Never noticed details in the Kelvinverse films

[Timo]

Seems fairly obvious what the intent was: a big M plus two symbols with accompanying single-word text looks like a mass transit station providing access to two lines.

Since the M is in a speech bubble, though, and since the thing appears to have keyboards and monitors rather than stairs or escalators, the "lines" may be virtual rather than physical. Doesn't mean this mass to be transited would be "mere" data, though - this could be a transporter station for all we know. Surely the hardware on starships has more bells and whistles than what is really needed for rugged commuting? And the booth on Yorktown isn't much more elaborate than this, either.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'd suggest the M is for "Messaging", with the keyboards and screens for people to send audio, video or text messages if they're away from their phones (or whatever the 2259 equivalent is). Basically, a modern phone booth, and not unlike what you find at airports.

 

[Nebusj]

I'd suggest the M is for "Messaging", with the keyboards and screens for people to send audio, video or text messages if they're away from their phones (or whatever the 2259 equivalent is). Basically, a modern phone booth, and not unlike what you find at airports.

Clearly the 'M' is for Meme, and it's a booth for people who find themselves quickly needing to caption and share the activities of a neighborhood squirrel or star-raccoon or urbanized tribble or something like that.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

CNN still exists by 2258 https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/sept-2017-art-challenge-—-“tomorrows-news”.289770/#post-12158552

 

[F. King Daniel]

CNN still exists by 2258 https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/sept-2017-art-challenge-—-“tomorrows-news”.289770/#post-12158552

Not seeing it?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Click on the last image in the post above mine. It's above the words "surface of Galorndon Core".

 

[F. King Daniel]

Click on the last image in the post above mine. It's above the words "surface of Galorndon Core".

The news screen with the "Political Stalemate" headline? Maybe the logo is different here in England, or something, but I'm not seeing what makes it CNN?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Just below the "unrest on andoria prime" reporter, in another square

 

[F. King Daniel]

Just below the "unrest on andoria prime" reporter, in another square

Oh wow! I can't believe I never noticed that!! CNN reporting from the Enterprise's engineering section

 

[pst]

did you ever notice that in the beginning 09, spock's pants aren't tucked into his boots like they are the rest of the film?

i always took this as an artifact of the costumers' original intent to have some characters wear their boots over their pants and some under.

minor, but something i can never not see when i watch the movie.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Serious technical nerdiness here: According to the Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, Trek Prime photon torpedoes maxed out at 25 isotons, and quantum torpedoes topped out at 52.3 isoton yields.

Each of the long-range torpedoes the Enterprise was carrying in Into Darkness have a yield of 320 isotons, according to the USS Vengeance screen graphics when Khan beams the torpedoes over.

So even 100 years later, Trek Prime would be slaughtered by Kelvin Timeline weapons tech!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'd suggest the M is for "Messaging", with the keyboards and screens for people to send audio, video or text messages if they're away from their phones (or whatever the 2259 equivalent is). Basically, a modern phone booth, and not unlike what you find at airports.

Isn't that a public transit train pulling up right next to it? M could stand for Metro.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Isn't that a public transit train pulling up right next to it? M could stand for Metro.

I do see why it looks like a Metro symbol, but why is it in a speech bubble?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I don't think it looks like that. It's probably just flair.

And I also disagree that there would be public kiosks for people to send messages. Even today, people carry smartphones everywhere they go, and phone booths are all but extinct. If anything, people in the 23rd century would be even less likely to be separated from their 'appliances'.

 

[David cgc]

I do see why it looks like a Metro symbol, but why is it in a speech bubble?

I'm not sure if it's a speech bubble. It looks more like the outline tails off rather than closing, which could make sense for a Metro or Monorail or something, representing a circular line that plugs into a wider transit network.

 

[F. King Daniel]

And I also disagree that there would be public kiosks for people to send messages. Even today, people carry smartphones everywhere they go, and phone booths are all but extinct. If anything, people in the 23rd century would be even less likely to be separated from their 'appliances'.

How many phones do we see on civilians in Trek? IIRC, the closest we've ever seen is Khan and Spock running past what appears at first glance to be someone taking pictures of the USS Vengeance crash on their phone. Perhaps they're out of fashion in a world where internet access is free and plentiful?

I'm not sure if it's a speech bubble. It looks more like the outline tails off rather than closing, which could make sense for a Metro or Monorail or something, representing a circular line that plugs into a wider transit network.

I may be mistaken. But why have 3 terminals with keyboards for a metro stop? We suffice with one screen at bus stops today.

 

[David cgc]

I may be mistaken. But why have 3 terminals with keyboards for a metro stop? We suffice with one screen at bus stops today.

Ticketing?

 

[Tenacity]

My thought is that it's a transporter station (or rather three), civilian transporters being considered part of the metro system. Or it's private like taxi service.

The keyboard and screen are for entering your destination and payment.

 

[Timo]

Or then they are oddly shaped chairs for the long-legged?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Noticed this a while ago, but check out the sign to Chekov's right...it's pointing at someone who is indeed under a lot of pressure...