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*Potential Spoilers* What will the Alternate Enterprise-A look like

Yeah. It's just that without any specific reason, nobody ever monitors those frequencies anymore.
That any adversary this advanced could use them doesn't occur to them, until it bites them in the butt.
Maybe now it becomes standard procedure again.
 
Consider this: TOS was on air for 1022 days ((66-69) and this mission was on it's 966 day on deep space when kirk started doubting himself + days before the attack. So there were at least 54 days away from having TOS' duration!
 
Consider this: TOS was on air for 1022 days ((66-69) and this mission was on it's 966 day on deep space when kirk started doubting himself + days before the attack. So there were at least 54 days away from having TOS' duration!

Now they get to spend those next 54 days and more probably on Starbase Yorktown taking on Odd assignments waiting for the Enterprise-A to be finish building. (Which we are going to see in the Star Trek: Boldly Go comic that starts in October).
 
Maybe I'm unrealistic, but one of the very few disappointments that I had in the movie was that I was hoping the new Enterprise would be the classic or motion picture refit version. I was thinking It would be one more nod to the 50th anniversary

Yup, I was definitely hoping for the real "A", for sure. I know that originally the Kelvin was supposed to be a TOS Connie getting destroyed, but I can only imagine the fan uproar at the time if they had symbolically destroyed TOS to replace it with the new 'verse.

I personally don't see what is retro or old about the "A" at all - '79 or not, it is absolutely sleek and futuristic in my opinion. I don't see that it would be a "step back" visually at all.... redo the interiors, fine.... but the shell was just about perfect the way it was.
 
The deflector dish is definitely different. The nacelle shape is more or less similar yet different at the same time.. I do love the overall look of the entire ship. Can't wait to see it in the next movie!
 
I still cant believe they didn't at least do the movie I-VI nacelles. was totally expecting the A to look very similar to the old style movie Ent. when it was finally built I was 'uh? its the same as before?!' (then again that happened in 1986 so maybe that in itself is a homage :) )
 
I didn't notice any differences when I was watching the film. I'd hoped the ship would have had some big changes.
 
I was a little bit sad when the Ent was taking a massive beating, still felt like she was a *new* ship that had unfinished business.

I did have that warm fuzzy feeling when I saw the Ent-A being constructed, a very nice evolution of the Connie class.
 
I still cant believe they didn't at least do the movie I-VI nacelles. was totally expecting the A to look very similar to the old style movie Ent. when it was finally built I was 'uh? its the same as before?!' (then again that happened in 1986 so maybe that in itself is a homage :) )

Yeah, but this isn't the same era - in the Original Timeline Kirk hasn't even taken command of the TOS Enterprise yet.

Those flat nacelles didn't come about for another decade in the Original Timeline, and we don't know if they will now.
 
Those flat nacelles didn't come about for another decade in the Original Timeline, and we don't know if they will now.

The Vengeance had nacelles that were closer to the movie refit ones than the TOS cylindrical ones. Since Commodore Paris made the effort to point out that the most "technologically advanced" ship was currently under construction, you'd think they'd have inherited tech from Section 31 in the aftermath of STiD (e.g. "advanced warp capabilities").
 
The A looks roughly the same size with different styling so I dont think it's a new class, just a major revision of the design, perhaps incorporating some of the technology from the Vengeance.

The changes would have to be more visible to be a new class like the Excelsior.
 
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