tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19459595317159578462024-03-14T01:19:11.885-05:00Random Ramblings of an Absent-Minded ProfessorComments and reviews on pulp fiction, science fiction, comic books, Catholicism, history, religion, politicsKent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.comBlogger422125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-70684816275046216672023-07-17T11:41:00.000-05:002023-07-17T11:41:24.475-05:00A Working Electronic Vulcan Lyre<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDEGIM_G45QojaZr38Qt40HxK5eRNdpzEYE4P3cq9uEMnsiSs0DqnbW35IEdR9l5faxytSroMVqW5z-HM8uHPmF4uuH2Qm0aYUiJJ3y-aqY3FfNaP5oa6i7pNfM1nA0BJu8ZIsQZWcUTbDbiG_oH9KVD13buiBDbpeQupiW1C9tZIkhOWpJAMVysfNU7Ei/s800/Kent%20Hare%20with%20Vulcan%20Harp%20800%20pixels.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="667" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDEGIM_G45QojaZr38Qt40HxK5eRNdpzEYE4P3cq9uEMnsiSs0DqnbW35IEdR9l5faxytSroMVqW5z-HM8uHPmF4uuH2Qm0aYUiJJ3y-aqY3FfNaP5oa6i7pNfM1nA0BJu8ZIsQZWcUTbDbiG_oH9KVD13buiBDbpeQupiW1C9tZIkhOWpJAMVysfNU7Ei/s320/Kent%20Hare%20with%20Vulcan%20Harp%20800%20pixels.jpg" width="267" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">After a great many trials and much tribulation, I can
finally report success in building – from scratch -- a working <i>ka’athyra</i>,
a Vulcan lyre as debuted on <i>Star Trek</i> (The Original Series) way back in
1966. Initially designed by Wah Chang, the fascinating instrument which
appeared there, with its exotic, otherworldly tones, was, however merely a prop
with heavily synthesized music laid over the soundtrack in postproduction. Although
the instrument has appeared in various series and films over the six decades
since, including as recently as the current season of <i>Star Trek: Strange New
Worlds</i>, most appearances are of a different, inferior prop, the original
having been lost. An account of its history as well as the replicas appears at <i>Purple
Sloth Productions</i> by Scott Lukas Williams (“Wah Chang and the Vulcan Lyre,”
20 Aug 2010 <a href="https://purplesloth.com/2010/08/20/wah-chang-and-the-vulcan-lyre/">LINK</a>).
I am in the process of putting together a full account of my own build as an
Instructable (<a href="https://www.instructables.com/">https://www.instructables.com/</a>),
but that is taking a while and I wanted to share my success with the world in
more detail than the roughly monthly videos I have posted to my Youtube channel
(#kentghare8010) ever since I managed to get the basic instrument working
acoustically back in January of this year. This post is, however, intended to
expand on the most recent of those videos, that of 15 July 2023, which
demonstrates the internal electronics as they currently stand. That video is embedded
here:<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lg0vG6PVp88" width="320" youtube-src-id="lg0vG6PVp88"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal">Please bear in mind that I began this project a bit more
than a year ago with virtually no woodworking experience and even less
electronics experience – even basic soldering. To see how ignorant I was about
even basic instrument-building techniques, I refer the reader to my previous
post on my first misbegotten attempt at a merely acoustic Vulcan lyre. But I am
nothing if not persistent (really obsessive-compulsive), and I continued
working, learning from my mistakes, until I achieved success, however imperfect.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Here are a couple of labeled pictures, the first showing the
external arrangement from the front, the second showing the internal
arrangement from the rear underneath the removeable back:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhtWv2O0lKtRpOCGHwU4x_tsD1D3hWM_cm-4t1ACKZYKD_FWErYpTTAJh5tJJXEydlD0clZ_tQ3PsJr5doQHdoDWtDloRijt5f30m_CN71ynStsO6lM9opYm-PiiP6lro6zryfXmE63e2Zo91kw3P0xlDOYcHh7AvY5QEpue-cnK2CnPcOVYL05X2MVuXo/s785/IMG_2751%20LABELED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="415" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhtWv2O0lKtRpOCGHwU4x_tsD1D3hWM_cm-4t1ACKZYKD_FWErYpTTAJh5tJJXEydlD0clZ_tQ3PsJr5doQHdoDWtDloRijt5f30m_CN71ynStsO6lM9opYm-PiiP6lro6zryfXmE63e2Zo91kw3P0xlDOYcHh7AvY5QEpue-cnK2CnPcOVYL05X2MVuXo/w211-h400/IMG_2751%20LABELED.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmgIxeS_cFu3ybiUVY7uWQqQVUIY3ZVXEuy_A6ZP99p-4Ny92XLBmxDAZK08gyOjN0nchhZEHb8juLWve3JaeoYSFL-1c8Qc_TLqsqTkjEi5w9w__M5b6tQ-QnZYy3VY1VKYAdwUgqY5wzUM7jOcsfv58h2yVsW3UUHwud4Y71ykaeYrJp2dmitfAErwlQ/s784/Internal%20arrangement%20picture%20with%20labels.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="592" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmgIxeS_cFu3ybiUVY7uWQqQVUIY3ZVXEuy_A6ZP99p-4Ny92XLBmxDAZK08gyOjN0nchhZEHb8juLWve3JaeoYSFL-1c8Qc_TLqsqTkjEi5w9w__M5b6tQ-QnZYy3VY1VKYAdwUgqY5wzUM7jOcsfv58h2yVsW3UUHwud4Y71ykaeYrJp2dmitfAErwlQ/w303-h400/Internal%20arrangement%20picture%20with%20labels.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">The main components are:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Pickup: Rod Piezo Acoustic Instrument Pickup – CBGitty</li><li>Pickup Output: Bakyan 2Pcs 50MM Guitar Pickup Piezo
Transducer Prewired Amplifier with 6.35MM Output Jack for Acoustic Guitar
Ukulele Cigar Box Guitar (375354)</li><li>Tone: "Tone Distiller" - Pre-wired Active Tone
Control Knob for Guitar or Amp - Distill your Tone for the best sound! -- CBGitty</li><li>Reverb: EK1725Youngy PT2399 Microphone Reverb Plate
Reverberation Board No Preamplifier DC 6V-15V -- Amazon</li><li>Amplifier: 2.5W Artec Amp Circuit Board with Pre-wired Leads
-- CBGitty</li><li>Internal Speaker: Cylewet 4Pcs 2inch 8Ohm 5W Full Range Audio Speaker
Stereo Woofer Loudspeaker for Arduino (Pack of 4) CYT1121 -- Amazon</li><li>External Speaker (not shown): Same as the Internal Speaker, but mounted inside a housing with a long wire and plug to match the output jack.</li></ul><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">A few notes:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Pickup: Mounted directly under the bridge atop the surface</li><li>Pickup Output: Actually, I only used the pot. I discarded
the piezo disc and spliced on a female jack to receive the male plug from the pickup.
I similarly replaced the large female jack with a smaller female connector. I’m
not entirely sure what the pot does – despite the description calling this an “amplifier,”
it does not function on its own as an amplifier. It does, however, vary the
strength of the output from the pickup going to the next component as seen in
the video.</li><li>Tone Distiller: I wired an on-off switch as well as an LED in
the positive battery lead to indicate power on, as well as added connectors for
the signal in and signal out wires.</li><li>Reverb: I discovered this through the Instructables project here
(<a href="https://www.instructables.com/Echo-Reverb-Box/">https://www.instructables.com/Echo-Reverb-Box/</a>)
and intended to make the modification described to add Echo control, I
ultimately did not (so far). I simply detached the pot from the circuit board
and soldered wires leading to the Type B 25K pot. In addition, I also added an on-off
switch as well as an LED in the positive battery lead. I used a couple of
connectors to attach the signal in and out wires to the posts provided rather
than soldering those. (I have another of these modules which I may undertake
modding to add the Echo control as described in the Instructables project; if
so, the pot will take up the first of the currently unused pots.) </li><li>Amplifier: I considered adding modding the board-mounted
gain pot with one I would have access to, as described at C. B. Gitty’s page
for this item, but ultimately decided not to risk ruining the amp. I simply
turned the gain up all the way. I <i>think</i> the Pickup Output pot serves as
a gain pot for the entire system, but I could be wrong. There was already an
LED wired to the circuit board, so it was merely a matter of attaching
connectors to the signal in and signal out wires. </li><li>Speakers: I put a splitter leading into the speakers, with one path
leading down to an output jack mounted to the spine about where the switches
are. The main internal speaker is mounted near a grill in the side of the instrument as well as a small grill in the removeable back.</li></ul><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">As can be seen and heard in the video (which only
demonstrates the internal speaker, not the external one), higher settings of
the Tone Distiller result in increasing feedback, but I can minimize it by
backing off on the pickup volume (unfortunately diminishing the amplification
as well). It seems like the best overall balance is setting the Pickup Signal and
Amplifier both at full, with the Tone Distiller set to 2 and the Reverb cranked
to full.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I will keep tinkering with it, however, and see if I can
further minimize the feedback issues overall.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for reading.<o:p></o:p></p><br />Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-81528057821127061852022-06-18T13:40:00.001-05:002022-06-18T13:44:40.772-05:00Acoustic Vulcan Lyre: Attempt 1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKo3buvHOBXNvs9G5DsiB_7M5vZAiAewLOeX_Y9vnF8Rr9dHVyZHvA2hMXl0gs846ClQPjfXQK-TN3H7G4A5X8MiReAyxXXfizcH3MCoxk4qU9N81M02jxKrSV4aEuvoPCMPwd1LNLCo4A24vo4zsN8LGca2EdA6QicTBv2doU3ep2OrL_tBkXTsGgVQ/s796/Vulcan%20Lyre%201%20800px.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="606" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKo3buvHOBXNvs9G5DsiB_7M5vZAiAewLOeX_Y9vnF8Rr9dHVyZHvA2hMXl0gs846ClQPjfXQK-TN3H7G4A5X8MiReAyxXXfizcH3MCoxk4qU9N81M02jxKrSV4aEuvoPCMPwd1LNLCo4A24vo4zsN8LGca2EdA6QicTBv2doU3ep2OrL_tBkXTsGgVQ/w245-h320/Vulcan%20Lyre%201%20800px.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><i> Originally posted as a comment to https://www.instructables.com/Acoustic-Vulcan-lyre/, reedited for blog.</i><p></p><p>I've long wanted a "harp" like Spock's [<a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Vulcan_lute">LINK</a>, although I would argue it is more properly a "lyre" than a "lute"], but really only got the bug several years ago when I came acrooss an iPad app of a "Vulcan Harp" [<a href="https://www.startrek.com/article/first-look-and-hear-vulcan-harp-app-for-ipad" target="_blank">LINK</a>]. A long slow burn ultimately led to me buying a regular off-the-shelf lyre from Amazon [<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Donner-DLH-003-Strings-Mahogany-Tunning/dp/B08L3FJZD7/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3NATMCI2M2A0&keywords=donner%2Blyre%2Bharp%2B16%2Bstring&qid=1655577416&sprefix=donner%2Blyre%2B%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-5&th=1" target="_blank">LINK</a>], which merely fueled my desire. Around about Christmas last, I found an Instructables page entitled, "Acoustic Vulcan Lyre" (LINK above) and said, "I can do that!" Bear in mind I have never undertaken any woodworking project larger than a pinewood derby car (both as a Cub Scout and as the father of a Cub Scout). I spent the months since thinking, acquiring tools and materials, and launched into it at the beginning of this month. Based somewhat on Instructables author D10D3's fascinating instructions, I ended up with the picture above. <br /></p><p>There was a lot of trial and error involved -- more error than trial, to be honest -- and in the end, for multiple reasons,it is not functional. It's made of layers: the core (full silhouette with the sound-box cut out) is 3/4" "MDF Redi-Cut," backed by (again, full silhouette) 1/4" "Luan Redi-Cut" plywood. The spine and arm are another layer of 1/4" Luan, while the "pick-guard" (I just call it the "front") is 1/8" "Bass wood." I wanted to string it like my 16-string lyre, from G3 up to A5 (albeit, unfortunately, in the opposite direction than I'm used to) so I got three sets of phosphor-bronze guitar strings, but immediately bad things started happening. </p><p>I don't remember the exact sequence of events, but in rapid succession I noticed that the tuning would immediately loosen and the pitch would plummet, because my layers of wood on the neck were separating even as the zither pin was leaning into the wood and tearing a gouge while the little ball-anchor thing at the bottom was pulling up into the wood on the back -- disappearing at least a quarter-inch into the back through a hole that was drilled out only to slightly larger than the string's diameter. Then the string broke (although I'm not sure how, given what I just said, it ever got enough effective tension to exceed the limit of the string). I am pretty sure that my gluing of the layers was ineffective (both in quality and coverage) as well as that the plywoods I used were too soft. With effectively 1/2" of Luan into which the zither pins were sunk on top of the denser "MDF," I also suspect that the zither pins were literally pushing on the latter rather than penetrating it even though I had predrilled the hole, because after I decided to simply string the instrument with fishing line for show the separation of layers still happened even when screwing in the zither pins <i>without </i>any effective string tension. Ultimately, I ended up with a fairly expensive (in time as well as tools and materials) display piece. </p><p>Nevertheless, I am going to give it another try -- with real hardwood and after consultation with a harp-string vendor to whom some of my lyre-group friends have recommended me for figuring out the best method for stringing it given the construction I am planning. All in all, it has been a great (if frustrating and ultimately disappointing) learning experience. I will, of course, report the results of attempt two....</p>Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-18384286942961291872021-03-19T18:21:00.000-05:002021-03-19T18:21:17.876-05:00Zack Snyder's Justice League<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGBCgcU0jZyyq3CphmMc8l4isPYNQ2ogz0iNjV5Vrb_Kba8ZrEhxFjWUMvGyfOLFzvbCo3KJLue7phSlLJEduOLvqI9K2P4tskDA-8R2Uz8nfpQov8Zn6eyFb_YWJbSRFyMzpjHk8L3U3l/s800/Zack-Snyders-Justice-League+800px.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGBCgcU0jZyyq3CphmMc8l4isPYNQ2ogz0iNjV5Vrb_Kba8ZrEhxFjWUMvGyfOLFzvbCo3KJLue7phSlLJEduOLvqI9K2P4tskDA-8R2Uz8nfpQov8Zn6eyFb_YWJbSRFyMzpjHk8L3U3l/s320/Zack-Snyders-Justice-League+800px.png" width="320" /></a></div>Well, I just finished watching all four hours of <i>Zack Snyder’s Justice League</i>. It is awesome. It makes the version that Joss Whedon butchered for the theatrical release several
years ago compare like Andrew Lloyd Webber against Richard Wagner. Or like
Miller Lite vs. Guinness. It is so easy to
see all the Marvelesque <i>Avengers</i> crap that Whedon brought into what we got, whether that's really all attributable to him rather than Warner Brothers that lost faith in their own vision is debatable – and the
loss of so much depth that resulted from that plus cutting the movie down to two hours. Snappy dialogue and cheap humor is not everything. It's absence here was so appreciated. [See more below]<p></p><p>Maybe I shouldn’t have been, but I was a bit surprised that the basic structure
is so much the same – somehow Superman’s death at the end of <i>Dawn of Justice</i>
activated the Mother Boxes, which called Steppenwolf to try to bring them
together to somehow subjugate the Earth for Darkseid; Batman atoning for what
he did in <i>Dawn of Justice</i> by bringing the heroes together – and realizing
they need Superman. So, using the Mother Box in their possession they bring him
back, which leads to a final confrontation in Russia and Steppenwolf being
driven back. But so much was done so differently. Sometimes even the same scene
was revealed to be something totally different (e.g., Martha and Lois in Lois’
apartment … except here it was not Martha). </p><p>It’s not perfect, of course. The
Martian Manhunter’s cameos , for instance … if he’s there, and knows about Darkseid, why is he
not already in contact with Bruce and working with him to bring the heroes
together? I would think he would be. But all in all, this is such an
improvement. It’s like <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> compared to <i>Game of
Thrones</i>. Yes, I went there. </p><p>Unfortunately, in restoring Snyder’s original
vision for this movie, it restores that original vision’s nature as <i>not the
end of the story</i>. There is virtually no chance of the sequels he set in
place (Darkseid’s second coming to Earth, the Injustice Society, etc.) ever
being seen, at least in film form. Hopefully they will finish it out in some
form – graphic novel, maybe?</p><p>All in all, I really enjoyed this movie.</p><p>====</p><p>Addendum on Joss Whedon: I have been a fan of Whedon's in the past; I liked <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i> and <i>Angel</i>. I <i>loved</i> <i>Firefly</i> and <i>Serenity</i>. And I really liked <i>Avengers</i> -- the first one he did, <i>not</i> the second one. It was actually with the latter<i>, Age of Ultron</i>, that I started to perceive just how much most of Whedon's work <i>depends</i> on "snappy dialogue and cheap humor" as well as the <i>illusion</i> of depth rather than any <i>real</i> depth (something that, in my opinion, pervades the Marvel movies [again, see below]. I have not gone back and rewatched <i>Buffy</i> or <i>Angel</i>; I <i>have</i> (just recently) rewatched <i>Firefly</i> and <i>Serenity</i> and find that those do (in my opinion) have both. They hold up well and I'm sure I will watch -- and enjoy -- them again in the future. But, sometime after <i>Serenity</i>, in my opinion, something changed. It's probably what so often happens -- he started to believe he could do no wrong, and that never works out well. I could say more, especially about the allegations that a host of former associates have made in the past few months, but I won't. This post is not about Joss Whedon, except that where <i>Ultron</i> lessened my regard for him as a movie-maker, the <i>Justice League</i> theatrical cut destroyed it, and seeing Snyder's original vision of that latter movie (and I am sure that it is that) simply confirms that for me.</p><p>====</p><p>Addendum on the Marvel movies: First, a couple of admissions. 1) I have enjoyed <i>most</i> of the Marvel movies. But 2) I have always been more a DC fan than a Marvel fan., comics as well as movies. Part of it is that I have less regard for something that others think is key to the Marvel universe (from the beginning). DC has always seemed so much larger than life, less grounded in reality -- the best word is <i>mythic </i>-- while Marvel's schtick has always been a "false" "realism," a conceit that those stories were happening in a world just like ours, i.e., New York City rather than "Metropolis" or "Gotham City." But, of course, the Marvel universe -- comics or movies -- is <i>not</i> the "real world." It's just a pretense that ultimately, for me, distracts. And often the <i>attempts</i> at "depth" break down really quickly with a little thought. Suspension of disbelief is one thing. Thinking that, somehow, Thanos's motivation had "depth" goes beyond suspension of disbelief to suspension of basic intelligence. All it amounted to was ill-thought-out Malthusianism that would have, at most, bought a little time, delaying the "inevitable" Malthusian crisis that he claimed to be averting (not in so many words, of course ... the word "Malthusian" is <i>not</i> "snappy"). Darkseid's motivation, however -- pure, unadulterated power, the desire to control everything. To put it in Biblical terms, the desire to replace God. It's the oldest motivation in the book, that of Satan himself. People think the DC movies -- Zack Snyder's, in particular -- are style over substance? <i>Avengers: Infinity War</i> and <i>Endgame</i> are both exactly that -- style and superficiality <i>pretending</i> to be substance ... and ultimately falling flat. Snyder's DC movies, on the other hand, are -- to use the term again because none other fits -- <i>mythic.</i></p><p>All of which is just, of course, my opinion. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-17934829165323178022020-10-21T22:34:00.003-05:002020-10-23T22:08:20.335-05:00The Historical Development of the Warp Drive<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="181" src="https://giphy.com/embed/26zyYdiV4pdZZUWEU" width="480"></iframe><p><a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/uafairbanks-star-trek-working-26zyYdiV4pdZZUWEU">via GIPHY</a></p>
<h4 style="text-align: left;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Preface</i></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><i>This is another of my "Covid-Projects," consequent to my "Star Trek History of the Twenty-First Century" project (which is drafted but still needs a lot of work). Basically, I wanted to work out an overall rationalization of the development of the Warp Drive that best fits what has been shown on screen and explains certain oddities that manifested themselves along the way. It varies considerably from a lot of fan-created Treknological assumptions through the years as well as semi-official resources published and statements made along the way, even by producers and technical advisers to the various series and films. </i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>In the process of writing the "History of the Twenty-First Century," this kind of went on the back burner until I came upon an article on the blog </i><b>Occasional Enthusiast</b><i> entitled "Alternative Star Trek Warp Speed Scale and Related Equations" (2016) [<a href="http://www.occasionalenthusiast.com/alternative-star-trek-warp-speed-scale-and-related-equations/" target="_blank">LINK</a>] which takes a very different approach but has some really cool ideas. My comment on that post led to a very helpful exchange with the author (at least, helpful to me) and inspired me to pull this back out, polish it a bit, and go ahead and post it.</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>Take it for what it is -- one fan's interpretation. And remember that, "Dammit, Jim, I'm an historian, not a mathematician!</i>"<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">The Facts As We Know Them From the Episodes and Movies</h2><h2><o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Although other spacefaring peoples of the <i>Star Trek</i>
universe, such as the Vulcans, had previously possessed the Warp Drive (or
something closely enough akin to it that no distinction has ever been made on
screen), Earth’s first Warp Drive was invented by Zefram Cochrane and his
associate Lily Sloane in the mid twenty-first century. Launching in a converted
ICBM which he had dubbed <i>Phoenix</i> from an abandoned missile silo near
Bozeman, Montana, on Thursday 05 April 2063, Cochrane and a support crew of two
cleared Earth’s atmosphere, engaged the prototype warp engine, “broke the warp
barrier,” and dropped back into normal space approximately fifty-five seconds
and somewhat more than that many <i>light</i>-seconds away from Earth. Whatever
exactly “broke the warp barrier” means in this specific context (and that will
be discussed later), for now simply understand that <i>Phoenix</i> had exceeded
the speed of light even if only for a short time. Cochrane and his crew
returned safely to their point of origin and were there several hours later
when an alien spacecraft descended on Bozeman. The Vulcans had long been
observing Humankind from above but had thus far adhered to their policy of not
initiating contact with any primitive people, even spacefaring ones such as Humanity
had been for a century, until that people had achieved faster-than-light
travel. The Vulcan survey vessel <i>T’Plana-Hoth</i> was in the solar system
when it detected <i>Phoenix</i> surpassing light-speed and thus tracked her
flight to her landing. And so Humanity experienced the first of many “First
Contacts” to come.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What then occurred has not been definitively revealed on
screen. The broad strokes are that over the next few decades, under a sometimes-irksome
oversight by the oh-so-superior Vulcans, Humanity slowly moved out into the
local interstellar neighborhood. By the early twenty-second century (2119) there
had been founded near Bozeman, Montana, a “Warp Five Research Institute” (popularly
known simply as “the Warp Five Complex”) under the direction of Dr. Henry
Archer. According to the “Warp Factor scale” initially formulated by Cochrane
himself, Warp Factor 1 was the speed of light, while Warp Factor 2 was eight
times the speed of light. Even that latter velocity not having been attained as
of 2119, Warp Factor 5 – 125 times the speed of light – seemed a very long way
off. Although the Vulcans clearly had the capability, they refused to share it,
deeming humanity not “mature” enough as a species to be encouraged access to
the wider universe unfettered by relatively slow lower warp speeds. But Warp 2
– or the “Warp 2 Barrier” – was “broken” in 2143 by test pilot Cmdr. A. G.
Robinson flying the first NX-prototype test vehicle. In one minute and twenty-seven
seconds of increasingly rough acceleration past Warp 2 from warp insertion near
Earth before experiencing a catastrophic warp field collapse at Warp 2.2. The NX-Alpha
broke up near Jupiter.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Robinson survived and became the first Human to eject in an escape pod at
faster-than-light velocity. The ever-helpful Vulcans promptly urged Earth’s
Starfleet to put its warp trials on hold indefinitely – but a few days later
test pilot Cmdr. Jonathan Archer (long-deceased Henry Archer’s son) joined
Robinson in an illicit test flight of Starfleet’s only other NX-prototype, the
NX-Beta, employing a new intermix formulation overseen by engineer Lt. Charles
“Trip” Tucker III – and attained a steady Warp 2.5 before returning safely to
Earth. After only a year and a half grounding and review of the program, test
flights resumed with new and improved NX-prototypes. Test pilot Cmdr. Jacques
Duvall attained Warp 3 in 2145 in the NX-Delta.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
It is unknown exactly when Warp 4 was broken (although the first Earth starship
capable of that velocity was <i>Franklin</i><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[4]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></i></span></a>),
but Earth’s first Warp-Five Starship, <i>Enterprise</i> (NX-01), launched on
its first trip outside the Solar System under the command of Capt. Jonathan
Archer on Friday, 16 April 2151, three weeks ahead of schedule.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
At that time <i>Enterprise</i> had not yet made Warp 5 a reality – tests inside
the Solar System had maxed at Warp 4.5, but continued improvements “on the fly”
by Chief Engineer Commander “Trip” Tucker allowed the ship to break the Warp 5
barrier for a short time on Friday 09 February 2152.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Although speeds in excess of Warp 5 would remain a rarity, she ultimately set
her own record at Warp 5.2 (141c) in November 2154.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">We have no further specifics on when Warp Factors 6, 7, and
8 were attained. However, we know that a century later, in 2254, Lt. José Tyler
of the United Federation of Planets Starship USS <i>Enterprise</i> (NCC-1701),
enthused to supposed survivors of the crashed scientific survey ship SS <i>Columbia</i>
– stranded on the planet Talos IV for the past eighteen years – that “You won’t
believe how fast you can get back – the time barrier’s been broken!” During
that same period, the term “hyperdrive” is used for <i>Enterprise</i>’s translight
propulsion system, along with the term “Time-Warp Factor” – specifically
“Time-Warp Factor 7” is mentioned.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
<i>Columbia</i> was lost in 2236; <i>Enterprise</i> was commissioned in 2245
after her shakedown cruise, and was probably being constructed through the
early 2240s. Whatever advance Tyler means had to occur between 2236 and 2245,
probably no later than 2240; let’s just say “<i>circa</i> 2240.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">By a decade later, that same USS <i>Enterprise</i> (NCC-1701)
had a cruising velocity of Warp 6 and an emergency speed of Warp 8, with brief
bursts up to Warp 9. Extraordinary circumstances on a couple of occasions
during Capt. James T. Kirk’s first Five-Year Mission (2266-2270, inclusive) saw
incredible speeds of up to Warp 14.1 attained.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">By the 2280s, experiments with a new “Transwarp Drive” had
proven successful enough in trials to warrant the prototype of the next
generation starship, USS <i>Excelsior</i> (NX-2000), to be constructed as a
test bed. Much to the evident chagrin of her captain, Lawrence Edward Styles, <i>Excelsior</i>
failed her first test when USS <i>Enterprise</i> was stolen from the
immediately adjacent berth in Spacedock by her own former officers in 2285. Having
just, earlier in the day, exulted to Cmdr. Montgomery Scott, formerly Chief Engineer
of <i>Enterprise</i>, that they would be breaking all of <i>Enterprise</i>’s
speed records on the morrow,<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Styles warned Kirk and company that they stood no chance of outrunning <i>Excelsior</i>
and that if they did not stand down their careers in Starfleet would be ended –
then he then had to watch <i>Enterprise</i> disappear into warp as his own ship
ground to a halt.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Later investigation revealed the truth – that the Transwarp failure was due to
sabotage on the part of Scott before he went to join his fellow officers on <i>Enterprise</i>.
Nevertheless, Transwarp would never be mentioned on-screen again,<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
and when <i>Excelsior</i> was next seen, she bore the hull number NCC-2000 and
flew under the command of Capt. Hikaru Sulu.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
The terminology remained simply “Warp Drive” and “Warp” or “Warp Factor” <i>x</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">By three-quarters of a century later, in the 2360s and
beyond, while terminology continued to reflect “Warp Drive,” Warp Factors
beyond 10 were rare to non-existent. Eventually (and I’m uncertain exactly
when, but believe it was in an episode of <i>Star Trek: Voyager</i>) Warp 10
was asserted on-screen to be a theoretically unattainable “infinite velocity,” at
which an object would occupy every point in the universe simultaneously – although
the plot of the episode concerned one of the characters doing exactly that in a
modified shuttle-pod.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Despite several other instances when supposed travel “faster than Warp 10” was
reported in other episodes of the “Next Generation Era,” such as when USS <i>Enterprise</i>
(NCC-1701-D) jumped almost instantaneously from our own galaxy to one of the
neighboring clusters of the M33 Triangulum Galaxy, 2.7 million light-years
distant<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
-- and the depiction of one future
timeline alternate to 2370 in which Capt.
Jean-Luc Picard witnessed a dramatically<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
upgraded <i>Enterprise</i> D capable of Warp 13!<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
– it was clear that something radical had changed and that the Warp Factor
Scale was now meant to go from zero to ten.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">These are the main data of which I am aware based on the
various episodes and movies of all the <i>Star Trek</i> series to date. Notice
that I am not considering the recent <i>Star Trek: Discovery</i> and its “Spore
Drive.” That is not Warp Drive.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
But it does raise one point which is worthy of consideration. “Warp Drive” is
not the only means of faster-than-light travel in the <i>Star Trek</i>
Universe. Various other technologies mentioned as allowing the “universal speed
limit” to be flouted include tachyon-based Bajoran lightships<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
and Borg “transwarp conduits,”<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
graviton-based propulsion,<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
wormholes such as that in the Bajoran System,<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
and many other forms of “spacetime manipulation.”<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[23]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
And those do not include such apparently instantaneous means of traveling
through space and time as the Guardian of Forever.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
I am not concerned with any of those here, however – just the plain old Warp
Drive, regarding which I think it obvious that the history has not been fully
explained – or at least not to my satisfaction. The purpose of this essay is to
do just that, and propose a somewhat different understanding of what and how
the “Warp Scale” alluded to earlier as having been devised by Zefram Cochrane
himself really works and how it relates to the progression of Warp Drive
technology through at least two major advances following its invention in the
mid-twenty-first century.<o:p></o:p></p><h2>The Problem As I See It<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Examining the facts as we know them as narrated above, I think
the first of those propositions is clear. Summarizing it into a brief timeline
will perhaps highlight the two major advances that have occurred:</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">063: <i>Phoenix</i>
attains Warp 1, e.g., the “warp barrier.”</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2143: NX-Alpha exceeds Warp 2 briefly and breaks up at Warp 2.2. A few
days later, using an adjusted intermix formula, NX-Beta sustains Warp 2.5 for a
time and returns safely to Earth.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2145: NX-Delta attains Warp 3.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Ca. 2150?: </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Franklin</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> attains Warp 4.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2151: </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Enterprise</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> (NX-01) sustains Warp 4.5.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2152: </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Enterprise</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> (NX-01) briefly attains Warp 5.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2154: </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Enterprise</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> (NX-01) sets her own record at Warp 5.2.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Ca. 2240: Something called “the time barrier” is broken.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2254: USS </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Enterprise</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> (NCC-1701) travels faster than light
employing a “hyperdrive” or “time-warp drive” at an attainable “Time Warp
Factor” of at least 7.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Ca. 2255: An odd visual and audio effect associated with the “time-warp
drive” is corrected.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2260s: </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Enterprise</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> (NCC-1701) (and her sister ships) cruise at
Warp 6, can endure Warps 8 and 9, and under extraordinary circumstances attain
up to Warp 14.1.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2280s: Experiments in Transwarp Drive with results unknown – except
that Starfleet would not have built a totally new, bigger starship as a test
bed ready for launch in 2285 had there not been plenty of successful tests and
it being essentially a proven technology. Perhaps there were still bugs to work
out, but the single spectacular failure that is the only thing we truly know
about it must be remembered to have resulted from sabotage, not failure of
concept, design, or construction.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2290s ff.: Terminology has reverted to “Warp Drive” and “Warp Factor”
or simple “Warp” as an expression of speed.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2360s ff.: Although the terminology remains the same – “Warp Drive,”
Warp [Factor]” – suddenly Warp 10 is an unattainable (or at least rarely
attainable) “infinite velocity.”</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="HngIndtNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I think it is immediately apparent that there are at least
three general periods in the history of the Warp Drive from its invention in
2063 to its latest canonical presentation, in the 2020 series, <i>Star Trek:
Picard</i>, set in 2399. But there are other considerations that must be
examined before discussing those.<o:p></o:p></p><h2>What Do We Mean By “Warp Drive”?, and What is the “Warp Scale”?<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">It will be easier to step more explicitly out of the <i>Star
Trek</i> universe, I think.</p><p class="MsoNormal">First off, “Warp Drive” is a term introduced during the
early days of the original <i>Star Trek</i> series. The common understanding
that eventually developed was that it depended on “warping” space in a
controlled fashion to provide propulsion without the relativistic effects of
simply attempting to accelerate to and beyond the speed of light – relativistic
effects that would, in fact, render “beyond the speed of light” impossible
because of time dilation, dimensional contraction, and energy and mass
exponentiation as any physical object approaches the speed of light. The theory
depends on the idea that space itself is not subject to those concerns, and
that if one can therefore warp space in such a way that a given spatial domain
moves relatively faster than light as compared to another, one can ride along
with it and effectively be moving faster than light oneself. It is not as out
there as it sounds. Real-world physicists have made advances toward working out
the science involved, most famously Miguel Alcubierre of the Max Planck
Institute for Gravitational Physics at the National Autonomous University of
Mexico and NASA engineer Harold "Sonny" White. Experiments proceed, although it is
cautioned that the science and engineering are both in their infancy. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IXS_Enterprise" target="_blank">LINK</a>]</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding the “Warp Scale,” as far back as I can remember, a
simple cubic exponentiation was proposed to explain how fast the Starship <i>Enterprise</i>
might be traveling in terms of the speed of light (<i>c</i>):<o:p></o:p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Table 1:
The Original Warp Scale</h4><p class="MsoCaption" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><o:p></o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; text-align: left;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">Multiple of the Speed of Light<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1<sup>3</sup> = 1 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">2<sup>3</sup> = 8 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">3<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">3<sup>3</sup> = 27 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">4<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">4<sup>3</sup> = 64 c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">5<sup>3</sup> = 125 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">6<sup>3</sup> = 216 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">7<sup>3</sup> = 343 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">8<sup>3</sup> = 512 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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</tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal">I do not know if this scale was ever confirmed as such on-screen,
but in noted science fiction author James Blish’s prose adaptation of the
episode “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” Warp 4 is stated to be 64<i>c</i>. “The <i>Enterprise</i>,
on a rare trip back toward the Sol sector and Earth, hit the black star
traveling at warp factor four – sixty-four times the speed of light.”<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[25]</span></span></span></a>
It tracks, and shows that Blish was aware of the scale. It might seem
incredibly fast, but there does not seem to be a fundamental problem with Warp
14.1 being 2,803 times the speed of light. There were other instances of warp
speeds beyond Warp Factor 10, even reference in one of The Animated Series
episodes to a ship clocking in at a <i>truly</i> incredible Warp 36 (or
46,656c)!<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[26]</span></span></span></a>
Spock is avowedly incredulous: “This object is traveling at a rate
theoretically impossible for matter to achieve. More specifically […] it is
moving at a speed on the order of warp-thirty-six.”<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[27]</span></span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">But why is it “theoretically impossible”? – It is simple
math.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nevertheless, by the late 1980s when <i>The Next Generation</i>
premiered, viewers were suddenly presented with a practical “warp speed limit”
of Warp 10. It was immediately apparent even in the first episode, “Encounter
at Farpoint” (1987), when <i>Enterprise</i> (NCC-1701-D) tried to outrun the
mysterious ball of energy that apparently was the godlike trans-dimensional
being calling itself “Q.” Was any other “old-Trek” fan wondering why <i>Enterprise</i>
was going so <i>slow</i>? Warp 9, Warp 9.2, Warp 9.3…. This is a century after
Kirk and company; surely the speeds the “original” <i>Enterprise</i> attained
in extraordinary circumstances (Warps 10 and 11, even 12) would be ordinary by
now! But <i>noooo</i> … this new <i>Enterprise </i>crawled to a maximum of 9.7
in that chase. Say what? … Eventually (as I understand it, in <i>Star Trek: </i>Voyager,
specifically in “Threshold”) Warp 10 was stated to be an unattainable “infinite
velocity.” Say <i>what</i>? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The “<i>what</i>” is that by the late 1980s <i>Star Trek </i>creator
and executive producer Gene Roddenberry wanted to prevent the rampant “warp
factor inflation” that had occurred late in the Original Series by arbitrarily
imposing a Warp 10 speed limit – for dramatic purposes. That is a perfectly
fine “real world” explanation, even if I do not happen to agree with it. Really
– Is constantly adding nines to the decimal (Warp 9.9, 9.99, 9.999, …) truly
any better than adding integral numbers (Warp 9, 10, 11, 12, …)? I would say it
really diminishes the sense of radically increasing speed. Was there ever an
“in-universe” explanation? I do not recall there ever being one, at least on
screen. I don’t think there was even a “quasi-in-universe” explanation beyond reference
to “Gene [Roddenberry]’s recalibration” and “Eugene’s Limit” (Warp 10) in the <i>Star
Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual</i> by Rick Sternbach and Michael
Okuda (1991) which (pp. 54 ff.) gives all kind of gobbledegook exposition about
Zefram Cochrane’s “continuum distortion propulsion” (CDP, only <i>informally</i>
known as the “Warp Drive”) engine, which in its first iteration allowed only a
“straddling” of exactly the speed of light for alternating instants no longer
than Planck time, 1.3 x 10<sup>-43</sup> seconds and consequently a four-year
voyage even to the nearest star, with the subsequent development of “asymmetrical
peristaltic field manipulation” (APFM) allowing “layering” of field layers
imparting velocities beyond light speed dependent on the number of layers per
unit time … and so forth. You get the picture.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[28]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
As meaningless as all that is, it could work as an explanation for Original
Series Warp Drive as well as Next Gen, no problem.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
But when Sternbach and Okuda progressed to “Warp Power Measurement” they set
forth a scale that is different from that previously published in <i>Making</i>
and well-known among fans:<o:p></o:p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Table 2:
The Original and Next Generation Warp Scales</h4><p class="MsoCaption" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><o:p></o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;"><a name="_Hlk42516348"> </a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">Warp Factor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">Original Series Scale (extended)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">Multiple of the Speed of Light<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;"><i>Next Generation</i> Scale<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">Multiple of the Speed of Light<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1<sup>3</sup> = 1 x the speed of light (<i>c</i>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">2<sup>3</sup> = 8 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">10 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">3<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">3<sup>3</sup> = 27 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">39 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">4<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">4<sup>3</sup> = 64 <i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">102 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">5<sup>3</sup> = 125 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">214 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">6<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">6<sup>3</sup> = 216 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">392 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">7<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">7<sup>3</sup> = 343 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">656 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">8<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">8<sup>3</sup> = 512 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1024 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">9<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">9<sup>3</sup> = 729 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1516 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">10<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">10<sup>3</sup> = 1,000 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: -1.15pt;"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style", serif; font-size: 11pt;">∞</span><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal">Okay… What is the new “Warp Equation”? Hint – there really
is not one that fits Warp Factors from 1 to 10 inclusive. Actually, there is a
modification of the old formula that will work for 1 to 9. Instead of the
exponent being a factor of 3, it is the endlessly repeating decimal resulting
from the fraction 10/3 = 3.3333….</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Table 3:
The Exponential 10/3 Warp Scale</h4><p class="MsoCaption" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><o:p></o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">W<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">Warp Factor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">X = W<sup>(10/3)</sup><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1 <i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">10.08 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">3<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">38.94 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">4<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">101.59 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">213.75 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">6<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">392.50 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">7<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">656.14 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">8<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1024 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">9<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1516.38 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">10<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">2154.43 <i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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</tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal">--- rounded to the nearest integer. But that scale does not
yield infinity for Warp 10, which seems mathematically inconsistent – because
it is.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I don’t like mathematical inconsistency.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is an acknowledgment of the problem in a commentary
paragraph on <i>TNG Tech Manual</i> p. 56. Reconciling two imperatives was
“pretty complicated” – Roddenberry’s new dictate of a Warp 10 limit conflicted with
the reasonable expectations of a viewership that the twenty-fourth-century <i>Enterprise-</i>D
be significantly faster than her twenty-third-century namesake that had
attained as high as Warp 14.1. Sternbach and Okuda’s “solution was to redraw
the warp curve so that the exponent of the warp factor increases gradually,
then sharply as you approach Warp 10. At Warp 10, the exponent (and the speed)
would be infinite, so you could never reach this value. (Mike [Okuda] used an
Excel spreadsheet to calculate the speeds and times.)” Essentially, however, he
freehanded it past Warp 9.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">(As to an acknowledgment of the difference from the Original
Series, that would only come in a somewhat exasperated commentary much later in
the chapter of the <i>TNG Tech Manual</i>, p. 62: “Oh, very well: The current
warp values are presumably much faster than those achieved by the original <i>Enterprise</i>
in the first series, but the “old” and the “new” Warp 1 are the same, the speed
of light. The ‘old’ Warp 6 is about Warp 5 on the new scale. The (then) amazing
speed of Warp 14.1, achieved by the first <i>Enterprise </i>under extreme
duress in “Is There in Truth No Beauty?” [sic – it was actually in “That Which
Survives”] now works out to around Warp 9.7, which the new ship achieved while
fleeing Q during “Encounter at Farpoint.” That they had presumably been
bombarded with questions about this shows in that initial “Oh, very well”….)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nevertheless, the long and short is that there is now no way
to express the full continuum of Warp Factors from zero to maximum velocity by
a consistent mathematical formulation – and that has always bothered me. Ultimately,
“Eugene’s Limit” created a dramatic quandary for the creators that, to my mind,
took away from the overall effect. Moving at Warp 9.96, Capt. Picard commands,
“<i>Increase speed to Warp 9.97 – Engage!</i>” And I yawn…. – Moving at Warp
13, he commands, “<i>Increase speed to Warp 14 – Engage!</i>” – now <i>that</i>
has a greater impact.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">One problem Sternbach and Okuda admitted, however, was that while
one could devise an appropriate mathematical equation approaching
asymptotically to infinity as you near Warp 10, the result would skew lower
warp speeds to incredibly greater velocities compared to their Original Series
counterparts. As they envisioned it, the previously fast but not incredible
Warp 9 would now make the opposite end of the galaxy attainable and most
previously visited planets reachable in a matter of days if not hours.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Of course, if they had owned up to the change on-screen by
simply admitting that this was a new generation of “Warp Drive” making the old
warp scale obsolete, those viewers who cared would have accepted it, and the
creators could have continued using numbers like Warp 7 and 8 to mean “really,
really <i>fast</i>” just like in the old days. Moreover, there is a way to
construct a warp scale curve keeping up to Warp 9 in a reasonable range even
with 10 being infinity, as long as the viewer is periodically reminded that,
e.g., Warp 7 is the maximum sustainable velocity, Warp 8 is sustainable only
for a matter of hours, and Warp 9 will quickly burn out the warp coils and
leave you stranded in deep space.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">But no, they didn’t do that, and left it to schmucks like me
to try to come up with a workable theory and history of the Warp Drive that
makes consistent sense in all eras:</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">One that does not depend on
arbitrarily “recalibrating” the Warp Scale between the Original Series era and
the Next Generation era without good reason. There must have been some kind of
fundamental change in warp technology to warrant such.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">One that provides some kind
of predictable, calculable system or systems to figure effective velocities
based on stated Warp Factors.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">One that accounts for
occasional shifts in terminology where those shifts have meaning and yet
reasonably revert to the older terminology while implicitly meaning something
slightly different in the minds of the characters.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">My Propositions</h2><h2><o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Returning to the timeline summarized in the section entitled
“The Problem As I See It,” I propose that there are three distinct eras in
human warp technology, three different generations of warp drive based on
fundamentally similar and yet substantially different theories:</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">First Generation: The Warp
Drive, 2063-ca. 2240. The fundamental technology was that devised by Zefram
Cochrane and Dr. Lily Sloane and refined by a series of scientists and
engineers such as Dr. Henry Archer and Cmdr. Trip Tucker as well as many others
whose names are unknown to us. The propulsion system was called the “Warp
Drive,” and velocities were expressed in units called “Warp Factors,” or simply
“Warp” for short.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Second-Generation: The
Time-Warp Hyperdrive, ca. 2240-ca. 2285. Some advance allowed something called
the “time barrier” to be broken and resulted in speeds that would have been
amazing only a few years before its advent. After a brief period when the terms
“Hyperdrive” and “Time-Warp Factor” were employed, the older terms fell back
into use among any but the most pedantic, being simpler, widely understood, and
describing technology and effects that were, for most people, indistinguishable
from what had prevailed before.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Third-generation: The
Transwarp Drive, ca. 2285 ff. Yet another advance resulted in substantially
faster velocities and even a “recalibration” of the open-ended warp scale from one
beginning at zero and progressing steadily with no apparent ceiling to one beginning
at zero but divided into ten units where the tenth exponentiates to infinity.
And yet, after a short time, the prevailing terminology fell back to that of
the previous generation – again, it was simpler, widely understood, and
described technology and effects that were, for most people, indistinguishable
from what had prevailed before. (Yes, I know that in response to fans’
speculation that this was exactly the case, the producers of </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The Next
Generation</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> rejected that notion, proclaiming that the Transwarp Drive was a
failed technology, as shown in </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Star Trek III: The Search For Spock</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">. But
that “failure” was, as I covered previously, due to an act of sabotage. Pouring
water in a gas tank might ruin a particular internal combustion engine, but it
does not invalidate the technology itself. And such a refitting from Second-Generation
to Third-Generation Warp Drives in the late twenty-third century is a better
explanation in-universe for the Warp Scale Recalibration than “The Great Bird
of the Galaxy Says It Must Be So.”)</span></li></ol><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l7 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><h2>Corollary Questions and Propositions<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">One question is begged in just about any discussion of the
Warp Drive and Warp Factor system to describe velocity. There are others that
are just as implicit:</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Why</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">? – Why are those
terms used? Why not just use a more straightforward expression of how “times
the speed of light” or how many “Lights” the ship is travelling? Especially if
the latter shorthand is used, in what way is “Warp 2” a better expression of
speed than “eight Lights”?</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Another such question: Why
are Warp Factors in any age generally (although not exclusively) expressed as
integers? There is a definite preponderance of whole number Warp Factors –
“Warp Factor 3, Mr. Sulu!” – </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">not</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> “Warp Factor three point six one five,
Mr. Sulu!” Why do starships customarily travel at those integral Warp Factors
when there is ample evidence that the scale is in fact continuous, e.g., Warp
2, Warp 2.1, Warp 2.2, Warp 2.3, etc.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">W</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">hy, in addition to the
easily explicable “Warp [1] barrier” of the speed of light – a truly
unattainable velocity according to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (even if
there seems to be no mathematical reason why something could not travel </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">faster</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">
than the speed of light,</span><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30" style="text-indent: -0.25in;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[30]</span></span></span></a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">
getting to such a velocity would require passing </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">through</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> the speed of
light, which really does appear to be an impassable barrier. You cannot get
there from here) – is there a “Warp 2 Barrier,” a “Warp 3 Barrier,” a “Warp 5
Barrier,” and presumably other such barriers at the integral Warp Factors?</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">What exactly was the “Time
Barrier” something to be “broken,” apparently ca. 2240?</span></li></ol><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The original answer to the first question is basically that
there is a virtue in vagueness from a storytelling standpoint. I’d say that
Roddenberry perceived correctly, even though he had no inkling of the magnitude
of the cultural phenomenon he was creating, and even in the days before the
Internet allowed virtually instantaneous feedback, that there were those among
the audience that were going to be soaking in every nugget of information
provided and point out every little inconsistency. “Eight times the speed of
light” is exact; “Warp 2,” at least in the beginning, was not. “Hey, wait a
minute, there’s no way <i>Enterprise</i> can travel from A to B in C time at
just eight times the speed of light! It’s going to take 28 weeks, three days,
seventeen hours, 52 minutes and 48 seconds!” (That’s from Earth to Alpha
Centauri, by the way.) One might also consider how cumbersome expressing higher
velocities could get in terms of “Lights” – “Keptin, enemy wessel is moving at four-hundred-tree
Lights!” – “Bring us to four-hundred-fifty Lights, Mister Chekov! Don’t let
them get away!” (Remember, we speak in “word numbers,” not “symbol-numbers”.) So,
“Warp” is both simpler and more concise, in addition to giving a sense that this
they are based on some as-yet-undeveloped technology.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The next two are really related, and depend on what the
“Warp Barriers” are – which is actually fairly easily explainable based on
something established in the <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual</i>
for what I am considering the “Third Generation Warp Drive” but which works as
well for the others as well. There is something intrinsic in the “Warp
Factors.” As laid out on pages 55 and 56, including Figure 5.1.1, “Warp speed/power
graph” (which, incidentally, appeared on-screen in an episode of <i>Enterprise</i><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[31]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
and so was, indeed, applicable to that era as well). Quoting from the top of p.
56:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="BlockQCxSpFirst">The amount of power required to maintain a given warp
factor is a function of the cochrane value of the warp field. However, the
energy required to initially establish the field is much greater, and is called
the peak transitional threshold. Once that threshold has been crossed, the
amount of power required to maintain a given warp factor is lessened. ….</p><p class="BlockQCxSpLast">Warp fields [i.e., speeds] exceeding a given warp
factor, but lacking the energy to cross the threshold to the next higher level,
are called fractional warp factors. Travel at a given fractional warp factor
can be significantly faster than travel at the next lower integral warp, but
for extended travel, it is often more energy-efficient to simply increase to
the next higher integral warp factor.</p></blockquote><p class="BlockQCxSpFirst"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="BlockQCxSpLast"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Putting it another way, it takes more energy to approach and
surpass each integral Warp Factor that it does to maintain a lower fractional
Warp Factor beyond it – up to a point. Then it becomes more energy efficient to
“jump the threshold” past the next Warp Factor and end up traveling
substantially faster for the same energy consumption. In other words, energy
usage increases as you approach Warp 1, spikes,<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[32]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
then dramatically falls off past Warp 1 before starting to increase as you approach
Warp 2, spikes, then falls off, rinse and repeat for each Warp Factor. Since
Warp 1 is <i>c</i>, the speed of light, that makes sense (in fact,
theoretically it would take infinite energy to attain it, hence the “continuum distortion
propulsion” theory of oscillating presence straddling precisely the speed of
light that I made fun of above), such a “spike” (of infinite magnitude) makes
sense – and also that the integral Warp Factors would bear some relationship to
the speed of light.<o:p></o:p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><o:p>Figure: Warp Power Consumption Scale </o:p></h4><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid9lQhevxSwhAgoD3gxxA86QrAT_9vy9kQujduHtIarHYUsUq_hrh3Z68H5Iv2kyNuajvhKhoKUHoFPkxYLsCfia9owNmTgNl94vtswoOlPZv8mLtnwgITju9KhyphenhyphenekVHFk6_mc5NMFpeRp/s347/Warp+Power+Curve.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="347" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid9lQhevxSwhAgoD3gxxA86QrAT_9vy9kQujduHtIarHYUsUq_hrh3Z68H5Iv2kyNuajvhKhoKUHoFPkxYLsCfia9owNmTgNl94vtswoOlPZv8mLtnwgITju9KhyphenhyphenekVHFk6_mc5NMFpeRp/s320/Warp+Power+Curve.png" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Note that although this graph goes up to Warp 14.5, the
highest Warp Factor known to have been attained and survived by a starship is
Warp 14.1. [Okuda's original: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Warptable.gif" target="_blank">LINK</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Recall that in the <i>Enterprise</i> episode “First Flight,”
the key to successfully surpassing Warp 2 and settling into sustained flight at
a “fractional warp factor” beyond that was Cmdr. Tucker’s revised “intermix
formulation” – perhaps a more efficient fusion of matter and antimatter to
provide the necessary energy to the outboard warp nacelles to establish and
maintain the required warp field strength. Other factors were undoubtedly
involved, but that one was explicitly mentioned, and I see no reason to doubt
that similar refinements were involved in “breaking” each successive warp
barrier.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I think that basically answers questions two and three – and
suggests an answer to the fourth.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What is the relationship of each integral Warp Factor to the
speed of light? I think the original answer provided is fundamental and makes
sense. We live in a three-dimensional universe. Breaking free of that universe
into faster-than-light travel does not, to my mind, invalidate that, although
one effect of the warp drive is to compress space in the direction of travel –
to <i>warp</i> it in that direction. By what factor? – the “Warp Factor” – and,
given the fundamental three-dimensions, it just makes sense that the number
three would lie at the heart of the progressive warping of space as successive
multiples of the speed of light were attained. So, from one perspective, a ship
at Warp 2 is moving at (theoretically) twice the speed of light – but from
another, it is moving at two-cubed times the speed of light. Hence, the cubic
scale referenced above. It is a perfectly elegant solution, one that (in the
real universe) prevailed in everyone’s mind very quickly – and in (my imagined)
<i>Star Trek</i> universe explains the peak transitional thresholds as well. I also
think it served from the time Zefram Cochrane invented the “space-warp” until a
<i>fourth</i> dimension was added to the equation almost two hundred years
later.<o:p></o:p></p><h2>The “Time-Warp Drive”<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">The “Time Barrier” – bearing in mind that it was initially
introduced only minutes into the first <i>ever</i> episode of <i>Star Trek</i>,
thus in context it could have both more and less meaning than it does to us
now, considering it in a much expanded context – seemed to refer to a recent
advance that revolutionized space flight. It was an advance of such magnitude
that:</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Tyler enthused that the
supposed </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Columbia</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> survivors would be “amazed” at the speed; </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">and</i></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">In the short term it was on
everyone’s mind to the point that the “Time-Warp Factor” terminology noted
above dominated; </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">but</i></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The shift was not so
fundamental that the distinction in terminology between “Time-Warp” and simple
“Warp” prevailed in the long run. By a decade or so later (2254-2265) speech
had been shortened back simply to “Warp.”</span></li></ol><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">How to account for a substantial enough revision without
rewriting the warp scale entirely?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Since time is often considered the “fourth dimension,” I
would propose the following – simply replace the cubic exponentiation with a quartic
exponentiation – to the fourth power. Yes, I am saying that during the Original
Series era, <i>Enterprise</i> was moving substantially faster than the cubic
scale would seem to indicate – and I know that this suggestion will meet
resistance from <i>Star Trek</i> fandom based on the long-standing authority of
the original cubic equation (as well as its modification by Sternbach and Okuda
to 10/3 rather than simply 3), but I think it provides a workable solution to
the conundrum of the “Time-Warp.” Remember, moreover, that the cubic equation
(as far as I know) was never “canonized” on-screen. The new quartic warp-scale
would look like (and compare to the cubic scale as follows):<o:p></o:p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Table 4:
The Cubic and Quartic Warp Scales</h4><p class="MsoCaption" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><o:p></o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">Warp Factor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">The Cubic “Warp Scale”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">Multiple of the Speed of Light<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">The Quartic “Time-Warp Scale”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">Multiple of the Speed of Light<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1<sup>3</sup> = 1 x the speed
of light (c)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">1<sup>4</sup> = 1 x the speed
of light (c)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">2<sup>3</sup> = 8c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">2<sup>4</sup> = 16c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">3<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">3<sup>3</sup> = 27c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">3<sup>4</sup> = 81c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">4<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">4<sup>3</sup> = 64c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">4<sup>4</sup> = 256c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">5<sup>3</sup> = 125c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">5<sup>4</sup> = 625c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">6<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">6<sup>3</sup> = 216c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">6<sup>4</sup> = 1,296c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">7<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">7<sup>3</sup> = 343c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">7<sup>4</sup> = 2,401c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">8<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">8<sup>3</sup> = 512c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">8<sup>4</sup> = 4,096c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">9<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">9<sup>3</sup> = 729c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">9<sup>4</sup> = 6,561c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">10<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">10<sup>3</sup> = 1,000c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; text-indent: -1.15pt;"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif;">10<sup>4</sup>
= 10,000c<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal">Tyler is therefore telling the supposed <i>Columbia</i>
survivors that, at Warp 6, they will get home <i>six times as fast</i> as they
would have expected based on the warp scale they were familiar with when they
crashed in 2236. I imagine they would be “amazed.” The Quartic Scale provides a
pretty substantial boost to velocity. And yet, conceptually, it is similar
enough to the old Cubic Scale that the old “Warp” terminology ultimately
prevailed.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">How was that extra “time-dimension” added to the Warp Drive?
I have no idea. Perhaps by some kind of nesting of warp-fields – or even adding
a hyperspatial component to the previous warping of space into the subspatial
realm (<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[33]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>),
but I’m not terribly concerned with that, just the effects and determining a “realistic”<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn34" name="_ftnref34" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[34]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
way to calculate them. As far as the term, “Time Barrier,” I imagine that to
have been just a euphemism based on the previous experience of the “Warp
Barriers.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Following on this theme, if the first great advance in Warp
Technology after Cochrane was effected by adding another dimension to the
equation, what then was the second great advance that came less than half a
century later? What was the “Transwarp”?<o:p></o:p></p><h2>The “Transwarp Drive”<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Similarly to the “Time-Warp” advance of ca. 2240, the
“Transwarp” advance of ca. 2285:</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Must have been superior
enough to </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Enterprise</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">’s Warp Drive in </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Star Trek III</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> that Styles gloated
that </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Excelsior</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">’s Transwarp Drive was about to break every speed record
the </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Enterprise</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> had ever set; </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">and yet:</i></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">A</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">lthough “Warp 6,” etc.,
continued to be the terminology, meaning that, again, it was not so fundamental
a shift; </span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">although: </i></li><li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">It did compel the
“recalibration” of the Warp Scale from the simple exponential scales to the
“Zero-to-Infinity-in-Ten” scale described above.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">How and why? I think it had to do with the “time-warp”
nature of the Second-Generation Warp Drive. In late 2266, while <i>Enterprise</i>
was observing the breakup of planetoid Psi 2000, a unique set of circumstances
compelled her to initiate warp drive deep in an unstable gravitational field. The
effect was a reversal of time. In approximately three minutes of shipboard time
the ship traveled seventy-one hours back in objective time. During the process,
the helmsman reported the speed of the ship to be “off the scale,” traveling
faster than theoretically possible in our universe. It is unclear what he meant
by that, but this event was followed by a similar occurrence only a few months
later.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In March 2267: <i>Enterprise</i> was headed toward Earth at
Warp 4 when she was caught in the intense gravitational field of an uncharted
“black star.” In breaking loose from its grip, the ship experienced a slingshot
effect and was thrown all the way to Earth – 297 years in the past. Drawing on
the experience at Psi 2000 as well as sensor data obtained from their most
recent accidental experience, science officer Lt. Cmdr. Spock theorized a
method of duplicating the effect in reverse by using the gravity well of
Earth’s own sun. It worked – first proceeding a few days further back into the
past to rectify an unfortunate temporal contamination resulting from their
unplanned appearance in the past, then proceeding into the future, returning to
the same time from whence they had left.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In the wake of these two incidents, Starfleet initiated an intensive
research program in an attempt to understand, duplicate, control, and exploit
the technique. A little over a year later, in April 2268, as an experiment, <i>Enterprise
</i>repeated her experience yet again, in a planned slingshot emerging almost
exactly three hundred years into the past. Making historical observations from
orbit, <i>Enterprise</i> found herself once again involved in current events.
The danger of temporal contamination of the past being recognized, the secret
of the “Light-Speed Breakaway” method of Time Travel was henceforth classified
Above Top Secret.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn35" name="_ftnref35" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[35]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The second development resulted from the observation that
during the Light-Speed Breakaway process, the ship’s effective velocity did
not follow the predicted Second-Generation Warp Factor Scale. Instead, as noticed
above, the velocity exponentiated “off the scale,” approaching infinity as the
Warp Factor approached 10 (at which point the Time Warp effect was seen). This
was found to result from the gravitational gradient in the presence of such
high intensity gravity fields such as generated by the imploding planet Psi
2000, the uncharted “black star,” and deep in a star’s gravity well. But once that
effect was recognized, the Transwarp Development Program was born, tasked with
duplicating the increased effective velocities at lower Warp Factors without
initiating a Time Warp. It took almost two decades, but by the mid-2280s the
Transwarp Drive was tested, proven, and deployed with very little fanfare, most
likely for security purposes, not to broadcast to potential adversaries that
the Federation possessed a strategically advantageous faster method of
interstellar travel. As always, such a secret could not be maintained forever,
of course, and by the early twenty-fourth century all the major powers of local
space possessed Transwarp or comparable technology<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding that short-term, however, I must digress. The
“official” chronology has <i>Star Trek III: The Search for Spock</i> occurring
sometime in 2285. The venerable old Starship <i>Enterprise</i> (NCC-1701),
commissioned in 2245, was scuttled to keep her from being captured by the
Klingons. The “official” chronology places <i>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home</i>’s
beginning sometime in 2286 – about three months after Kirk and company, now fugitives
guilty of “grand theft starship,” fly a captured Klingon light destroyer to
Vulcan and take refuge while Vulcan mystics restore Spock’s <i>katra</i> to his
regenerated body. I have some minor quibbles with that specific dating, but
they do not matter here. What is important is that in 2285 the Transwarp Drive
is a new technology undergoing final tests on the <i>Excelsior</i> – tests that
were undoubtedly set back a bit by Scotty’s sabotage. At the end of <i>Star
Trek IV</i>, Kirk, having been court-martialed (again) and convicted of
disobeying direct orders (again) <i>and yet</i> having just saved Earth (again)
is demoted and assigned command of a <i>new</i> USS <i>Enterprise</i> (NCC-1701-A).
Of the various suggestions, I like this “new” ship being the newly refit USS <i>Yorktown</i>
(NCC-1704) as Gene Roddenberry himself suggested, although that doesn’t seem
consistent with the <i>Yorktown</i> having been in space and disabled at the
beginning of that same movie. On the other hand, I don’t know how long it was
between that event, the return of Kirk and company from their adventures in
1987, Kirk’s court-martial, and their being assigned to <i>Enterprise</i>-A. The
next movie, <i>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier</i>, is set in 2287, at which
point <i>Enterprise</i>-A is still undergoing final testing, so it could be
several months.<i> </i>Which might all seem tangential except it brings up the
question: Did the refit <i>Yorktown</i> have Warp or Transwarp Drive? Personally,
I think it was still Second-Generation Warp Drive, and that this plus her
already advanced age (being initially built as part of the same construction
contract series as the original <i>Enterprise</i>, in the 2240s) probably is
the reason that she is to be decommissioned a mere six years later, in 2293, at
the end of <i>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country</i>. She is all but fifty
years old at that point – and by then, I think the Transwarp Drive has been
proven, and USS <i>Excelsior</i> now has a growing family of Transwarp
sister-ships – enough that even <i>Excelsior</i>’s Captain Sulu used the traditional
terminology of “Warp.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Such a progression of technologies would, I believe, neatly
explain what was shown on screen better than the idea of a “failed” technology
(that Starfleet nevertheless had enough confidence in to build a new
top-of-the-line starship for) followed by continuance of the same old
technology with an otherwise unexplained “recalibration” of the Warp Factor
Scale. I suggest that the Transwarp Advance somehow redefined the relationship
between multiples of c in one perspective (the Warp Factors) and the effective
velocity (V<sub>eff</sub>) in another perspective, such that a simple
exponentiating equation based on <i>n</i> dimensions no longer prevails. Now
the exponentiating equation depends on some function of <i>x</i> (<i>f</i>(<i>x</i>))
where <i>x </i>is itself a function of the Warp Factor (W). To write it
quasi-mathematically, no longer is the equation:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Truecenter"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>V<sub>eff</sub> = W<sup>n</sup><i>c</i></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">… but rather something akin to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="TruecenterCxSpFirst"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>V<sub>eff</sub> = W<sup>f(x)</sup><i>c</i></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="TruecenterCxSpLast">where <i>x</i>
= <i>f</i>(W)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Maintaining the Time-Warp Quartic dimension, because I
propose this as an <i>advance</i> not a fundamentally new technology, I have
come up with the following<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftn36" name="_ftnref36" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[36]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="Truecenter"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 104%;">V<sub>eff</sub>
= W<sup>4</sup>(3/</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 104%;">√</span></b></span><span style="line-height: 104%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>(10-W))<i>c</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Three divided by the inverse-square-root of the Warp 10 differential is (I would say) a (three-dimensional/fourth-dimensional) space/time displacement correction factor (proving I can do gibberish too). In any case, comparing this proposed scale with the the original
cubic scale and the Okuda “modified 10/3” scale: </p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal">WF<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Original<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Cubic<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Warp Scale<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Okuda’s<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Modified (10/3)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Warp Scale<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The Professor's<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Proposed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Transwarp Scale<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">1c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">1c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">1.00<i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">8c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">10c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">16.97<i>c</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">3<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">27c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">38c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">91.85<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">4<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">64c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">102c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">313.53<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">125c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">214c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">838.53<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">6<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">216c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">393c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">1,944.00<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">7<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">343c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">656c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">4,158.65<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">8<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">512c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">1,024c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">8,688.93<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">9<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">729c<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">1,516c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">19,683.93<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">9.5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">857c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">2,500 (*) c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">34,556.57<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">9.75<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">927c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">3,000 (*) c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">54,221.27<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">9.9<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">970c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">4,000 (*) c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">91,130.14<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">9.95<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">985c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">20,000 (*) c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">131,500.9<i>c<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">10<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">1000c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; text-align: right;" valign="top">
∞
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∞
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</tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal">Note: (*) Okuda’s modified figures above Warp 9 are
eyeballed from his chart.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Yes, it’s considerably faster, but even comparing it with
the Original Series cubic scale, it’s in the same ballpark at the lower Warp
Factors. At Warp 6 it approaches a full order of magnitude faster, but it does
not really start exponentiating out of sight the higher Warp Factors. Even
then, it is <i>consistent</i>. Of course, Warp 8 is <i>screaming</i>. At Warp
9, <i>Scotty</i> would be screaming! At Warp 10, <i>no one can hear you scream!<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">But it is consistent and calculable. It’s not based on a
fudged freehand curve.<o:p></o:p></p><h2>The Three Generations of Warp Drive<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">So, to sum up, I propose that internal evidence from the
episodes and movies themselves suggest that there are three generations of Warp
Drive between its invention in 2063 and ca. 2400, our latest data, and that
these can be correlated with events depicted in the series:</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>2063-ca. 2240: The First Generation, the “Warp Drive.”
Invented by Zefram Cochrane and Dr. Lily Sloane, refined by a series of
scientists and engineers including Dr. Henry Archer, Cmdr. Trip Tucker, and
many others. Velocity was expressed in units called “Warp Factors” according to
a three-dimensional cubic scale based on the speed of light, the units being
commonly shortened to “Warp.”</li><li>Ca. 2240-ca. 2285: The Second Generation, the “Time-Warp
Hyperdrive.” Some advance (perhaps related to insights derived during the
development of Subspace Radio?) allowed an exponentiation of the pre-existing
Warp Drive into a fourth-dimension (commonly associated with “time”) yielding a
new quartic “Time-Warp Factor” scale whereby the multiples of the speed of
light were expressed in powers of four. Fundamentally, where a localized
relative velocity of some multiple of <i>c</i> had yielded an effective
velocity of <i>c</i> to the third power, now that same localized relative
velocity yielded an effective velocity of <i>c</i> to the fourth power. After a
relatively short time (less than a decade), the terminology reverted to the
preexisting “Warp Drive” and “Warp Factors” or simply “Warp.”</li><li>Ca. 2085 ff.: The Third Generation, the “Transwarp Drive.”
Yet another advance consequent to time-travel phenomena experienced by NCC-1701
<i>Enterprise </i>brought a new relation between the localized relative
velocities in terms of c and a much faster effective velocity, such that now a
localized relative velocity of 10c (previously “Warp Factor 10,” now “Transwarp
Factor 10”) was unattainable because it yielded infinite velocity. Initially,
the terminology reflected this fact – “Transwarp Drive,” “Transwarp Factor”
(although it is unattested, it stands to reason) – but again, within a short
time terminology reverted to the familiar “Warp Drive,” “Warp Factors,” and
“Warp.”</li></ol><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now, comparing the three Warp Factor Scales:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Table 5:
The Three Generations of Warp Drives Compared</p><p class="MsoCaption" style="break-after: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;"><o:p></o:p></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -1.15pt;">WF<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">First-Generation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">Warp
Drive<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">Cubic
Scale<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">(2063-ca.
2240)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">Second-Generation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">Time-Warp
Hyperdrive<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">Quartic
Scale<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">(ca.
2240-ca. 2285)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">Third-Generation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">Transwarp
Drive<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">“Transquartic
Scale”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -1.15pt;">(ca.
2285 ff.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">1c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">1c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">1.00c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">8c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">16c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">16.71c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">3<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">27c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">81c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">89.93c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">4<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">64c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">256c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">304.44c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">5<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">125c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">625c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">808.57c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">6<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">216c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">1,296c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">1,882.43c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">7<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">343c<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">2,401c<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">4,158.65c<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">8<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">512c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">4,096c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">8,688.93c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">9<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">729c<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">6,561c<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">19,683.93c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">9.5<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-background-themeshade: 217; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">857c<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">8,145c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">34,556.57c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">9.75<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">927c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">9,037c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<td style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-background-themeshade: 217; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">54,221.27c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">9.9<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">970c<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">9,606c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">91,130.14c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">9.95<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-background-themeshade: 217; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">985c<o:p></o:p></p>
</td>
<td style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left: none; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-background-themeshade: 217; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top">
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">9,801c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">131,500.9c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">10<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">1000c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">10,000c<o:p></o:p></p>
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∞
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">11<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">1,331c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">14,641c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">12<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">1,728c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">20,736c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">13<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">2,197c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">28,
561c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">14<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">2,744c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">38,416c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">14.1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">2,803c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;">39,525c<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -1.15pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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</tbody></table><h2 style="text-align: left;">Addenda:</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Cochrane Factor and Sloane’s Constant</h3><p class="MsoNormal"><i>A common perception among fans, with (I believe) some warrant from televised information, although I do not have references, is that actual warp velocities are also affected by local gravimetric fields, etc. The first time I ever encountered this idea was in the Introduction to Navigation booklet included with the Star Trek Maps (ca. 1980), and, although I do not think the effects are as pronounced as proposed in that work, I think the basic idea stands to reason -- so I incorporated it into "my" vision of the development of the Warp Drive. I ask that the reader remember, once again, that I am not a mathematician; these equations in particular were derived by trial and error to create come up with the effects I wanted, as well as to make the units cancel out: </i></p><h2><o:p></o:p></h2><p class="Normal-IndentCxSpFirst">In the “History of the Twenty-First Century”
(of the <i>Star Trek</i> universe) which I am currently writing, under the year
<a name="_Toc54037904">2074 there is an explanation for another facet of
space-warp physics – the Cochrane Factor</a>. I quote from my current draft:<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="Normal-IndentCxSpMiddle">The astute reader may have noticed a discrepancy
in the warp factor attained by Enterprise [Earth’s first starship, which
looks amazingly like the IXS-110 <i>Enterprise</i> designed by NASA engineer
Sonny White in 2013 [<a href="https://collider.com/star-trek-warp-ship-nasa-images/#ixs-enterprise" target="_blank">LINK</a>]], her real-space equivalent velocity, and the time taken to
travel the 4.395 light years from Earth to Alpha Centauri in 2072-2073. The
discrepancy was definitely noticed by the captain and crew even during their
passage before they arrived at in the outer Centauri system a full six months
earlier than they had expected when they left Earth. They had no way
to report the conundrum back to Earth – and no way to know that by the time
they returned the mystery would be explained if not actually solved and that
the insights derived from the investigation would produce the next significant
breakthrough in evading the light-speed limit prevailing in normal space [what will eventually be called "Subspace Radio].</p><p class="Normal-IndentCxSpLast">Dr. Lily Sloane had noticed immediately in studying
the telemetry from Cochrane’s first flight that Phoenix had not ended up
where fifty-five seconds at Warp 1.01 should have placed it. Several more
flights gathered sufficient data for her to solve the mystery – as far as
anyone has – within a decade. At the
time <i>Enterprise</i> left Earth on its first voyage, she had not, but even in
Sloane’s absence – she was not aboard – <i>Enterprise</i> confirmed the
solution she was only in the meantime discovering. Oversimplifying it
considerably, although Cochrane himself had perceived that the warping of three
dimensional space would result in the cubic equation that would be the most
fundamental fact of space warp propulsion known by every school child today –
effective real-space velocity equals the cube of the warp factor times the
speed of light, or v<sub>eff</sub> = W<sup>3</sup>c, there is
another factor multiplying the effect even further. Sloane called it “The
Cochrane Factor.” It depends on a
complex interaction of forces including but not limited to the masses and
separation of the two stars between which a warp-ship is traveling (if so), the
total mass of the galaxy and one’s position within it relative to the galactic
core, the local density of the interstellar medium, as well as the local masses
and distances of other nearby stars and planets – most of which are not (and
cannot be) known exactly even today and thus can only be estimated. Sloane
ultimately derived a complex equation to predict X modifying the cubic
equation such that v<sub>eff</sub> = XW<sup>3</sup>c is
correct within half a percent … most of the time. In order to do so, she found
it necessary to apply a constant, K, which is always rendered today as K<sub>S</sub>,
Sloane’s Constant. It was a solution she herself found inelegant, and many
theses and dissertations have resulted from almost a century’s efforts to
derive K<sub>S</sub>. She herself came to believe, although she could
never prove, that the solution was to be found in the very Heim theory that
Cochrane worked on as a graduate student.</p></blockquote><p class="Normal-IndentCxSpLast"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The best approximation of the overall effect may be
calculated by the following formula:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>X</i>=1+K<sub>S</sub>G<sub>c</sub>c<sup>-2</sup><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math", serif;">𝚲</span><sup>-1</sup>[(m<sub>1</sub>+m<sub>2</sub>)m<sub>o</sub>r<sub>12</sub><sup>2</sup>+0.5m<sub>o</sub>m<sub>H</sub>(m<sub>1</sub>+m<sub>2</sub>)m<sub>P</sub>r<sub>H</sub><sup>2</sup>+m<sub>G</sub>r<sub>G</sub><sup>2</sup>]</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Where:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>K<sub>S</sub> = Sloane’s
constant, empirically derived as 5.03 x 10<sup>-31</sup><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>G<sub>c</sub> = the
gravitational constant, 6.674 x 10<sup>-14</sup> m<sup>3</sup>g<sup>-1</sup>s<sup>-2</sup><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>c = the speed of light,
2.998 x 10<sup>8</sup> ms<sup>-1</sup><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math", serif;">𝚲</span>=
the cosmological constant, 1.056 x 10<sup>-52</sup> m<sup>-1</sup><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>m<sub>1</sub> and m<sub>2</sub>
= respectively, the mass of the star(s) at departure and the mass of the
star(s) at destination, expressed in terms of solar mass m<sub>o</sub><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>m<sub>o</sub> = one solar
mass, the mass of the star Sol, 1.989 x 10<sup>33</sup> g<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>r<sub>12</sub> = the distance
between stars 1 and 2 expressed in meters, where one light year = 9.46 x 10<sup>15</sup>
m<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>m<sub>H</sub> = the mass of
one hydrogen molecule <span style="font-size: 10pt;">(H<sub>2</sub>), </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">3.346 x 10<sup>-24</sup>
g</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>m<sub>p</sub> = the mass of
the payload being conveyed – i.e., the ship, expressed in grams.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>r<sub>H</sub> = the mean
separation between hydrogen molecules in the local interstellar medium,
estimated at 1.416 x 10<sup>-2</sup> m<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>m<sub>G</sub> = the mass of
the Galaxy, 2.984 x 10<sup>45</sup> g<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>r<sub>G</sub> = the
distance from the center of the Galaxy, expressed in meters.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>And, just to show I do not know when to stop....</i></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Let’s Do the Time Warp Again – The “Slingshot Effect”</h3><h2><o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal">Using similar concepts, it is possible to calculate the Time
Warp via the “Light-Speed Breakaway” (more properly, “Warp-Speed Breakaway” in high-gravitic-gradient
situations.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">First, “high gravitic gradient” is a relative term. Empirical
evidence based on the Psi 2000 and Black Star incidents described above
indicate that the gradient threshold required to initiate Time Warp is very
low, on the order of 1x10<sup>-7</sup>m<sup>-1</sup>s<sup>-1</sup>, calculated as
follows:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">dg
= mG<sub>c</sub>(r<sup>-2</sup>-(r<sup>2</sup>-2r+1)<sup>-1</sup>)TK<sub>T</sub><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Where:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>dg = the gravitic gradient
per meter<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>m = the mass of the gravity
source<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>G<sub>c</sub> = the
gravitational constant, defined above<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>r = the distance from the
center-point of the gravity source<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sudden initiation of a warp field of (Second-Generation) Warp
Factor 10 or higher in the presence of such a gravitic differential shears the
space-time continuum and creates a time-warp. Depending on whether one is
traveling toward the gravity source or away from it, one will be displaced
either backward (toward) or forward (away) in time to a degree dependent on
several factors. The simplified formula for estimating such temporal
displacement is as follows – with the caveat that the conditions are fluid
during the process because each of the following factors will be constantly
changing in a moving ship<span style="font-size: medium;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>T<sub>W</sub>
= V<sub>eff</sub>(W<sub>3</sub>x)TmG<sub>c</sub>(r<sup>-2</sup>-(r<sup>2</sup>-2r+1)<sup>-1</sup>)K<sub>T</sub>(V<sub>eff</sub>(W<sub>2</sub>10)<sup>-1</sup>r<sup>-2</sup></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Where;</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>T<sub>W</sub> = Time Warp
displacement<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>V<sub>eff</sub>(W<sub>3</sub>x)
= the effective velocity multiplier of 3<sup>rd</sup>-generation Warp x<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>T = subjective time at Time
Warp velocity<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>K<sub>T</sub> = Time-Warp
Constant (empirically-derived, -1.462 x 10<sup>20</sup>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>V<sub>eff</sub>(W<sub>2</sub>10)
= the effective velocity multiplier of 2<sup>nd</sup>-generation Warp 10
(=10,000)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The divisor of V<sub>eff</sub>(W<sub>2</sub>10) is included
rather than the number 10<sup>4</sup> to emphasize the crucial fact that,
whereas normal, predictable 2<sup>nd</sup>-generation Warp Physics seems to
apply up to that point, when (unavoidably confusing considering the association
of the Second-Generation Warp Drive advance being characterized as “breaking
the time barrier”) the ship … breaks the time barrier. At that point, spatial
velocity becomes meaningless, and further “acceleration” (i.e., increased power
input to the warp field according to what would become known as the Third-Generation
Warp Scale, starting at the Second-Generation Warp 10 equivalent of Third
-Generation Warp 6.193) manifests as increased displacement through time.</p><div>
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The foregoing story was told in the movie, <i>Star Trek: First Contact</i>
(1996).<o:p></o:p></p>
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Calling it an average of Warp 2.1, NX-Alpha would have covered 241,550,958.6 km
in 87 seconds. The minimum distance from Earth to Jupiter is about 4 AU, where
1 AU (astronomical unit = the distance from the Earth to the sun) is 149,597,870
km. Four AU would be about 600,000,000 km. In other words, the NX-Alpha should
not have been anywhere near Jupiter. But see way below under “The Cochrane
Factor and Sloane’s Constant.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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The foregoing narrative is synthesized largely from “First Flight” (<i>Enterprise</i>,
Episode 2:24, 2003) although aspects of it permeate the series,
especially the first episode, “Broken Bow” (2001).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek Beyond</i> (2016).<o:p></o:p></p>
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“Broken Bow.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Enterprise</i>, Episode 1:23,<i> </i>“Fallen Hero” (2002).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek: Enterprise</i>, Episode 4: 15, “Affliction” (2005),<o:p></o:p></p>
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All of this is from the original <i>Star Trek</i> pilot episode, “The Cage” (1964).
When announcing the diversion to Talos IV, Capt. Pike uses the term “time-warp
factor” to designate the speed: “Our destination is the Talos Star Group. Our
time-warp … factor seven.” Interestingly, as they accelerate the ship and crew
waver translucent and the stars can clearly be seen rushing by – <i>through</i>
– them, and as Pike leans over Tyler’s shoulder, Tyler uses hand-signals to
indicate “7,” implying that sounds cannot be heard. This effect is never seen
again. Obviously, it was corrected sometime between 2254 and the next time,
chronologically, we see ships of this 2250s era. If one accepts <i>Star Trek:
Discovery</i> (2017 ff.), that would be 2256, I believe; if one does not, then it
would be 2265. In any case, although I am not discussing it further in the main
text, I would suggest that the introduction of the “time-warp drive” resulted
in a brief “reality lag” or “hyperdimensional flux” – that perhaps manifested
only during acceleration or deceleration – that was corrected ca. 2255. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoFootnoteText">Later in the episode, when Spock, as acting captain,
for the safety of the ship and crew, orders <i>Enterprise</i> to break orbit,
he adds the term, “hyperdrive”: “All decks prepare for hyperdrive. Time warp
factor – ” – then he is cut off by Tyler’s report that the ships controls have
gone dead.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek</i>, Episode 3: 14, “That Which Survives” (1969).<o:p></o:p></p>
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Even Warp 14.1?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek III: The Search for Spock</i> (1984)<o:p></o:p></p>
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This is not entirely true. The term was used quite a bit, but obviously meaning
something different, especially in <i>Star Trek: Voyager</i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country</i> (1991)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek: Voyager</i>, Episode 2: 15, “Threshold” (1996).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i>, Episode 1: 06, “Where No One Has Gone
Before” (1987).<o:p></o:p></p>
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By which I mean, “hideously.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i>, Episode 7: 25/26<i>: </i>“All Good
Things.…” (1994).<o:p></o:p></p>
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And, frankly, one of the more ludicrous aspects of that series.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek: Deep Space 9</i>, Episode 3: 22, “Explorers” (1995)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek: Voyager</i>, Episode 4: 03, “Day of Honor” (1997)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek</i>, Episode 2: 18, “Obsession” (1967); <i>Star Trek: Voyager</i>,
Episode 6: 09, “The Voyager Conspiracy” (1999); etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Station Deep Space 9’s <i>raison d’être</i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Too many references to enumerate.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Star Trek</i>, Episode 1: 28, “City on the Edge of Forever” (1967)<o:p></o:p></p>
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Quoted from <i>Star Trek 2</i> (1968), as reprinted in <i>Star Trek: The Classic
Episodes</i> (2016 Sterling Books Edition), p. 183.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftnref26" name="_ftn26" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[26]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
<i>Star Trek: The Animated Series</i>, Episode 2: 06, “The Counter-Clock
Incident” (1974).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftnref27" name="_ftn27" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[27]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Quoted from Alan Dean Foster’s prose adaptation in <i>Star Trek The Animated
Series Log Seven</i> (1976), as printed in <i>Star Trek The Animated Series
Logs Seven and Eight</i> (2006), p.22.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftnref28" name="_ftn28" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[28]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Yes, I’m having a little fun with it. I really shouldn’t. They were attempting
to create a seemingly plausible explanation for technologies so far beyond
anything considered possible today that anything they might come up with, as
impressive as it might look, was going to be largely gobbledegook. They
succeeded. But it’s still gobbledegook … that did not stand in its details more
than four years. There’s nothing about “continuum distortion propulsion” or
“CDP” or “straddling” light-speed in <i>Star Trek: First Contact</i> (1996) –
just attaining warp speed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftnref29" name="_ftn29" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Until <i>First Contact</i>….<o:p></o:p></p>
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There are issues of causality, however – but discussion of faster-than-light
travel in <i>Star Trek</i> has generally ignored those issues for the last fifty-five
years, and so will I.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftnref31" name="_ftn31" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[31]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
“First Flight”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftnref32" name="_ftn32" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[32]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
As shown in the associated figure here, which is inspired by but does not reproduce
the aforementioned Figure 5.1.1 in the <i>TNG Technical Manual</i>, I think it
would be most logical for the spike in power consumption at each integral warp
factor to be mathematically infinity. One of the great mysteries of the Warp Drive would then be exactly what happens at that phase transition from just
below the integral Warp Factor to just above it in, as Okuda and Sternbach
suggest, Planck Time. Obviously, infinite power cannot in reality be consumed. A
disquieting theory is that the mass and very being of the starship and all its
payload – including the crew – are momentarily annihilated at each warp barrier,
ascending and descending, for that instant of Planck Time. Given McCoy’s
aversion to the transporter based on a similar effect, perhaps it would be
better if he did not know this…..<i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftnref33" name="_ftn33" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[33]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Gobbledegook!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftnref34" name="_ftn34" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[34]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
-- ?! – <i>Bwahahahahah!<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftnref35" name="_ftn35" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[35]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Nevertheless, almost two decades later, <i>Enterprise</i>’s crew – now flying
an appropriated Klingon light destroyer – used the technique yet again: Early
2286, during the Whalesong Crisis (<i>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home</i>, 1986).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/HISTORY/Warp%20Drive%20History%20DRAFT%202.docx#_ftnref36" name="_ftn36" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">[36]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
With help from blogger <i>occen</i> of the <i>Occasional Enthusiast</i> blog in
private correspondence after I outlined my basic ideas in a comment on the
post, “Alternative Star Trek Warp Speed Scale and Related Equations” (28 Nov
1016) <a href="http://www.occasionalenthusiast.com/alternative-star-trek-warp-speed-scale-and-related-equations/">http://www.occasionalenthusiast.com/alternative-star-trek-warp-speed-scale-and-related-equations/</a></p></div><div id="ftn37">
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</div>Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-87696465506582585792020-07-10T11:43:00.000-05:002020-07-10T11:50:17.904-05:00Canon and History in the STAR TREK Universe<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">One of
the tasks with which any historian must grapple in constructing a narrative of
the past is determination what source materials are available and how reliable
are the facts they provide. Many different factors must be considered,
including the proximity of the source to the event, whether it constitutes a
“primary source” providing contemporary first-hand knowledge unfaded by the
passage of time and unmediated by subsequent accounts and influences, or,
alternatively, whether the evidence is to be considered “secondary,” providing
a more distant perspective based on assessment of such primary sources. In both
cases – primary as well as secondary – one must consider in what ways the
recording of the account may have been motivated by an agenda – unconscious or
acknowledged – which determined inclusion or emphasis of certain facts and
deemphasis or even exclusion of other facts which may, objectively, be critical
in creating an accurate reconstruction of the events as they happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Such is
no less the case when, based on a body of admittedly fictional work created by
a myriad of authors, producers, directors, actors, and devoted commentators
over the course of more than half a century, one sets out to construct a
reasonable and cohesive history of a near future which has gradually caught up
with and surpassed the earliest accounts provided and yet possesses what has
come to be widely considered a definite terminus – 05 April 2063, the
development of the Warp Drive. I discussed previously [</span><a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2020/07/making-history-preliminary.html" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">]
the breadth of the still-growing </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Star Trek</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> franchise of television
series, movies, novels, and assorted supporting materials, how even the future
time-frame in which the adventures are considered to occur developed only
gradually, and what I called “The Perils of Prognostication” to which the
earliest predictions of the near future established in the Original Series,
approaching six decades ago, have inevitably fallen. I acknowledged as well
that what I am attempting to do will ultimately, with the passage of time, be
rendered invalid as time marches on and – inevitably, I believe, given its
demonstrated longevity – the </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Star Trek</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> franchise literally catches up
with itself in a far more untenable way than was the case when the 1990s did
not (thank God) bring World War III and the Eugenics Wars, and the first couple
of decades of the 21</span><sup style="font-family: georgia, serif;">st</sup><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> century did not (unfortunately) see such
things as manned missions to Mars and Saturn as well as an advance in
propulsion technology rendering “sleeper ships” unnecessary for interplanetary
travel by cutting transit times from months or years to mere days or weeks. But
I do consider the task worth doing, if only as an intellectual exercise in what
I tongue-in-cheek call “making history” (more accurately, “making </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">up</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">
history”) by maintaining as many as possible of the “facts” that have been
established over the years while fleshing them out into a narrative that
provides “a reasonable and cohesive history” of the near future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">To be
honest, I must also acknowledge that this is one way that I can play in the
wonderful universe that is <i>Star Trek</i>. From the very beginning – in fact,
blazing a trail in such activities – <i>Star Trek</i> fandom has produced a
huge volume of fan-made creations, in every genre imaginable: fan-written short
stories and novels, fan-created technical manuals and other supporting
materials, fan-acted, -directed, and -produced movies and <i>faux</i>
television episodes. Some attempts at fiction have been dreadful, constituting
wish-fulfillment sexual fantasies “starring” the authors and various of the
characters. Some has been quite good, meriting – and sometimes even gaining –
publication, or at least earning their creators the chance to write something
specifically for publication. The best – and this is where I would place <i>Star
Trek Continues</i> – is, in my judgment, a better recreation of the original
1960s vision of <i>Star Trek</i> than much of what has been officially
published or produced in the fifty years since the original series ended. The
same range of quality can be seen in the various supporting materials – blueprints,
technical manuals, and the like – that have appeared since the mid-seventies at
the very latest. Analysis of the minutiae appearing in the episodes – even in
background monitors and schematics flashing on the screen for a second or less
– have been united with reasoned hypothesis to produce marvelously intricate
speculative materials that are (like any prediction of near-future history will
be) inevitably rendered invalid by subsequent presentations. That does not stem
the tide of such work, however, which has only exploded in volume with the
coming of the Internet. A myriad of web sites are devoted to what is called
“Treknology” [e.g., <a href="https://www.treknology.org/">treknology.org</a>],
offering an overwhelming number of usually contradictory visions by what must
be thousands of devoted fans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I cannot
write fiction. I have tried – many years ago I spent a huge amount of time over
the course of several years (easily a decade or more) constructing a
science-fiction/fantasy universe owing much to Tolkien/<i>Star Wars</i>/<i>Battlestar
Galactica</i>/Katherine Kurtz’s <i>Deryni Chronicles</i>/and, of course, <i>Star
Trek</i> and just about every other science fiction and fantasy world I read
during my adolescence to early adulthood. I called it <i>The Starsaga</i>. I
constructed worlds and languages and cultures and a vast (60,000-plus years)
historical context set in the Andromeda Galaxy, generating a very thick binder full
of notes and outlines and synopses and so forth … but every time I tried to
turn it into <i>story</i> – whether short story or novel – I foundered on one
inescapable fact I ultimately just had to accept: I cannot write fiction – or
more specifically, I cannot write believable <i>dialogue</i>. I still have that
binder; I occasionally pull it down and thumb through it … and consider burning
it because it is so embarrassingly bad. The overall structure I created is
moreover hopelessly derivative of the aforementioned works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">But, I
can, I believe, interpret sources and write passable history. It is my
profession, after all. I also, having my first degree not in history but rather
in engineering, have some affinity for “treknology,” although I am not adept
enough with image manipulation software to create the beautifully rendered
illustrations that typically accompany such works. Nonetheless, applying my
knowledge of history and its principles seems to me to be an area I can
contribute to the every-growing volume of – admittedly non-canonical – <i>Star
Trek</i> analysis and reference material.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The
admission that what I intend to do will inevitably be “non-canonical” brings me
to the real subject of this essay. As mentioned above, given the vast amount of
<i>Star Trek </i>material ranging in authority from the official productions to
licensed novels and supporting works to the wealth of fan-constructed stories
and “treknology” sites out there, the first task I must accomplish is to identify
what among all of that I will consider “authoritative” and to what degree.
There is, as I have mentioned repeatedly, a huge – <i>overwhelming</i> – amount
of contradictory data from fifty-plus years of episodes, movies, novels, and so
forth – even when considering “just” <i>Star Trek</i>’s vision of its own
in-universe past, our own near-future. As I sift through the material for the
purported facts that have been presented – as detailed in my last post [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2020/07/making-history-preliminary.html">LINK</a>]
beginning as early as the later episodes of the first season of The Original
Series – it will inevitably entail a process of picking and choosing that I do
not wish to be simply arbitrary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Definition of Terms</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For the
discussion that follows, it will be useful to begin by establishing some
definitions. The use of the terms “canonical” and “non-canonical” (or “apocryphal,”
although I prefer “non-canonical” for reasons which I believe will become clear)
seems initially to be fairly straightforward: what appears in officially
produced series and movies is “canonical,” everything else is not. But then the
question arises of whether to consider, e.g., The Animated Series and the
movie, <i>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier</i> canonical or not. The creator of
the franchise, Gene Roddenberry himself, disavowed both. There is also the
question of various background and supporting materials issued by the
production teams of various series and movies as well as innumerable
contradictions that appear over time – many of them clearly intentional, what
is often termed, in other such broadly serialized ever-expanding narrative structures
that have endured for decades and yet ground themselves in a more or less
cohesive continuity, “retconning” or “retroactive continuity” – essentially changing
the narrative past to preserve the narrative present and future. And that is without
even considering the vast amount of <i>Star Trek</i> written fiction! Clearly
the binary “canonical” or “non-canonical” assessment is too limiting. I believe
a useful analogy expanding the categorization may be found in an area of
historical and literary studies which inevitably confronts a similarly vast and
varied array of sources – the field of Biblical studies, particularly Catholic
Biblical studies, which classifies Holy Scripture and similar writings in four
broad categories – <b>canonical</b>, <b>deuterocanonical</b>, <b>apocryphal</b>,
and <b>pseudepigraphical</b>. Taking those categories in turn:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Canonical</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> means the official, authoritative list of
divinely-inspired writings comprising the Bible, as identified by Tradition and
the Church’s teaching authority exercised in the 16<sup>th</sup>-century
Council of Trent (for the Old Testament) and by proclamation of Pope Damasus I
in 384 (for the New Testament). The word “canon” comes from the Greek word for
a measuring rod or standard. Of course, anyone familiar with the subject will
realize that the breadth of that “canon” of Scripture is itself a matter of
debate – which is where the second term comes in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Deuterocanonical</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> literally mean a “second canon” and refers
to several books and portions of other books in the Old Testament were written
later and were not universally recognized as being authoritative until the
Church ultimately decided the issue once and for all in the context of vigorous
challenges to their authenticity during the Protestant Reformation. Specifically,
these are the seven books that appear in Catholic Bibles but not in Protestant
Bibles – 1 and 2 Maccabees, Tobit, Judith, Sirach, The Wisdom of Solomon, and
Baruch, plus parts of Esther and Daniel. Although there was early consensus
about the other 66 books including most of Esther and Daniel, these particular
texts remained controversial until the Council of Trent removed all doubt for
faithful Catholics. Despite carrying the same level of authority as the “primary
canon” of Scripture, the late date of their acceptance led to their being dubbed
“deuterocanonical” by Catholics – although Protestants include them among the
next category.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Apocryphal
– </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">There is a misconception
about this and the last category, that the works so called are somehow
“fraudulent,” but such an assessment constitutes erroneously imposing modern
attitudes and standards on the past as well as imputing motivation to their
authors and those who accepted them that is almost certainly not the case. The
word “apocrypha” literally means “hidden,” which is likewise manifestly not the
case for many so-called works (although at various times their reading and
distribution has indeed been discouraged or outright forbidden). But, in
Biblical studies, “apocryphal” simply means early works that may have been at
one time or by certain groups considered canonical but were ultimately and
authoritatively judged not to enjoy that status. Hence Protestants’ relegating
the deuterocanonical books of the Catholic Bible to “The Apocrypha.” The
category is actually quite a bit wider, of course, as there are works for which
Protestants and Catholics agree in judgment, e.g., The Protoevangelium of James.
Nevertheless, in this cased the popular meaning of the word, that “apocryphal”
means “lacking in authority,” will serve perfectly well for our purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">That
aforementioned fourth category that is often considered to align almost
coextensively with “apocrypha,” deserves a moment’s consideration on its own. Literally,
<b>pseudepigraphical</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>means
“written under a pseudonym,” usually (in the case of Scripture) meaning a later
writer assuming the persona of some great personage of the past in order to
lend authority to their own writing. In the modern context, by modern standards,
such an action would clearly be considered deceptive and fraudulent – but one
of the most necessary skills a historian must cultivate is <i>not</i> applying
modern standards to the past he or she is studying. It was a common practice in
the ancient world, in secular as well as religious writing (although that too
is, to a degree, to apply a modern dichotomy where it did not apply or at least
where the line would be drawn in a very different place), and was <i>not</i>
considered “deceptive.” It was, rather, a means of invoking that earlier
authority on a work that the present author considered fully in conformity with
the writer whose name they appropriated. As far as we can tell today in every
instance where we have a clue, it was done by devotees or students of that prior
authority who adamantly believed that they represented his ideals. From later
perspective the lack of authenticity does, of course, deprive the work of
authority, but to attribute malicious intent where such was almost certainly
not present is presumptuous and uncharitable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Having
said all that, in order to apply the foregoing terms to <i>Star Trek</i> source
materials for my purposes I would define them more briefly as follows,
paralleling the above (although not perfectly): <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Canonical</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> – official productions to be presumed
authoritative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Deuterocanonical</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> – official productions considered
authoritative by some but not by all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Apocryphal</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> –materials devoid of authority by their
nature, regardless of their intrinsic quality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Pseudepigraphical</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> – unofficial, unauthorized works of such
high quality that they could well be considered authoritative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I must
also make several points clear. First, “productions” here is not necessarily
limited to just the television series and movies but may include other types of
material as well. Secondly and indeed corollary to that, it must always be
remembered that when considering the products of an unquestionably fictional franchise
where the lines between canonical, deuterocanonical, et al., are to be drawn is
ultimately a matter of individual interpretation in a way that, for me as a
Catholic at least, similar questions regarding the canonicity of Holy Scripture
is not. Ultimately, as fans of <i>Star Trek</i>, we are each free to construct
our own “head-canon.” Finally, my consideration of the authority to be accorded
various <i>Star Trek</i> sources going forward will be largely, although not
exclusively, oriented toward the purpose to which I intend to put them in
constructing a near-future “history” from the present to the founding of the Federation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Canonical Hierarchy of Authority
in <i>Star Trek<o:p></o:p></i></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">My
personal “hierarchy of authority” applying those definitions to the <i>Star
Trek</i> source material would therefore be as follows, as discussed below with
noted exceptions:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Canonical
</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">– Live-action
officially-produced episodes and movies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Deuterocanonical</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> – The Animated Series episodes, as well as
the novelizations of the Original Series and some of the movies. Also, some of
the original novels and official reference materials, I believe, deserve to be
ranked as deuterocanonical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Apocryphal</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> – Some episodes and movies as well as most
of the original novels and reference materials, for one reason or another, cannot
be considered authoritative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Pseudepigraphical
</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">– <i>Star Trek Continues</i>.
It is that good. Of course, the fans who produced <i>STC</i> did not put their
fine work out there under the guise of it being authentic 1960s-era television <i>Star
Trek</i>, so it is not <i>technically</i> “pseudonymous.” Vic Mignogna and his
fellow actors and production team afixed their own names to the series. But it
is as close a reproduction of the writing, the sets, the acting, and so forth,
as you will ever see, and I do not know what other category it would fall in.
It is an almost seamless continuation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">There
are, of course, numerous problems and exceptions to the above broad
categorizations. To run down them….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">First,
the live-action, officially-produced episodes and movies must be presumed
authoritative and canonical. Like any particular one of them or not, they are
what the professional creators (to whom, for better or worse in each case, the
corporate owners of the franchise <i>entrusted</i> it) chose to do with that authority.
Nevertheless, as might be expected given the sheer number of live-action
episodes and movies (755 at present – and here I do include in that number the
three Abramsverse movies while excluding the ten <i>Short Treks</i> vignettes)
as well as the variety of those creators, their abilities, their knowledge of
and devotion to protecting and passing on intact the body of work that came to
them, there are some individual episodes and movies I <i>cannot</i> bring
myself to include. The essence of some might be salvaged by judicious
allowances and substitutions of detail. To some degree, I freely admit that it often
boils down to personal taste, although I believe I can give some rationale for
most that I would exclude or alter:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The
three Abramsverse movies I do not include at all because they contribute
nothing to this project, the stories of each being well outside its scope. Even
the second, <i>Into Darkness</i>, linking back to the Eugenics Wars and Khan
Noonien Singh, <i>adds</i> nothing that I can remember, except the ludicrous spectacle
of a Sikh prince being portrayed by a blond, blue-eyed Englishman. They are,
moreover, explicitly set in an alternate timeline which only departed from the
main timeline with the appearance of Nero and his Romulans in 2233, having
escaped the supernova of 2397 which destroyed Romulus. Only that destruction of
Romulus and the consequent disappearance of Ambassador Spock as well into that
altered timeline (appearing a few years later) have any relevance to the main, “Prime,”
timeline – and all the dates are well outside of my ca. 2000-2161 scope of
“near future” history. My lack of affinity for the movies has <i>nothing</i> to
do with it (he protesteth too much!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Of the other, mainstream, "Prime" timeline movies, despite their widely varying quality, the only one I would exclude
altogether from “my” <i>Star Trek</i> canon would be <i>Star Trek V: The Final
Frontier</i>. And in that I find good company. Gene Roddenberry himself
(uninvolved in its production) considered it “apocryphal.” Besides which, it
contributes nothing to this project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Likewise,
at least so far, <i>Star Trek: Discovery</i> does not contribute anything
relevant to what I am trying to do – at least as far as near-future history is
concerned. Where I will discuss the history and development of the Warp Drive …
well, as I will doubtless repeat myself there, the “Spore Drive” is at once one
of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of <i>and</i> irrelevant to any
such discussion anyway. Moreover, the first season of <i>Discovery</i> is just
BAD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star
Trek: Enterprise</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, in
common with <i>Star Trek: Discovery</i>, is a prequel to the Original Series.
Before I discuss particulars, let me say a couple of words about such “prequels.”
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I think
a good argument could be made that prequels in any franchise or series are by
their very definition at best “historical fiction” from the perspective of the
main narrative. Consider this: <i>Star Trek</i> production began in the mid
1960s portraying events that would ultimately be decided were taking place
three hundred years in the future, with that future time progressing more or
less in step with “production time.” The major exception was <i>Star Trek:</i>
The Motion Picture, made ten years after the end of the Original Series and yet
set only three to four years after its conclusion, but then <i>Star Trek II:
The Wrath of Khan</i> brought the passage of time back into alignment by Khan’s
statement that fifteen years had passed since Kirk stranded Khan and his
Augments on Ceti Alpha V – the exact number of years separating “Space Seed”
from <i>The Wrath of Khan</i>. Allowances being made for the directly
sequential narrative of <i>Star Trek II, III, </i>and <i>IV</i> although two
years’ production time separated each movie, the correspondence was generally
maintained thereafter right up to the last appearance of the original
characters in the 23<sup>rd</sup> century, at the beginning of <i>Star Trek
Generations</i>, made in 1994 and set beginning in 2293. Of course, in 1987
with the beginning of <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i>, there had begun a
second narrative era, set 377 years in the future. But the <i>Next Generation</i>
era progressed steadily as well – once again in general sync with real-time
production years – through <i>Star Trek: Deep Space 9</i>, <i>Voyager</i>, and
several movies until 2002 ended with the release of <i>Nemesis</i> (set in
2379, 377 years in the future). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The year
before the <i>Next Generation </i>era ended, however, <i>Enterprise</i> had
debuted (no franchise name appeared until season three), set only 150 years in
the future in 2151 and 115 years before the beginning of The Original Series in
2266. It was, of course, being produced 35 years <i>after</i> that Original
Series, during which time the real world had, of course, changed radically. That
“temporal dissonance” created all kinds of problems. The cultural sensibilities
and fashions of the early 2000s were almost unrecognizably different from the late
1960s; the sexual revolution, civil rights, political upheavals, the escalation
then sudden end of the Cold War; scientific knowledge had exploded; video-production
techniques had advanced considerably, especially in the critical area of
special effects upon which science fiction depends to create its strange, new
worlds. The considerably more primitive production values of The Original
Series, long considered quaint but fairly easily overlooked, in-universe, as
being, yes, <i>primitive</i>, in comparison with the mid-late 1980s-produced <i>Next
Generation</i> production values depicting a world a century in the Original
Series’ future (and yet themselves now starting to look a bit dated), suddenly
became glaringly obvious, being so much <i>more </i>primitive than those of
early 2000s-era <i>Enterprise</i> which purported to be over a century in the
Original Series’ future! The special effects were just the least of it.
Cultural sensibilities and fashions…. It frankly amazes me that even the
fan-made <i>Star Trek Continues</i>, with its avowed mission to recreate in lovingly
meticulous period detail every aspect of The Original Series, was able to
include the infamous miniskirt uniforms for female Starfleet officers and crew.
I’m not <i>complaining</i>, mind you…. Long considered sexist – and, I believe,
rightly so – these were nonetheless part of the world of the 1960s, which the
fan-creators of <i>STC</i> embraced and made work. Yes, they balanced that with
subtly modern takes on the “morality play” aspect that made Original-Series <i>Star
Trek</i> much more than simply a “monster of the week” sci-fi adventure show,
but even so, I am surprised they did it and got away with it, as far as I know,
without complaints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">But the
inevitably contrasequential look and sensibility evident in <i>Enterprise </i>are
not the biggest problem I see. I do not think there has ever been a prequel
that successfully and seamlessly accomplishes what, by definition, a prequel
sets out to do, which is to tell a previously untold story antecedent to the
story that has already been told. It might succeed in the broad sense of
telling the story, but “seamlessly”? – by which I mean, without introducing
contradictory, anachronous elements based on where the story is known to be
headed? That last is indeed the problem – the later story has already been
told, establishing facts and parameters that, for the prequel to truly succeed,
have to be scrupulously adhered to – and never are. It is, quite frankly,
impossible. It is a trope that appears repeatedly even in-universe in the
numerous time travel episodes where the plot depends on preserving the
protagonists’ own future by not changing the past: Knowing the future
inevitably changes one’s actions in the past – changing that past and
endangering the future. Just so, creating a story prequel to a later story is
going to be informed by knowledge of that later story, and there is going to be
“backflow” of ideas and story-elements from the later but earlier-told story to
the earlier but later-told story. Sometimes it is simply because this or that
idea is too good to take off the table just because it contradicts earlier
established narrative history – for instance, the appearance of the Klingons in
the very first episode of <i>Enterprise</i>, when previous consensus had the
Federation not meeting the Klingons until a generation or so before Kirk – but
what is <i>Star Trek</i> without Klingons? The design of the NX-01 <i>Enterprise</i>
has been criticized since its first appearance because it bears a close
resemblance to the <i>Akira</i> starship class that appeared in the <i>Next
Generation</i> era rather than looking like a legitimate predecessor to Kirk’s
NCC-1701 <i>Enterprise</i>. Canon-conscious production designer Doug Drexler reportedly
wanted to go with one of the earlier designs by original <i>Enterprise</i>
designer Matt Jeffries, perhaps with a spherical rather than a saucer-shaped
primary hull or even finally bringing to the screen the “ring-ship” that has
hitherto only appeared in commemorative picture, but the showrunners overruled
him because they wanted the ship to look “familiar.” It did, too much so. Inevitable
advances in real-world science made technologies not even imagined in the 1960s
(and thus not incorporated in the mid-late 23<sup>rd</sup>-century world of The
Original Series) commonplace in the early 2000s (and thus imperative in the
slightly earlier 22<sup>nd</sup> century). Consider the ubiquitous rectangular data-cassettes
of The Original Series (and the larger reel-to-reel data storage units) that
have today been replaced by flash drives; although we do not have them yet, the
holodeck and instantaneous subspace communication via the life-size holograms
that abound on <i>Star Trek: Discovery </i>(a decade prequel to The Original
Series) were apparently just too useful or “neat” to leave out – continuity be
damned! Examples abound, I’m sure, but those are what come most immediately to
mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Consider
as well that any artistic form is a two-way street. Not only do the creators of
a prequel work from a perspective providing them full knowledge of “the future”
which influences their creation; so do the audience receive the story with full
knowledge of that future, with preconceived notions and expectations. Hence my
likening a prequel to “historical fiction.” The audience cannot receive it as a
purported contemporary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">From
that perspective, consider as well certain points regarding <i>Enterprise</i>.
I have already mentioned the appearance of the Klingons from the very beginning
of the first episode, “Broken Bow,” which has a Klingon courier crash in
Oklahoma and be taken back to Qo’noS (the Klingon homeworld) in the NX-01 <i>Enterprise</i>’s
first extrasolar mission. The Klingons are thus suddenly introduced into <i>Star
Trek</i> history most of a century before previously understood – which,
although I do not believe it was ever explicit, was widely taken to have
occurred only about forty years before The Original Series. The rationalization
that the disastrous first contact mentioned on at least two occasions (“The
Trouble with Tribbles” and <i>First Contact</i>) that led to decades of war
prior to that era referred to “first contact” between the <i>Federation</i> and
the Klingons rather than between <i>Earth</i> and the Klingons seems to me just
that – an attempt to rationalize away an obvious contradiction. A better
explanation is that the Temporal Cold War which is revealed in that same
premier episode has introduced a major change to the timeline, but you may have
gathered already I’m not big on alternate timelines – which, incidentally,
nullifies <i>Enterprise’s</i> status as the “prequel” it was billed to be.
Moreover, consider that the NX-01 is Earth’s first Warp 5 starship – which has
not yet actually attained that velocity – and the story timeline does not allow
nearly enough time for <i>Enterprise</i> to take Klaang to Qo’noS. Trip Tucker’s
“Four days there, four days back!” is discussed at some length in section 5.2.2
of the <i>S[tar] T[rek] Cartography</i> website page devoted to “The mission of
Enterprise NX-01” [<a href="http://www.stdimension.org/int/Cartography/EnterpriseNX.htm">LINK</a>],
“The Qo’noS and ‘Rigel’ Issues.” To cut to the chase, there is no way the
Klingon capital depicted in series placed in later centuries, when the Klingon
Empire and the United Federation of Planets are both multi-system polities
encompassing thousands of cubic light-years, is only four days away from Earth
at Warp 5. According to the well-known traditional Warp Speed formula, where
the relative velocity is the cube of the Warp Factor times the speed of light,
Warp 5 is 125c … which would make four days’ travel only 1.37 light years <i>and
Qo’noS only a third of the way to the nearest star</i>. To make matters even
more ludicrous, along the way the ship is attacked and boarded, Klaang is
abducted, and <i>Enterprise</i> makes an unplanned detour to Rigel X. The star
Rigel is almost 800 light years away from Earth – a 6.2 year journey at Warp 5.
And yet, the events of “Broken Bow” having begun on 16 April 2151, by three
weeks later <i>Enterprise</i> has travelled to Rigel <i>and</i> another unnamed
star system containing a Suliban base orbiting a gas giant, recovered Klaang, <i>and</i>
made its way to Qo’noS – and the events of the next episode, “Fight or Flight,”
have begun (06 May 2151). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">(To be
fair, the “Rigel problem” has long been recognized – it appeared in the very
first pilot episode for The Original Series – and has a non-canonical answer
that works for me. It seems that there are two “Rigels” – the “real” Rigel, the
star Beta Orionis, mentioned above, and another star which from the perspective
of Earth lies in close proximity to Beta Orionis, but much closer, less than 90
light years, and was named “Beta Rigel.” [<a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rigel_system">LINK</a>] That is
better. Ninety light years means <i>Enterprise</i> could get there in only 263
days’ travel at Warp 5…. Nope, that’s still a problem.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In any
case, there is so much wrong with this episode on simple astrometric grounds
that I cannot consider it canon. Whatever was <i>Enterprise</i>’s first
extrasolar mission, I do not believe it made first contact with the Klingons,
nor did it travel to Qo’noS, nor Rigel. Of course, the Klingons end up being a
major presence throughout the series – am I to discount all those episodes as
well? That is certainly my inclination. Or perhaps it can be preserved by
speculation that the “Klingons” who appeared in <i>Enterprise</i> represented a
smaller, much closer, off-shoot of the main Klingon Empire which would not itself
be encountered for another seventy or so years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I have
not specifically decided how I would handle that with regard to the canonicity
of the series, <i>Enterprise</i>, although I do not discount it altogether.
Although I had problems with it during its initial run, I enjoyed it much
better in a pick-and-choose viewing earlier this year (mainly of the “Temporal
Cold War” episodes). It does, moreover, on occasion contribute historical data
that I can use for my project, especially with regard to the history of the
Warp Drive and the immediate run-up to the formation of the Federation in 2161.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">With
regard to the other live-action series, it basically boils down to individual
episodes that I would exclude from canon simply because the premise is
scientifically ridiculous, it employs a plot that was overused (there were
several), or some other reason. Being more familiar with The Original Series
overall, it’s easier for me to generate such a list basically off the top of my
head than for any other series:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“Spock’s
Brain.” “Brain? Brain? What is ‘Brain’?” Need I say more?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“The
Wink of an Eye” is scientifically stupid. The concept does not work. The math does not work.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“And the
Children Shall Lead.” Marvin Belli as a "friendly angel"? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“The
Mark of Gideon.” Kirk fooled by a duplicate <i>Enterprise</i> just so some aliens can harvest a pathogen benign to humans but deadly to them to use as a means of culling their own population? This makes no sense.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“The
Empath” just creeped me out. I have not viewed it in forty or more years, and I did not then know the term "torture porn," but that's how I remember it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“The
Alternative Factor” was dumb <i>and</i> confusing.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“The Return
of the Archons” has yet another virtual twin planet of the Earth <i>and</i> the over-used trope of "Kirk outsmarts a computer by his use of illogic." “Miri”
was one too many duplicate Earths, but the story was interesting. Here, even though this is the first appearance of the trope, I believe, it
would be reused (again and again) <i>and</i> would usually work better.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“Bread
and Circuses” – duplicate Earth, down to duplicate Christianity 2300 years
later. I don’t really know what was going on here. Roddenberry was pretty
hostile to religion in general. The whole episode with its transparent confusion
of “The Son” with “The Sun” really seems like pandering to me – and I don’t
like pandering.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“Catspaw,”
the Halloween episode, always struck me as an inferior do-over of “The Squire of Gothos” (maybe it was the castle venue). "Squire" did work for me because I imagine Trelane to be either a younger Q or Q’s
younger, stupider brother. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“The Way
to Eden.” Hippies in space? I’ll pass. Spock rocking with hippies in space? I just threw up in my mouth.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">As far
as the other live-action series go, I would have to give each a great deal more
thought, although, to be honest, much of <i>Star Trek: Voyager</i> would be
skating on thin ice if it depended on my affinity for the series to qualify it
for inclusion. There is none. Throwing <i>Voyager</i> into totally unexplored
space on the other side of the Galaxy where there is no connection to the space
we know just did not work for me. It removed a vital sense of connection
offered by occasionally hearing of the starship travelling to stars I could go
out in my backyard and see with my own eyes. I suspect, if I choose to watch it
(I know I will, eventually), that the third season of <i>Star Trek: Discovery</i>
will suffer from the same lack of connection, although it remains to be seen. Without
Pike, back to essentially the first-season crew, I’m not looking forward to <i>Voyager</i>
redux. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, <i>Voyager</i>
does provide several key points of near-future history for my project,
especially Ares IV, the ill-fated mission to Mars in 2032. Presumably, however,
most of the live-action series would make my “cut” – with similar
individual “discards” as for The Original Series.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Regarding
The Animated Series, I generally accept those episodes as canonical. I know
that Roddenberry considered it non-canonical, but that is not the final word
for me. The original actors (for the most part) voiced their characters.
Writers from The Original Series wrote episodes. One of the better of the
original writers oversaw The Animated Series. They managed to snare Larry Niven
to write an episode. The stories may have suffered from the very short
half-hour format, and their execution may have suffered in the animated format,
but they were still considerably deeper than anything else on Saturday mornings
– some comparing favorably with live-action episodes. As to the animated
format, it did allow much freer run of the imagination in designing new
planetary landscapes and creatures which could in no way be depicted in
live-action before the advent of CGI, although it also came off as stiff and
repetitive due to the reuse of hand-drawn layers of transparent cells which
were the norm before computer animation. The canonical status of The Animated
Series has inspired decades of debate. Some episodes – most notably <i>Yesteryear</i>
– are almost universally acknowledged as canonical in its essence, providing a
great deal of information about young Spock and Vulcan that would later be
brought into live-action stories. Others – like some Original Series episodes –
cannot be canon. Here I would submit “The Magicks of Megas-Tu.” Although the
science is dodgy in the very last episode, “The Counter-Clock Incident,” I
still accept it as our only insight into the first captain of NCC-1701 <i>Enterprise</i>,
Robert T. April.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star
Trek</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">: The Animated Series
does, however, provide a prime example of what I consider to be a story or
technological element that must change. The “life support belts” supplying a
glowing aura allowing the crew of the <i>Enterprise</i> to live in any
environment from the vacuum of space to deep beneath the ocean’s depths are
simply not possible. I do not know why the show-runners went that way. The
standard explanation, that it was easier to add the glow than to draw a full
space suit, does not work for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">With the
exception of the aforementioned <i>Star Trek V: The Final Frontier</i>, I would
accept all the live-action movies – with varying amounts of enthusiasm. If
there were one I would throw in the shredder and try to forget ever existed, it
would be <i>Star Trek: Nemesis</i>. And then they go and make it a major point
of departure for the series <i>Star Trek: Picard</i> ….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">That
takes care of televised series and movies. I can sum up my stance with regard
to original novels fairly simply. My head-canon includes none of them per se,
with the following exceptions:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">All of
Diane Duane’s novels from </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The Wounded Sky</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> to </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Spock’s World</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> and
her </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Rihanssu Cycle </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">make the cut. Details have to be tweaked, but that’s
okay.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Vonda
McIntyre’s <i>The Entropy Effect</i> was, when I read it, the best <i>Star Trek</i>
I’d ever read. I keep meaning to go back and reread it to see if it holds up.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Dayton
Ward’s <i>From History’s Shadow</i> and <i>Elusive Salvation</i> basically
inspired my latest full gainer into the deep end of the <i>Star Trek </i>pool. Particularly
the former is a <i>tour-de-force</i>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The post
series <i>Enterprise</i> novels telling the <i>real</i> story of the “death” of
Trip Tucker (and, incidentally, providing the best evidence that many of the
events depicted in that series were, for whatever reason, a carefully crafted
fiction from the perspective of later centuries in the <i>Star Trek</i>
universe as was only discovered by Starfleet officer Nog Son-of-Rom and journalist
Jake Sisko) through the events of the Romulan War and the founding and early
years of the United Federation of Planets – how can I disregard them?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The <i>Star
Trek: Vanguard</i> miniseries provides a fascinating <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>perspective on wider Federation events taking
place during the years of Kirk’s Five-Year Mission.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Novels that
I accept with certain necessary “adjustments” include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Margaret
Wander Bonanno’s <i>Strangers from the Sky</i>, telling the true story of first
contact with the Vulcans. I see no reason the basic event could not have
happened more or less as told there – although the historical context would be
substantially different.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Greg
Cox’s <i>The Eugenics Wars</i> volumes in his <i>Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien
Singh</i> trilogy are amazing. As audacious as his carefully crafted “secret
history” keeping the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s may be, however – and it is
simply brilliant – it ultimately doesn’t work for me, for reasons I detailed in
my previous post. I think the Eugenics Wars have to move into the 2040s. I am,
however, preserving as much of Cox’s narrative structure as possible, including
the presence of Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln in at least some of the events
that I do place in the 1990s. I think I have even figured out a substitute to
carry on Seven’s activities in the later events of the 2040s.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Cox’s <i>The
Rings of Time</i>, likewise – it actually takes very little tweaking except the
timing. I’m moving it out a few years, but otherwise changing very little.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">As far
as other novels go, I have not read that many, and there are far too many to
subject to a proper read now. According to Wikipedia, <i>s.v.</i> “Star Trek
Novels,” “As of May 2020, more than 850 novels, short story anthologies,
novelizations, and omnibus editions, have been published” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_novels">LINK</a>]. The fact
box at the side of that article currently states there to be “860 (estimate).” (I
wrote these words on 09 July 2020.) Fortunately there is <i>Memory Beta</i>, “the
non-canon Star Trek wiki” [<a href="https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page">LINK</a>], and I consider any
historical data filtered through the yearly timeline compiled there [<a href="https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline">LINK</a>] <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be fair game, even if I have not read the story
and decided on the canonicity of the book as a whole. It really is a case-by-case
decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Likewise
for information provided by the many, many, many unlicensed, fan-compiled
technical manuals, blueprints, guides, overviews, and the like. I am ransacking
them like a Viking (either directly when practical or indirectly via Memory
Beta) for any information that can be made to fit my vision but in general
consider them to be unquestionably non-canonical. But again, “head-canon” is a
particularly subjective thing, being whatever the individual chooses to accept
or not. And, ultimately, even the discarded episodes and movie might well be
considered particularly heavily “fictionalized” versions of “real” events. For
instance, even the much-maligned “Spock’s Brain” might reflect some incident
that took <i>Enterprise</i> to Sigma Draconis VI where her crew found, inexplicably,
a hitherto unknown species of highly sexually dimorphic humanoids consisting of
a small population of beast-like males on the surface and a larger population
of females living underground among the remnants of a technologically advanced
civilization. How could such a situation arise – a mystery compounded by the
fact that Sigma Draconis is within the local group of stars less than </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">twenty</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> light years from Earth? Considered in a
larger context, the answer might well impact on wider galactic history and even have
relevance to my task.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In other
words, and put more bluntly, especially for my purpose there may well be found “canonical”
elements hidden within otherwise “non-canonical” sources, just as – to return
to the analogy of Biblical studies, even the most “apocryphal”
pseudepigraphical writing can provide valuable historical data helping to shed
light on the history, context, and even theology and doctrine contained in the
Canon of Holy Scripture. While keeping in mind the distinction between canon
and apocrypha, we ignore those non-canonical materials at our own peril and to
our own impoverishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Conclusion and Disclaimer</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Will my
use of information from sources I would otherwise consign to the ash-heap of
“future history” therefore be, as I noted near the beginning I do not wish it
to be, “arbitrary” in its selection? Objectively, such an accusation would not be unfair. I believe, however, that just as my primary field of
historical studies, the early Middle Ages, justifies by their relative scarcity
a wider degree of latitude in consideration of available historical sources, incorporation
of every kernel of evidence regarding the near future that can be gleaned from <i>Star Trek </i>sources
is warranted, regardless of its origin, official or unofficial – carefully
weighed and considered, of course. To reiterate what I said a few paragraphs
previously, it will be a case-by-case decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The end
product of this project, should it come to completion, will be very much my own
vision, non-canonical by its very nature, but hopefully entertaining to me in
the writing and anyone else who so chooses in the reading. To paraphrase the theme
song for <i>Enterprise</i>, unique within the franchise both in style and for
having lyrics, “It will be a long road, getting from here to there….” But I
intend to have fun along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-1211865335452849992020-07-03T21:04:00.001-05:002020-07-10T11:55:31.791-05:00Making History: Preliminary Considerations Toward Constructing a Near-Future STAR TREK Historical Narrative<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Little did I realize
when I undertook the “Starships Comparison” project early in the 2020
COVID-19-enforced lockdown [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-noble-lineage-of-ships-named.html">LINK</a>]
that it would lead me into another, bigger project that will – assuming I do
not lose interest, or, more likely, find some other obsession to divert my
attention – probably result in a series of essays that are doubtless of no
interest to anybody except myself, but which I will end up posting here and then, possibly, attempt to publish. It is no less than
a complete reconsideration of the early history of human spaceflight, basically
until the founding of the United Federation of Planets in 2161, including such
things as the history of Earth from the present until that time, the stages in
the development of the warp drive from the beginning until the late 24<sup>th</sup>
century when <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i> was set, and how much the
later “prequel” series <i>Star Trek: Enterprise</i> (set between 2151 and 2155)
and <i>Star Trek: Discovery</i> (set in the 2250s) should be considered – dare
I say it? – <i>fictional</i> even “within universe” from the perspective of
that later date. There will probably be other things as well. This newest
obsession keeps leading me down the most unexpected rabbit-holes!</span></div>
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A Review of the Source Material</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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subject of this post is going to begin with a review of the various <i>Star
Trek</i> series and movies and when they are set, according to the
comprehensive time-line that appears at <i>Memory Beta</i>, the “non-canon Star
Trek Wiki” [<a href="https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page">LINK</a>].
I tend to use <i>Memory Beta</i> for such matters in preference to <i>Memory
Alpha</i>, the wiki for <i>canonical</i> (i.e., it appeared on-screen in one of
the official live-action adventures) [<a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main">LINK</a>], because a
great deal of historical data appears in “non-canonical” sources, defined there
as officially-licensed but peripheral publications such as novels, gaming
systems, resource manuals, and so forth. (For now, at least, I will generally
just sum those up as “novels.”) How reliable that data may be is ultimately an
individual judgment call, however, although the same can definitely be said
about such data presented in the “canonical” presentations, especially in the
early years of the franchise. Ultimately, it is a far more complex question that one might think.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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order they appeared (with the settings that have become canonical) …<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Years Aired or Released<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Episodes <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Setting</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1966-1969<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Star Trek</i>: The Original Series<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TOS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">79<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2254, 2265-2269<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1973-1974<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Star Trek</i>: The Animated Series<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">22<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2269-2270<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1979<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Star Trek</i>: The Motion Picture<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TMP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2273<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1982<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ST2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2285<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1984<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek III: The Search for Spock<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ST3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2285<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1986<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ST4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2286<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1987-1994<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek: The Next Generation<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TNG<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">178<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2364-2370<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1989<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek V: The Final Frontier<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ST5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2287<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1991<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ST6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2293<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1993-1999<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">DS9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">176<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2369-2375<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1994<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek Generations<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">STG<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2293, 2371<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1995-2001<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Star Trek: Voyager</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">VOY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">172<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2371-2378<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1996<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek: First Contact<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">FCO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2373<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1998<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek: Insurrection<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">INS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2375<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2001-2005<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>[Star Trek:] Enterprise</i><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ENT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">98<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2151-2155<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2002<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek: Nemesis<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NEM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2379<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2017-present<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek: Discovery<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">DIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">29+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2256-2258, 32<sup>nd</sup> c.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2018-present<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Short Treks</i><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">10+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2020-present<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek: Picard<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">10+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2399-?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2021?-??<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2250s?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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course, the “Abrams-verse” movies <i>Star Trek</i> (2009), <i>Star Trek Into
Darkness</i> (2013), and <i>Star Trek Beyond</i> (2016). They are set during
the Original Series period, but in an alternate timeline (sometimes called the
“Kelvin” timeline for reasons I’m not getting into here). The new time-line was
created by events between <i>Star Trek: Nemesis</i> and <i>Picard</i>, which events
do impact the latter but for the purpose of this project are of absolutely no
relevance for this project. Besides, while “revile” is too harsh a word for my
attitude toward these films (I think the three main actors do a generally good job
portraying younger versions of the Original Series characters, the material
they are given to work with is, quite frankly, <i>crap</i>), I do not like them and do not consider them "<i>Star Trek</i>."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of <i>Star Trek Continues</i> (2013-2017) [#betterthanabrams] [<a href="https://www.startrekcontinues.com/">LINK</a>] provide a worthy and
fitting conclusion to Kirk’s First Five Year Mission incompletely recounted in
TOS, so as far as I’m concerned I might insert between <i>Nemesis</i> and <i>Discovery</i>
above:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Star Trek Continues</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I will not include <i>Star Trek Continues</i>. It really doesn’t contribute any
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professionally produced series, one can see that over the past 54 years there
have been eight series – not including the recently-announced <i>Star Trek:
Strange New Worlds</i><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a>
nor the <i>Short Treks</i> vignettes – comprising a total of 764 episodes, plus
ten feature films, telling stories spanning 248 years, beginning with the 2151
launch of Earth’s first “Warp 5 Starship” NX-01 <i>Enterprise</i> in the debut
episode of <i>Enterprise</i> to the 2399 confrontation between the Federation
and the Romulans over Coppellius in the first-season finale of <i>Picard</i>. (Of
course, there are elements of “time travel” stories set well outside those
bounds, most typically – and quite coincidentally, I’m sure – set during the
eras when the various shows and movies were being produced.) There are three
major eras within that span: 1) The 2150s, for lack of a better term “The Archer
Era” after the captain of that original <i>Enterprise</i>) but for my purposes “The
Foundational Era”; 2) 2250s-2290s, “The Original Series Era” even though it
includes <i>Discovery</i> and <i>Strange New Worlds</i>, but I prefer to call
it “The Heroic Age”; and 3) 2360s-2399 and beyond, “The <i>Next Generation</i>
Era” or, since I will attempt to view the <i>Star Trek</i> past from the
perspective of ca. 2420 or so,<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> “The
Modern Era.” The stories are presented in a non-linear fashion, with TOS and
TAS and their first few associated films of the mid-late 23<sup>rd</sup>
century being followed by <i>The Next </i>Generation’s debut skipping to the
mid-late 24<sup>th</sup> century, some back-and-forth from <i>Next Generation</i>
in the 24<sup>th</sup> century and Kirk-era movies in the 23rd until <i>Generations</i>
formally passed the torch, so to speak, after which <i>DS9</i> and <i>Voyager</i> along
with TNG-era movies played out the 24<sup>th</sup>-century storyline, the
movies slightly overlapping what came next, which was a jump back to the 22<sup>nd</sup>-century
for <i>Enterprise</i>. It seemed that <i>Star Trek</i> had somewhat played
itself out by that point, however, at least as a televised product, and the
voyage of NX-01 <i>Enterprise</i> was cut short after only four seasons. For
the first time in almost two decades, there was no weekly <i>Star Trek</i>
series being aired. That’s when the idea of a reboot of the original crew was
born, going back to the beginning of Kirk’s Five Year Mission, in motion
picture form but, unexpectedly (at least by me), tying into the original
narrative. Ultimately, that didn’t help, however. I would propose two reasons,
one I consider objective, the other quite subjective. Objectively, for all the
overall success of the <i>Star Trek </i>movies over time, I just think <i>Star
Trek</i> is far more suited to the serialized episodic format of television
than it is to essentially one-off big-budget summer blockbusters. Subjectively,
well, I said enough a couple paragraphs back…. In any case, disregarding those,
a dozen or so years passed for television audiences, then in 2017 CBS
launched its new subscription-based streaming service “All Access” with a flagship
new show, <i>Star Trek: Discovery</i> – another prequel, set a decade before
Kirk and company in the mid 23<sup>rd</sup> century, but in what I would still
consider “The Heroic Age.” Soon, it was joined by another show, set after the
last <i>Next Generation</i>-Era movie, <i>Nemesis</i> (by then over a decade and a half old) with adventures of an older Jean-Luc Picard at the very end of
the 24<sup>th</sup> century. And now has been announced a spinoff series from <i>Discovery</i>,
entitled <i>Strange New World </i>and featuring the original captain of the
very first pilot episode of the original <i>Star Trek</i>, Captain Christopher
Pike, now portrayed to perfection by Anson Mount – commanding the original USS <i>Enterprise</i>
NCC-1701, continuing the prequel narrative to the Original Series while <i>Discovery</i> jaunts off into the far future of the 32nd century. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The point is, the narrative that has
bounced back and forth, here, there and yonder, for over fifty years has woven
a vast and complex tapestry that is hard enough to get a grasp on as an ongoing
story – much less attempt to infer what its purported “in-universe” history might
be. That is, of course, exactly what I had to do when I put together the
“Starships Comparison” chart. As described in the post linked above, I must consider
the history of Starfleet, particularly in the under-documented period before </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Star
Trek: Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (2001-2005), which was set more than a century before the Original
Series, between the years 2151 and 2155 (or 2161 if you accept the canonicity
of the series finale, “These Are the Voyages,” which I will discuss at some
point but not here). Specifically, I wanted to include the “ring-ship” </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
that has appeared onscreen only in various historical illustrations and “ships
walls.” As my project and what I wanted to include firmed up, however, I discovered
another such “historical” </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> preceding the 2151 launch of NX-01 </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,
namely the recent (2013) design by NASA engineer Harold White as a test bed for
Miguel Alcubierre’s 1994 theory that would allow faster-than-light travel via
that would, if it does indeed prove both scientifically and technically feasible,
be much like the famous “warp drive” of </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Star Trek</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> fame. White’s proposed
IXS-110</span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is, moreover, a </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">double-ring</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ship that could very
well fit in with the XCV-330 </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that I wanted to include. Of
course, I also wanted to tag each ship with basic information – years of
service on the front and a short summary on the back of the sheet – which
necessitated discovering (or inferring, or </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">inventing</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) the history of the
enigmatic period from now (2020) to 2151.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harold "Sonny" White's IXS-110 <i>Enterprise</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matt Jeffries' XCV-330 <i>Enterprise</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Establishing a Time-Frame</span></h2>
<h1>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Enigmatic” may not be the best word for
what little we know about that “near-future” (from our perspective) era of <i>Star
Trek </i>history – but “confusing” is not strong enough. I often use the term “mess,”
but that word carries a pejorative connotation that I should avoid. “Tangled”
could work, but simply “contradictory” is probably best. Whichever word you might
choose, the fact is that over fifty years of television shows and movies (even
if you don’t count any of the licensed supporting manuals and novels, much less
fan-made shows and movies and supporting manuals and fiction) have been produced
by creators who were and are primarily interested in any postulated historical
background only as a plot device driving whatever current story they intend to
tell. Especially in the beginning, Gene Roddenberry and company had no inkling that
they were in reality creating a cultural phenomenon that would endure long past
the Original Series. They were just trying to get through a grueling weekly television
production schedule. Roddenberry had not really thought through – somewhat
intentionally, not to tie his writers and producers down early on – even such
basics as <i>when</i> the stories of Kirk and crew where supposed to be taking
place. Famously, Roddenberry’s original pitch for the series simply said it was
dated “somewhere in the future. It could be 1995, or maybe even 2995” (Wikipedia
s.v. “Timeline of Star Trek”). Hence there quickly emerged contradictory
indications varying across most of that millennium. Episode 18, “The Squire of
Gothos,” for instance, implies that it is set in the 28<sup>th</sup> century –
Trelane is fixated on the late 18<sup>th</sup>-early 19<sup>th</sup> centuries,
which he observed from 900 light-years away, ergo the 28<sup>th</sup> century. The
very next episode, 19, “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” on the other hand, implies that
it is the 22<sup>nd</sup> century – in 1969, Kirk responds to a threat by a
frustrated Air Force MP, “I’m going to lock you up for <i>two hundred years</i>!”
with a wry, “That ought to be just about right….” Ergo, 2169. In episode 24, “Space
Seed,” it is stated that Khan left Earth in the mid 1990s, which is later said
to be “two centuries” before his resuscitation by the <i>Enterprise</i> crew –
ergo the last decade of the 22<sup>nd</sup> century (consistent, at least to
the century, with “Tomorrow is Yesterday”). Those are all from the first
season, 1966-1967. A year later, however, after the second season was aired and
at the beginning of the third season, in September 1968, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>The Making of Star Trek</i> (by Stephen E.
Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry) appeared, in which the time of the series was
specified as being during the 23<sup>rd</sup> century. The book also explained the
clearly nonsensically precise dating of “stardates” – to the first decimal
place – in almost every episode basically as an expedient to obfuscate the time
frame and the passage of time, complete with a supposed rationale invoking the
ship’s position in space and time, its velocity, and relativity. As
authoritative as <i>Making</i> might be considered since it purported to be by
Roddenberry himself, as far as aired, narrowly-defined canon was concerned, the
precise time-frame remained vague. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More than a decade later (1979), <i>Star
Trek: The Motion Picture</i> has the (fictional –? – now, why did I feel the
need to specify that?) NASA deep space probe Voyager 6 (which looks much like Voyagers
1 and 2) having been launched in the late 20<sup>th</sup> century, according to
Will Decker, “more than 300 years ago.” Given that Voyagers 1 and 2 (real) were
launched in 1977, Voyager 6 (fictional) could have been launched no earlier
than that same year, which would mean TMP was set no earlier than 2277, or,
more generally speaking, the late 23<sup>rd</sup> century. However, at almost
the same time (it is often listed as 1980, but Amazon lists it as published in
December 1979), the original <i>Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology </i>implicitly
gives the dates for Kirk’s “Five Year Mission” as ca. 2210. Specifically, it
dates the launch of the “Constitution II” class USS <i>Enterprise</i> (referring
to the refit that debuted in TMP) to 2215, stating “After completing three
years of its last five year mission, the much-used <i>Enterprise</i> was
returned to Earth dry dock, where it has recently completed extensive refitting
and upgrading” (p. 180). I believe Scotty says he has spent eighteen months
overseeing the refit, while Decker challenges Kirk’s qualifications to supplant
him as captain for the impending emergency mission because of his experience
dealing with such threats by pointing out that he has more recently spent
two-and-a-half years out of the center seat – pushing <i>Enterprise</i>’s
return back to 2211-2212, hence beginning ca. 2208. The status of the <i>Spaceflight
Chronology</i> is, however, dubious at best – even though it was published by
licensee Pocket Books during the period before they were contractually allowed
to take up publication of novels (which did not happen until 1983 when Bantam
Books was still playing out its apparent allowance of twelve novels<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>), and
a number of the early Pocket Books novels would cite dates and even events that
first appeared there (most immediately coming to mind being the 1987 novel by
Margaret Wander Bonanno, <i>Strangers from the Sky)</i>. Roddenberry and company
pretty much ignored it, however, and the fact is that most of its speculative
history has been superseded by later information, again, both canonical and
otherwise. Nevertheless, I found the book fascinating when it first came out, and
I enjoyed poring over it immensely although I cared less for Rick Sternbach’s
ship designs, which lacked any kind of coherent theme, than for the “future
history.” I would like to preserve as much of that future history as possible –
which is, honestly, very little. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway,
my point is, the dates were still very much up in the air ca. 1980.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The specific time-frame of the
Original Series <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would, ironically
enough, not really be locked into the mid-late 23<sup>rd</sup> century until
early in the <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i> era, specifically, at the
very end of the first season, Episode 26 “The Neutral Zone” (aired 1988), in
which the current Earth year is specified as 2364. As the continuity notes at <i>Memory
Alpha</i> state, “This year served as the fixed reference around which
subsequent timeline dates were placed.” Promotional materials for the new
series had specified that it would take place 78 years after Kirk’s era, but I
don’t think they specified whether that meant after the Original Series or after
the then-most recent movies, <i>The Wrath of Khan </i>to <i>The Voyage Home</i>
(ST2 – ST4), which took place least a decade and a half after the end of the
Five Year Mission. But, in the very first episode, “Encounter at Farpoint,” the
age of a frail Dr. McCoy had been revealed to be 137, which, given the general
assumption that he was about ten years older than early-thirty-something Captain
Kirk during the Five Year Mission – so, estimate 43-45 – makes it a matter of
some very straightforward assumptions and easy math:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TNG is set
(or begins) 78 years after Kirk’s era (TNG promotional materials)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">McCoy is
137 at the beginning of TNG (stated in dialogue)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">McCoy is
10 years older than Kirk (assumption).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kirk was
about 34 at the beginning of TOS (assumption).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">McCoy was
about 44 at the beginning of TOS (assumption).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TNG is set
(about a year or so into the series, since this is the last episode of the
first season) in 2364 (stated in dialogue), so let’s say it began in 2363.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2363 minus
137 gives McCoy’s birth year about 2226.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2363 minus
78 gives “Kirk’s era” as about 2285.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2285 minus
2226 gives McCoy’s age in “Kirk’s era” as about 59.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kirk’s age
during “Kirk’s Era” would be about 49</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Kirk’s
Era” must therefore be the era of ST2 – ST4</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TOS must
therefore be set about 2270.</span></span></li>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That was not, however, set in stone even a few
months before. In that same first episode of TNG, Data also stated that he was
from the “class of ’78,” and in the 13<sup>th</sup> episode, “Datalore,” it was
revealed that he was found and activated on planet Omicron Theta 26 years prior,
implying that, assuming he was almost immediately allowed to enter Starfleet
Academy and matriculated in four years, he was found in (implicitly) 2274 and
that the first season of TNG took place in 2300. Nonetheless, the firm
statement of “2364” in “The Neutral Zone” immediately became canon, with all
the implications detailed above. True, almost every number presented or calculated
above would later be tweaked up to a few years one way or another, but the general
time frame was pretty firmly "set in stone" at this point. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Much of the “tweaking” would come about
five years into TNG, when the first edition (1993) of the <i>Star Trek
Chronology: A History of the Future</i>, by Michael and Denise Okuda,
production designers on the <i>Star Trek </i>series and movies, pretty much
nailed down an overall timeline for the franchise. Exact dates are set down for
virtually every datable event that had been depicted in the series and movies
to that point – usually by what I consider too-specific inference from
verbally-stated information, such as that “such and such happened two hundred
years ago” making such and such event having happened <i>exactly </i>two hundred
years before. For that and other reasons, the <i>Chronology</i> has been
superseded in many of its specifics as nearly three decades since it appeared.
Those “refinements” probably appeared in in the 1996 revision (I am aware of no
other), although I do not have it and would not know. But, as just one example,
the date of Zefram Cochrane’s first warp flight appears as 2061 in the original
<i>Chronology</i>; a few years later, <i>Star Trek: First Contact</i> would
establish the date as 05 April 2063. My point is, the first <i>Chronology</i>’s
specific date is incorrect, but I think the general information is pretty
close. Even the dating of those Original Series episodes can be interpolated with
fair confidence that they are placed within a year or so of when they actually “happened.”<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title="">[7]</a></span></span><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftn7" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With necessary “tweaks,” the <i>Chronology</i>
timeline – often called the “Okuda timeline” – would dominate subsequent
productions. It became the basis for what appears on the above-cited reference
sites <i>Memory Alpha</i> and <i>Memory Beta</i>. And “real-world” dates would
appear with increasing frequency until the prequel series, <i>Star Trek:
Enterprise</i> would be set before the invention of stardates and have Captain
Archer’s “starlog” use dates according to the standard Earth calendar, making
the placement of such things as, e.g., that <i>Enterprise</i> returned to Earth
to attend the momentous launching of her first sister ship, NX-02 <i>Columbia</i>
on 27 November 2154, absolutely unambiguous (fourth season episode 15, “Affliction”).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Since the mid-1990s, therefore, a reasonably
cohesive overall chronology for <i>Star Trek</i> has existed, gradually being
expanded both forward – as the TNG era progressed through DS9 and <i>Voyager</i>,
ultimately to <i>Picard</i>, and back with the addition of <i>Star Trek:
Enterprise</i>. Although there are gaps, the history from ca. 2151 when the
NX-01 <i>Enterprise</i> launched to the events of the “Synth Crisis” of 2399
can be traced in some detail. But what about before 2151?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Perils of Prognostication</span></h2>
<h1>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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making a pretty intensive study and collation of what data exists for “<i>Star
Trek</i> history” before 2151, based on both the canonical sources listed above
and every other source regardless of canonicity or authority (while keeping the
varying reliability of any and all of that in mind), with much of it being
filtered through the sites mentioned at the top of this essay, especially Memory
Beta, toward constructing a comprehensive historical narrative bringing it all
together spanning our current present, 2020, and 2151.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
And it is, quite predictably, a mess. I am not going to detail here all of the contradictions
and sheer impossibilities I have catalogued so far. That is the raw material I
am hoping to refine over the next few weeks or even months.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The one date that would seem indisputably
fixed in canon – given that the entire plot of <i>First Contact</i> revolves
around it – is 05 April 2063, when Zefram Cochrane accomplished humanity’s
first warp flight and attracted the attention of a passing Vulcan ship, which then
initiated what would at least be regarded as the first <i>official</i> contact
between humans and Vulcans, changing the course of human and ultimately
galactic history. There are, however, many other dates which have been thrown
out for the intervening period between “the present,” whether that be the 1960s
when the Original Series appeared to the production dates of all the subsequent
series and movies up to just a few months ago when the latest episodes of <i>Picard</i>
appeared, and whatever specific era was being depicted. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The problem is glaringly obvious. Once
established, definitely for the past 25 or so years, the dates for the events depicted
or referenced in the various <i>Star Trek </i>episodes and movies have been immutable.
Real-world time, on the other hand, has marched relentlessly onward for fifty-four
years since the first episode of <i>Star Trek</i> was aired in September 1966, bringing
those future “immutable” dates that same number of years closer. Specifically,
with 2063 and First Contact being fixed by the appearance of the movie of that
name in 1996, even that date has gone from being 67 years in the future to a
mere 43 years. If, as I fully expect even if there are occasional gaps of one
kind or another as there have been in the past (most notably, for live-action
media, between 2005 and 2017<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>),
the <i>Star Trek</i> franchise endures just another 43 years, that first
epochal date will have been surpassed. I would not bet against that happening. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time has, moreover, surpassed some of
the earliest dated events of the near future as established in the Original
Series. As far as I can tell, the first really significant near-future dates were
implied in the aforementioned first-season Original Series episode, “Tomorrow
is Yesterday,” which had the <i>Enterprise</i> thrown back in time to the eve
of the first manned moon landing, stated to be on a Wednesday. The episode
appeared in early 1967 (26 January). The launch of the Apollo 11 would not be
for another year and a half, 16 July 1969 … which was indeed a Wednesday. The
year 1969 is not specified, however, although Kirk does remember the launch
took place in the late 1960s. We can assume the <i>Enterprise</i> appeared over
the skies of Omaha, Nebraska, early in the week of 13 July 1969, two and a half
years in the future of its airing. But the date of Apollo 11 is not the
prediction I am focusing on. Inadvertently having to beam aboard a USAF jet
pilot, Captain John Christopher, <i>Enterprise</i>’s presence in the past
creates a conundrum. Christopher has seen the future. Allowing him to return
could change history. Spock’s first cursory research finds that Capt. John
Christopher made no substantial contribution to history, therefore his disappearance
itself should not be disruptive to the timeline; but deeper investigation
reveals that Christopher’s son, Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher would command
the first mission to Saturn. John Christopher has no son … “Yet,” interjects
McCoy … so now the pilot <i>must</i> be returned, or the timeline <i>will</i>
be disrupted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We therefore learned that sometime within
a human lifetime after Apollo 11, there will be a manned mission to Saturn. I
do not believe the precise date was specified, but its commander has not been
born as of July 1969. According to Wikipedia, NASA astronaut candidates have
ranged between ages 26 and 46, with an average age of 34. Assuming “astronaut
candidates” simply means acceptance to the astronaut program, at present (not
counting John Glenn’s flight at age 77 in 1998) the oldest active astronaut has
been Story Musgrave at age 61 in 1996. I think it’s safe to say that, if he were
born in 1970, the very latest Shaun Geoffrey Christopher could reasonably be
depicted as commanding a mission to Saturn would be 2030. Push the date of his
birth out a decade and what I would consider the very latest reasonable date
would be 2040. Through the years, the dates for this mission as envisioned by
various <i>Star Trek</i> chronologies have varied back and forth: 2020 per the
1980 <i>Spaceflight Chronology</i>; 2009 in the 1993 <i>Star Trek Chronology</i>;
back to 2020 in Greg Cox’s 2012 novel, <i>The Rings of Time</i> – with that latter
book making the surprisingly <i>early</i> date for such a mission part of the
plot. <i>Memory Alpha</i> currently waffles on the point, with <i>Memory Beta</i>
citing 2020 per Cox.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just two episodes after “Tomorrow is
Yesterday,” however, would come a motherlode of “future history.” On 16
February 1967 aired one of the most important episodes of all, especially as it
spawned a direct sequel in the move that, as far as I’m concerned, saved the <i>Star
Trek</i> franchise after the lukewarm reaction garnered by <i>Star Trek: The
Motion Picture</i> in 1979. <i>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan</i> continued
the story begun in “Space Seed,” which introduced Khan Noonian Singh and the
Eugenics Wars, Earth’s third world war … in the 1990s. Other dates were set forth
as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the beginning of the episode, the <i>Enterprise</i>
encounters a derelict DY-100 class Earth ship which is identified as being
built in the 1990s, an era from which records are fragmentary because of the
Eugenics Wars, a “strange and violent period in [Earth] history,” as Spock puts
it. Beaming aboard the ship, the <i>Enterprise</i> crew finds it to be a
sleeper ship dependent on old style atomic power and transistor-based
computers. We learn that sleeper ships were designed for long interplanetary
trips but were rendered obsolete by advances in space travel technology in the
year 2018. The Eugenics Wars are later elaborated as having lasted from 1992 to
1996, during which time Khan was absolute ruler of one quarter of the Earth,
from Asia to the Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, from the viewpoint of the
1960s, even the 1990s seemed deep in the “undiscover’d country” of the future –
hence reference to pivotal events in the history of the <i>Star Trek </i>characters’
world that we now know, from the perspective of 2020, <i>did not happen</i> There
was no World War III and/or Eugenics Wars in the 1990s, notwithstanding Greg
Cox’s valiant and quite frankly excellent effort to cast those as a “secret
war” that <i>did</i> indeed happen under our very noses in his first two novels
on “The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh” (2001-2002). Similarly, it is now
2020 and I have heard no word of a manned mission to Saturn as Cox details it
in the 2012 novel, <i>The Rings of Time</i> – carried out <i>not</i> in secret,
but publicly with publicity tours and the like. Supposedly the <i>Lewis &
Clark</i> launched on 28 June 2020 (by pure coincidence, the day I began
reading the book) … but all the news media seems to focus on these days is the
COVID-19 Pandemic …). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many other such “near-future” dates
have come and gone – and will continue to come and go. As I have started to
speculate on how to extrapolate from the current world of mid 2020 to the
future of <i>Star Trek</i>, a couple of near-term developments I initially
considered easily co-optable to that purpose have played themselves out in ways
that render my prognostications invalid. For instance, according to the <i>Deep
Space 9</i> episodes “Past Tense” parts one and two, the year 2024 will have so-called
“Sanctuary Districts” in many US cities. With the establishment of the Seattle Capitol
Hill Autonomous- Zone which became the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest in early
June as part of the widespread protests following the police murder of George
Floyd, I considered it very possible such could evolve into the DS9 Sanctuary
Districts … except that on 01 July the CHOP was forcibly cleared. I can
therefore propose no direct continuity, at the very least. As fundamental a
question as who will win the US Presidential election this coming November –
and what potential effects that could have on the US space program which at least
seems to have new direction in the past few years – cannot be answered right
now (and obviously, different readers will have radically different opinions on
what would be best, and what would be the results). So at some point, sooner rather
than later, especially as I plan to “make history” literally from some defined
point in the very near future to the chartering of the United Federation of
Planets in 2161, whatever I establish will almost immediately be rendered
invalid unless I am far more vague on the near-term than I want to be – and all
that would gain is a few years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is, of course, a “problem” that
could be avoided. Even the vast scope of <i>Star Trek</i> history starting from
1966 to the latest-depicted events could simply be considered an alternate
timeline, diverging more and more radically from our own. There is a certain
appeal to this, especially considering that it would necessitate the lamentable
abandonment of manned missions to the Moon after Apollo 17 in 1972 not to have
happened, that larger interplanetary craft such as the DY-100 were being flown
in the 1990s, and so forth. Of course, “so forth” means we would have lived
through the trauma of the Eugenics Wars and World War III in the 1990s. That
has been the route taken by some attempting to imagine the <i>Star Trek</i>
future who want (even more so than myself) to preserve intact the <i>Spaceflight
Chronology</i>, which informed highly-influential 1980s <i>Star Trek</i>
role-playing games produced under license by a company called FASA and which appear
to still have many devotees. But those have been losing ground, I gather, and the
Okuda timeline seems almost universally accepted at this point. Nor has some
other the “easy” “alternate history” route been taken, thus far at least, by
official <i>Star Trek</i> productions and licensed materials. Greg Cox’s novels
about the Eugenics Wars provide one solution, purporting that the <i>Star Trek</i>
history of the 1990s is indeed our own unperceived 1990s. As clever as his presentation
was – and I mean that; I thoroughly enjoyed those novels although I disagree
with some of the particular choices he pretty much had to make in order for his
story to “work” – it is not a solution I can ultimately accept. How in the
world would you go from the Eugenics Wars being completely unknown in 2020 to
them being common knowledge in the 22<sup>nd</sup> century – despite Spock’s
contention that records for that time are “fragmentary”? Another solution is
what that same author did for the mission to Saturn, pushing it out from the
Okuda timeline placement of 2009 (which was already in the past in 2012 when he
wrote <i>The Rings of Time</i>) to a date still in the future (while apparently
recognizing the necessity for it to happen when Shaun Geoffrey Christopher
would be realistically aged about fifty. Of course, time has inevitably
rendered 2020 – frankly unlikely in 2012 – impossible for the first manned
mission to Saturn. <i>Tempus fugit</i>. Inevitably, I’m sure, another date will
be proposed. I myself am going to do so. And, just as inevitably, that date
will be surpassed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another possibility – probability, in
fact – is that what I am attempting to do is by definition impossible, for none
of the reasons I have so far identified although I have hinted at it. From the
very beginning, even before “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” <i>Enterprise</i>
travelled<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>through time. In episode 06, “The
Naked Time,” a cold warp engine start to escape the gravitational flux
accompanying an imploding planet kicked <i>Enterprise </i>71 hours into the
past; in “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” an accidental impingement on the high
gravitational field of a “black star” at warp speed flung <i>Enterprise</i> 198
years into the past (and into very low Earth orbit); an intricate high-warp “slingshot”
maneuver around Earth’s sun first sent them back in time a few days, then
forward eventually back to the time whence they had travelled after striking
the “black star.” In episode 28 – one of the most famous and heart-breaking
episodes of the entire franchise – a sentient ancient monument on a dead world
provides a gateway into the past, where Kirk must prevent McCoy from changing
history by saving the life of the woman Kirk has come to love deeply. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A year later, in the second season episode 26,
“Assignment: Earth,” has <i>Enterprise</i> quite cavalierly repeating in
reverse the “slingshot” maneuver by which they had returned from the past in “Tomorrow
is Yesterday” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to return to 1968 “for
historical research” </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">– du</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ring which they almost cause a nuclear war. Consider
how much time travel has occurred in <i>Star Trek</i> since then. Every series –
and more than one of the movies – has had time travel as part of its
storytelling. Of course, the major problem identified in “Tomorrow is Yesterday”
is a great plot device. How easy – I would say inevitable – it would be to
change the past and hence the past’s future which is your own present.
Inevitable? According to the “observer effect” theory, the mere observation of
a phenomenon changes that phenomenon. If that is true – and, as I understand
it, quantum mechanics says it is – then how much more certain it must be that
the mere <i>presence</i> of a future object in the past has already irreparably
changed that past. Every time <i>Enterprise</i> or her crew went to the past,
they created a different future that might be so subtly different from their
own that they could not even perceive the difference. Which means there can be
no single timeline to contend with. There is rather a multiplicity of timelines
as hinted in the following infographic:</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNt6KhplQvMBf7wpDmTt6tU-NvNEL5OtlLrq_SC1gA2ynSRmq6LjbLSZfvmbHwkQ_bfuXmxPBvfcaB11UlPZfkeImH62q5djhiww6gij7YpV_ZqO_lgWHfP4cDVSx8-zCIMWdXHEEfTY3J/s1600/104trekonciliation20190213_800x458.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="800" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNt6KhplQvMBf7wpDmTt6tU-NvNEL5OtlLrq_SC1gA2ynSRmq6LjbLSZfvmbHwkQ_bfuXmxPBvfcaB11UlPZfkeImH62q5djhiww6gij7YpV_ZqO_lgWHfP4cDVSx8-zCIMWdXHEEfTY3J/s320/104trekonciliation20190213_800x458.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Higher resolution: <a href="https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqF_WAtviVxlhp8G4Aqans0VAmtCRA?e=DYnuO7" target="_blank">LINK</a><br />
(This image is credited to JoeAndDani.com. Because I cannot find<br />
it there, I am temporarily hosting it here and do not claim it to be my own work.)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The "Star Trek Timeline Reconciliation" only recognizes
part of the problem in its teaser, “Consider the following when thinking of all
the Star Trek films that take place after ‘First Contact,’ as well as every
series produced since ‘Voyager’ – those taking place before ‘The Original
Series.’ These stories may NOT take place in the original ‘Canon’ universe or
timeline.” This idea (a staple of science fiction) provides the connection between the original “real”
</span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Star Trek</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> timeline – often called “Prime” – and the Abramsverse “Kelvin”
timeline, with “alternate timelines” being discussed onscreen. But it has much more
extensive implications … that I am going to pretty much ignore. Otherwise,
there is no point to what I am attempting.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the end, working out a prospective <i>Star
Trek</i> timeline extrapolated from our own through what seems to be the
history underlying a narrative thread running from 2151 to 2399, as the
official productions and licensed works continue to do, is more attractive than
any other alternative. It is hard to explain – and undoubtedly completely
nerdish even to be concerned with it – but the <i>Star Trek</i> future is
ultimately an appealing future. Utterly unrealistic in many respects –
especially many of its premises that prevailed whenever Roddenberry himself was
at the helm but which seemed to be quietly forgotten once he was not, such as
the idea that the <i>Star Trek</i> universe was one in which there was no such
thing as money and everyone had pretty much unfettered freedom to pursue their own
potential. As pontificated by Jean-Luc Picard in the aforementioned episode, “The
Neutral Zone,” “A lot has changed in the past three hundred years. People are
no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger,
want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy.” Right. That is
as fanciful, in its own way, as any of the <i>Star Wars </i>movies. The number
of counter-examples from any and all of the <i>Star Trek</i> series and movies
beggars the mind. “The Neutral Zone” was the last episode of the first season
of <i>The Next Generation</i> – the only season Roddenberry was directly
involved in production. Declining health forced him out of the captain’s chair,
although he continued as a consultant until he ultimately passed away early in
the fifth season (October 1991).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frankly, attractive or not, Roddenberry’s
vision of the future is a fairy-tale idealization that will never exist. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> B</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ut
even the more “realistic” vision that has ultimately prevailed – with all the
trauma and tragedy that it depicts between “the present” and “the future” –
remains an appealing vision. It is not perfect, by any means.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is deeply agnostic humanist, seldom if ever presenting religion in a positive light, and when it does it is something akin to what has been called "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism" [</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moralistic_therapeutic_deism" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">LINK</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">]. It thus ignores, even belittles, a basic human impulse, our instinct to acknowledge and aspire to the divine -- or, more accurately, it arrogates to itself many of the ideas, terminology, and tropes of religion into a world view that purports to be beyond such superstition. But that discussion is for another day, because having said all that, I do find the material aspects of the world depicted in <i>Star Trek</i> attractive</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If I am going to create a “future history” from
now to then, I am not going to invalidate its connection with our own world from the very moment I create it by
having it already divergent from our reality. That divergence will come soon
enough, I know. Time does not need my help.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whatever, I intend to have fun “making
history,” and hopefully readers will have fun reading it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Live Long and Prosper!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>The
“canonical” status of this, the first post-original, series is often
questioned. Gene Roddenberry himself later rejected its status as canon.
Nevertheless, although production values were in most ways typical of
early-1970s television animation, not only were the stories far superior to
anything else on Saturday morning, most of them being in fact written by
established TOS writers or even established science fiction writers who had <i>not</i>
written for TOS, but the main characters’ voices were provided by the original
actors (albeit each reading individually in a separate audio recording room,
rendering their performances somewhat lifeless). Then, very soon, established
science fiction (and super-adaptoid) author Alan Dean Foster expanded the very
short stories into novella-length, richly detailed prose adventures in the
wonderful <i>Star Trek Log</i> series between 1974 and 1978 (Del Rey Books). For what it is worth, to me, TAS is <i>definitely</i>
canon – and in the form written by Foster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
During its first two seasons, the show was aired without the “<i>Star Trek:</i>”
primary title. They thought better of it however as ratings sagged, however the
attempted rebranding back to the franchise name did not save the show.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a> These
are short, typically character-driven, vignettes. Some are live-action, some
are animated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou…!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There is a reason for that choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am assuming the Bantam novels published from 1976-1981 to result from a
separate contract from that under which James Blish, the adaptor of the
Original Series episodes into short story format and published by Bantam
between 1967 and 1978, wrote his own standalone, original novel, <i>Spock Must
Die!</i>, several years earlier (1970).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">In searching for more on this development
of the Okuda Chronology timeline, I found this post which is very worthy of
quotation:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“The
introduction to the 1993 edition of <i>Star Trek Chronology: The History
of the Future</i>, Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda page v, says:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">‘Basic
assumptions: This chronology is built on a number of basic assumptions. The
first is that the original <i>Star Trek</i> series was set 300 years
in the future of the first airings of the episodes, meaning that the first
seasons was set in 2266-67. Although a few references exist suggesting the
producers of that show vacillated between 200 to 800 years, the 300 year figure
seems to be the most internally consistent...The second basic assumption is
that the first season of <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i> was
set in 2364, as established in "The Neutral Zone". These dates have
been used by the producers of <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i> and
some of the writers of the <i>Star Trek</i> features, so many ages
and dates mentioned in the show have been consistent with these assumptions.
Most of the dates set forth in this chronology were derived from these two
basic assumptions.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“And on page
iv, discussing Michael Okuda's first efforts at forming a chronology for the
use of <i>Star Trek</i> writers: ‘Former <i>Star Trek</i> research
consultant Richard Arnold proved to be a tremendous help at this stage,
providing for us (as he had for some of <i>Star Trek: The Next
Generation's</i> writers) many of the basic assumptions that form the
framework on which this chronology is built.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Thus I deduce
that Richard Arnold and Gene Roddenberry decided on many of the basic
assumptions which were used by the Okudas in their official chronology, and
very probably arbitrarily decided that TOS episodes happened 300 years after
being aired, and that TNG's first season would be 400 years after production
began on <i>The Cage</i>. By arbitrarily deciding on those dates
Roddenberry and Arnold chose not to support the earliest publish <i>Star
Trek</i> chronology from <i>Star Trek: An Analysis of a Phenomenon in
Science Fiction (1968)</i>, nor the chronology in <i>Star Trek</i> technical
fandom, nor the chronology in <i>Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology</i>, nor
any other previous chronology. By arbitrarily deciding on those dates
Roddenberry and Arnold and the Okudas omitted checking to see if their dates
were possible, and so chose dates which can be shown to be impossible according
to evidence from previous <i>Star Trek</i> productions.” (M. A.
Golding, answering the question, “How was the Star Trek timeline officially
established?“ at <i>StackExchange</i> (06:24 on 29 July 2015) [<a href="https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/46180/how-was-the-star-trek-timeline-officially-established?noredirect=1&lq=1">LINK</a>])<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Impossible?
Well…. Let’s not get into that! Inconsistent with previous <i>Star Trek </i>productions?
<i>Definitely</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">[8]</span></span></span></a>
With <i>Star Trek: Enterprise</i> and several subsequent novels that I choose
to consider fully canonical, the decade between the launch of NX-01 <i>Enterprise</i>
and the chartering of the Federation is pretty well mapped out for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/STAR%20TREK%20History%20and%20Ramblings%20Part%201.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
From the beginning to the present, new canonical <i>Star Trek</i> material (TV
episodes or films, as I define it to include the Animated Series but exclude
the Abramsverse films) has appeared in the following years: 1966-1969, 1973-1975,
1966-1969, 1973-1974, 1979, 1982, 1984,
1986-2005, and 2017-present; in other words in the last 55 years inclusive,
1966-2020, only 22 years (1970-1972,
1975-1978, 1980-1981, 1983, 1985, and 2006-2016) have seen no new canonical
material – and the 2006-2016 gap did have the three Abramsverse films (2009,
2013, and 2016) as well as <i>Star Trek Continues</i> (2013-2017). Include the “semicanonical”
licensed novels or collections of original stories (which are a mixed bag, to
be sure), and at least new materials of some sort were published in 1970 (James
Blish, <i>Spock Must Die!</i>), 1976-1981 (a dozen original novels pubished by
Bantam Books), and 1981-present (<i>hundreds</i> of original novels published
by Pocket Books or other Simon & Shuster imprints). In other words, <i>since 1966, only in 1971 and 1972 has there been
absolutely no new Star Trek fiction of one form or another</i>.</span></div>
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Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-85277763660906747292020-05-19T21:03:00.000-05:002020-05-27T21:50:24.000-05:00The Noble Lineage of Ships Named Enterprise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I thought about
naming this post “Ring Around the Starship,” because that’s kind of where this
most recent obsessio– – er, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">project</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> – began….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Genesis of this Project</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Around the beginning of May, while browsing the Internet I came upon this intriguing product for sale:</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVDlLwex5YiFFNDV2l0tICKiRKaPD46prm4vjGQEAt6IQC0YTlgN0kD2L5asTw7H5MQp_JwXTJ5AZWXD3v1Hh2XekS3ZMzyl4itIlat8ua-f1MvOyW_xgmEVWWBg3CHpFJYWQTbpQh_k7S/s1600/plaque_783x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="783" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVDlLwex5YiFFNDV2l0tICKiRKaPD46prm4vjGQEAt6IQC0YTlgN0kD2L5asTw7H5MQp_JwXTJ5AZWXD3v1Hh2XekS3ZMzyl4itIlat8ua-f1MvOyW_xgmEVWWBg3CHpFJYWQTbpQh_k7S/s320/plaque_783x600.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;">Sold on Etsy, by “Blue Fire Engraving,” for $35 <br />[at the time of this writing [</span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/183016190/star-trek-wall-hanging-wall-art?ref=shop_home_active_1&crt=1" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: start;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;">]). </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sold on Etsy, by
“Blue Fire Engraving,” for $35 [at the time of this writing [</span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/183016190/star-trek-wall-hanging-wall-art?ref=shop_home_active_1&crt=1" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">]).
I considered purchasing it but hesitated, not just because of the price for
another piece of wall art my wife would probably not let me hang in the
“public” parts of the house but also because I immediately perceived there to
be at least one glaring omission. In </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Star Trek: The Motion Picture</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
(1979), a “ships wall” is depicted as part of the recreation deck of the newly
refitted </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">U.S.S. Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> NCC-1701. Among a series of ships on that
wall was a memorable ship which is absent from the plaque. A quick Internet
search confirmed my memory via the article, “Enterprise Lineages on Display,”
at the web site </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ex Astris Scientia </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">[</span><a href="https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/ship_walls.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">]. Five
pictures depict in sequence:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">A sailing ship.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">A</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">n aircraft carrier “of the World War II era.”</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The U.S. Space Shuttle.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">A ship sporting a long central hull with two large rings near
the stern, identified in the article as the “XCV 330 … actually based on an
early design by Matt Jefferies that could have become the <i>Enterprise</i> NCC-1701.”</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The pre-refit Constitution class <i>U.S.S. Enterprise</i>
NCC-1701.<a name='more'></a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Dialogue in the
movie explicitly states that all these ships were named </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">. Obvious
to anyone familiar with history, however, that “ships wall” was not exhaustive
in its depictions. There were, as depicted on the aforementioned plaque, not
one but </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">two</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> US aircraft carriers named </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> – the World War
II-era CV-6 and the modern nuclear aircraft carrier CV-65, launched in 1961 and
by all accounts the ultimate inspiration for Gene Roddenberry’s ultimately
settling on that name for the ship in the first </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Star Trek</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> television
series just a few years later (1964, “The Cage,” the first pilot episode). And,
of course, since 1979 several successors were added to the lineage of starships
bearing that name – the alphabet-series beginning with NCC-1701-A introduced at
the end of </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1986), NCC-1701-D introduced
in the first episode of </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Star Trek: The Next Generation</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (“Encounter at
Farpoint,” 1987), NCC-1701-C subsequently in that same television series (1990,
“Yesterday’s </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">”), NCC-1701-B in the motion picture, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Star
Trek: Generations</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1994), and NCC-1701-E in the following movie, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Star
Trek: First Contact</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1996). All of these were depicted on the plaque – but
not the distinctive “ring ship.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">That same article
continued to examine other such ships walls, which I list below: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The Second Ships
Wall appeared in <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i> through the fourth
season (1990-1991), including the episodes “The Last Outpost” and “Coming of
Age,” in the observation lounge of the Galaxy Class NCC-1701-D: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">N</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">uclear aircraft carrier CVN-65</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Pre-refit Constitution Class NCC-1701</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">P</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">ost-refit Constitution Class NCC-1701 (or, I would submit,
the successor ship Constitution II Class NCC-1701-A, but it really doesn’t
matter – they look pretty much the same)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Excelsior Class NCC-1701-B</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Ambassador Class NCC-1701-C</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Galaxy Class NCC-1701-D</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Some minor differences
in detail between the -1701-B and -C as shown on the wall and what would
eventually appear in the movie </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Star Trek: Generations</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> (1994) and appeared
in the third-season episode “Yesterday’s </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise,</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">” respectively, are
discussed in that article but are, in my opinion, inconsequential.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The Third Ships
Wall appeared in the movie, <i>Star Trek: First Contact</i>, on the Sovereign
Class NCC-1701-E:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">P</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">re-refit Constitution Class NCC-1701</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Post-refit Constitution Class NCC-1701 (or, I would submit,
the successor ship Constitution II Class NCC-1701-A)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Excelsior Class NCC-1701-B</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Ambassador Class NCC-1701-C</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Galaxy Class NCC-1701-D</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Sovereign Class NCC-1701-E</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>Lily Sloane: </i>You broke your little ships.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The Fourth Ships
Wall, in </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Star Trek: Nemesis</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, on the Sovereign Class NCC-1701-E, depicts essentially
the same selection as in </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">First Contact</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, albeit displayed in a different
configuration. (See a pair of articles referenced therein, both by John Eaves [longtime
</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Star Trek</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> production designer] at his blog, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Eavesdropping with Johnny</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">:
“the golden enterprise” [sic] [</span><a href="https://johneaves.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/the-golden-enterprise/" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">]
and “more on the golden starships” [sic] [</span><a href="https://johneaves.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/more-of-the-golden-starships/" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">],
as well as a more comprehensive survey, at </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Star Trek.com</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, “GUEST BLOG:
The Lineage of Ships That Bear The Name Enterprise” (12 Dec 2013) [</span><a href="https://www.startrek.com/article/guest-blog-the-lineage-of-ships-that-bear-the-name-enterprise" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">].)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">And, finally, the Fifth
Ships Wall – <i>Star Trek: Enterprise</i>, on the NX-01, in the Captain’s Ready
Room, consisting a series of really cool-looking pencil or charcoal sketches
rather than models.:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">A sailing ship</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">CVN-65</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Space Shuttle</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">NX-01</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The “ring ship”
which had hitherto showed up only on the ships wall of </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Star Trek: The Motion
Picture</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> did, however, get some love from </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Star Trek: Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">,
appearing in paintings on the wall of the officers’ club at Starfleet Command
as well as in Admiral Forrest’s office at various times during the series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I do not like the
Abrams-verse movies, so am disregarding them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Long and short,
combining the various ships walls into an obvious sequence, with reference to
the wall plaque, yields the following “ships named <i>Enterprise</i>”:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Designation/Description<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Appearance(s)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Wall art plaque<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sailing ship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: The Motion
Picture</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, <i>Star Trek:
Enterprise<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Four</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> such ships<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">WWII Aircraft Carrier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: The Motion
Picture<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Nuclear Aircraft Carrier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: The Next
Generation, Star Trek: Enterprise<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">U.S. Space Shuttle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: The Motion
Picture, Star Trek: Enterprise<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Ring Ship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: The Motion
Picture (Star Trek: Enterprise</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">,
in separate paintings)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">No<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">NX-01<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: Enterprise<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Pre-Refit NCC-1701<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: The Motion
Picture, Star Trek: The Next Generation; Star Trek: First Contact and Star
Trek: Nemesis</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Post-Refit NCC-1701 or new
NCC-1701-A<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: The Next
Generation; Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Nemesis<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yes, specifically the
NCC-1701-A<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">NCC-1701-B<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: The Next
Generation; Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Nemesis</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">NCC-1701-C<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: The Next
Generation; Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Nemesis</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">NCC-1701-D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: The Next
Generation; Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Nemesis</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">NCC-1701-E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Star Trek: First Contact
and Star Trek: Nemesis</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Every ship that
ever appeared on any ships wall thus made it onto the Blue Fire Engraving wall
art plaque, plus some when it came to the Napoleonic-era sailing ships, the
“tall ships” – except the ring ship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">If I was going to
have such a piece of art adorning <i>my</i> wall, it would be complete. I
started rooting around on the Internet to see if there were other such
available and found nothing. I did find an identical cutting board (?! – [<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/188428860/star-trek-art-cutting-board-science-art?ref=shop_home_active_4&crt=1">LINK</a>]),
also for sale on Etsy from the same vendor. But no other etching, plaque, or
poster, or whatever. I did, however, find images of several closely related but
different lineage sheets which I eventually tracked back to a collection of
scans of various blueprint sets and “technical manuals” for various ships in
the <i>Star Trek</i> universe posted at the web site <i>C-X1 Cygnus-x1.net “A
Tribute to Star Trek” – </i>a massive “Star Trek Blueprints Database” [<a href="https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints-main2.php">LINK</a>].
Specifically, associated with blueprint sets for several different ships that
have appeared on screen, designer Monte R. Johnjulio includes the following or
something very similar:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMireRz66T3T87hE4h7CAttGGpaxNyVXk1N9UqP5FHga77wabRN4wlULmu62LaCTVGMo-lOK16Ppo96OMG44mruUjdHxD-r5tzk47RW1r2UU-fqcjTKkjU778gzJwMHcVVZfBm1hw1FwnK/s1600/uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-b-sheet-12_800x497.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="800" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMireRz66T3T87hE4h7CAttGGpaxNyVXk1N9UqP5FHga77wabRN4wlULmu62LaCTVGMo-lOK16Ppo96OMG44mruUjdHxD-r5tzk47RW1r2UU-fqcjTKkjU778gzJwMHcVVZfBm1hw1FwnK/s320/uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-b-sheet-12_800x497.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;">[<a href="https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-b-sheet-12.jpg">LINK</a>] </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;">[Specifically, sheet 12 from the set, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: start;">Starfleet Vessel U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-B: <br />General Blueprints and Specifications</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;"> [</span><a href="https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-b.php" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: start;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: start;">])</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">That one is pretty
cool, but not really of the resolution I would like to print out a 11x17" or so
poster, nor did it have the tall ships. I’ve always liked the fighting ships of the
Napoleonic Era, the Age of Sail, the age of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Captain Horatio Hornblower</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">,
which books I read long ago in part because one of Roddenberry’s various
descriptions of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Star Trek</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> was “Horatio Hornblower in Space” (and
actually started rereading just last year when I finally broke down and used
some gift cards I received from my in-laws for Christmas to purchase the
Gregory Peck movie as well as the Ioan Gruffydd TV series). There apparently
does not exist a comprehensive sheet detailing the lineage of the Starship </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
from its remote predecessors during the Age of Sail to the 24</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
century. Or there did not exist such until now, because I decided to create my
own, more complete version. I cannot say it is absolutely complete, but it is
more complete than any other I have seen, and I took the opportunity to include
more information about each ship as well – the year it was launched, its
affiliation, and its class in addition to is registry number, whatever and
wherever applicable, all displayed to roughly the same scale (which the plaque is not). Research turned up several more candidates for inclusion
as well, extending the lineage at least back to the beginning of the 18</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
century as well as introducing another spaceship that I felt compelled to work
right into the middle of the sequence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Research</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Here, in order,
are the ships that I found. As usual, I began this project with a flurry of
Internet searches that I did not thoroughly document. I also had to make some
decisions along the way that I will attempt to explain if not justify here. For
the <i>Star Trek</i> ships I mainly used two closely-related encyclopedic
websites, <i>Memory Alpha</i> [<a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main">LINK</a>] and <i>Memory
Beta</i> [<a href="https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page">LINK</a>],
covering information from official, “canonical” productions in the various <i>Star
Trek</i> series and movies (<i>Alpha</i>) and from “extra-canonical” licensed
novels, comic books, and so forth (<i>Beta</i>), as well as the Wikipedia
article, “Starship Enterprise” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise">LINK</a>]. For the
historical ships, I consulted the Wikipedia articles </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“HMS Enterprise” [</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">LINK</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">], </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“USS Enterprise” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise">LINK</a>], and “</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">List of ships
of the United States Navy named <i>Enterprise</i>” [</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_United_States_Navy_named_Enterprise"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">LINK</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Non-Wikipedia articles covering both historical and science-fiction ships include
D. S. Smith, “We Started It All, Captain Kirk, or, The Life & Times of the
First <i>USS Enterprise</i>,” (1990) [</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041205181907/http:/seafarer.netfirms.com/2-enter.htm"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Archive.org LINK</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">], and David
Wells, “A History of Ships Named Enterprise,” <i>The STArchive </i>(2001) [</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://starchive.cs.umanitoba.ca/?SNE.html"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">LINK</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I also came upon the following book: Arnold E. van Beverhoudt, Jr., <i>These
are the Voyages: A History of the Ships, Aircraft, and Spacecraft named
Enterprise</i> (Lulu.com: Updated Second Edition, 2013). The website that was
the original basis for the book has been stripped bare with referrals to
purchase the book. I did, and it is wonderfully comprehensive to the
publication date. Van Beverhoudt’s <i>History</i> does contain starboard
profile drawings of each ship, but not large enough or at anywhere near the
resolution I would need for this project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">All those articles and that book collectively should be considered the
sources for the following information. I will only specifically note crucial
points of discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Here are the various vessels I found….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Year<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Registry, formal name, and Class<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Affiliation: Polity and Service(s)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Notes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1705-1707<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HMS <i>Enterprise</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">24-gun Frigate (6<sup>th</sup> Rate)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Kingdom of England Royal Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Captured from France, originally <i>L’Entreprise</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1709-1749<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HMS <i>Enterprise</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">44-gun Frigate (5<sup>th</sup> Rate)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Kingdom of Great Britain<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Royal Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">First newly constructed <i>Enterprise</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1743-1748<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HMS <i>Enterprize</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">8-gun sloop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Kingdom of Great Britain Royal Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Captured from Spain <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1744-1771<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HMS <i>Enterprise</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">44-gun Frigate (5<sup>th</sup>-Rate)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Kingdom of Great Britain Royal Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Renamed from 1693 HMS <i>Norwich</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1774-1807<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HMS <i>Enterprise</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">28-gun Enterprise class Frigate (6<sup>th</sup>-rate)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Kingdom of Great Britain Royal Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1775<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HMS <i>Enterprize</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">10-gun tender<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Kingdom of Great Britain<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Royal Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Captured by Americans, but see notes under “Culling the Fleet”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1775-1777<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Enterprise<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">24-gun Sloop-of-war<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Colonies of America<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Continental Army<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HMS <i>George</i>, Captured by Americans <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1776-1777<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Enterprise<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">8-gun Schooner <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Colonies of America Continental Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Captured or purchased privateer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1799-1823<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">USS <i>Enterprise<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">12-gun Schooner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United States of America Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Upgraded to brig<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">10<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1831-1844<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">USS <i>Enterprise<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">10-gun Schooner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United States of America Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">11<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1861-1863<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Enterprise</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Hot air balloon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United States of America (Union) Army Balloon Corps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1874-1909<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">USS <i>Enterprise</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Steam-Powered 6-gun “Screw-sloop”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United States of America Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1917-1918<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">SP-790 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Enterprise</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1-gun motor boat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.5pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United States of America Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 157.5pt;" valign="top" width="210"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Non-commissioned S[ection] P[atrol] craft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.75pt;" valign="top" width="90"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1919-1946<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">HMS <i>Enterprise</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">E-class light cruiser<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Kingdom Royal Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.75pt;" valign="top" width="90"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1936-1947<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.5pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">CV-6 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">USS <i>Enterprise</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Yorktown class Aircraft Carrier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.5pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United States of America Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 157.5pt;" valign="top" width="210"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.75pt;" valign="top" width="90"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1941-1945<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">L-5 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Enterprise</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">L-class blimp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;" valign="top" width="54"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.5pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United States of America Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 157.5pt;" valign="top" width="210"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.75pt;" valign="top" width="90"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1961-2017<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.5pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">CVN-65 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">USS <i>Enterprise</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Enterprise class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.5pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United States of America Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 157.5pt;" valign="top" width="210"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.75pt;" valign="top" width="90"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1976-1979<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">OV-101 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Enterprise</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space Shuttle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NASA<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">19<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2010-2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">N339SS <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">VSS <i>Enterprise<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Spaceplane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Virgin Galactic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">IXS-110<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Enterprise</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Alcubierre-White class starship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NASA / United States Space Force<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Conceptual interstellar ship. See notes below re dates of service – 2072-2079
– as well as affiliation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2027-2053<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">CVN-80 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">USS <i>Enterprise</i> Gerald R. Ford class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">US Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">See notes below regarding end of service, 2053<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">22<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ca. 2130s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">SS <i>Enterprise<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">XCV-330<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Declaration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Nations Space Force,
UESPA<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Ring Ship. See notes below regarding years of service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">23<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2151-2161<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NX-01<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">SS <i>Enterprise<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NX/Columbia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Earth Starfleet, UESPA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2156, underwent refit with outboard secondary hull<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">24<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2245-2285<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NCC-1701<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Constitution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Federation of Planets Starfleet, UESPA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2271, underwent refit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">25<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2286-2293<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NCC-1701-A<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Constitution II refit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 40.5pt;" valign="top" width="54"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.5pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Federation of Planets Starfleet, UESPA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">26<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.75pt;" valign="top" width="90"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2293-2329<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NCC-1701-B<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Excelsior II refit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 94.5pt;" valign="top" width="126"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Federation of Planets Starfleet, UESPA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">27<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.75pt;" valign="top" width="90"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2332-2344<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NCC-1701-C Ambassador<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Federation of Planets Starfleet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">28<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.75pt;" valign="top" width="90"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2363-2371<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NCC-1701-D Galaxy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Federation of Planets Starfleet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">29<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2372-2409<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">NCC-1701-E Sovereign<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">United Federation of Planets Starfleet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Culling the Fleet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Now for the most
difficult part of this project – back-documenting how I developed the
images that I used. I did not necessarily take good notes in the early stages,
having no idea that this project would go as far as it ultimately did.
Nevertheless, I will attempt to document where I found my images and what I had
to do to them to end up with images usable for my purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">But first, I had to decide which I needed. I
wanted to include as many of the aforementioned ships as I could, although I
knew I could not include them all. There are, after all, 28 or 29, depending on
what you make of the mysterious discrepancy of numbers 7 and 8. They seem like
two separate ships – a 10-gun tender and a 24-gun sloop-of-war, one named <i>HMS
Enterprize</i> and one named <i>HMS George</i>, both of them captured from the
Royal Navy by the American Colonies and put into their own service – both under
the name <i>Enterprise</i>? For the purpose of my chart, I’m only going to
include the second, which seems better documented. Still, 28 distinct ships.
Way too many to include on any reasonable chart. Applying various criteria and
making some hard choices in certain cases, I set about paring the list down to
the following: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>2 – 1709-1749 HMS
Enterprise</b></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This was the first newly constructed HMS <i>Enterprise</i> to
serve in the Royal Navy.</span></li>
</ul>
<b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">5 – 1774-1807 HMS
Enterprise</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The second newly constructed HMS <i>Enterprise</i>.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>7 – 1775-1777
Enterprise</b></span><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This and the next are included simply because they are the
first American ships named <i>Enterprise</i>. <i>Not</i> USS <i>Enterprise</i>,
because the US Navy did not exist yet. There is possibly some confusion
regarding this one, the 24-gun sloop-of-war called HMS <i>George</i>, which was
captured by Benedict Arnold and assigned to service on Lake Champlain. It is
much better documented, however, than the 10-gun tender at my “not included”
number 6 below. I include it here as the first American <i>Enterprise</i> even
though it is a prize of war. Incidentally, although some confusion also exists
regarding this ship’s affiliation with the Continental Navy or the Continental
Army -- and Wikipedia contradicts itself here – the reasoning that actions on
inland lakes did not fall under the Continental Navy’s purview makes sense to
me, and furthermore adds a little variety to the chart.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Per Wikipedia, “USS Enterprise (1705)” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(1775)">LINK</a>], this “<i>Enterprise</i>
was originally a British topsail schooner (classified as a "<i>sloop-of-war</i>"
by the Royal Navy, not to be confused with an actual sloop, which has only a
single mast) named <i>George</i>, built at St. Johns (now Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu)
in Quebec, Canada.” There is no independent article for the HMS <i>Enterprize</i>
(1775), and no information about where it was constructed. I feel this is a
clear contradiction by Wikipedia that awaits resolution.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>8 – 1776-1777
Enterprise</b></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This was an 8-gun British schooner, a privateer either
captured or purchased by the Continental Navy and used as a convoy escort and
dispatch boat mainly in Chesapeake Bay.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>9 – 1799-1823 USS
Enterprise</b></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This was the first USS <i>Enterprise</i>, commissioned and
built by the new United States Navy as a 12-gun schooner, later upgraded to a
brig. Most notably, it fired the first shot in the war against the Barbary
pirates.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>10 – 1831-1844 USS
Enterprise</b></span><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This was a 10-gun schooner used in the suppression of the
slave trade.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>12 – 1874-1909 USS
Enterprise</b></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This was a transitional ship – a wooden-hulled, steam-driven
but fully rigged sloop, hence “screw-sloop.” David Wells [<a href="http://starchive.cs.umanitoba.ca/?SNE.html">LINK</a>], at his number 14,
opines that “This ship's record in some ways resembles that of NCC-1701.” Most
notable is its three-year mission surveying the world’s seas, 1883-1886, “contributed
materially to the knowledge of the oceans, their currents, and their bottoms.”</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>15 – 1936-1947
CV-6 USS Enterprise</b></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The first “Big E” – the most decorated warship of World War
II, the only US aircraft carrier to survive the war from beginning to end.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>17 – 1961-2017
CVN-65 USS Enterprise</b></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The second “Big E” – a sensation from when it was launched as
the largest warship afloat, this was the world’s first nuclear-powered vessel.
After considering the name <i>Yorktown</i>, Gene Roddenberry named the Starship
<i>Enterprise</i> for this ship.</span></li>
</ul>
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OV-101 Enterprise</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">And then, in the mid 1970s, a massive letter-writing campaign
convinced NASA to name the first US space shuttle after the fictional Starship <i>Enterprise</i>.
The actors and fans attended its unveiling. Unfortunately, it never made it
into space, serving as a prototype test vehicle.</span></li>
</ul>
<b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">20 – 2072-2079 IXS-110
<i>Enterprise</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Writing this in May 2020, we now get into the speculative and
fictional, to varying degrees. Once I came upon this conceptual ship design </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">[</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IXS_Enterprise"><span lang="EN">LINK</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">]</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> during my research (not for the first
time, but not for a long time) I knew I had to include it. If perchance the
“Alcubierre” solution to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity can be engineered into
what Dr. Miguel Alcubierre himself called a “warp drive” because of the way it envisions
the bending of space itself to provide motive force, it would be the biggest
development probably in human history, breaking us free not just from the bonds
of earth but from those of a single solar system. Not only that, design-wise it
fits right in with the otherwise unique Ring Ship XCV-330, even to the fact
that both sport a <i>pair</i> of annular rings. Finally, the ring-design aligns
with the Vulcan ships occasionally seen in <i>Star Trek</i>, most often in the
prequel series,<i> Enterprise</i>. In the table and hence this sequence, I have
it listed as 2013, the year NASA scientist Dr. Harold G. White revealed the
design. (The class name is based on the two scientists.) <i>2013 is obviously
too early for this lineage, however.</i> Ever since 1996 with the movie <i>First
Contact</i>, the date of mankind’s first successful warp flight has been
established in <i>Star Trek </i>canon as 05 April 2063, when Zephram Cochrane broke
the light-barrier and attracted the attention of a passing Vulcan survey
vessel. Nor did I want the IXS-110 to be a <i>failed</i> pre-Cochrane attempt
at a warp drive. My postulation, therefore, is that in the years after First
Contact, humans emulated Vulcan warp engineering based on the annular warp
coils seen on the IXS-110 and the later, much larger XCV-330 rather than the
linear warp coils that Zephram Cochrane himself had designed. By the early 22<sup>nd</sup>
c., however, there was a growing perception on the part of humanity (forming part
of the backstory of <i>Star Trek: Enterprise</i>) that the Vulcans were
intentionally retarding human progress in warp science. Therefore, commencing
at some point in the early 22<sup>nd</sup> c., human warp engineering started
exploring different design philosophies, ultimately returning to Cochrane’s
configuration in the linear nacelle-based designs ultimately deployed on the
NX-01.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">As to the dating of the IXS <i>Enterprise</i>, it must
therefore be post-2063. Furthermore, four years after 2063, in 2067, the
“United Earth Space Probe Agency” dispatched the warp-driven long-range deep
space probe “Friendship One” (per the 2000 <i>Star Trek: Voyager</i> episode of
that name) which bore significant similarities to Cochrane’s <i>Phoenix</i>,
including near-identical linear warp-nacelles. Some time must be allowed for
engineering philosophy to shift to the Vulcan annular warp rings. I therefore,
somewhat arbitrarily place the IXS-110 in 2072. (As to its end-of-service date,
there is no way to tell; assuming it to have been an experimental ship only, it
may not have been in service for very long. I am arbitrarily assigning it seven
years – the “ideal” length of a <i>Star Trek</i> television series. In another place I may reveal a history I have devised for this vessel, connecting to an obscure point of <i>Star Trek </i>history....)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">As to its operating authority – in this case, one might expect
it to be UESPA. The United Earth Space Probe Agency was an early <i>Star Trek</i>
name for the NCC-1701’s governing authority, before the terms “Starfleet” and
“Federation” had been settled upon. The name was preserved, however, as late as
the commissioning plaque of the NCC-1701-B and is usually rationalized as the
division of the United Earth government’s space authority devoted to scientific
exploration, acknowledging what was a dual purpose for Starfleet vessels –
military <i>and</i> exploration. (The <i>Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the
Federation</i> novels propose a different rationale, that is not necessarily
mutually exclusive, and I choose not to elaborate on it here.) In-universe,
UESPA existed from at least 2067, however. How is that? Memory Beta, citing the
<i>Star Trek</i> prose novel <i>Articles of the Federation</i>, establishes
2130, when the <i>Traité d’Unification</i> is signed between at least a
significant number of nations, as establishing the United Earth government.
Why, 63 years before that date, was there such a thing as a “United <i>Earth</i>
Space Probe Agency”? My answer: 1) Obviously, the idea of a United Earth was
around – it already is. 2) I would postulate that in the rush to send such a deep
space probe as Friendship One in 2067, whatever body sponsored it (probably the
“’New’ United Nations” mentioned in <i>STNG</i> “Encounter at Farpoint”)
considered “United Earth” to be as a better “face” for humanity to put out
there for aliens once the existence of the latter is known after 2063. So, what
was in effect a United Nations organization in this context took the name
“United Earth” – and probably influenced the acceptance of that name for the
world government sixty-odd years later. The NX-01 was explicitly under the
authority of UESPA when launched in 2151; the NCC-1701 remained under its aegis
in the 2260s; nevertheless, I don’t think the term is ever used after the 2293 NCC-1701-B,
and so I choose to ignore it thereafter. Probably it was folded into the UFP
Starfleet.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">I am not going the UESPA route for the IXS-110, however. I
have several, arbitrary to various degrees, reasons for this: 1) It is a NASA
design. 2) The United States of America will endure as a sovereign state
through the tortuous 21<sup>st</sup> c. (including World War III and whatever
the “Post-Atomic Horror” was, in addition to First Contact) to sign onto the Treaty of Unification ratifying
a fully United Earth world government in 2150. I assume that NASA will continue
to be around for at least some of that period. 3) This seems to be my only
place to acknowledge the creation of the United States Space Force as the
eighth branch of the United States military late in the year 2019. So, the
co-operating authorities are NASA and USSP. Why not UESPA in a cooperative
venture? I’m postulating that Americans will continue to be skeptical of any
one-world government and will be among the last three holdouts to ratify the
Treaty in 2150, such skepticism possibly only intensified as a result of the
events of the early to mid 21<sup>st</sup> c. So, even though the idealistic
initial designers in 2013 dubbed it “IXS” for “International Experimental
Starship,” I retain that prefix while supposing it to mean something else.</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">21 – 2027-2046 CVN-80 USS </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Immediately upon the decommissioning of CVN-65 in 2017 was
announced the construction of a successor, the third Gerald R. Ford class
nuclear aircraft carrier. She is scheduled to be commissioned in 2027.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Years of service: According to Wikipedia she is to be launched
in 2025 and commissioned in 2027. According to <i>Star Trek</i> canon, World
War III will begin in 2026 and last until 2053. Although considering moving its
commissioning date to 2026, I’m going to assume it will be commissioned soon
after the outbreak of the war, in 2027, serve throughout, and (arbitrarily) end
its service coterminous with the end of the war. Decommissioned? Destroyed in
the last battle? It matters not for this chart. [REVISION: After further research attempting to reconcile the many contradictory accounts of <i>Star Trek</i> 20th and 21st-century history, I have decided to account CVN-80 destroyed in the 2046 Battle of the Sea of Japan which turned the tide of the Eugenics Wars phase of World War III. Therein lies another blog post....]</span></li>
</ul>
<b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">22 – 2123-2145
XCV-330 SS Enterprise</b><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The Ring Ship. Regarding dates, in the table I cite “ca.
2130s” per Wikipedia. But I wanted something more specific for the chart. The
earliest in-universe visual reference to the Ring Ship is in the <i>Star Trek:
Enterprise</i> episode “First Flight,” in which retrospective the painting is
shown to be in the 602 Club in 2143. So the XCV-330 had to be before that year.
Another possibly pertinent date, per Memory Beta citing the <i>Star Trek</i>
prose novel <i>Articles of the Federation</i>, is 2130, when the <i>Traité
d’Unification</i> is signed, establishing the United Earth government. If the
XCV-330 is launched any time after that, the NX-01 <i>Enterprise</i> would lose
the distinction of being the first Earth Starfleet <i>Enterprise</i>. That
ship’s very existence already takes some of the luster off NCC-1701’s status as
the “first Starship Enterprise,” which is only maintainable via the semantic
argument that what is meant is that NCC-1701 is the first “<i>Federation</i>
Starship <i>Enterprise</i>”; I would argue NCC-1701 is the first “<i>newly
constructed</i> Federation Starship <i>Enterprise</i>” and further multiply
qualifiers all day long if necessary! Long and short, I don’t want to add
another layer to that quagmire, so my argument is that the XCV-330 had to go
into service prior to 2130 when the United Earth world government was formed –
and presumably the United Earth Starfleet was created. That maintains NX-01’s
status as the “first United Earth Starfleet’s Starship <i>Enterprise</i>.” But
when before 2130? The ring ship also appears (with a wonderful painting that
unfortunately spans the gutter) in the 1979 <i>Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology</i>.
Much else established by that book (which made almost everything up from whole
cloth) has been superseded by later series, but “ca. 2130s” fits nicely within
the time span postulated there for the XCV-330: 2123-2165. <i>Except</i> it
does not work to have it still in service when the NX-01 <i>Enterprise</i> is
launched in 2151, so I am arbitrarily changing those dates to 2123-2145.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">I imagine some form of the United Nations to have been the
immediate predecessor of the United Earth government. I also suppose that by
the early 22<sup>nd</sup> c., the United Nations would be fielding their own
military, probably modelled on that of the United States. Hence, “United
Nations Space Force.” This distinct from a nominally civilian UESPA much as the
USSF military is today (2020) distinct from civilian NASA.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Further note: I am completely ignoring the information given
at <i>Memory Beta, s.v. </i>“USS Enterprise (XCV-330)” [<a href="https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(XCV-330)">LINK</a>].</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>23 – 2151-2161
NX-01 SS Enterprise</b></span><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Here, we start getting into documented <i>Star Trek</i>
history, i.e., canon. Everything becomes fairly straightforward…</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This is the ship of the series <i>Enterprise</i>/<i>Star Trek:
Enterprise</i> (2001-2005). It began its run without the “<i>Star Trek</i>”
name. They thought better of it by the third season. The series told the story
of Earth’s first “Warp 5” starship, under the command of Jonathan Archer, and
developments toward the founding of the United Federation of Planets.
Subsequent seasons reportedly would have told the story of the Earth-Romulan
War catalyzing the creation of that body, but the series was cancelled after
the fourth season immediately after the UFP predecessor, the Coalition of
Planets was founded. Post-season novels have completed that story, however.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The NX-01 underwent a major refit in 2056 with the addition of
an outboard secondary hull such as every subsequent <i>Enterprise</i> would
have. At Admiral Archer's insistence it was reclassified as Columbia Class, in honor of the second NX Class starship, previously lost with all hands. It was never seen on screen, however, and depicting it here would only
complicate the chart.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>24 – 2245-2285
NCC-1701 USS Enterprise</b></span><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This is actually where it all began, in <i>Star Trek: </i>The
Original Series (1966-1969). Kirk’s <i>Enterprise</i>, although he was only its
commander from the early-mid 2260s. His predecessors were Captain Robert April
and Captain Christopher Pike. After Kirk’s Five Year Mission (2265-2270), <i>Enterprise</i>
underwent an major structural refit to the next generation of warp drive,
subsequently being commanded by Kirk and company in <i>Star Trek: The Motion
Picture</i> (1979) and many subsequent missions before becoming a training
vessel. Her final voyages are chronicled in <i>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan</i>
(1982) and <i>Star Trek </i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">III: The Search for Spock</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> (1984).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The 2271 refit created a ship nearly identical to the
subsequent ship of the same name. Only the pre-refit is depicted here.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>25 – 2286-2293
NCC-1701-A USS Enterprise</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The fame of Kirk’s <i>Enterprise</i> was such that after its
destruction (and because of his crew’s subsequently saving the Earth yet
again), another Constitution-class starship (The USS <i>Ti-ho</i> according to
some sources, according to others the <i>Yorktown</i>, which is the way I am taking here), just completing its own long-delayed refit to the same
specifications that <i>Enterprise</i> had received over a decade before, was
renamed <i>Enterprise</i> and renumbered NCC-1701-A. It was turned over to Kirk
and company yet again. This occurred at the very end of <i>Star Trek IV: The
Voyage Home</i> (1986), which was followed by <i>Star Trek V: The Final
Frontier</i> (1988) and <i>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country</i> (1991),
which ended with <i>Enterprise-A</i> being recalled for decommissioning.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>26 – 2293-2329
NCC-1701-B USS Enterprise</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This starship appeared only briefly at the beginning of the
movie, <i>Star Trek: Generations</i> (1994).</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>27 – 2332-2344
NCC-1701-C USS Enterprise</b></span><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The starship appeared in only one episode of <i>Star Trek: The
Next Generation</i>, “Yesterday’s <i>Enterprise</i>” (1990) – which,
incidentally, provides the quotation at the top of the plaque and which I use
on this chart. Ironically, the words were spoken by a Picard in a short-lived alternate
time-line which was negated by the end of the episode.</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">28 – 2363-2371
NCC-1701-D USS </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Probably the second most famous Federation Starship <i>Enterprise</i>,
commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard for its entire life, as told in <i>Star
Trek: The Next Generation</i> (1987-1994) and its immediate follow-up movie, <i>Star
Trek: Generations</i> (1994).</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">29 – 2372-2409
NCC-1701-E USS </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i></b><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Finally, the <i>Enterprise-E</i>, Picard’s second Starship <i>Enterprise</i>:
<i>Star Trek: First Contact </i>(1996), <i>Star Trek: Insurrection</i> (1998),
and <i>Star Trek: Nemesis</i> (2002).</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Here are the ones
I chose </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">not</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> to include, with information and notable reasons – beyond
the fact that I could not include them all:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>1 – 1705-1707 HMS <i>Enterprise</i></b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">It may be the first <i>Enterprise</i>, but it was captured
from the French. I reserve the first on my chart to the first newly constructed
<i>HMS</i> Enterprise.</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">3 – 1743-1748 HMS
</span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprize</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">It was captured from Spain, but furthermore there was already
a native-built HMS <i>Enterprise</i> in service? Why was this prize named
“Enterprise”?</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>4 – 1744-1771 HMS
<i>Enterprise</i></b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This was a much older ship, constructed in 1693, originally
named the HMS <i>Norwich</i>, renamed <i>Enterprise</i> … while there was
already another <i>Enterprise</i> still in service…?</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">6 – 1775 HMS </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprize</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">There is all kinds of confusion here. According to Wikipedia
(“HMS Enterprise” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Enterprise">LINK</a>]
at HMS <i>Enterprize</i> (1775))<i>, </i>this 10-gun tender was captured by the
Americans. But it then links to another Wikipedia article, “USS Enterprise
(1775),” another (?) American Colonial <i>Enterprise </i>supposedly captured by
the Americans that year, the former HMS <i>George</i>, for which see my
included number 7 above.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">As far as I can determine, there have been only two Royal Navy
ships named “<i>Enterprize</i>” as opposed to ”<i>Enterprise</i>”: the sloop
captured from Spain in 1743 and the tender captured <i>by</i> the Americans in
1775. </span>Neither appear on my finished chart for the reasons specified. I tried. I really wanted there to be an <i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: -24px;">Enterprize</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -24px;"> – for the novelty of it but also because in the serial montage of ships shown in the opening credits of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: -24px;">Star Trek: Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -24px;"> there does appear an </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: -24px;">Enterprize</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -24px;">. But the name does not seem to be a simple variant in spelling. Moreover, according to Memory Alpha </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: -24px;">s.v.</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -24px;"> “HMS Enterprize,” the ship depicted in the opening credits was a galleon – which neither of the historical ships named </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: -24px;">Enterprize</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -24px;"> was.</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">11 – 1861-1863 </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This is a hot air balloon of the United States of America
(Union) Army Balloon Corps. I chose not to include simple airships.</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">13 – 1917-1918
SP-790 </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This was a private yacht bought and deployed on shore patrol,
but never actually commissioned into the US Navy. </span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">14 – 1919-1956 D52
HMS </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">I thought long and hard about this one, but ultimately decided
not to include it mainly because of space. It was an E-class light cruiser that
served with distinction and most notably provided covering bombardment during
the 06 June 1944 D-Day Invasion. My rationale for not including it (besides
space) is that once the linear progression of service had gone from
England/Great Britain to the United States, I did not want to look back.</span></li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">16 – 1941-1945 L-5
</span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Enterprise</i></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">After Pearl Harbor, Goodyear turned over this blimp to the US
Navy, which used it as a training vessel for its Nonrigid Air Corps, which
patrolled coasts and harbors for German U-boats. Important, but….</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>19 – 2010-2014
N339SS VSS <i>Enterprise</i></b></span><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">This was an experimental spaceplane tested by Virgin Galactic
as part of its commercial enterprise (pardon the pun) to create a medium for
civilian space tourism. After several successive test flights accomplishing
progressive goals toward that end, VSS </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Enterprise</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> broke up shortly after
being released from its mothership for its fourth powered test flight and
crashed in the Mojave Desert. Its co-pilot was killed; its pilot successfully
ejected and survived, albeit with serious injuries – but became the first space
pilot to survive the loss of his spacecraft. Nevertheless as a commercial
venture, as important as that is and as much as I support the idea, I don’t
consider this ship to stand in the lineage of military and exploration vessels.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;">Designing the Chart</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">So, now I had twenty
ships I wanted to include. Twenty ships. The plaque had fourteen. The lineage
chart shown near the top of this post has ten. So I would need to redesign the
whole chart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I began by printing
that lineage chart onto an 8.5x11” sheet of power. I then set about tracing a
new arrangement with the added vehicles. I love the quotation used on the
plaque, so used it as well, under a title simply saying, “The Noble Lineage of Ships
Named ENTERPRISE.” I did try a couple of different arrangements, but settled on
a two-column arrangement with the title box at left top and all of the <i>Star
Trek</i> ships in the right column. I then scanned the result. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I then used that
as a base layer in GIMP for placement of clean starboard schematics, layer by
layer, ship by ship. My aim was an 8.5x11" sheet of high resolution that I could
print at twice that size should I want. (I do not currently have access to a
printer that large.) I settled on 600dpi for the 8.5x11" sheet size, which would
make the double-sized image 300dpi. (I have not tested the output of the 300dpit
version, but I found the 600dpi version as sharp as I could want when I printed
my first test copy (containing representative text in the various sizes as well
as a couple of the ships.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">So I created a
canvas in GIMP with the settings: 600dpi, 8.5x11” (=5100x6600 pixels). But I
needed those clean starboard schematics of each ship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Obtaining the Illustrations</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I am not a skilled
draftsman, so there was no question of producing the illustrations from scratch.
I decided to find and use the cleanest, highest-resolution line drawings of the
starboard profile of these various ships that I could find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">As an aside, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Van
Beverhoudt’s <i>History</i> does contain starboard profile drawings of each
ship in a comparison chart at the back, but the drawings are not large enough
or at anywhere near the resolution I would need for this project. So I set
about finding alternatives that I could easily adapt. M</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">ost were fairly easy to acquire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">A few were more
difficult. I had to get various drawings, some colorized, and manipulate them
or use them as a base for another tracing in GIMP to produce a clean line
drawing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">My GIMP skills are,
I will be the first to admit, rudimentary. As I said, I am not a skilled
draftsman, nor am I a skilled graphic designer. I acquired what skills I needed
like I acquire almost all of my technical skills – as needed, to whatever level
I need to accomplish whatever task is at hand. In this case, after playing
around with GIMP a number of times over the years, I knew it would do what I
wanted when I needed to create a set of high quality maps for my book, as well
as manipulate the photographs I wanted to use, outputting them in specified
resolution and size to be included in that book. Figuring out how to do those
things entailed quite a bit of trial and error, Internet searching, watching
Youtube videos, and so forth. I was hampered a bit by not even being familiar
with the technical jargon of graphic design, but usually by rewording my
request different ways I eventually stumbled upon what I needed. The same
unfamiliarity with the jargon sometimes hampered my understanding of what
objectively simple instructions I might find were actually saying. But persistence
paid off, and I usually figured out how to do what I wanted or found a
workaround.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Note that for a
few tasks, I still find it easier to use Microsoft Paint, and did so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Here, in order
from the top, are the various ships, text I developed for each, where I
acquired the images I used, and a few words about what photo manipulations I
had to perform to clean them up. If I kept a separate image of that manipulation, I'll include it as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Unfortunately, for many of
these ships, I did not adequately document where I obtained my source images. I
will explain how I came upon them as best I can remember, and how I processed
those into the final versions I ended up using. If anyone can identify the
source images and let me know, I will properly credit them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1709-1749 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">HMS <i>Enterprise<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Kingdom of Great Britain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Royal Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">44-gun Frigate of the 5<sup>th</sup>
Rate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1774-1807 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">HMS <i>Enterprise</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Kingdom of Great Britain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Royal Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Enterprise </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Class 28-gun Frigate of the 6<sup>th</sup>
Rate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For these two ships of the
Royal Navy, I could find nothing specific, but I did find the following two
images of frigates. They were not together; I matched up their scales as
closely as I could to represent a 28-gun and 44-gun frigate and saved the
result as this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">As you can see, the 28-gun is
of considerably lower resolution. I was able to crop and use the 44-gun as is,
but I then used the 28-gun as a base later in GIMP for a full tracing that I
then used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1775-1777 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Enterprise</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">United Colonies of America <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Continental Army<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">24-gun Sloop-of-War<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Formerly HMS <i>George</i>,
prize of war<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1776-1777 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Enterprise</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">United Colonies of America <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Continental Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">8-gun Schooner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Former privateer, prize of
war<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1799-1823 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">USS <i>Enterprise<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">United States of America <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">US Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">12-gun Brigantine-Rigged Schooner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1831-1844 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">USS <i>Enterprise</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">United States of America <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">US Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">10-gun Schooner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1874-1886 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">USS <i>Enterprise</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">United States of America <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">US Navy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">4-gun Barque-Rigged Screw
Sloop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For these five American
sailing ships, I found a nice image on a naval historians’ message board, a
comprehensive depiction of “The U.S.S. Enterprises (1775-2012),” original
artwork by Steve Freeman, (c) 2012. I’m pretty sure I did not get
it from here, but it is posted at Imgur [<a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/ONS8X"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;">LINK</span></a>].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I would be proud to hang a
high quality print of that image on my wall if such could be obtained. For my
purposes, I rendered it in greyscale and used it as a base to trace images of
the five ships in question. (To be honest, to save myself a little work, I
actually used the same image for 1776 and 1831.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1936-1947 CV-6</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">USS <i>Enterprise</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Carrier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1961-2017 CVN-65<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Enterprise Class Nuclear
Aircraft Carrier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Nor do I remember where I
came upon these, but I could use them with very little editing - mainly adding beneath the waterline for the first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">CV-6</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1976-1979 OV-101<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Enterprise</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">National Aeronautics &
Space Administration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Space Shuttle Prototype<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Given the cultural importance
of the US Space Shuttle program, it was amazingly difficult to find a suitable
image. I ultimately found the following which I could easily clean up. I did
not document the source, however.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Cleaned up:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">2027-2046 CVN-80<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">USS <i>Enterprise </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">United States of America <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Gerald R. Ford Class Nuclear
Aircraft Carrier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Nor do I know where I found
the clean image of the under-construction CVN-80:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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layer to trace a clean line drawing.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">2084-2091 IXS-110</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Enterprise</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">United States of America<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This was hard to find, and I
ended up taking an unusual route to get what I wanted. No clean blueprints were
to be found. The one I found was a true <i>blue</i>print, of low resolution
contained within a PDF advertising their sale a few years ago via a now-defunct
website. There were a good number of imaginative illustrations and “beauty
shots,” such as these I grabbed from various places (and did not properly document
the sources, unfortunately):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I ultimately did find the
following colorful wire-frame illustration by one “yard2380” posted at
Flickr.com [</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/yard2380/33508598443/in/album-72157644113972600/" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;">LINK</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">]. I could not
download it; I had to capture it by means of a screen shot:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Using GIMP, the first thing I
did was crop the image, then I rendered it as a negative greyscaled image:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">At that point, some tracings
to harden various outlines plus come panels cut-and-pasted strategically to
cover up more obvious “show-throughs” resulted in this, which I knew scaled
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">SOURCE: Lawrence Miller, Star
Fleet Tactical Database Series 2 (1992), posted at Cygnus-X1 [<a href="https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/star-fleet-tactical-database-series-2.php"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;">LINK</span></a>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Incidentally, here is Mark Rademaker's painting for the 2011 <i>Star Trek Ships of the Line Calendar</i>:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">2151-2161 NX-01<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">SOURCE: Monte R. Johnjulio
Blueprints (2004), posted at Cygnus-X1 [<a href="https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/starfleet-vessel-enterprise-nx-01.php"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;">LINK</span></a>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">According to Memory Beta, the
NX-01 underwent a major refit halfway through its service life, adding an
outboard secondary hull aft and below the primary hull. Dated 2156, this was
after the end of the television series and this ship has never been portrayed
onscreen. (Note that the final episode of the series, “These Are The Voyages,”
depicting events of 2161 as remembered over 200 years later, does not show the
refit, but there are enough other historical inconsistencies in that episode
that I feel I can safely discount the discrepancy.) Moreover, depicting both
configurations on this chart would add to its complexity and compel other such
“doublings.” I therefore only include the original NX-01 on the chart. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Here is, however, a three-view schematic I found on Reddit, from longtime <i>Star Trek</i> designer and modeler, designer of the NX-01, Doug Drexler: </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">2245-2285 NCC-1701</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For these two original <i>Star
Trek</i> Starships <i>Enterprise</i>, Johnjulio’s full size elevation sheets
did not work out. For whatever reason, the lines were too fine, such that when
I scaled them comparably to the other ships below for the chart and printed them
out, the result was visibly “lighter” than those others. I searched therefore
for “heavier” drawings that would still be sharp enough for my purposes, and
ultimately found them on a single sheet lineage included with his NCC-1701
blueprints. The solution is not perfect, but printed at 600dpi/8.5x11” along
with the rest, it works. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">SOURCE: Monte R. Johnjulio
Blueprints for Constitution Class Starship (2009), posted at Cygnus-X1 [<a href="https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/constitution-class-starship.php"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;">LINK</span></a>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">SOURCE: Monte R. Johnjulio
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sheet 9: Port/Starboard/Fore
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">2332-2344 NCC-1701-C</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">SOURCE: Monte R. Johnjulio
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">SOURCE: Monte R. Johnjulio,
Blueprints (2010), posted at Cygnus-X1 [<a href="https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/galaxy-class-starship.php"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;">LINK</span></a>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">2372-2409 NCC-1701-E<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">USS <i>Enterprise</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">SOURCE: Monte R. Johnjulio,
Blueprints (2004), posted at Cygnus-X1 [<a href="https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/sovereign-class-starship-ncc-1701-e.php"><span style="color: #0563c1; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;">LINK</span></a>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;">Assembling the Fleet (i.e., Creating the Chart)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Now came the final task.
Having finally collected my finished images, at that point it was simply a
matter of assembling them in respective layers on GIMP over the base sketch,
making some minor adjustments as I went along (which included scaling them all roughly equally), then including the text layers
(for which I used a font I found online, “Jeffereys [sic] Italic,” named for
the Original Series production designer Matt Jeffreys who designed the original
Starship <i>Enterprise</i> back in 1964, and, <i>Voilà!</i>, the result which can be seen at the top of this post. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Printed out on 8.5x11”
parchment-style paper in a nice frame:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">And, finally, here is a link
to the full resolution image at 5100x6600 pixels, in png format [<a href="https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqF_WAtviVxlhe17mr9Pl-emwLpTow?e=T33rvN">LINK</a>] and xcf
format [<a href="https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqF_WAtviVxlhe19riyhkOz1CwiDRQ?e=PmCSDf" target="_blank">LINK</a>] (the latter is a huge file]. Here is also an "in-universe" set of annotations about each ship that I printed on the back (yes, I know you can't see it framed, but it's there):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">and a link to the png image [<a href="https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqF_WAtviVxlhe16-oHOQtfgIS8WIw?e=6sZH3A" target="_blank">LINK</a>] and xcf file [<a href="https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqF_WAtviVxlhe18Dv2FzPev5KFrrQ?e=Q0IpOu" target="_blank">LINK</a>].</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>A few words by way of sort-of legalese/disclaimer….</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>Unlike certain others (sellers of a
plethora of items including the plaque which was my initial inspiration), I am
not offering this for sale. I do not own these images. As I’ve already
detailed, it was assembled from images collected from all across the Internet, most
of them manipulated to one degree or another, as a project solely for my personal
edification. I claim no ownership. I acknowledge the source of as many of the
images as I can and will be perfectly happy to acknowledge any others. I make
all this, including the xcf image files, available for those who may wish to use it or any part of it as a basis for their own
such private project, for their personal edification.<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I would ask, further, that no
one else take my work and sell it, present it as their own work, or especially present it for sale as their own work. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>vaj ghu'vam nIH SoH, Hegh</b>!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thanks for reading, and Live long and prosper!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> For the year of launch of each ship, I
generally went with what Wikipedia states. In the case of <i>Star Trek</i>,
during the Original Series and for long thereafter, it was pretty vague exactly
when the stories were taking place. I’m not exactly sure when the 23<sup>rd</sup>
century was settled upon, but even then exactly when was quite some time
coming. Various episodes implied anywhere from two to seven hundred years in
the future. In 1979 the <i>Star Trek Space Flight Chronology</i> established
dates that had Captain Kirk’s Five Year Mission taking place very early in the
23<sup>rd</sup> century. At almost the same time <i>Star Trek: The Motion
Picture </i>implied the <i>late</i> 23<sup>rd</sup> century. I do not believe
it was until some time early in the <i>Next Generations</i> series (debuted
1987) that a hard and fast reference date was given, which along with
previously stated times that had elapsed between the time of Kirk and that of
Picard suddenly made the broad strokes of the future fall into place. Then, in
1993 came the massive <i>Star Trek Chronology</i> by Michael and Denise Okuda,
both of whom were affiliated with production of the movies and series, which
for the first time created a pretty comprehensive timeline that has for all
intents and purposes become canon, with minor adjustments here and there. Most
subsequent information, including that on Wikipedia and at the online wiki for <i>Star
Trek</i>, <i>Memory Alpha</i> [<a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main">LINK</a>], generally
use the <i>Encyclopedia</i> or “Okuda” system, which puts Kirk’s Five Year
Mission between 2265 and 2270 … or, for all intents and purposes, almost
exactly three hundred years from the time the Original Series was made. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As an aside,
there are alternative chronological schemes, each with its enthusiastic
partisans, but for all the inconsistencies that cannot be rationaiized out of
the Okuda timeline it seems to line up best with televised canon, largely
because since the early 1990s televised canon has taken it into account. It is,
therefore, generally the time-line I am follow. A couple of necessary
variations are noted in their place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> 1707: Political union of the Kingdoms of
England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> The United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland was not created until the Act of Union in 1800.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Until 09 September 1776, when the
Continental Congress formally declared the name “United States” of America, the
term in general use had been “United Colonies.” (History.com, This Day in
History for September 09). Note also that through the 21<sup>st</sup> c., only
ships of the US Navy are accorded the prefix, “USS.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Wikipedia is contradictory on this point,
in one place saying the Continental Navy, in another saying the Continental
Army. It does, however, also rationalize the latter that the British sloop that
was captured to become the first American <i>Enterprise</i> was captured and
served on Lake Champlain, where the Continental Navy had no purview. I do not
know if that is truly the case (Damnit, Jim, I’m a medievalist, not an
Americanist!), but I’m going with it just for variety’s sake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> NASA = National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, created in 1958 as a federal agency overseeing civilian space
activities. There has always been heavy military involvement in NASA
activities, however. Only in 2019 was a separate body created to conduct
military space activities. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/655c896f0b587fa1/Desktop/STAR%20TREK%20Ramblings/Starships/Annotations%20Draft%202.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="font-family: georgia, serif;" title="">[7]</a> UESPA = The United Earth Space Probe Agency, the earliest-mentioned organization mentioned in the first season of <i>Star Trek: </i>The Original Series.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Periodically, I return to obsessions I thought I left far in
my past. I have been a fan of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Star Trek</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> since soon after the original
series went off the air and into syndication. Born at the end of 1961, I think
I was just barely too young to get caught up in it during the original airings,
which began in September 1966 and ended in June 1969. I would therefore have
been four years old when it debuted and seven when it went off. Moreover, my obsession
with space really began with the Apollo 11 moon landing on 20 July 1969 –
ironically within weeks of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Star Trek</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> being cancelled. Just as I do
remember flashes of earlier manned space missions (most clearly, Christmas Eve
1968, popping firecrackers with my older cousins outside my grandmother’s
house, my uncle commenting that there were astronauts circling the moon right
then – Apollo 8), so do I recall flashes of earlier </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Star Trek</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> episodes
on TV, but not clearly enough to know what episodes they might have been.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But then, that summer of 1969, right after Apollo 11, still
age seven, I became much more “space-aware.” <i>Star Trek</i> was gone, of
course … Until a year or so later, sometime, I’m not sure exactly when, just
that it was when I was in fourth grade (1970-1971),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my father put up a huge rotary television
antenna that gave us the ability to receive more than just the two local
channels available in Monroe, Louisiana. This was, of course, several years
before cable, even several years before the addition, in quick succession, of a
third commercial station – in the UHF band (1974) – and then a public
television station (1976). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wow! Four channels! With remote control that consisted of
Daddy saying, “Son, get up and change the channel….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A couple of words about the “huge rotary television antenna” that
I referred to. I don’t know how tall it was, but it was easily twice the height
of our one-story house, standing tall on a pole right next to the back patio,
connected to the TV in the den – and motorized with a little control box that
sat atop the television. It could be turned via a dial on top of that box, which
initiated a humming “<i>kachunk – kachunk – kachunk</i>” sound from outside as
the motor turned the antenna and you watched the snow-filled, staticky screen
of the TV slowly resolve into a (usually still quite fuzzy) picture from
someplace far, far beyond the Monroe area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Such as Jackson, Mississippi … which was where, one Sunday
afternoon, I discovered <i>Star Trek</i> – specifically, the episode, “The
Galileo Seven.” The objective merits of that episode aside (it’s actually
pretty stupid on several levels), it will always be special to me because it
was, for all intents and purposes, <i>my </i>first <i>Star Trek</i> episode. I
was hooked. I came back week after week. Soon I was recording the episodes on audio
cassette and listening to them, over and over. And I discovered <i>Star Trek</i>
books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m not sure when exactly I got the Whitman hardcover novel, <i>Mission
to Horatius</i>, except that it was pretty soon because I remember taking it to
school and showing classmates in my fourth-grade class. I am pretty sure that
was my first “<i>Star Trek</i> book” – but there would be more, and very quickly,
although again I do not remember exactly when. I do remember where, however. My
father’s aunt lived in Meridian, Mississippi, and we would periodically visit
her there. I have no clear memory of the instant I first saw it, but I
associate with one of those trips my discovery of the first volume of James Blish’s
episode adaptations, specifically <i>Star Trek 4</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had been a pretty obsessive reader even before that – comic books
as early as 1966 or 1967, as soon as I could read, introduced to them, like
many other kids of my and preceding generations, in the barber shop. Sometime in
third grade I had discovered <i>The Hardy Boys</i> in my school’s library. I remember
my dad trying to get me to read <i>Tom Swift</i> – but that didn’t “take” until
my space-obsession began in the summer of ’69 and I devoured the <i>Tom Swift
Jr.</i> series. I think, however, it was <i>Star Trek</i> that took me out of
kids’ books into “grown-up” books, and in short order I was reading the big
names – Clarke, Asimov, etc.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But <i>Star Trek</i> remained one of my defining obsessions.
So much so that it is what my high school classmates remembered best about me at
our thirty-year high-school reunion in 2009. Hey, at least I wasn’t one of the “dope-heads.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I devoured the Blish collections. I was excited when <i>Star
Trek</i> returned in the animated series in 1973, and doubly excited when those
episodes too found much-superior prose adaptation by Alan Dean Foster starting
the next year (the <i>Star Trek Log</i> series). Nevertheless, as late as the
mid 1970s, almost all <i>Star Trek</i> prose was just that – adaptations of
televised episodes. The only two exceptions were the aforementioned children’s
novel, <i>Mission to Horatius</i> (which came out in 1968, thus holding the
honor of being the <i>first</i> original <i>Star Trek</i> novel) and James
Blish’s single foray into an original/non-adapted story, <i>Spock Must Die!</i>
(1970). (These dates and much of what follows about Star Trek fiction are confirmed
from Wikipedia’s article, “List of <i>Star Trek</i> novels” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_novels#Original_novels_(1970%E2%80%931981)">LINK</a>].)
Then – here, I do remember the instant I spied it, on a book rack in a local department
store, probably in early-mid 1976 because it’s listed as published in March – <i>Star
Trek: The New Voyages</i>, a collection of short stories published in fan
magazines introduced over all by Gene Roddenberry himself, with individual stories
introduced by various of the original series cast. I have no clear memories of any
of the stories, but I remember being excited by it and enjoying it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then came, just a few months later (September 1976, according
to Wikipedia), <i>Spock, Messiah!</i> “A Star Trek First,” the cover proclaims,
and Wikipedia confirms it to have been “the second original novel based on
[the] television series <i>Star Trek</i> intended for adult readers” [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock,_Messiah!">LINK</a>]. It was
dreadful! Thank God that poor sales did not kill the prospect of further new <i>Star
Trek</i> novels. The next year, <i>The Price of the Phoenix</i> … was just as
dreadful!, with added homo-erotic layers that were downright creepy. “What Hath
Bantam [Books, the publisher] Wrought?” was the <i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cri-de-coeur</i> from an irate fan reviewer in
<i>Interstat</i> #1, although the review’s subtitle was prescient, “Or They’re
Going to Keep at it Until They Get it Right!” [Wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_the_Phoenix">LINK</a>]. Luckily,
they did, although Bantam did put out far more clunkers than decent <i>Star
Trek</i> novels over the next few years. Of a baker’s dozen (including the
three already mentioned – <i>Spock Must Die!</i>, <i>Spock, Messiah!</i>, and <i>The
Price of the Phoenix</i> – I really only remember Joe Haldeman’s <i>Planet of Judgment</i>
(the fourth) and David Gerrold’s <i>The Galactic Whirlpool</i> (the twelfth) as
being decent reads. (Gerrold had the advantage of “cred” – he wrote the
wonderful original series episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles,” and had earlier
chronicled that process in a memoir of the same name before writing a
book-length retrospective of the show, <i>The World of Star Trek</i> [both
published in 1973]; Haldeman had “cred,” too, of course, as an established
science-fiction writer although I had not and have not read anything by him
except his <i>Star Trek</i> work.) Don’t even get me started on Kathleen Sky’s <i>Vulcan!
</i>and <i>Death’s Angel</i> (fifth and thirteenth, respectively). Awful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It really wouldn’t be “gotten right” until a new publisher had
entered the fray. I do not know the behind-the-scenes machinations, but I’m
guessing that sometime in the mid-1970s Bantam was licensed to publish a dozen <i>Star
Trek </i>novels (which with the previously-published <i>Spock Must Die!</i> makes
up their thirteen; Bantam had, of course, also published the James Blish original
series adaptations; the animated series adaptations, Foster’s <i>Star Trek Log</i>
series, were published by Ballantine Books, again, for reasons I do not know –
nor do I really care. The mysteries of licensing and trademark usage mystify
me, but suffice it to say that with the appearance of <i>Star Trek: The Motion
Picture</i> in 1979, Simon & Schuster under their Pocket Books imprint gained
the publishing rights to <i>Star Trek</i> books. Even though the novelization of
the motion picture (by Gene Roddenberry himself – although I suspect it was
ghost-written by Alan Dean Foster) arrived close on the heels of the movie
itself in December of that same year, I guess they had to wait until Bantam had
run out their license, because once that was done with the appearance of <i>Death’s
Angel</i> (shudder) (April 1981) there came only two months later <i>The
Entropy Effect</i> (June 1981), and <i>Star Trek</i> novels started coming at
an accelerating pace after that. A lot of the early ones from Pocket were
objectively pretty bad – frankly, from what I’ve seen surveying the broad landscape
of <i>Star Trek</i> novels over the next forty years via Amazon.com and various
review sites, a lot of them overall <i>are</i> objectively pretty bad – but there
were enough decent ones and some downright really <i>good</i> ones (in my judgment,
all that really matters to me) to create a whole section of most bookstores
even today. <i>The Entropy Effect</i> was, in my opinion, one of the really
good ones; Diane Duane’s early ones – <i>The Wounded Sky</i> (December 1983),
her <i>Rihannsu</i> cycle (especially the first two, <i>My Enemy, My Ally</i>,
July 1984, and <i>The Romulan Way</i>, August 1987), as well as <i>Spock’s World</i>,
the first original-to-hardcover <i>Star Trek</i> novel, I believe (September
1988) remain dear in my memory. (I think Gene Roddenberry’s wounded pride and
harsh words when she was inadvertently referred to in his presence as the “creator
of the Romulans” burst her bubble because her later forays into <i>Star Trek</i>
fiction are not of the same caliber. She did not create the Romulans, of course
– but she did give them life as the Rihannsu [their own name for themselves rather
than the obvious name from Earth mythology that Roddenberry, et al., gave them],
and for my money’s worth, the Rihannsu are canon. – Of course, I also consider
the Animated Series as canon as well as <i>Star Trek Continues</i> [<a href="https://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2015/10/star-trek-continues-2013-ff.html">LINK</a>]
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(respectively, Years Four and Five of
Kirk’s Five-Year Mission, as far as I’m concerned).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suffice it to say, that through the 1980s I read a lot of
those <i>Star Trek</i> novels, both good and bad, both Original Series and,
after 1987, <i>The Next Generation</i>. I probably read <i>most</i> of them that
appeared during that decade. Then, in 1990, I returned to graduate school and
my pleasure reading was sharply curtailed. My reading of <i>Star Trek</i>
novels declined and ultimately petered out, with occasional exceptions.
Something would catch my eye and I would pick up the occasional novel – or miniseries
of novels, such as the four-part <i>Dominion War</i> series (November-December
1998, two each from <i>The Next Generation</i> and <i>Deep Space Nine</i>). In
more recent years, the “autobiographies” of James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard
found their way onto my bookshelf. But, frankly, not much else. It was a <i>very</i>
occasional indulgence, with sometimes years passing between various instances
of sticking my toe into the increasingly deep waters – as of late 2019,
according to the aforementioned Wikipedia article, there were “approximately 850
novels, short story anthologies, novelizations, and omnibus editions” in existence,
if not all in print.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To be sure, although my reading of <i>Star Trek</i> had faded
away to almost nothing, I watched it pretty religiously, for the most part –
through the 1990s as <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i> (1987-1994) faded
into <i>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</i> (1993-1999), to be succeeded by <i>Star
Trek: Voyager</i> (1995-2001), and finally by <i>Enterprise</i>/<i>Star Trek:
Enterprise</i> (2001-2005). I did find my interest waning, however, during <i>Voyager</i>,
and pretty much sat out the third season of <i>Enterprise</i>. The movies
similarly seemed to give less and less bang for the buck, even the seeming
revitalization of the first really standalone <i>Next Generation</i> film, <i>First
Contact</i> (1996) quickly fizzling out to an almost unwatchable finale just
two movies later with <i>Nemesis</i> (2002) (which, incidentally, made me
realize again how inferior the “canon” Romulans of series and film are to Duane’s
Rihannsu). I barely got excited at all about <i>Voyager</i>, and elements of <i>Enterprise</i>
just made me mad, although the too-little, too-late fourth season actually redeemed
it somewhat – it had to be liberating to know they were on their way out and
could just do whatever the hell they wanted. Neither series, however, inspired
me to pick up the first novel set in their milieux – I just didn’t care for the
characters enough. Although the first two of the “Abramsverse” movies
(2009-2016) were fairly decent, the third was just boring. Discovering <i>Star
Trek Continues</i> (#betterthanAbrams) in 2015 had stoked the fires a little and
opened me to reading a trilogy of novels set in the Original Series period, <i>Legacies</i>,
when they came out the next year, billed as a “50<sup>th</sup>-Anniversary
Celebration.” But any excitement that would have come with the announcement of
a new <i>Star Trek</i> series, <i>Discovery</i>, round about or shortly after
that time was immediately snuffed out with word that it would only be available
by subscribing to a new CBS streaming service. And watching the first episode
teased via broadcast on the regular CBS network the night before CBS All Access
went online made me even madder than certain elements of <i>Enterprise</i> had
a decade and a half before. They literally got nothing right. What the hell
were those “Klingons”? Instantaneous holographic communications over light-years?
The general look of post-<i>Next </i>Generation supposedly being the style and
technology ten years before Kirk and Company? I knew about the <i>Picard</i>
series, but, unwilling to subscribe to a streaming service for one or two series,
I basically ignored it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then, earlier this year. After a “month-to-six-weeks” project
that I began last summer to take elements of my travel blog and create a book
turned into a <i>six</i>-<i>month</i> project (August through January) – I did
finish the book and get it published [<a href="http://www.holyramblings.com/">LINK</a>],
but for the six months I’d poured into it I had read virtually nothing for
pleasure. I needed something light and relatively mindless. And I remembered a
few months ago, on my wife’s birthday in August, when my son was up, we went to
Alexandria to a restaurant then spent a couple of hours just browsing in Books-a-Million.
I had found myself poring over the fairly substantial <i>Star Trek</i> section –
full of books I’d never even heard of – and saw a couple that intrigued me. I had
snapped pictures of the covers, figuring I’d probably never get to them, but I
remembered them now and decided to give one a shot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So, round about the end of January I found one of those books
on Kindle – <i>From History’s Shadow</i> (2013) by Dayton Ward. The cover shows
silhouettes of two “men-in-black” as well as a flying saucer – and the story is
set both in the 23<sup>rd</sup> century of the Original Series and in the 20<sup>th</sup>-century
… of Project Blue Book. Yes, starting with the 1947 Roswell Incident (the “real
story” of which, I had forgotten, was told in a <i>Deep Space Nine</i> episode,
“Little Green Men”) and bringing in Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln from the
Original Series episode “Assignment Earth” as well as a continuing story
arc/subplot from <i>Enterprise</i>, the Temporal Cold War – this novel had it
all! I thoroughly enjoyed it, and as usual wanted more. Not only did I find
another Gary Seven/Roberta Lincoln <i>Star Trek </i>Original Series novel, <i>Assignment
Eternity</i> (1998), by Greg Cox – and toyed with going directly from that to
his <i>Eugenics Wars</i> trilogy about the Rise, Fall, and Exile of Khan
Noonien Singh (2001-2005) – but, over a most-of-a-week period “batching it” (? –
living as a bachelor as my wife visited with her sisters) in late February, I
decided to give that “Temporal Cold War” arc on <i>Enterprise</i> another view.
I had not actually watched all of those episodes during the original run
because, as I said, elements of the series made me mad and I even sat out the
third season entirely – which is when the arc culminated. I did a little
research, determined what episodes made up that arc, watched the premier
episode (“Broken Bow”) to refamiliarize myself with the characters, and started
watching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And I found myself enjoying it overall way more than I
remembered. Sure, it still doesn’t really work as a “prequel” to the Original
Series, but taken on its own terms it’s not too bad. By the end of the Temporal
Cold War and its associated episodes I was interested enough to go ahead and
watch pretty much the entirety of the fourth season, which as I said I <i>had</i>
actually enjoyed the first go around basically fifteen years before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I remembered, however, the very last episode (“These Are
the Voyages”) was rather odd. Jumping forward about six years – except it was not
really “live” at all, it was instead told as a holodeck recreation aboard the <i>Next
Generation</i> <i>Enterprise D</i> over two hundred years later, with certain
story elements that just did not make a whole lot of sense. I discovered
through some online reading that others felt the same way – and had ended up
rectifying the situation via a “post-<i>Enterprise</i>” series of novels
telling the <i>real</i> story and subsequent events, including the legendary
Romulan War a century in the past for Kirk and company but which was in the
near future for <i>Archer </i>and company and would by all rights have been
part of the <i>Enterprise</i> story had the series not come to its inglorious
end after only four seasons rather than the more typical seven – followed by
the founding and early years of the United Federation of Planets. (I also have
heard there were plans to bring in the Kzinti had the series not continued, but
thus far the novels have not gone there….)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kindle, here I come again! I read in quick succession: <i>Last
Full Measure</i> (2006), telling how “Tripp” Tucker really did not die in 2161
as depicted in “These Are the Voyages,” but rather had faked his own death in
2155 – just after the penultimate episode, “Terra Prime” – and become a secret
agent of the black ops organization Section 31 working behind Romulan lines as
his former crewmates continued their mission amidst escalating tensions among
the members of the fledgling Coalition of Planets, as told in two subsequent
novels … <i>The Good That Men Do</i> (2007) and <i>Kobayashi Maru</i> (2008) (all
three by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tensions erupted into full-scale conflict as the loose
Coalition of Planets failed in two further books (<i>Beneath the Raptor’s Wing</i>,
2009; and <i>To Brave the Storm</i>, 2011; both by Martin alone) telling the
story – at long last – of the Romulan War which proved the need for a truly
United Federation of Planets, the formation and early years of which are told in
five more books by Christopher L. Bennett (<i>A Choice of Futures</i>, 2013; <i>Tower
of Babel</i>, 2014; … and three more).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I made it that far, through <i>A Choice of Futures</i>,<i> </i>reading
through pretty much the month of March, maybe a little further. Of course,
March 2020 is when the whole world seemed to stop amidst the “Wuhan Flu,”
Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic – and pretty much a nationwide lockdown, stay-at-home
orders, quarantines (of the healthy more so than the sick), etc. Virtue signaling
like hell, a lot of big media companies offered extended free trials of their
services (easy publicity, plus I’m sure there’s going to be a percentage of
people who “forget” or are unable, for whatever reason – and they do not make
it easy, let me tell you –, to cancel before actually being charged to continue
with the service). Among them was CBS All Access, the aforementioned streaming
service, the only place to watch <i>Star Trek: Discovery</i> and <i>Picard</i>.
For free, I decided to give them a try, signing up right at the end of March.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My assessment? 1) The first season of <i>Discovery</i> is the
stupidest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Here’s what I wrote in my journal on
30 March: “<i>I watched the first few episodes of Star Trek: Discovery, the CBS
All-Access series that started a couple of years ago that I have not seen
because I’m not paying for it. I decided to get a trial 30-day subscription so
we could watch Picard (Anne says she wants to). Hopefully Picard will be better
than Discovery, which is ludicrously horrible, absolutely moronically stupid as
a so-called “prequel” to the Original Series. I’m not even sure I’m going to
continue watching it</i>.” I did continue to watch it, of course – the very
next day I wrote, “<i>watched another dumb episode of STD (I kind of like that
abbreviation, because the series is about that repulsive to me).</i>” From 02
April, “<i>Afternoon, watched a couple more episodes of Discovery. That after
having ridiculed and dissed it to Chris G_____ [one of my colleagues] via
email.</i>” To quote that email, “<i>I availed myself of a free trial of CBS
All Access because when I told Anne there is the new Star Trek: Picard series,
she said "Jean-Luc!!" and wants to see it ... but we haven't
even started it. I'm about halfway through the first season of Star Trek:
Discovery, however ... Do. Not. Bother. I know you're not a Star Trek fan
anyway, or maybe that means you might like this because it ain't Star Trek!
But probably not, because it is so ludicrously stupid I'm wondering why I'm
even bothering, although word is that the second season is much better,
introducing the Enterprise under Captain Pike, with his first officer
Number One, and a very young Ensign Spock. But right now Discovery is
tough slogging. The Klingons are totally different, the technology is generic
far-more-advanced than even the latest post Next Generation series
(although Discovery is supposed to be set in the 2250s a decade before
the 2260s of the original series (Next Generation was the 2370s). And its
based on some kind of living network of "spores" that permeate the
universe and that a new experimental "spore drive" (no, yesterday was
April Fools Day -- I am dead serious) can latch onto for instantaneous travel
anywhere in the known universe.... (Hey, the spores sound kind of like
midichlorians ... </i></span><span style="font-family: "segoe ui emoji" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">😱</span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">!!!!) Sorry.
I've been holding that in and it suddenly exploded</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.” Chris chortled,
“<i>That is hilarious! Spore drive. That sounds like a placeholder
explanation ... that never got replaced,</i>” to which I responded, “<i>No,
they put a lot of thought into that....”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I did press on, however, and it seemed to get a little better
as the season progressed, although it was fighting against a pretty stout
headwind of really bad premises. Then, the end of season one came – and in
sailed the <i>Enterprise</i> – which is where season two began (a year later
and more on CBS All Access, but literally moments later for me). It was <i>so
much better</i> than the first. They downplayed the stupider parts of the first
season -- redesigning the Klingons to align more closely with later (earlier?)
series, using the "spore drive" more sparingly and writing in an
explanation for why it's ultimately never heard of again ... actually they end
up doing the same thing for the <i>Discovery</i> and its crew by the
end of the season! Of course, it remained sickeningly over-the-top as far as
"progressive" social engineering goes – rampant feminism and
homosexuality, things which can be portrayed in an integral manner but here were
handled basically as virtual signaling run amuck. But all of that I found
secondary to the overwhelmingly positive presence of Captain Christopher Pike, who
is here possibly the best captain since Picard, in my opinion, maybe since Kirk
himself – Anson Mount <i>nails it!</i> I am not quite so taken with Rebecca
Romijn as Number One, but Ethan Peck (grand- or great-grandson of Gregory Peck)
does almost as good a job as a young Spock. They <i>really really really </i>need
to make a “Pike of the Enterprise” series.
I hope they do it. Of course, it probably would be just as “woke” as <i>Discovery</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about twenty years after the last appearance of the <i>Next Generations </i>characters,
by the end of the season they assembled a rag-tag crew of misfits reminiscent
of <i>Firefly</i> that could be enjoyable going forward. I think the
real limitation is going to be Patrick Stewart's age -- he's about to turn eighty;
how many more seasons can he have left in him?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Having watched season two of <i>Discovery</i>, I wanted
some "real" 23rd-century Original Series stuff ... so I rewatched <i>Star
Trek Continues</i> (#betterthanAbrams) -- but I also discovered a
wonderful little sub-series of <i>Star Trek </i>prose novels, entitled <i>Vanguard</i>.
It is set during Kirk and company's Five Year Mission, giving kind of a
story-behind-the-story focused more on political intrigue and an overarching
mystery in a political hotspot region of the galaxy that ties together
disparate elements that were tangential to the Original Series. It is full of
connections weaving in and out of the Original Series. I’m about halfway
through the series right now (not counting four novels in a follow-up series collectively
entitled <i>Seekers</i>), and relations between the Federation and the Klingons
are quickly headed toward the "Four Day War" depicted in the episode
that introduced the Klingons in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Harbinger </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">(David Mack, 2005)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Summon the Thunder </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore,
2006)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reap the Whirlwind </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(David Mack, 2007)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Open Secrets </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Dayton Ward, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Precipice </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(David Mack, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What Judgments Come </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore,
2011)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Storming Heaven </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(David Mack, 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Starfleet Corps of
Engineers: What’s Past, Book Four: Distant Early Warning</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> (Dayton
Ward & Kevin Dilmore, 2006)</span></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Black Flag </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(James
Swallow, 2009) (Set in the “Mirror Universe” and so at best ancillary to the
series</span></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Declassified </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">(2011) - short stories:</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Almost Tomorrow” (David
Mack)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hard News” (Kevin
Dilmore)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Ruins of Noble Men”
(Marco Palmieri)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Stars Look Down”
(David Mack)</span></li>
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<li><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Tempest’s Wake </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Dayton
Ward, 2012)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></li>
</ul>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Star Trek: Seekers:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Second Nature </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(David
Mack, 2014)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Point of Divergence </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Dayton
Ward & Kevin Dilmore, 2014)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Long Shot</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (David
Mack, 2015)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All That’s Left </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Dayton
Ward & Kevin Dilmore, 2015)<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(It was actually seeing the cover for one of these on Kindle that attracted me to <i>Vanguard</i> and <i>Seekers</i>. The covers echo the original covers for the Bantam episode adaptations by James Blish. Good memories!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One thing I’ve done in order to align things as I’m reading,
especially given the various short stories and novellas that are interspersed
among the main novels, is extract a timeline from the comprehensive timeline at
the <i>huge</i> reference site Memory Beta [<a href="https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page">LINK</a>], which
integrates all the “official” and licensed – but “non-canonical” – <i>Star Trek
</i>fiction (mainly novels and comics) as opposed to Memory Alpha [<a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main">LINK</a>], which limits
itself to <i>canonical</i> mainstream information from the series and movies. This
is only the <i>Vanguard / Seekers </i>stuff, with pertinent references to The
Original Series. I think it is mostly spoiler free, and share it here:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h2>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">2263</span></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Harbinger</i>, Prologue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">2265</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Almost
Tomorrow” (David Mack) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>= Stardate [SD] 1257.5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Distant Early
Warning” (<i>Starfleet Corps of Engineers: What’s Past, Book Four</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Where No Man
Has Gone Before” = SD 1312.4-1313.8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Harbinger</i> chapters 1-20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">December<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Summon the Thunder</i></span></div>
<h2>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">2266</span></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Star Trek</i>:
The Original Series, Season One begins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">February<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Reap the Whirlwind</i> = SD 1528.4 (6 weeks after end of <i>Summon the Thunder</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hard News” (<i>Vanguard:
Declassified</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">March<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Open Secrets</i> chapters 1-19 = SD 1573.9 (3 weeks after the end of <i>Reap
the Whirlwind</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Balance of
Terror” (<i>Star Trek</i>: The Original Series) = SD 1709.2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Open Secrets</i> chapters 20-27 (one week after “Balance of Terror”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">April<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Open Secrets</i> chapters 29-30 (four weeks after Admiral Nogura takes command
of Starbase 47)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">May-December<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Open Secrets</i> chapters 31-45</span></div>
<h2>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">2267</span></span></b></h2>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">January</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Open Secrets</i> chapters 46-49 || <i>Vanguard: Precipice</i> chapter 1 (03
January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">February</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Court
Martial” (<i>Star Trek</i>: The Original Series) = SD 2947.3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i> chapters 2-13 (13-26 February)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Arena” (<i>Star
Trek</i>: The Original Series) = SD 3045.6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Open Secrets</i> chapters 50-60 (soon after “Court Martial” and “Arena”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">March</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i> chapters 14-15 (22-23 March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Errand of
Mercy” (<i>Star Trek</i>: The Original Series) = SD 3198.4-3201.7 || <i>Vanguard:
Open Secrets</i> Prologue and Epilogue (simultaneously with conclusion of
“Errand of Mercy”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">May</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i> Interlude: Chapter 16, chapters 17-18 (26-30 May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">June</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i> chapters 19-23 (02-05 June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">July</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i> chapters 24-29 (14-31 July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">August</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i> chapters 30-33 (01-03 August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i> chapters 34-36 (19-24 August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">September</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i> chapters 37-52 (9-14 September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">November</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i> chapter 53 (19 November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">December</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“A Private
Little War” (<i>Star Trek</i>: The Original Series) = SD 4211.4 (14 December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i> chapters 54-60 (28-29 December = two weeks after “A Private
Little War”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h2>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">2268</span></span></b></h2>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">January</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The Ruins of
Noble Men” (<i>Vanguard: Declassified</i>) (just days after <i>Vanguard: Precipice</i>
ends)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">February</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The Stars
Look Down” (<i>Vanguard: Declassified</i>) (two months after <i>Vanguard:
Precipice</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">April</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Spectre of
the Gun” (<i>Star Trek</i>: The Original Series) = SD 4385.3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
What Judgments Come</i> chapters 1-39 (more than a year after February 2267,
soon after “Spectre of the Gun.” Ends three weeks before “The Tholian Web” -- <i>Star
Trek</i>: The Original Series)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The Tholian
Web” = SD 5693.2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
In Tempest’s Wake</i> = SD 5694.7 (|| ending of “The Tholian Web”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">November-December<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Storming Heaven</i> (late 2268, immediately before “Let That Be Your Last
Battlefield” -- <i>Star Trek: The Original Series</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
In Tempest’s Wake</i> chapter 5 = SD 5729.8 (|| <i>Vanguard: Storming Heaven</i>
chapter 15)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Let That Be
Your Last Battlefield” = SD 5730.2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">December</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Storming Heaven</i> chapters 16-35.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
In Tempest’s Wake</i> chapters 7, 9-10 = SD 5821.3 (|| <i>Vanguard: Storming
Heaven</i> chapters 32-35, The Battle of Starbase 47)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h2>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">2269</span></span></b></h2>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">January</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
In Tempest’s Wake</i> chapters 1-2, 4, 6, 8, 11 = SD 5829.6 (Five days after
the Battle of Starbase 47)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">June</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Turnabout
Intruder” = SD 5928.5 (end of <i>Star Trek</i>: The Original Series Season
Three)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">August</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Seekers:
Second Nature</i> (two months after “Turnabout Intruder”, six to eight months
after <i>Vanguard: Storming Heaven</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Seekers:
Point of Divergence</i> (immediately after <i>Second Nature</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">November</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Seekers:
Long Shot</i> (five months after “Turnabout Intruder”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Seekers:
All That’s Left</i> (five months after “Turnabout Intruder”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">2270</span></span></b></h2>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">April</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
What Judgments Come</i> Prologue and Epilogue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
Storming Heaven</i> Prologue and Epilogue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">November</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The <i>USS
Enterprise</i> returns to Earth at the end of Kirk’s Five-Year Mission<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">2271</span></span></b></h2>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">June</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kirk is
promoted to Admiral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">August</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">•<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Vanguard:
In Tempest’s Wake</i> chapter 12 = SD 7098.5 (two months after Kirk’s promotion
to the Admiralty)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The series as a whole was overseen by David Mack, who wrote
the “bible” for it. That is posted at his web site, along with annotations for
some of the books detailing connections with The Original Series, other prose
novels, etc. He also provides his “dream cast” of actors to portray the various
new characters (not as a distinct document but rather part of others) (I had
already mentally cast a different actor for Commodore Reyes, but his works as
well – and most are brilliant once they are pointed out). There are also
schematics of Vanguard Station and the <i>USS Sagittarius</i>. Those can (at
least currently) be found at: <a href="http://davidmack.pro/writing/storming-heaven/the-finale/">http://davidmack.pro/writing/storming-heaven/the-finale/</a>
.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Given one of my criticisms of the current CBS All Access
series, the self-aware “wokeness” both of them exhibit, I feel it incumbent to
acknowledge that there is a prominent homosexual relationship critical to the
plot of at least the early books that I am through at this point. It is handled
very differently, in a way that is critical to the characters and integral to the
story, and not as ham-handed what I called above “virtue-signaling.” There is a
right way and a wrong way to do it. <i>Vanguard</i> does it right; <i>Discovery</i>
does not. In my opinion.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you want a very different but entirely consistent story set
in the heyday of classic <i>Star Trek</i>, the era of Kirk and Spock and the
NCC-1701 (no bloody -A, -B, -C, -D, <i>or</i> -E!) <i>USS Enterprise</i>, exploring
a different part of the galaxy, Federation politics, relations between the
Klingons, Tholians, and Romulans, through the eyes of very different characters
(some canonical but mostly not – although they all are, at this point, pretty
much “canonical” for <i>me</i>), you really need to pick these books up. You
will thank me for the suggestion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thanks for reading … and Live Long and Prosper!</span></div>
Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-39269717807346070802020-04-08T11:09:00.000-05:002020-04-08T11:09:02.795-05:00Pilgrimage in a Time of Pestilence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This link takes you to the post at my "travels" blog [<a href="https://theprofstravels.blogspot.com/2020/03/pilgrimage-in-time-of-pestilence.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>].Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-20462367116910115672017-09-09T15:48:00.003-05:002018-04-27T21:46:28.203-05:00R.I.P. Jerry Pournelle (1933-2017)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;">Just before
I turned out my light last night, as I glanced at the blogroll on my personal/private page, I saw the sad news – first from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The American Catholic</i>, and immediately below it, from his own page,
<i>The View from Chaos Manor</i> – “<b>Jerry Pournelle is
dead</b>” [<a href="http://the-american-catholic.com/2017/09/08/jerry-pournelle-is-dead/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "georgia";">LINK</span></a>].</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;">I
immediately sent up a prayer for the repose of his soul, and mulled over his
passing through the subsequent day, and decided that, although I have let my
own blog go pretty much moribund this year, I could not allow the day to pass
without writing my own short tribute to the man. There are many others
appearing across the web, of course [and there is a good general overview of
his life and career at Wikipedia [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "georgia";">LINK</span></a>]), but he was one
of my all-time favorite authors, and in the last decade came to be one of my
most respected sources for political, scientific, and social commentary.</span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;">I
previously [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-step-farther-out-2011.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "georgia";">LINK</span></a>]
reviewed a rereading of one of his collections of popular science articles, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Step Farther Out</i>, in which I briefly
reviewed my own history with Pournelle as an author. To repeat, as I remember
it, I first encountered him when I would have been in late elementary, maybe
early junior high, when I read his novelization of the movie, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Escape from the Planet of the Apes</i>. I’m
not sure, to tell you the truth, whether when, a few years later, in high
school, I obtained and read his and collaborator Larry Niven’s great novel of
first alien contact, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mote in God’s
Eye</i>, I really realized that it was the same author. Maybe, maybe not. But
around that time I do remember starting to find and read both his writings in science
fact and science fiction. And, for a long time, he remained just that to me,
mainly a favorite science-fiction author who also wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">about</i> science, kind of like Isaac Asimov.</span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;">Then, about
ten years or so ago, I discovered his aforementioned blog (he did not like that
word) and learned that there was much more to Dr. Pournelle than that. He became
my go-to source for reasoned commentary on major issues of the day – as I
indicated above, political and social in addition to scientific, with especial
perspicuity where those intersect, such as in the ongoing debate over “Global
Warming/Climate Change.” That was interspersed with an ongoing record of his
daily activities. Keeping a journal myself, I’ve always found others’ such
writings fascinating, and have read a number of published journals, but this
was a rare opportunity to share in someone else’s contemporary narrative. I
followed him from that time on – through his battle with and recovery from a
brain tumor, the decline and ultimate passing of his beloved dog Sable, his
wife’s health issues as well as his own – a stroke a couple of years ago that
left the maintenance of his page a laborious chore that he doggedly continued –
and so forth. I’m doubtless forgetting a lot. Presumptuous though it might be,
I thought of him as a friend.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;">The note from his son on <i>Chaos Manor</i> [<a href="https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/passings/" target="_blank">LINK</a>] reported the matter briefly last evening: "<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;">I’m afraid
that Jerry passed away[.] We had a great time at DragonCon[.] He did not
suffer." His own last entry was the evening before, Thursday 07 September, a short commentary on the current political furor over Trump's handling of the "Dreamers," with his usual ruminations as to what would be a reasonable solution – but also a report that he had come back from DragonCon last weekend with "the flu," followed by an abrupt end that he was retiring for the night as he was "experiencing a wave of nausea. Bye for now." The Wikipedia bio says that he passed away in his sleep.</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;">
<br />
I never actually met him, unfortunately. The closest I came was, a few years ago, at
one of the Comicpalooza Conventions in Houston, where I had the pleasure of
meeting and chatting with Larry Niven for a few minutes, having him sign a
couple of books and asking him to pass on to Jerry my regards and thanks for
the years of pleasure his writings had provided me. That would have been about
2012, I think. A year or so later, I did correspond directly with him via email
and get to tell him that directly when he responded to my inquiry as to his
thoughts regarding the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mars One</i>
initiative which led to a short exchange which basically revealed he and I were
pretty much in agreement, that we are not really there yet, that such a step
is, as I would put it, a bit too much of an initial “step farther out.” The
moon should come first, much closer to home, for the inevitable trial-and-error
learning process and a much better chance to overcome challenges that will arise,
some of which we probably still cannot even envision – until they arise. The
problems are “just” engineering and the need to gain experience, but it is a
process that needs to be worked through, not jumping right into the deep end
essentially without a life preserver. As I responded to him in what may have
been our last communication, “The romantic in me wishes Mars One all the luck
in the world, but the realist fears the consequences of what I feel is a very
probable spectacular failure with loss of life that will devastate our
collective will to pursue such endeavors.” As time passes, I continue to grow
more pessimistic regarding “our collective will” as a nation and as a species
in that area … but I constantly remind myself of one of his most oft-repeated
admonitions, “Despair is a sin.”</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;">Which
brings me to the last facet of Jerry Pournelle that I was gratified to gather
when I discovered and started following his daily activities and commentaries –
he was Catholic. It’s not something he wore on his sleeve or ever made explicit
reference to, but there were the matter-of-fact references to attending Mass,
his wife’s membership in the choir, and so forth, that simply were part of who
he was. I therefore have reasonable confidence that, God willing I make it to
heaven, I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">will</i> ultimately be able to
meet him there.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><i>Réquiem <span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;">æ</span>térnum</i> <i>dona ei, Dómine. Et lux perpétua
lúceat ei. Requíescat in pace. Amen.</i></span></div>
Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-34626812918371080512016-12-02T16:51:00.000-06:002016-12-05T16:57:10.141-06:00Invasion! – a.k.a. “Heroes vs. Aliens” on the CWDC television shows <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">Supergirl x Flash x
Arrow x DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (CW 2016)</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Monday
through Thursday nights this week saw something I don’t believe has ever been
done on American television – a four-night, four-show, four-way cross-over
event, one story told in multiple series the likes of which has only ever, as
far as I know, ever been attempted in the comic books which are the inspiration
for the only block of television shows I’m currently watching with any consistency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Based
conceptually on DC Comics’ 1988 three-issues-plus-a-myriad-of-cross-over-issues
event entitled, as was each of the cross-over episodes from each of the series
represented here – except for <i>Supergirl</i>
– “Invasion!,” this epic told how the alien Dominators were determined to
eliminate the threat they perceived to exist in the metagenetic potential of
humankind giving rise to the dawning age of the superhero, and how a coalition
of such metahumans ultimately beat back this threat to our existence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was
ambitious. And although the execution ultimately fell short, on balance I found
it very satisfying.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I watched
all four nights as close to live as I could manage given my very busy schedule
these days – but generally within no more than an hour of the original airing.
Here are my reactions to the parts and the whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ultimately,
as it’s variant title “Medusa” would indicate, although the ads built Monday
night’s <i>Supergirl</i> into the beginning
of the cross-over, it really wasn’t. It was mainly its own thing, except for
these mysterious vortices that kept randomly and mysteriously appearing,
ultimately in the very last scene debouching Barry Allen and Cisco Ramon into
Kara Danvers' apartment – which was repeated exactly the next evening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was on
Tuesday night’s <i>Flash</i> that we got the
real beginning of the story – the events leading up to Barry and Cisco creating
the interdimensional portals that would eventually (after several tries,
apparently) take them to Kara’s apartment on her Earth – the final in-story
confirmation of what we all knew, that “Earth-Supergirl” is separate from the “Earth-Arrowverse”
of <i>Arrow</i> and its spinoffs. In-show
parlance would have them as “Earth 38” (I think) and “Earth 1.” We also got to
finally see a dangling Arrowverse plotline dealt with – that the Flashpoint
Event created by Barry at the beginning of this season would have had much
wider consequences. I still wonder why the “Legends” would not have shown up
immediately to deal with an event that <i>had</i>
to have created a “time quake” of immense proportions, but at least it’s been
acknowledged to have affected them too. It’s less clear (at least to me)
whether it was multiversal in its effects, i.e., did it affect “Earth-Supergirl”
as well, but I like to think it did and is the explanation for some abrupt
changes between the first and second seasons of that show.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when I learned a couple of weeks ago that it would largely be another “It’s a
Wonderful Life” tale, the weakest link in the chain, but it was better than I
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Thursday night’s <i>Legends of Tomorrow</i>
(I do wish they would just drop the “<i>DC’s</i>”
part) had the task of pulling it all together into a conclusion. </span>This it
accomplished capably, albeit unevenly, with some logical plotholes here and
there, but overall quite satisfyingly, using the cross-over not just to tell a
geeky event but to advance individual shows’ plotlines especially from <i>Flash</i> and <i>Legends</i>. My overall assessment would have to be that the Flashpoint
connection and hence the <i>Flash</i>
plotlines were the best part of the crossover. Especially satisfying was seeing
Cisco ultimately realize that Barry’s mistakes were ones that anyone – even himself
– in the same position would make, and them being reconciled (again). Conversely,
although it was cool seeing Supergirl interacting with the characters from the
other shows, the way the story played out pretty much all in those other three
shows and on the “Arrowverse” Earth meant that she was the only one from her
show who played a part in the sprawling cast of characters from all the other
shows. And frankly, I’m not sure she was ultimately a necessary part of the
story. Even the ultimate resolution of the crisis, which had her and Flash “tagging”
all the aliens on Earth at super-speed, could have been accomplished by Barry
alone or by Barry working with Wally. I hoped for something a bit more epic and
even in its treatment of the <i>four</i>
CWDC shows, with full participation by other characters of “Earth 38” alongside
those of the “Arrowverse Earth 1.” Nevertheless, it was fun as all get out,
especially the interaction between Heat Wave Mick Rory and Kara from beginning (“I’m
not going to call you ‘Supergirl’ – That’s stupid. If I need your help – and I
won’t – I’ll call you ‘Skirt’.” Followed within five minutes or so by him,
having been knocked on his ass, calling her “Supergirl!”) to end (“Call me,
Skirt!”). I think he’s smitten…!<o:p></o:p></div>
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As a first attempt at such an ambitious event, I’d say “Invasion!”
was great. We even got a Hall of Justice out of this. (I <i>so</i> wanted the new President to declare
them a “Justice League” in that scene near the end….) I hope it is followed up,
however, by even bigger, truly “multiversal,” cross-overs, even – especially since
it’s been teased since virtually the beginning of the first season of <i>Flash</i> – “The Crisis [on Infinite Earths]”
– although I would <i>not</i> want that
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Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-24855823441993975832016-11-23T12:02:00.000-06:002016-11-23T12:02:30.289-06:00The Tenth Region of the Night (Sword and Serpent #2, 2016)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taylor Marshall’s first novel, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sword and Serpent</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, was a fine effort and well worth the read despite having certain shortcomings common to first novels [see my blog review at </span><a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2015/01/sword-and-serpent-2014.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LINK</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ]. As is often the case, this sequel, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Tenth Region of the Night</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, improves substantially on the first, becoming one of the better books I have read this year, one I unhesitatingly recommend. The protagonist, Jurian, previously coming across rather flat, is now, in my opinion, developed into a fully fleshed-out individual who no longer pales beside the other main character, in that case a young priestess of the serpent himself (she reappears as well), in this latter case the daughter of the governor of Alexandria, named Aikaterina. Even the main villain of the piece gains depth and becomes something more than the stereotypical caricature he seemed in the opening volume. Overall the writing seems much smoother and more engaging than </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sword and Serpent</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, gripping my interest right from the beginning as Jurian continues his quest subsequent to slaying the dragon – an accomplishment which instantly became a legend which dogs his footsteps from then on through this entire tale, for good and ill, as he strives to find and rescue a friend, lost to him in the first book, from death in the arena. Once again, Marshall has taken the history of the late Roman Empire under the Emperor Diocletian and a young Constantine, interwoven with the legends of Sts. George the Dragonslayer and Christopher the Christ-bearer, and others, and added to them the tale of St. Catherine of Alexandria, to create a gripping tale of the early Church in the Roman Empire on the eve of the Great Persecution. Knowing from early Christian history and tradition the trials and tragedies these characters face as that cataclysm looms ever closer, I nonetheless look forward eagerly to following their journeys through Marshall’s imagination to the triumph that ultimately awaits.</span></div>
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Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-90373236699326861852016-11-09T14:31:00.000-06:002016-11-16T11:33:40.589-06:00Election 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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intend to watch any of the returns last night. I voted weeks ago. I had basically my last word the day before yesterday, in a Facebook post which pretty much said it all – actually a repost
of what I wrote four years ago, with current commentary. So, first the post
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Eyes wide open. That's how America has collectively chosen to take
on four more years of Obama. No longer can we take solace in the notion that we
fell victim to the charisma of a masterful campaigner who promised to take us
past the divisions of the past into a brave new world. Having seen how well
that has worked out for the past four years, we (as a nation, by the slimmest
of popular vote margins, by a wider margin in the Electoral College, but that
is our system for better or worse) have chosen four more years. I fear it will
be much longer than that, because whereas I believe there was a chance to turn
back from the brink now, I believe that four more years will entrench such
radical change to the very nature of our country that there will be no going
back. Perhaps the saddest thing to me is that slightly more than half of our
people are perfectly fine with, even desirous of, that. This is what they want.
... No, really the saddest thing to me is that the slightly LESS than half of
our people must now live under the same deteriorating conditions that they
strove to avert. But that is our system, for better or worse. God bless
America, for we surely need it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">On this election eve, here's a repost from immediately
post-election four years ago. Honestly, I didn't think then there would be any
chance of putting a halt to the degeneration that resulted from the 2012
catastrophe, much quicker than anyone, even its proponents, dreamed possible.
And a vote for Trump may well not turn back the tide. It is totally
unpredictable what he will do as President. But it is absolutely as certain as
anything in this world can be what Clinton will do. Our pastor likened the
choice we have to that between a hand grenade and Russian roulette, which I
think is apt. But as things stand, with Trump there is a chance, slim but
better than I expected, to put a stop to the madness. Voting for Clinton, or
voting for a no-chance third-party candidate in some sanctimonious but
ultimately empty protest that in effect is a vote for Clinton, is a vote to
continue and accelerate the downfall of our civilization. Consider that as you
head to the polls tomorrow. Do what you think you must, but do NOT then claim
you did not know what the consequences would be.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Even so, yesterday, I just could not see the political ruling class
letting Clinton lose. Not to Trump. And I was anticipating watching the
election returns to be too depressing for words. So I left the television off
and got to work on one of my many projects that I think make me the most
unproductively busy guy you know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to a degree. About 20:00 last night I started dropping in on the returns, on of all
places the <i>New York Times</i> website, which had a neat up-to-the second
tally and breakdown, summarized in a dial showing their shifting projection of
who would win. It looked something like this, although this is the current,
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with my project. But I was there early enough to have the satisfaction of
seeing the first meaningful state returns completely destroy the liberals’
initial projection of a Clinton victory (about 70% probable when I started). By
about 21:00 or so it had passed 50% and was then progressively forecasting a
Trump victory as the needle fairly quickly migrated around the dial:</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">By about 22:30, when I headed for bed, I was
pretty confident that at least I would not have to wake up in the morning to a
Hilary Clinton Presidency. That was confirmed about 01:30 when I woke up
briefly and checked my phone, and about 05:30 I was able to post to Facebook,
“I am not happy that Donald Trump is President. But I am ECSTATIC that Hilary
Clinton is NOT President. And very satisfied that the elites (elitists) in the
media are so discomfitted by this outcome.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(elitists) in both parties. If Trump had truly had the Republican “leadership” behind
him once their own process made him the nominee, I think he would have run away
with the election, and Clinton would have gone down as she deserved – <i>hard</i>.
As it stands, she might well squeak by winning the popular vote by a narrow
margin, which will inevitably reopen the almost-always open debate about ditching the Electoral College [<a href="http://www.redstate.com/patterico/2016/11/09/hillary-win-popular-vote-reviving-dangerous-arguments-abolishing-electoral-college/" target="_blank">LINK</a>]. That
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parties have become more polarized, and, frankly, liberals in both parties
become more and more entrenched and ruthless in their determination to hold
onto power however possible, the popular vote has tended toward parity, with a
single-digit percentile difference between the winners at most. That’s probably
at least partially because of an inherent polarity between two extremes that
would probably result in progressive redefinition of the two parties’
fundamental natures toward such a parity (think of how the modern Republican
“leadership” would have been considered liberals in the past). But I think one
of my former students – now a colleague (and one of the few politically sane
ones too, I might add) also hit the nail on the head with regard to this (and
other recent, I think) election(s) – the liberals miscalculated on how many
popular votes they would have to “find” (steal) for Hilary to edge out Trump
and carry the Electoral Vote. By its nature, in a way I cannot really explain
(because I really don’t understand it, but feel it in my rather considerable
gut), the Electoral College is much less malleable than the Popular Vote,
depending as it does ultimately on state aggregates of actual votes. They could
not steal too many or it would be too obvious, but they miscalculated on how
many votes (and exactly where, probably) they would have to steal to assure an
Electoral victory. So, once again, as in 2000, the Electoral College system
saves the day. Imagine President Al Gore in the days after the 9/11 Event. I
shudder. Imagine four more years of the accelerating degeneration of our
civilization that President Hilary Clinton would have overseen had she won last
night. I shudder even more violently. At least we are spared that, and, although
I might well – probably will – be disappointed in what the coming Trump
Presidency actually does toward reversing the decline, it is at least very
doubtful that he will continue down the same course. Even if Clinton does
end up edging out Trump in the popular vote – still not assured – the Electoral
Vote and thus the outcome of the election is set. Long live the Electoral
College!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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World Over</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> on EWTN, in which Raymond Arroyo interviewed Mel Gibson mainly
about his new film, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hacksaw Ridge</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,
but which also had a few words about Gibson's prospective sequel to </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Passion of the Christ</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, telling the
story of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Resurrection</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. I knew
from some other stories that came out over the last couple of days that it
might well be something unlike anyone's ever seen, nothing like, say, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Risen</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> from earlier this year.
Specifically, that it might include some kind of narrative based on the line from The
Apostles' Creed, "He descended into Hell." That seems to be confirmed
here. I attempted to transcribe what Gibson said – but there’s not nearly the
effect of seeing his eyes wide open and his gesticulations, with his hands
waving all around as he haltingly explains his vision:</span><br />
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know – […] It’s not the Burnette
version, you know, like – … It’s not the, uh, you know, man comes back, walks
through walls, has holes in hands, eats a piece of fish, you know. It’s not
that. It’s uh, it’s ummm, it’s a, it’s a big – , it’s a vast theological
experience, I think … You need to delve into what that means – in – in a way …
that you take that as the centerpiece and you juxtapose it against many things
that go on around it – and, and in other realms. So that you have to under– It,
it gets pretty wild. It’s like an acid trip, but I think, umm [...] it’s okay
-- you’ve got a spirit guide to take you through it.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That last
bit sounds like something of a version of <i>The
Divine Comedy</i> … a bit later Gibson said, essentially, that in the writing
more and more is “revealing itself” to himself and his cowriter, “from the fall
of the angels to….” He unfortunately did not follow that up. But it sounds interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ve been
concerned about the prospect of this movie ever since it was announced a few
months ago. After hearing this, I’m both less and more concerned. It certainly
would not be like anything ever seen, for instance the various versions of <i>A.D.</i> or the aforementioned <i>Risen</i>. But I also don’t know how what
Gibson describes could be done effectively – but if anyone could do it, I think
it would be him. Finally, in the end, I’m not really sure it would have the
pan-Christian appeal that <i>The Passion</i>
did – even though much of the detail that was “added” to that story came from
Catholic mystics and visionaries, in particular Blessed Anne Katherine Emmerich. I worry that
it would for that reason tank at the box office – which, of course, has nothing
to do with whether it would be worth making or seeing – but a poor performance
could end up being used as a bludgeon against future attempts to make
faith-based, especially Biblical, movies, and further tarnish Gibson’s own
reputation as well as that of <i>The Passion
of the Christ</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That last,
Gibson’s own already-tarnished reputation, I’d like to end by saying a few
words about. It is true that in the wake of the appearance of <i>The Passion of the Christ</i> now almost
thirteen years ago, Gibson – one of the few unabashedly conservative Catholics
in Hollywood – did some scandalous things. His drunken rant about “the Jews”;
his affair, messy divorce, and current personal life in a publicly adulterous
relationship; and I’m sure there’s more. Which – especially the first, but the second
as well because it gave leftist Hollywood the opportunity to scorn him as a hypocrite – led to
him being ostracized into what has been a ten-year absence from
a directorial career. All of which has immediately led to him being criticized
for even thinking about making a movie about <i>The Resurrection</i>, that he’s somehow unworthy of the task. I don’t
see any of the situation quite that way, however.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last
summer, on a bit of a whim (but also because I was working up some Bible Study
lessons having to do with the Passion, Death, and Resurrection), I rewatched <i>The Passion</i> for maybe the fourth time
since it initially came out. It remains probably the most powerful movie I have
ever seen. It was truly heart-wrenching, and I mean that literally. I had tears
streaming down my face at several points. But it also occurred to me that I
can very well understand the hatred that movie – and Mel Gibson himself –
engenders. … TRUTH HURTS. … Satan must <i>hate</i>
that film, and has to have been assaulting Mel Gibson with every kind of
demonic attack possible. And Gibson, being human, ultimately gave in. Which is
sad. But who else could have stood up to the spiritual attacks he has to have
undergone? I’m not excusing his sins – and I don’t know that he himself would
“excuse” his sins. He is very well aware of his fallible human nature. I do not
know his heart. But I pray he is working on reconciling himself with God. He
certainly still professes a deep sense of his own sin, which is, of course, the
first step. And, frankly, we are in no position to judge him. With that movie,
Mel Gibson performed a great work for God – making the Passion of Christ <i>real</i> in a way never before done – which unfortunately
brought him directly into the crosshairs of Hell. … I think that explains a lot
about his subsequent life and career implosion, but I wonder as well if making
this new movie he is planning could be his path to redemption. Not in the eyes
of the world, of course, but in the Eyes of Him Who matters. I for one will be
praying for him, that he is better able to withstand what will doubtless be
redoubled assaults by the forces of darkness as he undertakes telling the rest
of the Story -- which I, on balance, find myself eagerly awaiting.</span></span></div>
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reading.</span></span></div>
Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-22919325260499913652016-08-14T15:09:00.000-05:002016-08-16T10:24:33.642-05:00Suicide Squad (2016)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I finally got around to seeing <i>Suicide Squad</i> a couple of days ago,</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the
newest DC Comics movie, which predictably has been getting bad critical ratings but
decent audience reviews and doing well at the box office. It was about what I
expected, neither as bad as the critics (and Marvel fans) try to make it out to
be, nor as good as I might have liked. But really I never expected it to be
quite to my liking, simply given the subject matter. I’ve never bought a <i>Suicide Squad</i> comic in my life
(actually, not quite true – I have bought a couple of cross-over issues), and I am not really a
fan of villain-based stories. It did have its moments, however – seeing Affleck's Batman
on-screen again so quickly after <i>Batman v.
Superman: Dawn of Justice;</i> Will Smith and Margot Robbie stealing the show as
Deadshot and Harley Quinn. I’m not quite so sold on Jared Leto’s Joker, but it
was okay and I think it could grow on me. Very much <i>not </i>Heath Ledger,
which is good. Definitely creepy. The plot was pretty non-sensicle, and predictable at times, but
allegedly this movie also suffers from excessive studio interference in the
post-production editing, and I figure we’re going to see a better “Director’s
Cut” released on video in a few months. Allegedly there will be more Joker in it. Of course, I’ll get it. At this point,
unless something in my own opinion (not anybody else’s, which doesn’t matter to
me) goes totally off the rails in the DC movie series, I’m going to be
supporting it however I can. To a point. I will not be seeing this movie in the
theatre a second time, I’m sure. Again, I'm just not that connected to the
characters. In all, the movie worked for me, gave me a couple hours enjoyment,
but it's really pretty forgettable.</span></span></div>
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Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-44906023002773484732016-07-06T22:04:00.000-05:002016-07-17T21:54:40.938-05:00The Legend of Tarzan (2016)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Directed by David Yates</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">As we were waiting for this movie to begin, I told a friend that, "I hope this is a good <i>Tarzan</i> movie. I've seen too many <i>bad</i> <i>Tarzan</i> movies...."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">I’m a bit
conflicted about this movie. Overall, I enjoyed it, and in certain respects it is the
very best and most balanced portrayal of the dual character of John Clayton – the “Lord of the
Jungle” raised from infancy by a tribe of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">mangani</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
“great apes,” vs. the cultured, educated English Lord Greystoke in Parliament – that I
think has ever been captured on screen, beyond even </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Greystoke</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> from thirty-plus years ago. It wasn’t perfect, by any
means – I don’t think the trope of him being able to virtually “talk” to just
about any kind of jungle creature, including perfectly mimicking their various
calls, has any basis in the original novels, and I found the melancholy
character at the beginning of the movie, pretty much having turned his back
entirely on his former life in the wild, alien to the character I remember. He
also seemed at the same time less formidable than the demigodlike figure of the
books – and comics – and able to survive punishment from full-grown bull “apes”
that would surely have shattered bones and probably killed a man. In a way, it
seemed more realistic – and yet more cartoonish at the same time. But on
balance, Alexander Skarsgaard’s portrayal was perhaps the definitive Tarzan
character. Jane, portrayed by Margot Robbie was a bit more problematic.
Stunningly beautiful, yes, but feistier than she really should have been –
would have been in the 19</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> century – when, yes, this was set,
rather than properly in the early 20</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> century. But modern audiences
are not going to accept the more passive female lead – “Like a damsel,” in her
own words – that the original books made her, simply because it was a different
time. On balance, again, I liked her portrayal within this movie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">But why oh
why, with two dozen novels from the hand of the creator himself, Edgar Rice
Burroughs – with at least a half-dozen of those being top-notch stories </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">begging</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> to be adapted to film, besides
the first which has never been properly done, even in </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Greystoke</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> – do they feel the need to create a whole new story
pretty much from cloth? – and then, in frequent flashbacks telling the story of
Tarzan’s origins, changed the details of that for seemingly no good reason whatsoever?
Displacing the story by at least thirty years (it’s set in 1890, when at this
point in their lives, having been married what I took to be about a decade, it
would have been more properly about 1920) allowed the filmmakers to build the story around the undoubtedly hellish exploitation of Africa and its natives that was the
Belgian Congo of King Leopold – but why was that necessary? Obviously,
it was to demonstrate how evil white Europeans are, and that kind of modern
commentary is of course much more important than fidelity to a much-beloved
pulp fiction character whose fans have been waiting lifetimes for a good,
accurate live-action portrayal. As in so many other cases, if you want to tell
those kinds of stories, don’t hijack somebody else’s characters to do it –
create your own!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Nevertheless,
even with that, the strength of Skarsgaard’s embodiment of Tarzan was such that
I can sort of understand the gushing reception the movie has allegedly received
from some fans and even from members of the Burroughs family (who, truth be
told, do have a financial stake in the movie’s success, so maybe theirs is not
entirely impartial). But nearly ruining the whole experience of the movie for
me was one final element that I have to comment on, one that I personally found
despicable and offensive. It wasn’t so much the character of “Leon Rom,” played
by Christoph Waltz as basically your cookie-cutter semi-suave but irredeemably
evil antagonist – and part of the aforementioned imperative to portray white
Europeans (well, except for Tarzan himself, of course – and Jane, but she’s ‘</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Murican</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">!) as blackheartedly evil – as his brandishing of a bizarre “weaponized Rosary” throughout the film and wielded on occasion as a
garrote … and which also served as an opportunity for a cheap implication of
clerical pedophilia as the one and only reference to the character’s religion.
Gratuitous – and insulting – sacrilege against Our Lady’s Rosary – that then,
to my knowledge, has been allowed to pass without comment by reviewers
(although, to be fair, I have only skim-read a few reviews, especially as they
seemed to be predominantly negative and I wanted to see the movie with fresh
eyes) is a sad commentary on the utterly corrupted state of today’s society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Those are
just a few of my thoughts on some of the major elements in this rather mixed
bag of a movie. I hoped for better. It could have been better. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">More than anything, I wanted the movie to succeed and open the way for more adaptations of the wealth of early-20th-century pulp fiction, especially the wonderful and largely untapped mine of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels. Unfortunately, less than a week into its release run, I think it's clear it will not. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">It had its good points, and I overall enjoyed it even with its weaknesses, although even as I wrote the immediately preceding paragraph
my enjoyment waned a bit. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 48px;">Even were it for just that personal affront, I just can't say this was the "good </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 48px;">Tarzan</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 48px;"> movie" I'd hoped for. Nor will I, because of the gratuitous anti-Catholicism, be recommending it to anyone. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">And that’s a shame. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Note: I find
that I didn’t mention Samuel L. Jackson’s character. Besides the fact that I found
his a very unlikely character in the late 19</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">-century, what is there
to say other than that Samuel L. Jackson played Samuel L. Jackson and pretty much provided comic relief? There was really not much more to it than that.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Thanks for reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Actually, there is a bit more to it than that. A week or so after writing this, I came upon a review of the movie by Derrick Ferguson, in which I learned that, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">"[Samuel L.] Jackson’s character is based on the real-life soldier, lawyer, adventurer and journalist George Washington Williams and is an interesting enough character to deserve his own movie. Especially when you do your homework and find out that Williams actually did expose Belgium’s exploitations and slavery of Congolese natives and resources. It’s grating indeed to see him as the comedy relief when you know the background of the real-life Williams and Jackson’s performance takes a little getting used to as he’s pretty much playing a modern day black man in the 19th century but since he’s Sam Jackson, we forgive him" [<a href="https://derricklferguson.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/the-legend-of-tarzan/" target="_blank">LINK</a>]. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">More interestingly, the filmmakers preserved the broad strokes of George Washington Williams' varied career intact -- he did indeed fight in the Civil War, in Mexico against Emperor Maximilian, in the Indian Territories; he was a journalist, a lawyer, and a politician; and he did expose for the world to see the atrocities being committed in the Belgian Congo [Wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Williams" target="_blank">LINK</a>]. So the rather odd soliloquy by the character at one point in the movie does track. But, the historical George Washington Williams accomplished these things all before his early death at age 41, a quarter-century younger than the actor who portrayed him. And, one facet of his career was noticeably unremarked in the movie -- that George Washington Williams was in addition to these things a Christian minister who also wrote on African American history. I can't say I'm surprised at that lacuna, however.</span>Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-58331883957192843282016-06-11T18:13:00.000-05:002016-06-13T12:55:25.077-05:00The REBIRTH of My Love for DC Comics?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes a note in my journal about something I’ve just seen or read grows to
the point that I decide to share it with the world (or my two or three readers)
here; The same sometimes happens with an email – which is what happened here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A couple of months ago, an email from one of my Facebook
friends (literally – we’ve never met in person, and only spoken on the ‘phone
once – but have gone from a Facebook acquaintance to periodic, sometimes
lengthy and <i>deep</i> email exchanges on a
variety of subjects) elicited from me a pretty strong condemnation of DC Comics
and dismissal of their upcoming <i>Rebirth</i>
event … which I just more or less ended up retracting.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From my friend: “I
just got an email ‘flyer’ from my local comics store, asking, ‘Are you ready
for the Rebirth of the DC Universe?’ Is this yet another ret-con, or what? You keep your eyes a lot closer to the
industry than I do.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First I should explain
that I'm not nearly so attentive to the industry as I was. I finally got so
disgusted with the poor quality of storytelling in most of what I was buying
that I dumped all but a few titles, mostly when DC gave me a "jumping-off
point" called <b>Convergence</b> (ANOTHER mega-cross-over) last
year ... then I realized that the few titles I was still getting didn't really
make any economic sense to continue getting month-to-month, so I stopped the
monthlies altogether and have been getting just collected editions -- and not
many of those, to tell you the truth. What I've mainly been getting has been
reprints of older material, e.g., the recent one-volume compendium of ALL of
Neal Adams' <b>Batman</b> work
(it's about 3 1/2" thick, but is a thing of beauty), a soon to be
published <b>Supergirl</b> Omnibus
(silver age), etc. Hardly anything new, except <b>Justice League</b>, as
well as a title you might actually like, <b>Superman: Lois and Clark</b>.
Explaining that is actually hard; it grows out of that <b>Convergence</b> event where it was revealed that all
of the old Universes replaced by the (d****d) New 52 had been harvested for
refugees before they were destroyed, among them the pre-New 52 married Superman
and Lois, who ended up at the end of that story living in secret on the current
New 52 Earth, raising a son. Written by Dan Jurgens, it's been consistently
good….<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's a point to all
that ... Although I've not been nearly as closely tuned into the comics
industry, I'm not completely out of it either. I usually skim the solicits when
looking to see what collections are being announced, and from that I can say
this: <b>Rebirth</b> is
very likely to largely be another in a series of DC cluster-fornications; as
best I can figure they are throwing continuity and consistency to the four
winds and basically just going to be publishing whatever the h*** their current
whim of the moment is. E.g., apparently there are going to be several different
<b>Superman</b>s going at the same time --
including a Chinese <b>Super-Man</b> and a
Lois Lane <b>Superwoman</b> title (I'm not
making this up. I don't understand it, but I'm not making it up). One ray of
light, apparently the main <b>Superman</b>
title is going to be a continuation of the aforementioned <b>Superman: Lois and Clark</b>
title, although now written by Peter Tomasi (I think) (who actually, for a
while, had one of the best New 52 titles going in <b>Batman and Robin</b>).
But in sum, I can't tell if it's meant to be a reboot or what; most likely it's
a desperate throw-it-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks play hoping for the best.
There may be a few good titles to come out of it, but they'll probably be the
first to be cancelled.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And still no revival
of <b>Legion of Super-Heroes</b>, probably the only title that could
bring me back into the monthly floppies habit. Honestly, lately I've been scratching
my heroic-serialized-fiction itch by means of <b>Gotham</b> on Fox, <b>Arrow</b>,
<b>Flash</b>,
<b>Legends
of Tomorrow</b> on CW
and <b>Supergirl</b> on CBS [this was before the move to CW was
announced]. The latter has been surprisingly enjoyable, largely on the strength
of the actress, who in my opinion has the character down pat. The changes to
canon that they made have been a bit irritating, but I've just sat back and
gone with it; a bit more maddening has been the constant teasing of Superman --
including the season finale where he was "in a coma" and only visible
lying on a hospital bed as a couple of red boots sticking into the frame! And in
that same episode, Kara is told that "outside the Earth's atmosphere you
won't be able to breath or generate thrust"--??!! Say <b>what</b>? ... just have to go with it.... It
was nice to have the omegahedron back, however....<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">… Which was pretty much the extent of our conversation on
the subject of <i>Rebirth</i> back in April.
… Then, a little while ago today, I felt compelled to dredge up that two months’
old rant mainly because I needed something to <i>eat</i>, namely <i>my words</i> rashly
dismissing <i>Rebirth </i>as just
another in a series of DC misfires. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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admit it! Based on the first three weeks, I'm thinking DC may have finally
gotten something right. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To be honest, I wasn't actually much inclined to check <i>Rebirth</i> out at all. As I think is clear
in what I quoted above, I’m pretty bitter about how badly DC Comics took
characters I have loved all my life and basically trashed them. A couple of
weeks ago, however, the various comics-related sites that still feed into my
Facebook feed started raving about how good the <i>DC Universe: Rebirth</i> special one-shot
was, how it looked to be setting everything that has been wrong with DC and the
"New 52" right again. Among those lauding it was a Scottish blogger,
Martin Gray, whose blog I have historically gone to for excellent assessments
of current stories: <i>Too Dangerous For a Girl! </i><a href="http://dangermart.blogspot.com/">[LINK]</a>. I decided to check it out
digitally via Comixology, and was thoroughly – surprisingly – pleased. I don't
want to give away too many spoilers lest the reader decide to check it out for themselves,
but I will say that the gist of the plot is the return of the pre-<i>Flashpoint </i>Wally West from being lost in
the Speed Force, bearing the news that the current, New 52, DC Universe is a
construct of a certain god-like being who stripped out much that was good in
the heroes, including many of their relationships and much of their morality,
along with five years of their lives. It ends up being extremely metatextual as
an indictment not just of the last five years of DC Comics history but of the
general darkening of the last <i>thirty</i> years of comic-book publication. :) I came away from <i>Rebirth</i> having enjoyed it more than just about any comic book I've
read in the last five years (2011 was when the New 52 was born) and suddenly
looking forward to what would come next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, the next Wednesday I purchased the <i>Superman Rebirth</i>
special, which basically completes the transition from the New 52 Superman --
now dead -- to his replacement, the pre-<i>Flashpoint</i>
Superman who had been married to Lois Lane and, as the <i>Superman: Lois and
Clark</i> series revealed, had been living in secret on the New 52 Earth all
along with his wife and their young son. Having really enjoyed that latter
series, I'm perfectly happy with that development and eager to see how they
make it work. I also picked up <i>Batman Rebirth</i>, which didn't really grab
me like <i>Superman Rebirth</i> did, but my interest remained piqued enough
that this past Wednesday I grabbed a whopping five titles -- <i>Aquaman
Rebirth, The Flash Rebirth, Wonder Woman Rebirth</i>, and <i>Action Comics </i>#957
as well as <i>Detective Comics</i> #934 -- the latter two, of course,
symbolically reverting to the issue numbering they would have borne had the New
52 not rolled back the odometers to #1. I have at this point read all but <i>Detective*</i>,
and have enjoyed them all to varying degrees, especially <i>The Flash Rebirth</i>,
which follows most directly from the foundational <i>Rebirth</i> special of two
weeks prior but also manages to bring something of the spirit of the <i>Flash</i>
TV show into the series. I'm a fan of that series so I have no real problem
with that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For right now at least, my enthusiasm for and <i>anticipation</i>
of DC Comics and what comes next is at a higher level than it's been in a long
time. Having said all that, however, after three weeks of reading them digitally
I'm thinking that's the way I'm going to proceed going forward, for new
material at least. There are several factors in that decision: 1) of course, I
have no local comic shop within about sixty miles, so it's either a long drive
or, as I've done for about ten years, buy through an online service getting my
books a month at a time, therefore up to several weeks after they've gone on
sale, as well as having to order them two months in advance; 2) adaptability --
I can pick up and drop titles with no regard for that two-month lead time, not
having to predict what I might want to get in a couple of months <i>or</i> be
stuck receiving two or three issues of a title I decide to drop (but have
already pre-ordered); 3) storage space (or the lack thereof) – I already have
boxes upon boxes of comics I’m pretty sure I’ll never ever go back and read
again. Reading comics digitally on a tablet is not that bad, really. It is
convenient, and anything I have is there for me digitally anywhere I have a
wifi or data connection. I <i>may</i> choose to get a few select things in
print collections when those come out, but I'm not inclined to double-dip like
that except for something like <i>Legion of Super-Heroes</i>, which I
understand <i>is</i> going to be coming back
in the future (pardon the pun).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As a side-note, that is another thing DC seems to be doing
this time in contrast to 2011's New 52 </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> they are rolling out </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Rebirth</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> fairly
slowly, a few issues a week </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> rather than the massive dump of a radical
discontinuity that happened in September 2011 </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">–</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 52 new titles within a month,
thirteen or fourteen comics a week. It was pretty overwhelming</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And I don't plan on diving back down the obsessive rabbit-hole of trying to blog about everything I read. Been there, done that, burned me out. <i>Rebirth</i> is, I believe, momentous enough to merit this post, however.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Could it all implode next month? Of course it could. DC
Comics is like the Republican Party in this respect – I have learned never to
underestimate their ability to disappoint me. Juggling what they are once more
claiming is <i>not</i> a reboot removing the last five years' continuity but
rather is a <i>reclamation </i>of the preceding thirty to <i>eighty</i> years' – including the glorious sense of <i>legacy </i>that has been most sorely missed –
and making that work story-wise seems like a monumental task to me, but so far
what I have seen gives me hope. Different titles are, to be sure, handling that
task differently depending on their respective circumstances (for instance,
compare 1) the <i>Superman </i>titles' literally killing off the most recent,
younger, brasher Superman and replacing him with the previous, older, wiser,
character with 2) <i>Wonder Woman</i>'s
treating that character as one suddenly assaulted by memories of multiple
timelines at once), and it remains to be seen what the result will be. Given
DC's track record in such matters, the solution could well end up being more
confusing and worse than the mess they are trying to fix! I hope that's not
what happens, because at my age and how badly the New 52 ultimately left me
jaded, this probably <i>is</i> DC's last
chance to recapture me as a monthly reader. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cheers! and Thanks for reading!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* EDIT: Having now read <i>Detective Comics</i>, it hooked me in a way that the straight <i>Batman Rebirth</i> did not. My wallet says "Ouch!"</span></div>
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Man</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> is probably the book that has languished on my <b>Recently Read and to be Blogged </b>list
the longest … so that “<b>Recently</b>” has
to be interpreted pretty loosely. As described in the past, I “discovered”
Chesterton in early 2014, with <i>Orthodoxy</i>
(1908) being my first bit of Lenten reading … that turned into a couple of reads
over the next few months before I finally blogged about it in June [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2014/06/orthodoxy-1908.html">LINK</a>].
By that time I had already described my “history” with Chesterton in a post
about <i>The Ballad of the White Horse</i>,
to which I would also refer the reader [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-ballad-of-white-horse-1911.html">LINK</a>].
Thirdly, I would point to my post from March 2015 when I attended the first
Louisiana Chesterton Conference [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-day-with-g-k-chesterton-2015.html">LINK</a>]
– which experience inspired me to organize the Chesterton Society of Natchitoches
[<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChestertonGroupNatchitoches/">LINK</a>],
which meets weekly to read and discuss his writings. In any case, almost two years ago I proceeded read <i>The Everlasting Man</i> twice back-to-back and was as floored by its wit and wisdom as I had been by <i>Orthodoxy</i>.</span></div>
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currently making our way through </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Orthodoxy</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
(my fourth time), having in the past year or so begun by reading </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Saint Francis</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, a rather idiosyncratic
account that is more an extended meditation than a biography – “hagiography”
would not be incorrect as an attempt to categorize it – and then tackled a
collection of three- to five-page snippets from a broad range of his books and
essays grouped thematically, the </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Essential
Writings</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> volume.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It is our intention to read <i>The Everlasting Man</i> together immediately after <i>Orthodoxy</i>. The two books do complement each other nicely, in my
opinion, even though – or probably because – they come from widely separate
phases of Chesterton’s life. As Chesterton’s answer to the challenge thrown
down after he wrote an entire book of essays taking down the various <i>Heretics</i> [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2014/07/heretics-1905_31.html">LINK</a>]
and heresies current in his day (which seem to all still be with us in even
more virulent form today), that he had written much about what he did <i>not</i> believe but not laid out what he <i>did</i> believe, <i>Orthodoxy</i> is a general <i>apologia</i>
for Christianity itself, in essence for Catholicism even though it was written
long before Chesterton ever made his final conversion to Rome; <i>The Everlasting Man</i> was written a year
or so after that conversion, and sets forth an overall view of history placing
Christ at the very center – as He must be, His Incarnation being the single
most important event <i>in</i> history. And,
of course, as always it is filled to the brim with rich verbal imagery and eminently
quotable turns of phrases in typically Chestertonian paradox in service to
Truth. Finally, it is one of the most influential books of Christian philosophy
written in the 20<sup>th</sup> c., deeply influencing a host of other figures
from C. S. Lewis, who at least partly owed his reversion from atheism to the
Christianity of his youth to reading it (leading to his later observation that
a committed atheist <i>must</i> be careful
what he reads), to the great Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, whose <i>Life of Christ</i> I just started reading as
part of an online reading club [<a href="http://www.spiritualdirection.com/csd-book-club">LINK</a>] and am finding
replete with allusions and imagery I remember well from Chesterton, most
notably referring to Our Lord, because of his birth in the stable – often throughout
history, and reputedly in Bethlehem that cold winter’s night, located in caves –
as “the Cave Man.” Having read <i>The Everlasting Man</i> through twice back-to-back in 2014, I'm eager to dive into it again with the group as soon as we finish <i>Orthodoxy</i> (which will be no time soon, however ... it is taking us two or three weeks at least per chapter).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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favor – do so. <i>Now</i>. If possible, find an existing Chesterton Society group near you [<a href="https://www.chesterton.org/local-societies/" target="_blank">LINK</a>]. Or find some like-minded individuals and start your own. You won't regret it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Cheers! And thanks for reading!</span>Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-63906848223802850462016-05-01T15:41:00.000-05:002016-05-01T22:44:27.582-05:00A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture (1998) and The Lamb’s Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth (1999)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">With a great deal of presumption, I have taken to calling
Scott Hahn my spiritual brother, since a couple of years ago I discovered that
we, both raised Protestant, were received into the Holy Roman Catholic Church
on the same evening, during the Easter Vigil of 1986 – half a continent apart,
of course. I’ve been aware of him as Catholic scholar and apologist supreme for
a great deal of the intervening time, at least since the mid 1990s. I hadn’t
actually read any of his books until the last couple of years, however. But
then our parish distributed free copies of his and his wife, Kimberly’s conversion story,
<i>Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to
Catholicism</i> (1993), which I read and blogged about as part of my Lenten
reading for 2014 [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2014/06/rome-sweet-home-our-journey-to.html">LINK</a>].
At some point subsequent to that, I acquired and listened to an audio talk
based upon <i>The Lamb’s Supper</i>, giving
more detail to the story of his conversion and how it came through intense
study of the Book of Revelation, interpreting it through the lens of the Mass;
the book fleshes that interpretive scheme out even further. Then, for my Lenten
reading 2015 I undertook <i>A Father Who
Keeps His Promises</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">For a long time – since 2008 – I have led a
small-group Bible study in our parish, which has gone through several different
shifts in focus. Beginning during the Year of St. Paul, we first focused on the Apostle by following a short study course by Fr. Mitch Pacwa, then basically followed
the three-year cycle of Sunday Mass readings through two cycles under the
guidance of one Vince Contreras’ site, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Sunday
Scripture Study for Catholics</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> [</span><a href="http://www.sundayscripturestudy.com/" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">], which provides weekly
one-sheet study guides which are perfect for an hour-length weekly meeting.
Twice through the cycle was, however, enough for our group, and we then wanted to dig
more deeply into some kind of overview of the Bible, from beginning to end. For
a time we attempted to use the </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Agape
Bible Study</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> [</span><a href="http://www.agapebiblestudy.com/" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">] by Michal
Hunt, specifically her </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Salvation History</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">
course [</span><a href="http://www.agapebiblestudy.com/SalvationHistory/Salvation_History_Menu.php" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">],
but although I find that course and the site in general a wonderful resource,
we did not find it terribly well suited to our needs. It is far too detailed
and geared far more toward a classroom lecture format than toward small-group
discussion that we wanted. So, after a detour last spring and summer during which we followed the Sunday-night airings of the NBC miniseries </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">A.D.: The Bible Continues</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">
with discussion on Monday evening [</span><a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2015/06/ad-bible-continues-12-episodes-nbc-tv.html" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">],
I spent the rest of the summer searching for some other alternative, a more
manageable overview of the Bible more suited to our needs. I found it in an old
– 1990s – EWTN mini-series, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Our
Father’s Plan</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">, starring Jeff Cavins and Scott Hahn. (I’ve nicknamed it “The
Cavins and Hahn Show,” which often – and not at all unintentionally – comes out
as “The Calvin and Hobbes Show.” Cheap humor is the best humor.) Quite
primitively done, basically being a couple of talking heads with Cavins having
a white board behind him to illustrate his scheme of Biblical history, it is in
one sense an interesting historical artifact. The essence of a comprehensive
Catholic Covenant Theology is evident and would serve as the foundation for
both men’s later work. A typical episode has Cavins lead off by giving an
historical overview – which he would later flesh out into a full-blown Catholic
scripture study media conglomerate, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The
Great Adventure Bible Study</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> [</span><a href="http://biblestudyforcatholics.com/" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">].
I had looked into this, and frankly it’s just too expensive for us. In any case, after Cavins' survey, Hahn would
dominate a one-on-one theological discussion between the two of them as the rest of the </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">OFP</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> episode. He would
go on to develop the ideas he propounded here in </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">A Father Who Keeps His Promises</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> – which I had read by the time I
found </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Our Father’s Plan</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">. So I was
well primed to jump into it. With the aid of a study guide I also found,
prepared back in the later 1990s by a parish in Oregon, I’ve found it fairly
easy to prep our weekly hour-long Bible study sessions, which typically run on
a rhythm of watching an episode of </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">OFP</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">
one week, then spending the next two to three weeks discussing the
corresponding sections of scripture. Both the DVD and Study Guide (facilitator’s and student’s) for
</span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">OFP </i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">[</span><a href="http://www.ignatius.com/AdvancedSearch/DefaultWFilter.aspx?SearchTerm=our+father%27s+plan&ck=t,a" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">]
are available from Ignatius Press [</span><a href="http://www.ignatius.com/" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">].
I would be remiss not to mention as well Tim Gray and Jeff Cavins’ book, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Walking with God: A Journey through the
Bible</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">, which is basically Cavins’ own exposition of the story of salvation
and which I have also found immensely helpful in prepping each week [</span><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Walking-God-Journey-through-Bible/dp/1934217891/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1461881573&sr=8-1" style="font-family: georgia, serif;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">].
I have not read it from cover to cover, however … yet.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As regards <i>A Father Who Keeps his Promises</i>, Hahn
sees the whole of salvation history as in essence a series of covenants between
God and Man aimed at repairing the original covenantal relationship broken by
Original Sin, best expressed in terms of family and marriage. Of course, sinful
beings that we are, there are plenty of shortfalls along the way, but there is
also the promise that will ultimately be fulfilled in the heavenly wedding
feast of the Lamb that is envisioned in the Book of Revelation and <i>experienced</i> every time we go to Mass. Marred only by Hahn's regrettable tendency to employ very bad puns as his chapter and section titles, this is a wonderful overview of (with all due respect to Fulton Oursler's great book and the movie based upon it) the Greatest Story Ever Told. Ultimately, my high regard for this book had me purchasing copies for all the members of my own and my wife's families for Christmas. Whether they read them or not, I cannot say, but I believe it could well be life-changing if they do.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cheers, and Thanks for Reading.</span>Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-83177731490807790092016-05-01T15:04:00.001-05:002016-05-01T22:44:39.470-05:00The Radiance of Being: Dimensions of Cosmic Christianity (2013)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Last year, of course, I
read – in backwards order – the first two books of what might be termed the
late Stratford Caldecott’s “Catholic Trilogy,” </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Seven Sacraments</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> [</span><a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-seven-sacraments-entering-mysteries.html" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">]
and </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">All Things Made New</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> [</span><a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2015/07/on-stratford-caldecott-1953-2014-and.html" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">LINK</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">].
See especially the latter – the second review written on the book first read – for my
tribute to Caldecott on the one-year anniversary of his untimely death. I
remarked in the former of those reviews – on the book first written but second
read – that like G. K. Chesterton, Caldecott “[made] Christianity </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">weird</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in a fascinating and beautiful
way.” That was written with regard to my reading of this very tome. As the
previous books are extended and eclectic discourses dominated by the many
well-known to obscure significances of the numbers “7” and “12” in Biblical and
Christian lore, so is this latter book focused on the fundamental nature of “3.”
Caldecott ranged farther and wider than merely the Judaeo-Christian tradition
as well, finding fundamental echoes of the Trinitarian principle in Islam,
Buddhism and other Eastern mysticisms, as well as modern cutting-edge
existential quantum physics. It is a head-splitting, mind-blowing,
consciousness-expanding experience that, quite frankly, months later I still
find myself mulling over at the oddest times…. I’m sure at some point I will
once more be telling my wife, “I’m going to read some more Stratford Caldecott
and get a headache,” as I plunge into this book again.</span></div>
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dwindled to barely a trickle in the past couple of years. There are several
reasons for that. One is just simply having less time – I’m now more involved
than ever in my church. One is that for a long time the bulk of my postings
here resulted from a rather heavy schedule of comic-book reading and compulsive
reviewing that left me burned out on that a couple of years ago, even as in my
opinion DC Comics’ output largely went off in directions that I have little
interest in following, such that at present – and for most of the past year –
I’ve not been buying and reading monthly issues anymore at all, and have been picking
up very few of the trade collections that they’ve put out. Finally – and this
is at least somewhat related to both of the above – my interests have undergone
another of my periodic shifts, this time back toward reading a lot more religious
and spiritual material than I did for a long time. Personally, I think that’s a
good thing for my soul, but it’s not something I’m usually as interested in
blogging about as the largely meaningless comic books or other fiction that I
was engrossed in for many years before the past couple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">And yet, as I was looking at the right side of my
blog, at a </span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Currently Reading</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
section that used to be there, and contemplating how out of date it was (listing, in order, Stephen
Walford’s </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Heralds of the Second Coming</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">,
Diana Moczar’s </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Islam at the Gates</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">,
Michael P. O’Brien’s </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Father Elijah</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">,
and Pope Francis’ </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Laudato Si’</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> ) –
it’s reflective of at least several months ago, well back into 2015 – as well
as a </span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Recently Read and to be Blogged …
Maybe</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> section that was even older, with relics from as far back as 2014, I
started wondering how much of my reading in the past year and a half or so
didn’t even make it on those lists. So I started making a list, from memory …
and of course, having done that, I thought (as a service to the handful of
people who may be interested; hey, I'm optimistic!) I may as well drop at least a little blurb about
each, why I was reading it, what it meant to me, and so forth. There are some
of my “recent” readings that I do want to share my thoughts about, and I don’t
really want this blog to be completely moribund.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Initially this was intended to be another <i>Quick Hits</i> blog entry [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/search/label/Quick%20Hits" target="_blank">LINK</a>] … but as
usual my words got away from me and the first couple of sections ended up being
the length of decent blog posts in themselves. So it will likely be a series of
posts, if I persevere at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A couple of notes: I will not be covering the
books in the strict order I read them. Instead, I’m grouping them broadly by
subject or genre, while maintaining some attention to order. And I won’t be including
various things I might have started reading but never finished, for whatever
reason – there’s actually been a fair amount of that, some of which I do mean to
get back to later, some of which I read enough to know I don’t want to pick
that book up again ever. Although I’ve never been diagnosed as such, I probably
have at least a mild case of attention deficit disorder, and I’m always finding
new things I <i>want</i> to read, some I
start and persevere only until the next thing strikes my fancy. It may be one
reason I have always liked comic books, because they are individually easily
read in a single sitting. I will be honest – I do miss the comics, and do give
some attention to the monthly solicitations of upcoming publications.
Unfortunately, very little that is currently being announced has any appeal to
me, nothing that I can’t wait for in collection. Also, my “itch” for
serialized fiction is being scratched on a weekly basis for most of the year by
the various comic-based television shows, most notably the CW’s <i>Arrow</i>, <i>The Flash</i>, and <i>DC’s Legends
of Tomorrow</i>, as well as the same producers’ <i>Supergirl</i> on CBS. Frankly, I find those shows more enjoyable right
now than the source material itself, which is a sad commentary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the books I will (hopefully) be posting some thoughts about in the next few
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Five Beasts of St. Hildegard: Prophetic Symbols of Modern Society</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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IS About Islam: Exposing the Truth About ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the
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Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-47068730418745020492016-04-11T15:40:00.000-05:002016-04-27T11:18:16.429-05:00Great News for America: The Constitution, Freedom and Prosperity are Coming Back! (2016) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gerard Francis Lameiro, Ph.D.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
book was recently reviewed [<a href="http://maccabeesociety.com/book-review-great-news-for-america-the-constitution-freedom-and-prosperity-are-coming-back/" target="_blank">LINK</a>]
on a website I follow, <i>Maccabee Society:
A Journal and Community for Men</i> [<a href="http://maccabeesociety.com/" target="_blank">LINK</a>]
(“Men” should have “Conservative Christian” in front of it; the site is kind of
like <i>The Art of Manliness</i> [<a href="http://www.artofmanliness.com/" target="_blank">LINK</a>] with a specifically Christian
slant). The author purports to analyse American history and predicts, based on
historical cycles and so forth, that we’re about to experience a conservative groundswell/landslide in the upcoming elections that will transform the United States for a
generation, resetting American government back to what the Founding Fathers
intended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Needing
a little good news in what seems like a constant barrage of bad news on just
about every front, I grabbed this book on Kindle and read it over the next few
evenings after the aforementioned review appeared, then gave myself a couple
days to digest it. Unfortunately, my initial impression did not change upon
reflection. I found this book to be so unrealistically optimistic (as well as
extremely poorly written and edited) as to be laughable – and no encouragement
whatsoever. It is a great exercise in wishful thinking and nothing more.
Besides ignoring how deeply entrenched the entitlement culture is in our
society, Lameiro does not deal with the fact that there really is no viable
conservative candidate still in the 2016 race that he sees as the key
“inflexion point.” Trump certainly is not "conservative" no matter
how he tries to sell himself as such today. Cruz is still in it, of course, but
despite my personal preference for him among the announced candidates almost from the beginning of the '16
campaign, the sad fact is that he polarizes so greatly that I think having him
as the nominee – which is unlikely given the current delegate numbers unless
the Republicans blow up the convention to keep Trump out, which would be a
disaster because Trump would then go rogue third party and split the vote –
would assure a Democrat victory. The same is true, although perhaps to a lesser
extent, if the Republicans put up someone else (Ryan? -- based on some of Lameiro’s
recent posts at his book-centered blog [<a href="http://greatnewsforamerica.com/" target="_blank">LINK</a>], he seems to lean that way)
which would, I think, end up losing at least some of Cruz's support from sheer
pissed-offness. Without naming names, Lameiro seems to attempt to address those
possibilities in the abstract, but not convincingly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
just do not see an upsurge of truly conservative values-based governance – or a
demand for such from the American people – coming. Maybe I'm wrong. I <i>hope </i>I'm
wrong – and it would please me greatly to be able to revisit this post in eight
months or so and eat crow – but I don't think it's going to happen. I really
think our country passed the tipping point with the 2012 re-election of Obama (who had already proven himself the worst President we'd ever had, and has since descended even deeper into partisan disgrace),
as I said then in my blog-commentary, "eyes wide open" [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2012/11/eyes-wide-open.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>].</span><br />
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Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-13790505093657164952016-04-04T16:31:00.000-05:002016-05-16T09:35:37.017-05:00Musings on a Second Viewing of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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even more. What's more, my friend</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> – </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who did not, by the way, see <i>Man of Steel</i> at all</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> – </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">also enjoyed it, although he is not a comics fan. About ten years older than myself, he has what I figure is pretty much a normal familiarity with the characters, based on reading comic books when he was young. And he enjoyed it. Which, along with the generally-positive audience assessments reported even by Rotten Tomatoes, further confirms for me that the critics' panning of the movie is largely rubbish. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I definitely picked up on a couple more things, as well – Lex did turn over
the painting so that the demons were coming out of heaven; the music when
Wonder Woman was introduced was foreshadowed when Bruce opened the file
containing her World War I picture. Given that Hans Zimmer was joined in the music credits by another name (I don't remember it, but it's the same as has been announced for the upcoming <i>Wonder Woman </i>solo movie), I think we got a preview of the general style of music we have to look forward to there. I can't say it's really to my liking. Oh well.</span></span></div>
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editing, particularly in the beginning. But I do not agree with those critics
who call the movie unrelentingly “joyless” or that Superman never cracks a
smile – or worse, that he was utterly alien and unrelatable. I think he was
all too human in his emotional turmoil given the seriousness of the situation.
It was a serious movie, overall – like most “serious” comic book movies marred
by the requisite world-threatening menace at the end – but a serious movie with
serious underlying themes of conflicted humanity vs. The Other, matters of
appearance and perspective, and – as pointed out in one brilliant review I read but have
typically lost – how the media drive that. It was not a Marvel movie. And those
people wanting to see a Marvel movie were doubtless the most disappointed in
this movie. There, I said it. <i>This – was
– not – a – Marvel – movie. </i>And in those places where it tried the most to
be one – Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor – it was at its weakest. But overall, I
was pleased with it, more so than I feared I would be given how far I knew it
was departing from what <i>I</i> believed
the sequel to <i>Man of Steel</i> should be.
Frankly, that was not going to happen, given the virtual imperative in these
kinds of movies to always outdo the last one in sheer spectacle, which usually
comes at the expense of story. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One other impression I did have, in conclusion. I did not
time things, but I was surprised at how, this go’round, it seemed that the
fight-scenes at the end were relatively brief and swiftly told. I think they
loom largest in our memories because they are virtually the last things that
are seen, but I wonder just what percentage of the running time of this movie
they really are, as opposed to story/plot/narrative…?</span></span></div>
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Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-85911926249701248782016-03-28T23:32:00.003-05:002016-07-06T22:18:40.508-05:00Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This review of <i>Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice</i> will
not be the mammoth dissection that was my review of <i>Man of Steel</i> three years ago [<a href="http://randomramblings-absentmindedprofessor.blogspot.com/2013/06/man-of-steel-2013.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>]. This is just going to be a
short statement of my own impressions, with no intent to argue or justify my
points. What would be the purpose? The critics have spoken, and as happened
with <i>John Carter</i> and <i>Green Lantern</i> both, what may have begun
as legitimate criticisms seems to have started feeding on themselves as critics
seem more interested now in outdoing their peers in showing how clever can be
their criticisms than in providing reasoned analysis and evaluation. The
audience seems to have received the movie more kindly. For what it’s worth, the
Rotten Tomatoes scores are quite divergent (approximately 28/72), far more so
than for <i>Man of Steel </i>(approximately
56/76). (I found it really interesting last week how the initial critics’
assessments were quite a bit more in line with <i>Man of Steel</i> than the ones that started coming out later – when the
later critics had had time to figure out which way the wind was blowing and the
piling-on had time to begin.)<i> </i>Don’t
get me wrong. This is obviously not a movie for everyone, and it is a movie
that does have its shortcomings, particularly an uneven pacing as well as a couple of things highlighted below. It is ultimately, I
believe, less a movie for general audiences than it was a movie for me and someone like me – a life-long comic-book fan with a deep love for these characters (one
I do not have for the Marvel Universe, which means I admittedly approach those
movies with a degree of objectivity that is not possible for me in this case).
I can easily see how someone who does not have that love – and the innate
knowledge of myriad story-lines and images accumulated over fifty years of
reading DC Comics – would be left cold by it. All I can ultimately say is that
I enjoyed <i>BVS:DOJ </i> very much and look forward to seeing future
installments in the DC Movie Universe that is emerging from what I consider to
have been a similarly – albeit not to the same degree -- maligned <i>Man of Steel</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The first most
critical thing I would say right now is that I myself would not have gone this
route for a second </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Superman</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> film. I
set forth my thoughts on what the follow-up to </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Man of Steel</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> should be at the end of the aforementioned review, and
I stand by what I said then. Most importantly, I would </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">not</i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> have introduced Batman as an adversary of Superman’s. However,
given that the producers had different ideas, I think they pulled off the
build-up to the confrontation fairly well, giving Bruce Wayne a believable
remote motivation in his street-level view of the war between Superman and Zod
and the human cost of what we saw three years ago. But then to build on that by
making Batman a patsy of Lex Luthor’s? That is almost as wrong-headed as the
casting of Jesse Eisenberg as a Lex who comes off as a cheap, evil imitation of
Tony Stark.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesse Eisenberg.
Is. Not. Lex Luthor. <i>That</i> was easily
the worst element in this movie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For me, although I
do have problems with the way Batman’s character was used in the overall story,
I consider Ben Affleck’s interpretation of the character, both as a middle-aged
Bruce Wayne and as a war-weary Batman, the best part of the move. And kudos to
costuming, effects, and the choreography of his fighting normal human thugs
(which was, I thought, more visually effective than his armored slug-fest with
Superman) – after seventy-plus years of trying, somebody finally got it right.
I feel like I have finally seen the Batman that I imagined all my life from the
static images of the comic book page explode into real life action. I could say
much the same for Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman. Awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I haven’t really
processed much else in this movie – it usually takes me time to do so. And I
definitely have not untangled all of the, very possibly overused,
dream-sequences and hallucinations. I don’t think it’s really possible to do so
at this time. I am near certain much of that will be more easily understandable
several movies on down the line, because I think one thing is clear about this
movie. It is not meant to stand alone but is rather far more akin to a first
(or second) issue in a saga that will play out over time and be far more
integrally related and meaningfully cross-referential than the Marvel movies
have been. I don’t necessarily think that that’s a good thing for your casual
movie-goer, whose interest and patience for the unfolding multi-movie epic is
probably not sustainable, but for me – and others who love the long-form serial
story-telling of the comics medium – if Zack Snyder and crew are permitted to
carry through with their vision, I think the results will be very satisfying. My
biggest worry is that, although the first weekend’s box-office seems to have
constituted a success, a combination of accelerating critical drubbing and
general audience mystification at what they just saw will depress subsequent
sales and the film will ultimately be counted a box-office failure because it
does not “live up to studio expectations.” It may have already started. I was
not part of that first extended (Thursday through Sunday) weekend audience
because I felt it would have been a bit unseemly to go see any such movie –
even one that I was so looking forward to – on one of the most holy days of the
Church year, when my attention should be instead on the ineffable sacrifice
that a <i>real</i> God-man made for me. I
did go see it on Monday, however … and was saddened to see that the early
afternoon theatre crowd numbered perhaps eighteen to twenty – if that. I hope I
am wrong and that WB shows faith in its product and allows the ambitious plans
that have been put forth already – out to 2020 or -21, I believe – to play out.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cheers, and Thanks
for reading.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">NOTE: Subsequent to writing this, I came upon a profound and touching commentary identifying what was the heart and soul of this movie. It is worth your time viewing. I could not get it to come up on Blogger's embed-video search engine, so here are two versions of the URL:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=rKRmMQaLZz8">https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=rKRmMQaLZz8</a></span><br />
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Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1945959531715957846.post-27971368904934458862015-12-22T15:53:00.001-06:002015-12-22T20:14:46.677-06:00Star Wars, Episode [IV/VII]: [A New Hope/The Force Awakens] ([1977/2015])<div class="MsoNormal">
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[George Lucas/J. J. Abrams]</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps
Episode VII should have been named <i>The
Same Old Hope</i>…. While there are admittedly a couple of stretches in the
parallel, by and large this adaptation from Ross Douthat’s piece in the <i>New York Times</i> online [<a href="http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/star-wars-and-decadence/" target="_blank">LINK</a>]
is dead on:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You’ve got an orphaned
Force adept unaware of [his/her] powers living on a desert planet near an old
man played by a famous British actor who probably holds secrets to [his/her]
past; [he/she] then meets up with a droid carrying secret plans that its
[Rebel/Resistance] owner hid inside it just before [he/she] was captured and
tortured by [the Empire/the First Order]. You’ve got teams of stormtroopers
scouring said planet in search of those plans, killing innocents along the way.
You’ve got an evil general who wants to rely on a planet-destroying
superweapon instead of the Force and who’s in a rivalry with a mysterious
cloaked figure for the trust of a strange deformed [Emperor/Supreme Leader].
You’ve got the stop at a cantina-style watering hole filled with smugglers and
crooks. You’ve got the destruction of [a] planet(s) crucial to the [Rebel/Resistance]
effort midway through the movie, and then you’ve got the threatened destruction
of a [Rebel/Resistance] base on a verdant planet by the same superweapon, which
can only be averted by an X-Wing attack on a single weak point. You’ve got a
confrontation between the cloaked figure (actually, decloaked by this point in
the story) and an older, wiser force for good who knew him intimately before he
fell, which ends with the older wiser figure being killed while our young hero[ine] looks on in horror. And then you’ve got the X-Wing attack itself, which
succeeds in blowing up the entire enemy super-base literally seconds before the
superweapon is scheduled to fire on the base where [Princess/General] Leia and
a group of [Rebel/Resistance] leaders are watching the attack unfold.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
be fair, I did enjoy it, but there was little new here. Just the original film
recycled for a new generation, with some critical elements retooled to the
sensibilities of said new generation. Maybe that’s what was needed. Perhaps
most importantly</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">, given the misbegotten mess that Lucas himself made of the film
franchise, this first post-Lucas offering did look and feel a lot more like “real” </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Star Wars</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> than the “prequels” that came between. Hopefully with
that being accomplished, Episode VII may serve as a springboard for Episodes VIII
ff. to actually add something to the mythos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cheers,
and Thanks for reading!</span></div>
Kent G. Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05432812900069534679noreply@blogger.com0