This is cooler than cool. Congrats, Masao! She may be too small, but its great to see it in the show and I can't wait to see it on the TV.
Aaron McGure
Aaron McGure
Vanguard on TOS Remastered!!
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Check the foldout diagram in Harbinger again. It's not a deflector dish (why would an unmoving station need one?), but a "rotatable multi-spectrum array," a sensor dish, which the diagram shows in its retracted position. This TOS-R image is showing it in an exended position.
'Course, one would expect the antenna to be "retracted" most of the time. That is, since there is only one antenna, there apparently is only expected to be one major target of interest at a time. Why not orient the entire station so that it points to this target? It's not as if there would be other pressing arguments for choosing the station's orientation. (For example "thermal management" doesn't work, judging by the light angles.)
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
Well, it's a pretty darn big station -- seems easier just to move a dish around. Except, of course, that the design doesn't allow the dish to see the entire sky. If it were necessary to look somewhere "above" the station's current orientation, it might be necessary to re-orient the station.
EDIT: TrekMovie.com now has an interview with the TOS-R producers in which they confirm that Vanguard was their inspiration for the station. It also contains other preview images from the new "Ultimate Computer."
http://trekmovie.com/2008/02/07/tos-r-producers-talk-ultimate-computer-and-share-new-images/
I guess the big question is, what is the dish of Vanguard pointed at?
If it's a giant sensor, it might be one of two things: an "in-case" device intended for scanning emerging targets of interest, or a dedicated instrument for studying something it was built for. In light of SB 47 having been built for a mission, I'd actually originally have suspected the latter... But it now turns out SB 47's mission didn't concern just a single interesting location in the Taurus Reach, but several.
If, OTOH, it's a communications antenna, then it would probably point at the same direction all the time, to maintain contact with Earth or SF HQ or whatnot. Better orient the station, then.
But okay, since it looks so similar to the starship dish that probably has nothing to do with communications and everything to do with emerging targets, the hingework probably makes sense.
In any case, a cool cherry-on-top (or bottom) finishing detail for the perfect TOS look!
Timo Saloniemi
The antenna I designed for the bottom used a starship-style dish mounted on a large ball. When the dish and ball are retracted into the tapered cylinder mount, it doesn't move much. The bal and dish then can emerge somewhat to allow more movement. The antenna on the remastered version of the station is a lot smaller and mounted on a stick. What the antenna is for, I don't know.
It looks like they sized it so that the Conny disk would fit into the circular areas between the docking booms (i.e., not thinking that ships just docked at the ends of the booms)
Of course, if this is interpreted as a smaller-scale station, maybe sliding the disk into the half-ring is the proper docking configuration for this station.
Either way, congrats to Masao!
Of course, if this is interpreted as a smaller-scale station, maybe sliding the disk into the half-ring is the proper docking configuration for this station.
Either way, congrats to Masao!
I just saw the episode. Gosh, that was purty!
I agree. Looking forward to seeing it under one hour.
I saw it Saturday, looked very nice on my flatscreen.
