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Published: 2018-11-29 03:22:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 980; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 20
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Name: Arcelyn SorasRank: Lieutenant
Current Assignment: Security Officer, U.S.S. Challenger as of Stardate 6321.6
Race: El-Aurian
Age: 25
Birthplace: Deep Space Five
Just getting my starting crew ready on the Challenger bridge. Started with my main and I'll work my way around.
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Star Trek 1 - 3 Enterprise Bridge by JamesJAB
Star Trek 1 - 3 Enterprise Chair for DAZ by JamesJAB
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Also, I LOVE these style of bridge chairs. We used to refer to them a Cobra-head Command Chairs as the back rises up widening as it goes upwards, and resembles the Head of a Cobra with its hood puffed out ready to strike. My favorite chairs. Even the Nav and Helm had them. In the ST 5 and ST 6, the other officers on the bridge had really crappy chairs.
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Yes. These are my favorite bridge chairs. Who need seatbelts when the chair armrests work like that for you?
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Agreed. In a deleted scene from ST: NEMESIS, the Captains' new chair at the end of the film, during the refit, Captain Picard sits down and presses a button and automatic seat belts snap into place over his shoulders and waist. He looks at Geordi and says, "Well, its about time".
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I've seen that. Cracks me up considering Starfleet had figured it out less than a century before and then ABANDONED it
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Like one of my favorite ST quotes (by Bones) says, "The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe". Maybe someone complained the seats with the bracing armrests were too tight and there was a lawsuit. It would happen today, for sure.
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Only one problem with that, it's Starfleet. I think one of McCoy's other quotes is more along the lines. "I know Engineer's. They LOVE to change things."
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Bodacious! Seems more like what the ST 4 bridge was going for at the end of the film. The Motion Picture Bridge but updated with 'Okudagrams'. A brand new, clean bridge and presumably clean ship, right out of the shipyards. Some continuity claims the ENTERPRISE "A" was the newly built Yorktown "A but they quickly changed the name to ENTERPRISE after Kirk and crew saved the planet, literally, AGAIN.
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LOL Thanks. Yeah, so in my head this is how it works out, although I don't think there's much cause for discussion between the crew of Challenger, but it's good background info for my little AU. Challenger is actually right off the line when this starts, but she's also the last of the Constitution Class ships that head out before Starfleet decides to go in and update the class with a full refit starting with the Enterprise.
Challenger launches at the latter half of 2369 on her first mission (initially planned as a ten year romp) with some of the new tech that they were developing installed but with the latest and greatest warp drive before the complete redesign. I'm going with the class original launch date of 2245, the twelve main ships built with the option to build more later. Several minor refits to the design on the ships that were already built, after Pike, the Defiant and Kirk's missions and learning what the class could really do, taking the tech as far as they could go without a complete redesign, which results in the Challenger and 5 or 6 sister ships of this later Constitution class redesign, and then starting in 2270 a complete overhaul of the existing remaining ships in the fleet starting with the Enterprise.
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Some comic books do reference the year 2245 as the year that AN ENTERPRISE is launched BUT it is stated that it is a ship BEFORE the 1701, under Pike. They refer to this ship as the missing Enterprise. It was a ship named ENTERPRISE but NOT the 1701, it was BEFORE that with a completely different registry number. It was said to be under the command of Captain Robert April. This ship is destroyed after about ten years into her commission and that would about the year 2255. Then a gap until the 1701 ship named ENTERPRISE is launched with Pike as Captain for the next 11 years. I know that the comic books talked about this but it was released during the gap between when TOS was canceled and The Motion Picture was released. They even mention Robert April in the Animated Series. The dialogue mentions April once commanded the Enterprise but seem to infer that it was the 1701 before Kirk and ignores the character of Pike altogether. The years of 1970 through 1978 when we had no new Trek, the Comic Books had ideas all over the place and most are seen as NOT canon. In Discovery, they could have had the Missing Enterprise which would be more in the time period instead of the 1701.
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True. It all depends on which source you're using.
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Yes, exactly. But I find it fun to try to figure out dates and years in the fictional universe.
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And also figuring out where they screwed them up? One of my favorite books is the nitpickers guide hehe
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There is another one by Douglas Adams, called "The Meaning of Lif". LIF, NOT LIFE. You just have to read it, I can't begin to explain it.
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