new look of the enterprise in jj abrams vision
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posted on April 4th, 2009, 7:08 am
This is my first time on the site. Nice job to all involved. I'm about to try the 3.0 mod....I hope it goes well for me I just rebuilt this pc. I didn't see system requirements I assume they will be available in a text. I just got the new wallpaper off the new star trek movie site. It looks very sleek. Is that supposed to be the Enterprise?? (the full view ship, not the Kelvin) Looks nothing like TOS Enterprise but poetic license is okay here I guess. I'm looking forward to the film. Greetings all!
posted on April 5th, 2009, 3:23 am
hi. welcome to the community.
posted on April 5th, 2009, 3:29 am
Hi and welcome! If you wan't to know more about the new enterprise you should read this thread
posted on April 5th, 2009, 6:29 am
Well, since it's 2009 and TOS was made over 40 years ago, and the Trek franchise is on life support and in need of younger audience appeal (same age demographic TOS targeted in the '60s, TNG targeted in the late '80s and '90s, and ENT targeted in the early '00s) while also pulling back in some of the older fans who grew up watching Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, and Uhura, the entire aesthetic is being made over. It's nothing that hasn't already been done with Trek, but it is on a much larger scale and it's somewhat more pronounced.
While the Enterprise circa mid-23rd century by way of the late 2000s doesn't look quite the same as the bird she's meant to represent (Enterprise circa mid-23rd century by way of the late 1960s), the cinematic technology in our timeline has advanced by leaps and bounds (to say nothing of our scientific imagination; while warp flight in less than a century and extrasolar colonization within 130 years might have sounded plausible back in the '60s, I think our ambitions are somewhat more modest now that the race to the Moon is the stuff of history texts) and it would be anachronistic and detrimental to the goal of increasing audience appeal, and thus the Star Trek franchise's longevity (and thus extending Roddenberry's benevolent vision as well as our good fun), to revert to the old models of the ivory NCC-1701 with toilet-paper tubes for warp nacelles rather than taking advantage of CGI and SFX to render a more futuristic- and functional-looking Enterprise.
I do like that a lot of the "retro" aesthetics of TOS, especially in the uniforms and architecture (the bridge design of the Enterprise and the Kelvin, for instance), are being retained, albeit in glossier, higher-tech, updated forms. But it's definitely going to be next to impossible to "retcon" the different looks and feels between TOS and Star Trek (2009).
While the Enterprise circa mid-23rd century by way of the late 2000s doesn't look quite the same as the bird she's meant to represent (Enterprise circa mid-23rd century by way of the late 1960s), the cinematic technology in our timeline has advanced by leaps and bounds (to say nothing of our scientific imagination; while warp flight in less than a century and extrasolar colonization within 130 years might have sounded plausible back in the '60s, I think our ambitions are somewhat more modest now that the race to the Moon is the stuff of history texts) and it would be anachronistic and detrimental to the goal of increasing audience appeal, and thus the Star Trek franchise's longevity (and thus extending Roddenberry's benevolent vision as well as our good fun), to revert to the old models of the ivory NCC-1701 with toilet-paper tubes for warp nacelles rather than taking advantage of CGI and SFX to render a more futuristic- and functional-looking Enterprise.
I do like that a lot of the "retro" aesthetics of TOS, especially in the uniforms and architecture (the bridge design of the Enterprise and the Kelvin, for instance), are being retained, albeit in glossier, higher-tech, updated forms. But it's definitely going to be next to impossible to "retcon" the different looks and feels between TOS and Star Trek (2009).
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