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Post by dragon53 » Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:41 am

TRIVIA---latest in the series about James Bond movie trivia.
Ken Adam was a two-time Academy Award-winning production designer, who is most known for his spectacular designs for the James Bond movies. His movies include GOLDFINGER, THUNDERBALL, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, MOONRAKER, DR. STRANGELOVE, BARRY LYNDON (Oscar), THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE (Oscar), THE IPCRESS FILE, SLEUTH and others.
Adam was the son of a wealthy Jewish merchant in Berlin, but the family fortune was lost when the Nazis came to power in the early 1930s. The family left for England where Adam became only one of three German-born fighter pilots with the Royal Air Force. His flight instructor was Michael Rennie, who later starred in the classic THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. As a Typhoon pilot, Adam was named "Heinie the tank-buster" for his skills in destroying German tanks.


Adam with his Typhoon fighter-bomber.


Michael Rennie (THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL) was Adam's RAF flight instructor.


Adam designed the classic, gadget-filled Aston Martin DB5, "the most famous car in the world", for GOLDFINGER.



The Fort Knox gold despository in GOLDFINGER.



Adam designed the armed "cocoon" for the Disco Volante hydrofoil which was based on a a real yacht.



SPECTRE's volcano rocket base in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE.



Adam designed the world's largest stage, the 007 Stage, at Pinewood Studios for the hijacked submarines in the supertanker Liparus, for THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. Adam had his friend, Stanley Kubrick, secretly visit the set to advise him on how to light the set.



The Lotus Esprit Submarine in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME.


The Pentagon War Room in DR. STRANGELOVE.
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Post by [CAT]CplSlade » Tue Aug 02, 2016 11:14 am

That's not how the numbering system worked in Star Trek. That's inference based on no knowledge of how it was done in all five series or how it's done in real life either.

Roddenberry himself wanted the numbers to match the number of the construction contract, the "NCC" part which stood for Naval Contract Code. There really is nothing to indicate they simply numbered all ships consecutively as they came off the line, especially when there were several shipyards pumping out ships as time went on. Within a class numbering would be sequential, but not across the board.

Asshats.

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