Geeze all this talk of Excelsior is just making me tempted to get this ship but I'm saving my zen for the Gamma Pack
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Geeze all this talk of Excelsior is just making me tempted to get this ship but I'm saving my zen for the Gamma Pack
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poor Excelsior class USS VALLEY FORGE.... this battle was something..! Excelsior's, Miranda's and Akira's took a beating..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owP8rodvksA
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I think that the ships of the TMP era can be categorised by one word, Graceful. Their design is a thing of beauty. I mean, just look at them Connie refit, Reliant, Oberth and Excelsior are all wonderful designs with an overall aesthetic.
It took a long time for me to get used to the Ent-D when TNG was released in the 80's because it didn't look like a star trek ship. It looked organic with all the curves and I was too young to realise that they were going for a visual style of their own. Fast forward to the DS9 and Voyager era and they were coming up with ship designs that knocked it out of the park but I defy anyone to say that the ship designs are iconic. When I think of Trek, it's always the TMP ships that springs to mind.
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Interesting note there: NO refits in the scenes AND use of STO-style Beam Array ... beams by the fire arcs.
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Dear gods, it's like the Federation forgot to switch their shields on. Even the Galaxy class hull got wrecked after a single beam shot.
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that's exactly what I said! lol where were the shields? lol I mean even in when the Federation Fleet was fighting the Borg at Wolf 359 & Sector 001 (First Contact) you saw the shields on every ship. lol
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The shield thing was something that I always wondered about and thought it was simply an oversight by the writers, but I read something recently that it was actually the producers behind it.
As the story went, the FX team told the producers they could have a choice of 2 options - either show the shields and their impacts during the battle scenes, or forget about them and have twice as many ships appearing on screen. The producers chose the ships.
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At Wolf 359 not a single ship had shield effects.
In the First Contact Battle only two ships had shield effects, the Enterprise-E and a Norway that was very close to the Borg Cube.
It was the right decision.
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I really appreciate the conversation about the Excelsior class Thank you for the videos!
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From 0:45 in the first video...
"Our shields are being drained. Sixty-four percent, 42..."
"Recalibrate shield nutation."
"Modulation is having no effect."
"Shields have failed!"
So even though we may not have SEEN them, they were up at some point.
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I love the Excelsior class, it is my absolute all time favourite starship design. I love to run it in STO but the BOFF seating on it is just poor, really eng heavy :/ I usually end up gravitating back to my T6 Connie Refit <3
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I have that conversation with my Chief Engineer all the time. At one point I thought he had sold off the shield emitters for all the good they were doing, but nope.
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Shields are a price question and an artistic one, while they should have been visible you would probably see nothing else than shields ruining all the epic shots.
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This is what I use as the core of my own fiction:
http://techspecs.startrek.acalltodut...excelsior.html
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And of course, the smaller Eaglemoss model previewed by IrishTrekkie:
Side note: I really would like this one.
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id post pictures of my diamond select toys USS Excelsior (both the ST3 & ST6 versions) and USS ENTERPISE-B
but for some reason I cant post pictures anymore