I Wish The Firefly Webteam Would Do This by Haken

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I Wish The Firefly Webteam Would Do This

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UPDATED: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 17:25
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Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:41 AM

Likes to mess with stuffs.

You can now take a virtual tour of the Enterprise here:

http://www.startrek.com/launch/tour.asp

If I was designing the Official Firefly Website, I would include a virtual tour of the Serenity.

It's fairly simple to create and way cool to look at.

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Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:11 PM

NOVAGRASS

I've seen this on other sites too... it would be amazing to have a virtual tour of the Serenity.

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

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Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:53 AM

ZICSOFT

And it'd be a lot more interesting than an Enterprise tour. Star Trek sets are always a bunch of disconnected entities, edited together to create the illusion of a complete spaceship. The Serenity set, by contrast, is a complete spaceship.

It'd actually be easier to set up than the Enterprise one. Just take a few shots of the set with an IPix camera:

http://www.ipix.com/

do a little programming to link them together, and there you are. Alas, the Firefly webmaster doesn't even know basic web design. Forget about something like this.

Hey Haken, what about you? You have the skills, and Mister Whedon is an avowed fan of your work. For the cost of an airline ticket and a camera rental, Fox could get a lot of PR out of this. Joss, you listening?

I've come to realize that Whedon has a thing about complete sets. Stage direction from The Freshman: "Buffy crests the stairs (despite the lack of a pit) just as Joyce emerges from the bedroom (despite the lack of a bedroom)." He probably could have avoided building a complete Serenity -- certainly the Fox accountants would have been happier. I'm guessing he thinks it helps the actors get into the right state of practical delusion.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:25 PM

ZICSOFT

One more reason I'm disgusted with Star Trek:

If you zoom into the pictures on the wall of the ready room, you'll see pictures of "previous" Enterprises. The leftmost one is described as a "clipper ship." I don't know sailing vessels that well, but I do know a bit about naval history, and I'm pretty sure there was never a clipper ship in any serious navy. Clippers were cargo vessels designed to travel long distances as quickly as possible.

Various U.S. Navy sailing vessels were named "Enterprise", little 12 to 20-gun jobs. (The early U.S. Navy didn't have any really large vessels.) A couple of them made a big place in history, but I guess none of them were big enough for Captain Archer's wall.

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