I think they called that Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
What would you change about the TOS Enterprise?
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I think they called that Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
They've got him sitting with his back to the door
Now he won't be my fast gun anymore
Say goodbye to Hollywood...
July 28 2015, 01:24 PM
July 6 2015, 04:20 PM
Beat you to it by a country parsec.
July 6 2015, 04:20 PM
Beat you to it by a country parsec.
Oh, no argument here about that! Jefferies originally put the door at the back of the Bridge, just like any other cockpit in the world (he was from an aviation background, after all). All other explanations about why the doors were moved in-universe are just rationalizations after the fact, and thus don't always make the most amount of sense.
July 28 2015, 01:24 PM
July 6 2015, 04:20 PM
Beat you to it by a country parsec.
Ah, crap...I had a feeling somebody had already said something to that effect, but when you're checking in on a post now and then, you don't always remember what you read in it days ago.
Heck, according to TMP Klingons sit with the entire crew at their back.
Given the Klingon culture, that takes balls.
Makes his death in Into Darkness kind of ironic.
July 28 2015, 01:24 PM
July 6 2015, 04:20 PM
Beat you to it by a country parsec.
Ah, crap...I had a feeling somebody had already said something to that effect, but when you're checking in on a post now and then, you don't always remember what you read in it days ago.
Or in the future!
Laughing, Maurice--a country parsec, indeed! May I please borrow that?
T'Girl, my thoughts exactly! It wouldn't do to have an "Et tu, Brute?" moment in the middle of an important battle--as if Sulu with sword in hand weren't threatening enough to his shipmates! Of course, that moment did give us a few gems:
T'Girl, my thoughts exactly! It wouldn't do to have an "Et tu, Brute?" moment in the middle of an important battle--as if Sulu with sword in hand weren't threatening enough to his shipmates! Of course, that moment did give us a few gems:
(That's my favorite Uhura moment ever--and Spock's rejoinder is not far behind.)
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I'd think that would be the entire point of the captain being seated that way. What better way to say "Just try it, fuckers!" than to sit with your back to them.
Risky but sends a message.
Starborn Dragon
Captain
You know, I honestly don't know what's worse.
The "Enterprise must be changed" crowd
or the
"Oscar tango whiskey foxtrot! YOU CHANGED THE ENTERPRISE! You're a dirty rotten bleeping bleepity bleep! It's ARMAGEDDON! It's THE END OF THE WORLD YOU YOU YOUUUUUUUUUUU!"
Well, you get the idea.
HEy, anybody want to help me overthrow the Vatican?
The "Enterprise must be changed" crowd
or the
"Oscar tango whiskey foxtrot! YOU CHANGED THE ENTERPRISE! You're a dirty rotten bleeping bleepity bleep! It's ARMAGEDDON! It's THE END OF THE WORLD YOU YOU YOUUUUUUUUUUU!"
Well, you get the idea.
HEy, anybody want to help me overthrow the Vatican?
Change to make a positive improvement over what came before, is good.
Change just to demonstrate that you can ...isn't.
Change just to demonstrate that you can ...isn't.
Every so often I wonder how the classic sets would look if one took the original blueprints and built the sets to a modern design ethic, slipping in subtle changes that don't make it look that different, but make it plain that it now follows the new understanding of modern computing, and digital interfaces. No changes to the layout, just modern materials and modern design elements. If done right, it could possibly look really cool.
Enterprise sort-of did that to the computer displays in their "mirror" episodes, which took place on the TOS-era Defiant.
Starborn Dragon
Captain
Why do things need to be changed at all?
I don't mind change, but i don't like change for the sake of change. Change should have a good well reasoned reason.
In all honesty though, I'm not sure the TOS original aesthetics would work in the modern age if it were a brand new show.
It might, but with all the grim and gritty feel because of the Batman effect, I'm not sure.
I wonder if someone could do a photoshop of the interior design as though it were a Batman grim and grittier aesthetic.
I don't mind change, but i don't like change for the sake of change. Change should have a good well reasoned reason.
In all honesty though, I'm not sure the TOS original aesthetics would work in the modern age if it were a brand new show.
It might, but with all the grim and gritty feel because of the Batman effect, I'm not sure.
I wonder if someone could do a photoshop of the interior design as though it were a Batman grim and grittier aesthetic.
I think that the grim and gritty look in space began with Star Wars.
Starfleet is basically the US Navy in space. And they clean everything.
Also, a spacecraft that spends all of it's time in space isn't going to get dirty or weather. Unless there's some sort of extreme event like the giant space amoeba.
I think that weathering the TOS filming model at all was a bad idea. Just look at the Space Shuttle Atlantis on display in Florida. All of it's career it looked dirty and scorched on the outside. But when it came time to retire it and go on display they finally gave it a wash. And now it looks brand new. With the exception of reentry scoring on the heatshield tiles.
Starfleet is basically the US Navy in space. And they clean everything.
Also, a spacecraft that spends all of it's time in space isn't going to get dirty or weather. Unless there's some sort of extreme event like the giant space amoeba.
I think that weathering the TOS filming model at all was a bad idea. Just look at the Space Shuttle Atlantis on display in Florida. All of it's career it looked dirty and scorched on the outside. But when it came time to retire it and go on display they finally gave it a wash. And now it looks brand new. With the exception of reentry scoring on the heatshield tiles.
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