Reveal: New transporter design!
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Sorry, my eyes rolled and they got stuck in the back of my head a moment.
Also, they felt the audience would have a tough time identifying with most of the main characters on an emotional level.
Even if that's the case, how does the above, decreases the accuracy of the sentence below exactly?
I know this probably isn't the case, but looking at the picture makes me wonder if the circles behind them emit an image of their destination, and they are processed by the transporter system as they step through? An alien "transporter portal" tech, like a primitive version of the Iconian gateways, that Starfleet experimented with but ultimately abandoned, perhaps for reasons we'll get to see.
Don't challenge me to prove you wrong - I'm already thinking of ways that you could.
It's just not how I had read the story but I lack the book at the moment to verify it at the moment. The timeline is a bit mixed on when their development was, and whether they used GR's pitch to craft Lost In Space the way that they did. GR certainly believed so.
In which case I imagine Irving Block, Allen Adler, Cyril Hume and Fred M. Wilcox might have a word to say to Roddenberry about that. And William Shakespeare might want to have a word with them in turn.
Maybe they have to dive through, Jerry O'Connell style.
They could start to spin, then open while a ring of water starts circulating around it. At the bottom of the openings are Wham-O Slip N Slides, enabling them to get to the planet's surface!
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I wasn't a Trek fan aged..well...less than five, and even I knew the TMP Enterprise was the TOS Enterprise when I saw it painted on a cool mural in London. It looked a bit wrong and I couldn't place why...now I know it's because I hadn't yet seen anything of the TMP enterprise, and wasn't so familiar with the original to notice the nacelles, stanchions, and domes were different. So I have to disagree...the less of Trek fan the person is, assuming they have ever seen the TOS Enterprise, would easily assume it's the same ship. Especially with it having the same name and Kirk on board (as he was for anyone watching the film and not seeing a rather cool mural.)
To the average person, they just know it's either Enterprise or "the spaceship from Star Trek". Even some T Shirts and other merchandise have mixed things up, having TOS crew with the TMP-refit Enterprise for the graphics.
To most of the public, it's interchangeable. They know what it is, but could care less about the nacelles, pylons, interconnecting dorsal, saucer, etc.
William Shakespeare needs to sue everybodyIn which case I imagine Irving Block, Allen Adler, Cyril Hume and Fred M. Wilcox might have a word to say to Roddenberry about that. And William Shakespeare might want to have a word with them in turn.
You just made my point. You knew it was wrong. You knew it was not the same class, you thought it was supposed to be thst ship but somone messed up.
You knew it was the ship from startrek, but not the ship from star trek.
Erm. But I knew it was the same ship. Even parked next to the giant baby from 2001. As a toddler.
No, you knew it was kinda that ship from that one show. You stated you knew it was not correct.
I knew it was the enterprise, I thought it looked a bit wrong, (I assumed initially the artist had painted it wrong.) but knew it was the enterprise, from Star Trek. Yes, I couldn't tell you it was a refit constitution class, or enterprise class, or refit cruiser, or whatever we called it in the heady days of New Romanticism and Falklands Wars, but I knew it was the starship enterprise. Same as in my dads book at home (The Making Of Star Trek) but something was different. (Basically, to my young eyes, it was like looking at a gold key illustration.) Years later, I know it's a very good rendering of the TMP enterprise.
I tried finding it on google, but no such luck...it was probably painted between 79 and 81, as it also featured the Tom Baker Doctor and I think Leela or Sarah, walking out of the Tardis next to k9....I can't see them still using the Baker Doctor after 81, because Davison was popular off the bat.
This here is the point. The think you keep trying to move away from and was my whole damned point. Even as a child, you knew it was wrong.
William Shakespeare needs to sue everybody
And Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus and Aristophanes need to sue him but that's another rant for another day!
I am confused as to your point then...I still knew it was the enterprise. I did not assume it wasn't because it was 'wrong' . It still read, visually, as the enterprise.
You knew it was from the TV show, but you knew it was wrong. You spotted it as not the same class, even if you did not understand any of that. You would have likely though any knock off of the same basic shape as "The enterprise" or meant to be "The enterprise". It is a rather well known pop cultural design.
But I knew it was the same ship...so how can I have decided it was not the same class? I knew it was the enterprise..had I know ships had classes, well, I would have assumed it was that class....because I thought it was the same ship no?
I was already a bit familiar with things having changes in design and whatnot, my dad was a model maker of boats and planes, and I was on my second doctor, second Tardis Console...why would I assume this thing that looked like the enterprise was not the same enterprise? There was only one enterprise at this point after all.
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