April's Enterprise
Joseph Nebus
I hold to the school of thought that in the Original Series
Timeline, Robert April was the first captain of the Enterprise and
possibly the commander during its construction (which seems like an
odd career path, but odder ones happen). And I'm not alone in that
line.
Have there been descriptions of how his Enterprise differed
from Pike's Enterprise in the semi-canon materials like novels and
Ships of the Line calendars?
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Joseph Nebus
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Phillip Thorne
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> I hold to the school of thought that in the Original Series
>Have there been descriptions of how his Enterprise differed
Did he appear in anything other than _Final Frontier_ (Diane Carey,
1988)? Lessee:
<http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_April>
The new Haynes Guide _U.S.S. Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual_
claims to have specs for "all its incarnations" but pre-Kirk might be
stretching it:
<http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Enterprise_Owners'_Workshop_Manual>
This raises a topic, should anybody wish to discuss it: how much is
the right amount of detail in a technical manual for a fictional
vessel? Where's the "too much" between "What's the deck plan of the
bridge?" and "What's the exact timeline of a transporter cycle?"
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** Phillip Thorne ** peth...@comcast.net **************
* RPI CompSci 1998 *
** underbase.livejournal.com ***************************
Jack Bohn
>On 28 Oct 2010, nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
>>
>> I hold to the school of thought that in the Original Series
>>Timeline, Robert April was the first captain of the Enterprise [...]
>>Have there been descriptions of how his Enterprise differed
>>from Pike's Enterprise [...]?
>
>Did he appear in anything other than _Final Frontier_ (Diane Carey,
>1988)? Lessee:
I've developed a new nmemonic: _Final Frontier_ comes before
_Enterprise: The First Adventure_.
><http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_April>
They've missed the DC Comic's first Star Trek annual. That was a
flashback to Kirk taking over the Enterprise from Pike and contained a
flashback to First Officer Pike under Captain April. The exterior
drawings of the Enterprise appear to be modeled on the Series
Production model, and are not something I'd take a caliper to, anyway.
Interiors from the April era show only four shots of the bridge,
putting one gooseneck viewer on the captain's chair, a red railing
around the bridge, and a red outline to the helm console.
The novelization of "Counter-Clock" has April looking at Franz Joseph
blueprints. In an inversion of _Ships of the Star Fleet_, I'd like to
suggest that the Constitution, at least, looked like his published
blueprints (modulo a nacelle change or two), and it's possible the
early Enterprise had a rounded versus teardrop-shaped second and third
decks. Matt Jeffries also drew it like that, and a drawing
(admittedly, the side-view one) appeared on "The Enterprise Incident".
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-Jack