THEY’RE HEEEEEERE
NASA has just released photographs taken this week by the Lasco C2 Solar and Heliospheric Observatory that appear to show a giant . . . . ummm . . . . something-something orbiting the sun somewhere in the vicinity of Mercury.
Needless to say, the gummint is spewing all manner of happy horseshit about solar flares, ghost shadows, bad film, camera distortion blah blah blah.
But I think we all know an alien spacecraft when we see one. Especially when that spacecraft looks a lot like a partially cloaked Romulan Bird of Prey Warbird.
MMMMMMKAY?
April 29th, 2012 at 8:32 am
and I understand they don’t take prisoners.
April 29th, 2012 at 8:34 am
I risk going full-on Trek geek here, but the shape looks more like a Klingon, rather than Romulan, Bird of Prey because of the raised position of what look like its wings. (The Romulan BOP is the craft first seen in “Balance of Terror”. I don’t think we ever saw it updated to the same configuration as the Klingon BOP, but someone correct me if that’s not right.)
Maybe the proximity to our sun means an attempted slingshot effect to get back to its own time.
April 29th, 2012 at 8:44 am
Uh Santaslittlehelper look at it again and then tell me it doesn’t look like the Scimitar — Praetor Shinzon’s ship. http://www.billinexile.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/scimitar.jpg
April 29th, 2012 at 10:15 am
Scott,
I looked at the images again and at the Scimitar image in your link. Whatever is in NASA’s images looks to me to have 2 wings, same as a BOP. Shinzon’s ship has more than 2 wings. To your point, it’s possible that my seeing only 2 wings might just be a trick of the light in NASA’s images. If NASA’s ship has more than 2 wings, then possibly the images’ blur or the angle of the wings relative to their reflecting light could obscure extra wings.
Also too (as I descend deeper into geekage), the Scimitar is a warbird and not a BOP. A warbird is a different class ship than a BOP: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Reman_warbird; http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/index.php?search=Scimitar&fulltext=0; http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/index.php?search=bird+of+prey&fulltext=0
April 29th, 2012 at 11:02 am
The Scimitar was Reman, not Romulan.
April 29th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Really MG?? Really??? You think you want to come for me when it concerns all things Star Trek?
Bring it Mofo.
The Scimitar was Romulan. It was the culmination of a long R and D project undertaken to build an entire class of warships powerful enough to take on the Dominion.
It was built by the Remans but the design is Romulan and the Romulan Imperial Fleet directly aided in the Reman’s construction of it.
So to say that the Scimitar was Reman and not Rumulan would be as ridiculous as saying that a ship designed and owned by the Dutch, but built by the French and Captained by a Dutchman who was also head of the Dutch government was a French ship and not a Dutch ship.
Especially when one takes into account the fact that the Remans are not independent, but are a part of the Romulan Empire.
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/
April 29th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
OK North Pole Elf — I’ll give you the warbird rather than the bird of prey — but you should attempt to read with a bit more comprehension the words that I take the time to write because if you do I’m pretty sure you’ll find you get more from them and, in return, I’ll not need to waste my time pointing out what should be obvious to you — specifically that the word “partially” as it relates to the word “uncloaked” in my post would explain to most people who read above the 8th grade level why there are only 2 wings showing in the NASA image.
So, for my reaction to your comment (but not the part where you righteously school me on Romulan ship classes) please refer here: http://guyism.com/wp-content/uploads/picard-facepalm.jpg
April 29th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
I am more of a Star Wars/ updated BSG guy so this entire conversation is lost on me ( though I see a cylon raider & just think they’ve come back to monitor our progress
). But really guys, as a fellow geek in a varied vein.I FUCKING LOVE ALL OF YOU.
April 29th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Scott — The info on memory beta is based on novels, comics, and other non-canon material which is not considered official Trek. All I’ve got is what was actually said by the Viceroy after decloaking: “We are the Reman Warbird Scimitar.”
April 29th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Scott — The info on memory beta comes from non-canon sources such as comics, novels, etc. It isn’t considered official Trek. All I’ve got is what the Viceroy actually said: “We are the Reman Warbird Scimitar.”
April 29th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
You guys are crazy! That’s E.T’s mom come to look for her son.
April 29th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
An elf!? Why, I never . . . SLH is a greyhound who makes up in heart what he lacks in smarts: simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Santa%27s_Little_Helper
Of course you know that I usually hang on your every word, Scott. And yet because it’s Sunday and a day to relax from the everyday grind, my usual 9th-grade-level reading skills drop a grade or more.
I give you that you did say “partially cloaked”. But I must point out that you missed a hole in my statement that would have worked to your advantage. The Scimitar sometimes has 2 wings and looks similar to a Bird of Prey. Other times it looks like it has more than 2 wings. (Is it when the thalaron generators are off that the Scimitar has just 2 wings? It’s been a while since I saw ST: Nemesis, and I don’t own a copy to watch and confirm.) I would have expected you to make this essential point in your rebuttal. I would have expected a debater superior to me to seize upon and correct my statement that “Shinzon’s ship has more than 2 wings”. The statement is absolute, and as such it is incorrect. Were I inclined to sarcasm or mockery (but reading at, and some days below, an 8th-grade level as I do, I’m incapable of the cleverness required for such), I might say that the rebuttal of most people with forensic skills above an 8th-grade level should identify my error in order to give themselves the advantage in the debate, to engage a point cogently that I take the time to debate and to teach me how to think and write with greater precision.
For my reaction to your comment, I give you the following: media.photobucket.com/image/picard%20riker%20facepalm/Krrypton/lol/double-facepalm.jpg?o=10
BTW, your point to MG is interesting. Again, my memory of Nemesis is fuzzy, but how much of what you point out about the long R&D and Reman construction of a Romulan design is in the actual Nemesis theatrical release? Thanks for the Memory Beta citation; the details are interesting. The tool tip in Memory Beta’s tab describes the site as a “non-canon Star Trek Wiki”. Do you accept or endorse all noncanonical Trek? Maybe MG sticks to canon and bases his comment on the description on Memory Alpha (which is only canonical information, right?), where the Scimitar is identified as a “Reman warbird”. Some people are strict canonists and view anything outside the TV shows and movies as apocryphal.
I love you back, Drew. (And I also loved the new BSG, along with some of the Star Wars movies.)
April 29th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
It looks more like a Cylon Resurrection Ship to me! Yikes!
April 29th, 2012 at 5:58 pm
I love this blog so much.
April 29th, 2012 at 6:47 pm
MG and SLH, If you’ve been a Trekkie for as long as I have — 1966 — then you’ll know that a huge amount of the milieu {including the canon} is based upon non-canonical sources.
There’s an entire world of Star Trek that was developed out of thin air, as it were, and before Roddenberry and crew at Universal/Desilu stepped back in and started building upon the original series with the “Star Fleet — Star Trek Technical Manual” of 1975 { I still have mine from that year!} and arguments about as to what constitutes canon and what doesn’t — regardless of what Wikipedia says — have been going on for more than 40 years.
So to say that Memory Beta comes from non-canon sources and to denigrate it as such when you’re talking about Star Trek is like saying that the 39th Paschal Letter of Athanasius {367 CE} or the Synod of Hippo Regius [397CE} shouldn’t have had any influence in establishing the canon of the New Testament.
In other words, it’s a tool people in the process of losing an argument about both Christianity AND Star Trek employ; almost always to poor effect.
April 30th, 2012 at 1:16 am
between the star trek geekiness, hot menz, use of synecdoche & the late antiquity nerdishness,
*SWOON*
April 30th, 2012 at 10:53 am
I’m almost afraid to ask, but are there conspiracy sites that claim it is something other than a flare?
April 30th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
This post just made my weekend, killing me over here!