Nov 122008
My opinion: meh. I liked it the way it originally was. They could have updated the NCC-1701 without essentially completely altering it. But they went for the “let’s completely alter it” approach.
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/11/star-trek-first.html
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Mon Dieu!
That looks like a ‘bruiser’ of a ship.
I am beginning to have serious, serious doubts about the new Trek.
wurrrg
puke
choke, choke
wat the F### ist this ?
is a insult to Walter M. Jefferies Work !
also the rumors on Movie skript
a Romulan clone from future try to kill Kirk befor he become Captain of Enterprise
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Trekneroship.jpg
had we not simlear S### in Star Trek Nemesis ?
This is more of a prequel Enterprise of the movie one to me. I shall hold judgement until I have seen the movie.
Yes, it’s a prequell. But the Enterprise does not look like the Enterprise ten years before the original TV series, but halfway between the TV version and the movie version.
An Enterprise that was structurally identical to the original TV design, but witha few modifications due to improved CG effects, could very easily have been damned gorgeous. This design, though… the more I look at it, the worse it gets. The original Enterprise was very minimalist, and pulled it off well. This not only changes basic shapes in unpleasing ways, it also adds a boatload of unnecessary detailing. Bleah.
Well, this is obviously the version that received a refit between the time she was built and commanded by Robert April, then Christopher Pike, then was refitted to this new movie’s specs for Kirk , then refitted back to a design like the original, with a larger bridge and nacelle spikes because the mods didn’t work out too good, then refitted again with some better mods, then rebuilt for Will Decker…I think I have to go and lie down…
Grif
Is there even a shuttle bay on that secondary hull?
…or do they drop out of the bottom like on “Enterprise”?
I’m trying to figure out what the warp nacelles look like… I think they look like combos of turbojet engines and 1950’s canister vacuum cleaners.
Anyway, if nothing else, we are going to see James T. Kirk getting the living crap beaten out of him by Starfleet cadets for putting the moves on Uhura at a bar, and the story of Scotty turning the admiral’s dog inside out during a failed transporter experiment.
Also, Kirk swelling WAY up.
A masterpiece in the making… either this works great, or it’s a complete disaster area… no halfway ground here.
I’d really loved the original one. And I also loved the Movie one as well.
Damn perhaps I’m becoming old but I really dislike all these changes there are going on….
From the trailer, Kirk is a “rebel” who smashes up classic Corvettes, does a Tom Cruise on a hover bike to see the Enterprise and with a confrontational attitude picks a fight with Spock, yet somehow made it through the Academy and from the looks of it straight onto the bridge of the Enterprise.
If the “paradigm” holds true, since this is an “odd” numbered movie (number one technically) it will suck rocks, but at least make enough money to convince the studio to do another one which will rock. (Followed by a suck-fest, followed by a good one…. you will recall the pattern :o)
Randy
>If the “paradigm” holds true, since this is an “odd” numbered movie (number one technically) it will suck rocks
Star Trek 10 (“Nemesis”) drove a spike through the heart of that theory. So who the hell knows….
And here’s a head-scratcher: in the original series, Kirk is a young captain, but still a captain. Has something like ten years service behind him. But Chekov is right out of training. So how can Kirk and Chekov be working together in this upcoming flick, when Kirk hasn’t even gone through the academy yet? Shouldn’t Chekov be wearing jammies and eating fudgesicles at this stage?