where a robot would be super-helpful.
Yep. That was just bizarre.
 
I don't understand why they were introduced for one shot to not do anything, especially since in a couple scenes, a key dramatic moment in the episode would turn on the fact that someone needed to pull a lever and lock themselves into a room with a bomb. Use one of the robots to drop the blast door! Explain why the robot can't, at least, or even better, don't introduce robots that aren't going to make any difference to anything right before you're going to do something where a robot would be super-helpful.

Because "cool," "cute" and "it'll look neat."

That's it.
 
E.T. Phone Home.

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More Wall-E than E.T...

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Maximilian had a human inside though.
Supposedly it was the First Officer of the Cygnus.

All of the Cygnus 'robots' had humans inside, that was Reinhardt's modus operandi.
Even S.T.A.R., he was supposedly the Security Chief of the ship.

The character's didn't really dwell on that fact except for the one 'reveal' scene because it was a "kid friendly" movie.
But the book had a lot more detail about it.
 
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Maximilian had a human inside though.
Supposedly it was the First Officer of the Cygnus.

All of the Cygnus 'robots' had humans inside, that was Reinhardt's modus operandi.
Even S.T.A.R., he was supposedly the Security Chief of the ship.

The character's didn't really dwell on that fact except for the one 'reveal' scene because it was a "kid friendly" movie.
But the book had a lot more detail about it.

It was more about the shape. Maximilion without the "legs" isn't that far off.
 
Maybe instead of 'bussards' we should start calling them 'cabochons'....'cause there is a lot of resemblance with the 1988 'Pewterprise':

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I sold mine off before the bad pylons made the nacelles too saggy. :lol:
 
Maybe instead of 'bussards' we should start calling them 'cabochons'....'cause there is a lot of resemblance with the 1988 'Pewterprise':

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I sold mine off before the bad pylons made the nacelles too saggy. :lol:

Sounds like the original AMT kit. They had to have angled nacelles, the straight ones are too weak, even in space.
 
Even my early 1990's micromachine 1701 still has upright nacelles. All my 7 1701's have the pylons intact, must just be something with the metal they used for that one.
 
Even my early 1990's micromachine 1701 still has upright nacelles. All my 7 1701's have the pylons intact, must just be something with the metal they used for that one.

The pewter nacelles were quite heavy and the pylons just couldn't support them very well. Mine was starting to sag, so I sold it off. You could bend the pylons quite easily, but it didn't take long whenever you straightened them back up for the sag to start again, because of the weight of the nacelles.

It makes me wonder if their prototype was any different....
 
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