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Subject: Re: the destruction of the Enterprise
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 22:58:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 22:58:00 1984
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Nf-From: tilt!smw    May 19 22:58:00 1984

/***** tilt:net.startrek / akov68!boyajian /  7:11 pm  May 19, 1984*/
/ For those of you who would like to see a photo of the new
/ starship class, the latest issue of FANTASTIC FILMS has a nice double-page
/ spread showing the *Enterprise* docking at a huge space station, with the
/ *Excelsior* sitting nearby. It's really a sharp looking ship.

Okay, I haven't seen it yet.  But I saw a photo of the Excelsior's bridge,
featuring Capt. Stiles (James B. Sikking).  Twice the familiar size; so you
lose any sense of intimacy with the bridge crew.  Feh.  I'm dubious.  The
Enterprise is an absolutely gorgeous ship, and became even more so after the
*minor* changes made for ST:TMP.  But I can't see the Excelsior-class ships
looking better than the Enterprise.  More powerful, sure.  But it can't be
as aesthetically beautiful.

From one who thought Kirk's flyover of the Enterprise was the best scene
of ST:TMP...
	     --Stewart Wiener / Princeton Univ. EECS / princeton!tilt!smw