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Hermann Oberth as a young boy, c. 1901. Oberth was born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt), Kingdom of Hungary (today Sibiu in Romania); [8] and besides his native German, he was fluent in Hungarian and Romanian as well. At the age of 11, Oberth's interest in rocketry was sparked by the novels of Jules Verne ...
Additionally, the Next Generation team used models from the first three Star Trek films; the Excelsior, Grissom, and Reliant models were redressed to become various Excelsior-, Oberth-, and Miranda-class starships, respectively. [14] The visual effects shot of the "USS Pegasus" spacecraft was a re-dress of the Oberth class model. [45]
Jordan Weisman of FASA wanted to get one of the biggest space adventure licenses and acquired the Star Trek license in 1982. [1]: 120 Weisman and L. Ross Babcock III looked outside FASA to build a Star Trek design team, but FASA rejected four different game designs over several months that focused too heavily on combat rather than the utopian future envisioned by Gene Rodenberry.
Star Trek: The Next Generation U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints. Created by Rick Sternbach, this publication contains a collection of large-format blueprints of the interior and exterior of the USS Enterprise -D. They catalog every deck of the ship, and also including exterior views and a side-view cutaway.
Klingon starships. In the Star Trek franchise, the Klingon Empire makes use of several classes of starships. As the Klingons are portrayed as a warrior culture, driven by the pursuit of honor and glory, the Empire is shown to use warships almost exclusively and even their support ships, such as troop transports and colony ships, are armed for ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Appearance. ... I.S.C.V.: King Richard is a set of starship deck plans, a 5000-ton first class luxury liner. [1]
Sun gun. The sun gun or heliobeam is a theoretical orbital weapon, which makes use of a concave mirror mounted on a satellite, to concentrate sunlight onto a small area at the Earth's surface, destroying targets or killing through heat.
Steve List reviewed Star Trek 15 mm Deck Plans: Klingon D-7 Battlecruiser in Ares Magazine #16 and commented that "These plans are of use only to players who find they cannot live with the smaller grid versions supplied with the game. Although handsome enough in their own right, these two items are hardly vital to play of the game."