Re: Modular Freighters (was Re: FB - Thrust Ratings for Freighters)

At 23:08 26/01/99 +0000, you wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Jared E Noble wrote:
>> >In a message dated 99-01-24 14:04:46 EST, you write:
SNIP
>i envisage long, thin ships, like 2001's 'discovery', with cargo pods
>wrapped around them. this is a bit like one of the freighters in the
'tie
>fighter' computer game (the one with three trapezoidal pods around a 
>rodlike core), and also like a freighter that's drawn somewhere in the
>back of FT. it's also a little like the ships in "silent running"
(bonus
>points if you've seen that one - extra bonus if you spotted the ship
being 
>attacked in an episode of battlestar galactica ...).
>
SNIP
>Tom

Yes, I recall the Valley Forge turning up in Battlestar Ponderosa.
Sublime
to ridiculous?

Another Galactica connection- last Sunday's (UK) ep of Voyager (which,
of
course I only watch to perv over 7of 9 (Ahhh..., not since the heady
days of
Col. Wilma Deering and her spray-on silver trousers (and Ardala for that
matter (does this qualify me as a GZG-list Pervert? (As if I had to
ask..))))) the "Bomar" ships were Cylon raiders.

Rob

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