Starfleet Academy spy photos at AICN

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Well, I've seen it. It's been in AutoMags and such. As I said, I really think they'd have made at least a passing effort to change it. It is pretty distinct, so those of us who have seen or read about it would instantly recognize it. So I still think they'll do some Digital alterations or replacement, or keep it in the background only.

I suppose one could use the same argument with regards to the building being used. There are many people who will recognize the Oviatt Library even if it is digitally altered slightly....And for that matter, Vasquez Rocks.

I personally don't have a problem with this car being used as-is or almost as-is.

Right -- just like the Commodore PET on the desk in Kirk's apartment in TWOK...

http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/01/babypet.jpg
.

I wonder if that cassestte drive (Commodore called it a "Datassette") is compatible with those colorful "tapes" on which they stored information in TOS.

 

[Cary L. Brown]

That car is not contemporary. It's an antique. Get your heads into the future, people.

So THAT'S how Spock can say "I know of your fondness for antiques" in ST-II!

 

[Bill Morris]

It's a 23rd-century PET scanner, made by Commodore and retrostyled to look like their antique computer. It has all the funtionality of a medical tricorder and more--at a fraction of the price, not to mention given away free to famous starship captains as a publicity ploy.

 

[webb3201]

Hmm....you can immediately spot a major difference between a major motion picture and a fan produced film. All of the extras in skirts are fit!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Come on, Kirk had an apartment full of antiques. The PET was just a curiosity.

 

[elric428]

No aliens in the academy?

 

[Michael]

No aliens in the academy?

Two pages back:

I saw two aliens, both from the rear, both in cadet uniforms. Both aliens were full-head prosthetics, one a mottled gray (another person at the university who saw the set itself thought the coloring was blue-gray: I was watching the extras in pretty heavy shade, he was looking at them out in full afternoon sunlight). The head was shaped like a duck-billed dinosaur, with a tapered skull.

The second alien was pink/flesh-colored, with an enlarged cranium and two smaller "craniums" coming out the sides.

 

[SPOCKED]

Kirk obviously snarfed the PET from Commodore Decker...

"Matt used it often for quick course and speed corrections, but not anymore."

 

[Corran Horn]

Come on, Kirk had an apartment full of antiques. The PET was just a curiosity.

Agreed.

 

[Opus]

Well, I've seen it. It's been in AutoMags and such. As I said, I really think they'd have made at least a passing effort to change it. It is pretty distinct, so those of us who have seen or read about it would instantly recognize it.

You mean like what they did to the Ford Probes in Back to the Future Part II?

 

[sbk1234]

Two thoughts: First, Cool. I went to Starfleet Academy!

and

Second, Damn!! They were filming Star Trek just 5 minutes from my house and I fucking missed it?!?!?

Cool shots, though.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

This always bugged me, even in the early '80s -- I assumed (and still assume) that it was used as an easy background prop because Kirk would certainly have a computer in his home (in a situation analogous to what we're talking about here with the Aptera), but it looked dated even to me at the time. Of course, now I just rationalize it as part of Kirk's antique collection....

That looked dated in 1982? Not the PET itself but placed as it is in a tiny part of the background.



And where are the manskirts?

The comment about the Burger King training cracked me up. The gray uniforms look like ROTC students. Yeah, yeah, I know it's just a couple of pictures but that's all we have to comment on right now but they seem frumpier than I'd expect.

 

[Cranston]

This always bugged me, even in the early '80s -- I assumed (and still assume) that it was used as an easy background prop because Kirk would certainly have a computer in his home (in a situation analogous to what we're talking about here with the Aptera), but it looked dated even to me at the time. Of course, now I just rationalize it as part of Kirk's antique collection....

That looked dated in 1982? Not the PET itself but placed as it is in a tiny part of the background.

Yes - at least in stills from the film (I'm thinking about that big Cinefantastique TWOK/Blade Runner double issue), and in the early years of home video (early/mid-80s) when I watched the movie over and over and over and over, and noticed such things. The effect was similar to seeing your neighbor's car in the background -- or of seeing Kirk putting my parents' Samsonite suitcase on the transporter pad in "This Side of Paradise."

Obsessive fanboy nitpicking is in no way a recent phenomenon .

 

[M'Sharak]

It may also have been a sly wink at the fact that Shatner did a TV commercial or two for the PET when it was new.

Interesting point -- I hadn't thought of that. I think I assumed that Shatner's shilling for Commodore postdated the movie, but I'm not sure why.

That's pretty funny, actually. Good point. Product placement!

The first PET came out in 1977, but there was a later version which was marketed using magazine ads featuring Shatner and one of those life-size cardboard stand-ups of him for store displays. He was also a TV spokesman for the VIC-20 before TWoK came out.

 

[AJBlue98]

The grass was greener when Boothby was in charge.

Don't you mean, "the grass will be greener when Boothby is in charge?"

Gosh, I love sci-fi. You get all the fun and headaches of time travel with none of the peril!

 

[AJBlue98]

http://www.aintitcool.com/images2007/TrekSetBig3.JPG

Nice light pole banner.

Hmmm... I guess they've abandoned the unique Starship symbols of TOS in favor of the Delta representing Starfleet like the later movies/series.

It's possible, but don't forget that Enterprise established that the Delta Shield was the Starfleet insignia for 100 years before Kirk's time. You can see the 22nd century Starfleet logo here.

I posed over at the StarTrekMovie.com forums that while every other ship in the fleet got to pick its own mission insignia, the Enterprise, as she was the flagship, had been assigned the fleet insignia for her mission insignia. Sometime after TOS, then, Starfleet had changed the uniforms so that all Starfleet personnel wore the fleet insignia instead of their mission patches.

 

[AJBlue98]

^ Yeah, that's what I thought, too. I'm also curious about those marks on the pillars.

A thousand bucks says that they're just there for the CGI guys to motion sync the digital extensions.

Or it would, were I a betting person.

 

[AJBlue98]

^^^ I got a look at that antenna thing (sans antenna) the next day when they were breaking down the sets. It's apparently set dressing obscuring an electrical switching box. I didn't touch it, but another poster noted it was wood. I noticed only two small decals on it, one a non-LCARS interface "screen", the other "SFA 122.8". . . .

Now that you remind me of it, I'm going to be looking for corridor tubing to be labelled "GNDN" in this movie, as a nod to TOS' producers. . . .

 

[M'Sharak]

The grass was greener when Boothby was in charge.

Don't you mean, "the grass will be greener when Boothby is in charge?"

Gosh, I love sci-fi. You get all the fun and headaches of time travel with none of the peril!

http://www.aintitcool.com/images2007/TrekSetBig3.JPG

Nice light pole banner.

Hmmm... I guess they've abandoned the unique Starship symbols of TOS in favor of the Delta representing Starfleet like the later movies/series.

It's possible, but don't forget that Enterprise established that the Delta Shield was the Starfleet insignia for 100 years before Kirk's time. You can see the 22nd century Starfleet logo here.

I posed over at the StarTrekMovie.com forums that while every other ship in the fleet got to pick its own mission insignia, the Enterprise, as she was the flagship, had been assigned the fleet insignia for her mission insignia. Sometime after TOS, then, Starfleet had changed the uniforms so that all Starfleet personnel wore the fleet insignia instead of their mission patches.

^ Yeah, that's what I thought, too. I'm also curious about those marks on the pillars.

A thousand bucks says that they're just there for the CGI guys to motion sync the digital extensions.

Or it would, were I a betting person.

^^^ I got a look at that antenna thing (sans antenna) the next day when they were breaking down the sets. It's apparently set dressing obscuring an electrical switching box. I didn't touch it, but another poster noted it was wood. I noticed only two small decals on it, one a non-LCARS interface "screen", the other "SFA 122.8". . . .

Now that you remind me of it, I'm going to be looking for corridor tubing to be labelled "GNDN" in this movie, as a nod to TOS' producers. . . .

No bet on the CGI-sync question.

Do let me refer you, however, to the "Multi-Quote" button, which is a nifty feature that will (wioll haven be?) allow you to to quote and respond to several posts in a single reply, thus avoiding that pesky "more than two consecutive replies in a thread may be considered Spamming" issue.

 

[misskim86]

Looks like the Imperial Academy at Coruscant