I spotted this letter in a recent edition of London's free 'Metro' newspaper:
Further to your article on the sale of Star Trek memerobilia, it should be clarified that the picture clearly shows a model of USS Voyager NCC74656 and not the Enterprise NCC1701D, which was used in the Next Generation and refered to in the article.
Yours sincerely,
Iain Borland
I can almost hear the laughter in the newsroom from here.
honestly...
ReplyDeleteI don't wish to be pedantic, but I think you'll find that the NCC74656 was the prototype and thus was never used on a crewed flight. The actual model referred to was, of course, the NCC 74657.
ReplyDeleteThe NCC74656 did make a brief appearance in the film 'Star Trek XXIII - The Planet of Woodlice' but had been hijacked by renegade Vulcans so whilst it was never officially crewed, it did taken part in the T'Puwll campaign.
ReplyDeleteI hope this clears things up.