My first thought is not speakers, but rather George Pal's The Time Machine. Different!
I like it! Weird and thus awesome.
Plus - body armour!
Reveal: New transporter design!
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The only true time machine of course.
Agreed. Lasers was not used as it would not function the way GR wanted in the story, and those pistols were never seen again. The idea of a phaser was one that allowed more flexibility in writing, much in the way "plasma weapons" have become in contemporary science fiction.
Unfortunate that the game didn't fair better. I liked see the variety of uniforms.Also, does that armour remind anyone else of the ill-fated 2013 Star Trek videogame?
That was exactly my first thought, too. "Oh, look, they can beam through space *and time*!"
Frankly I was amazed that it took 6 pages before someone mentioned that. It was the first thing I thought of! As far as the picture....at first I was like "What...the...fuck...!" But then after giving it a good look, I decided that it's actually pretty cool. Now someone said that it didn't match previous transporters, specifically citing Ent and it's look. One of the things that annoyed me about Ent, was that the control console being much smaller than the one in Star Trek and TNG made it feel too advanced for such a piece of machinery.
What I like about the transporter in this pic is that it actually feels like a more primitive piece of equipment. Larger, bulkier, and less refined. Not just a miniature version of the transporter in Star Trek as it was in Ent.
What bothers me more then the spinning thing, are the crooked yellow squares that look like a 3 year old cut them out.
I realize that is intentional in a Hundertwasser straight lines must be avoided at all cost sort of way, but I just hate the look.
All in all I can see this as being a pre-TOS Transporter room, less as being a post-Enterprise Transporter room. To be fair I do think the Transporter is something that Enterprise depicted as to advanced. Someone here wrote that an Enterprise era Transporter should have looked like one is stepping into a particle accelerator. I agree.
By the way, are those black things floor mats?
I guess it really could be that the Transporter room was damaged as some here have suggested.
I realize that is intentional in a Hundertwasser straight lines must be avoided at all cost sort of way, but I just hate the look.
All in all I can see this as being a pre-TOS Transporter room, less as being a post-Enterprise Transporter room. To be fair I do think the Transporter is something that Enterprise depicted as to advanced. Someone here wrote that an Enterprise era Transporter should have looked like one is stepping into a particle accelerator. I agree.
By the way, are those black things floor mats?
I guess it really could be that the Transporter room was damaged as some here have suggested.
This is your hope, not fact. The show is on a niche streaming service. It doesn't need huge ratings, but despite that, it's paid for for 2 seasons already. Don't hyperventilate now..
Phaser is a fine name...real world phasers phase different things. In Trek, the phaser phases energy....it's an energy weapon. Real world use of the same word doesn't negate it in the way Lasers did. Laser was too specific. Is Laser even used in the Menagerie (only bit of the cage that is actually canon after all.)
They look like two huge exhaust fans.
If this were a steampunk transporter, those fans would suck the bits of the transport stream off the pads, divert them into ducts, then eject them down to the planet, where they somehow reassemble themselves..
If this were a steampunk transporter, those fans would suck the bits of the transport stream off the pads, divert them into ducts, then eject them down to the planet, where they somehow reassemble themselves..
It's time for Left-Tenant Lara Croft to go phaser down some Klingons in the Tomb of Kahless I say. Then back home for tea with Holo-Winston....
I like the new design. I also really like how they're creating different looks for the show. The two main ships are from different eras and they're going out of there way to make that visually obvious. That should provide for a cool sense of history within the show to the era before it takes place. So far, I'm happy with everything that I've seen!
Fortunately it doesn't look like crap then!
I've become only more excited based on everything I've seen.
I don't like it. But I I love the body armour and holsters.
My thoughts exactly! It's actually quite retro, but not in the way anyone would expect for Trek. Although I agree that the close-up of the crooked black squares really makes the set design look cheap and unfinished. I personally like straight lines and don't understand the aversion to them.
The phaser pistol holsters look a little too 21st century tactical. I always liked the simplicity of TOS Velcro to attach things to the belt line.
I would watch that over and over again. Or, could be a video game. Either way, I'm sold.
On topic, the back panel might just be the guts of the transporter that is usually hidden behind panels and what not. The decorative paneling won't be in until Tuesday.
I think this transporter looks weird. Haven't decided if I like it or not, but if the transporter is your "deal breaker" for watching or not watching your not much of a fan anyway.
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