TOS Enterprise, updated properly

posted on January 6th, 2010, 3:01 pm

Compensation, always compensating...

posted on January 6th, 2010, 3:05 pm

And as for those computers, WTF!!!

Get used to that, becuase until they can shrink keyboards, you'll see alot of that. But someday you might find yourself having to use a key board the size of a dollar bill. With a monitor the size of a dime.

posted on January 6th, 2010, 3:25 pm

I personally would have like the new design better if it looked like the various hybrid models that have come out, like this one by Jetfreak: USS Enterprise AR-Prime Hybrid Download, Star Trek: Armada 2 Ships

The design itself really isn't all too bad in my eyes, it just desperately needed a different color scheme

posted on January 6th, 2010, 8:16 pm

Get used to that, becuase until they can shrink keyboards, you'll see alot of that. But someday you might find yourself having to use a key board the size of a dollar bill. With a monitor the size of a dime.

If that every happens I will start selling hand crafted typewritters. I really don't like this move towards tiny everything.

...like this one by Jetfreak: USS Enterprise AR-Prime Hybrid Download, Star Trek: Armada 2 Ships

Blech 

posted on January 6th, 2010, 9:09 pm

as crezy as it sounds i like the old enterprise from the old movies most, not the one from the realy old series.

posted on January 6th, 2010, 9:12 pm

Refit version? Hardly crazy. I like that one, too. Though I like it because it was the only Trek ship with exterior hull lighting done correctly.

posted on January 6th, 2010, 11:41 pm

Agreed!

posted on January 6th, 2010, 11:43 pm

Refit version? Hardly crazy. I like that one, too. Though I like it because it was the only Trek ship with exterior hull lighting done correctly.

Yeah that one and I like the hull lighting on the Excelsior and Reliant. Seems ships have lost some of that cool lighting style since TMP era.

posted on January 7th, 2010, 12:57 am

That is partly because TMP era ships were all physical models.  The model for the Constitution Refit Enterprise was like 14 feet long and cost Paramount quite a bit.  Which is why there are so many shots of it in TMP.  Lighting and shadows are difficult to get just right on a digital model.

Anyhow, whats wrong with the mildly updated TOS Enterprise used in Trials and Tribbilations?  (exterior anyway, I would never expect paramount to use 1960s sets in a new movie)

posted on January 7th, 2010, 4:47 pm

yay, i got a good tase  >:D
another guy told me one time that it looks crappy ... :guns:

posted on January 7th, 2010, 6:10 pm

That is partly because TMP era ships were all physical models.  The model for the Constitution Refit Enterprise was like 14 feet long and cost Paramount quite a bit.  Which is why there are so many shots of it in TMP.  Lighting and shadows are difficult to get just right on a digital model.

The D and most newer ships until a fair way into DS9 were also physical models, didm't stop them from removing the lights on the hull.

posted on January 7th, 2010, 6:11 pm

The D and most newer ships until a fair way into DS9 were also physical models, didm't stop them from removing the lights on the hull.

indeed...

posted on January 8th, 2010, 2:59 pm

........ I wonder what would happen if there was a startrek series where all the ships were CGI, and then suddenly the database with all the models crashed making them have to do over. Would they cancel the show? Or just recreate from scratch?

posted on January 8th, 2010, 3:01 pm

Clip recycle... proud Star Trek tradition.

posted on January 8th, 2010, 3:02 pm

would never happen because of the many many backups that they would have