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*Potential Spoilers* What will the Alternate Enterprise-A look like
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My guess: There will be no bloody A 
. Not in this film anyway. This would leave a lot of opportunities for next film to be set off-ship. AKA Voyage Home.
I do think we need a separate thread to discuss the changes to the JJprise. I think these changes are unlike anything we have seen in Trek i.e they are NOT supposed to be noticed by the lay person. How do we explain the smaller nacelles and swept back pylons? Was there a refit? If so, what was its purpose? We have to come up with an explanation quick or the universe will explode.
. Not in this film anyway. This would leave a lot of opportunities for next film to be set off-ship. AKA Voyage Home. I do think we need a separate thread to discuss the changes to the JJprise. I think these changes are unlike anything we have seen in Trek i.e they are NOT supposed to be noticed by the lay person. How do we explain the smaller nacelles and swept back pylons? Was there a refit? If so, what was its purpose? We have to come up with an explanation quick or the universe will explode.
IDW has done the same thing in their comics.
They missed a trick there. Makes much more sense to support such a large mass of nacelle towards the middle than on its end. There is no counter-balance. The original refit did this beautifully. Bringing the nacelles forward would have done that.
Awesome!
Wait, first to reach warp 4? then there are implying the starships we see in the current universe are based off existing prime universe designs.
If the NX-Delta led to the Franklin during the Warp 5 program, then she's a 2145 ship. Maybe the type of nacelles or drive just never worked properly, they went for the NX-Class we know instead. Then we get the Kelvin design era, but they seemingly went back to the Franklin style ships for inspiration after the Narada attack.
Way bigger version of that image
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Looking at the Enterprise schematic, they have something called the "Kelvin pod" attached to the bridge. Exactly what is that supposed to be?
The diagram description says they are "inspired" by the escape pods from the Kelvin in ST09. But I don't remember any escape pods, only shuttles. I question the research this guy did prior to making the cutaway.
Is this an official diagram, by the way? It says it was produced exclusively for Popular Mechanics, in cooperation with Bad Robot (duh, otherwise it's copyright infringement).
Maybe the Kelvin bridge didn't have escape pods. So the update was named after the lost ship.
That seems to be exactly the idea behind it - so no one has to stay on the bridge and 'go down with the ship' like poor George Kirk did.
My guess: There will be no bloody A
I do think we need a separate thread to discuss the changes to the JJprise. I think these changes are unlike anything we have seen in Trek i.e they are NOT supposed to be noticed by the lay person. How do we explain the smaller nacelles and swept back pylons? Was there a refit? If so, what was its purpose? We have to come up with an explanation quick or the universe will explode.
IF there isn't a new ship at the end of this one they might be leaving it to the next movie to design it, etc. rather than painting them into a corner on what it will look like
Will feel cheated if they aren't on a new ship heading out to finish the 5 year mission at the end, but shall see July 22.........
If it was in cooperation with Bad Robot, than it's official. That's kind of the definition of "official."
But the reason George Kirk stayed on the bridge is because the auto-pilot was disabled. When the auto-pilot is disabled, someone does have to stay on the bridge and the presence of an escape pod won't make a difference one way or the other.
1) There realistically shouldn't be a new ship so soon.
2) The impression I got from the trailer is that the five year mission is over and that's why they're back at Earth. Or so I interpret McCoy's question of "you sure you want to go back out there?" The five year mission is done, what we see in this movie is something else.
No. They are on SB Yorktown at end waiting to continue 5 year mission (hopefully looking at a new E in tube) recharged and confident WHY they are out there seems to be point of movie
In beginning they are worn out wondering why they are out there in first place
Kirk talks w Starfleet bigwig who says in trailer it's easy to get lost etc.
Kirk.n crew save day and along the way remember/get reinvigorated to the mission
They've managed to do a pretty good job maintaining secrecy about what actually happens at the end of the movie. Let's not complain about a lack of spoilers! All will be revealed in a couple of weeks....
So the Franklin is a pre-ENT ship. Interesting. Hopefully we will see the appropriate submarine-style feel.
Has anyone spotted this yet? The cut-out of the Franklin includes a "Motorcycle" label. Is this tongue-in-cheek or a spoiler?
So the Franklin is a pre-ENT ship. Interesting. Hopefully we will see the appropriate submarine-style feel.
Has anyone spotted this yet? The cut-out of the Franklin includes a "Motorcycle" label. Is this tongue-in-cheek or a spoiler?
Complaining about a lack of spoilers is 01 of the things I've been noted for for the past 08 years.
The trailers have shown Kirk on a motorcycle. Now we know it's something he got from the Franklin.
Sure it would, no autopilot means you have to stay at the helm too long to make it to a normal escape pod/shuttle. but it doesn't mean you have to stay until the actual crash. Obviously, the Bridge pod was named after the Kelvin because it's designed to be a solution to the Kelvin scenario. If the Kelvin had had one George Kirk would have survived.
One wonders though, Prime Universe ships did have escape pods attached to the bridge. Since they had no Kelvin incident, what motivated them to add this feature?
To be honest, I hate the Star Trek depiction of a swarm of small lifeboats, ever since it was introduced in "First Contact". It makes no sense.
Real-life lifeboats on exploring ships, oil-drilling-plattforms and even the Antarctic station are usual very small, but are capable to carry 20+ persons. Makes much more sense to built only a few(!) lifeboats for all(!) crew members, than the need to have space, equipment and maintenance for hundreds(!) small one-person starships that are built to hopefully never be used...
The last time "lifeboats" were resalistically depicted in Star Trek was, you know, in the pilot episode of Deep Space nine, when Sisko and Jake were evacuated from the USS Saratoga...
Real-life lifeboats on exploring ships, oil-drilling-plattforms and even the Antarctic station are usual very small, but are capable to carry 20+ persons. Makes much more sense to built only a few(!) lifeboats for all(!) crew members, than the need to have space, equipment and maintenance for hundreds(!) small one-person starships that are built to hopefully never be used...
The last time "lifeboats" were resalistically depicted in Star Trek was, you know, in the pilot episode of Deep Space nine, when Sisko and Jake were evacuated from the USS Saratoga...
I've seen it said that First Contact style escape pods can hold 12 people, 8 for an extended time and that they can dock together to form a interconnected structure. I don't know if that's info from the production crew or fan supposition. In either case I can say with certainty that the First Contact style pods carry more than one person, one person pods seem to be an Abramsverse thing.
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