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cosmicrookie @lemmy.world

1y ago

There's only the model

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I mean, Im sure at least one fan over the last 60 years have built a model and not gotten it to scale...
Like, it's actually kind of of difficult to make a model to scale, especially for a small onenits not all going to be proportional. So even if you were drawing the line at "commercially sold" I'm sure some don't meet the requirement to be within scale.
I get Shatner meant there's no "life size" model, but if someone's gonna be pedantic, it's an excuse to be pedantic back.
- @givesomefucks @cosmicrookie William Shatner always struck me as someone incredibly hostile to the fanbase which made him famous and the people who are the only reason anyone gives a damn about him anyway.
  Every interview I have ever read or seen video of is just him belittling people and their fandom.
  
  That's because that's what he is. He's kind of a crappy person. Nimoy refused to speak to him the last few years he was alive because Shatner paid someone to ~~ask Nimoy questions~~ secretly record Nimoy at a convention after Nimoy turned Shatner down. This was confirmed in the book Shatner wrote about his friendship with Nimoy after he died where Shatner said "It was such a small thing Leonard". Takei has talked endlessly about how Shatner was a prick to work with on stage too.
  Shatner is a shitty person
  Edit: I goofed
- There's always a scale, even if you have to Fourier transform it

He's lying! It's real and it's out there!

But 1:1 is technically a scale !
- There even is a saying something is 'to scale' meaning it's dimensioned as original (1:1).

That's not the question, he's asking if you have one
- Shatner is just a full on boomer. These are the sorts of answers you can expect from him.
  
  Isn't he like 95? I think he's from the generation before boomers.
  BTW, I saw an interview with him recently and he's sharper than most people half his age. It's incredible

Why wound you ever need a 2:1 scale Enterprise?
Tho the regular crew would look adorable in it.

Well then what's it modeling, huh, Bill?

"The Enterprise!"
"The Enterprise!"
"The Enterprise!"
"Bah, it's only a model..."
"Shut up!"

I could make a toy with the wrong dimensions. That might really screw up this guys very serious engineering endeavor.

Just answer the question, Captain.

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