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Lurrr
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Thye would probably have more money for their fleet if they didn't have to cover the costs of Zapp's screw ups Or, if they spent less on fancy big space stations.
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Zed 85
Space Pope
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« Reply #3 on: 03-13-2004 15:36 »
« Last Edit on: 03-13-2004 15:36 »
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The Nimbus may only be an Earthican ship, considering the high concentration of humans on board. There are probably many more DOOP starships, and probably bigger ones too, but they defend other DOOP planets. Why the Earthican defences have to call on civilian craft to defend the planet is probably because the professional defence force keeps getting whittled down too quickly, and other DOOP ships from "abroad", as it were can't get back in time\ can't be arsed. According to various sources either in the show or in the comics - which I suppose we could count as "cannon" - Earth gets attacked almost every week in one way or another. It's unlikely Earth has enough time to produce an effective defence force and its replacements in that time, plus they need to find pilots willing to join.... The Nimbus has probably survived since Zapp knows when to "keep out of harms way" But he is the most decorated and regarded captain, which is why the Nimbus is assigned many different missions, and is why Leela keeps bumping into them. Scratch that, perhaps there are lots of different DOOP ships, but they take it in turn to guard different places, so while the Nimbus is away, other ships will defend Earth, but when big invasion fleets come, Zapp will rush back to Earth to take all the glory - which is why the Earth Defence Force or whatever the hell you want to call it, is so small and why they have to call on civilians to fight, if you know what I mean It's unlikely with a president like Nixon, that Earth will have a small defence fleet due to it wanting to appear a peaceful planet.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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I always assumed that was a reference to Star Trek. Starfleet is a massive military organisation (despite Gene insisting that it was merely the scientific and diplomatic section of the UFP we all know better), with hundreds (In DS9 thousands) of starships, starbases and outposts, and yet whenever Earth or some very important outpost is in grave danger the Enterprise is the only ship who can reach it in time. Similarly I think the DOOP Fleet is very powerful and have countless vessels at their disposal, but the Nimbus is the only ship nearby whenever trouble arise, including those not caused by Zapp.
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Javier Lopez
Urban Legend
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So we can asume that Nimbus is the only starship avalaible when the show (Matt & David ) needs it.. or that a wizzard made all DOOP starships flee to save Donut land.. Anyway i like a lot those topics..of technical discussion. Anybody has calculated Nimbus size? There is one scene in "Kiff gets knocked up a notch" where we see the Nimbus in complete scale with Planet Express ship.. calcultations on the PE ship make her about 45-50 meters long (including fins) so with that image we could calculta total Nimbus Size
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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But if DOOP wouldn't support it's memberworlds, why did it have a military in the first place? DOOP was also compared to the United Federation of Planets from Star Trek, and the Federation certainly sticks up for it's members. Starfleet have fought more wars than most Earthly nations.
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Javier Lopez
Urban Legend
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Originally posted by Ranadok: The nerd factor of that just blows me away Really? -All guns!! Al front Guns!! Fire at will! i repeat! fire!.. FIRE! well..like profesor Frintch would say: "then you will not like my other invention":
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Shaucker
Professor
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I always thought of the Nimbus as a vessel for shelter than for battle...like it could house battleships. I mean, they have ravioli and a Sunday Bar...
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Belgarion
Poppler
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So do Doopfleet vessel names begin with DSS or DOOPSS?
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Javier Lopez
Urban Legend
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Originally posted by boxie: Wow! I can't believe you actually compared ship dimensions. That is wicked!
And yet... somewhat sad. Yeah? Im begining to get sick by those comentarys uncalled for. If you find me sad only for a half an hour making graphics in PSP to compare sizes of fiction ships of science fiction shows/movies then you can take a look at this: http://www.st-minutiae.com/misc/comparison.xhtml Or even better: http://www.merzo.net/
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Nasty Pasty
DOOP Secretary
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All i can say Javier Lopez is.....WOW. That definately puts things in perspective for me(literally)
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boxie
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by Javier Lopez: Yeah? Im begining to get sick by those comentarys uncalled for.
Aw, hey man, I totally didn't mean to offend. It was said in light jest. I've probably done things way sadder myself. Anyways, sorry.
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