U.S.S. Kelvin pic! (and more -- large images)
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Interesting. Looks like a single-nacelle-er. Definitley gives an idea of what the Enterprise will probably look like.
Looks like a deflector dish to me.
I hope it's not a single-nacelle ship! I hope it has two warp nacelles. I hope that eyeball is the deflector dish.
God, I hope a lot of things now that I'm seeing pictures of the movie! Like, I hope the story is decent! Because the visuals aren't completely pleasing to me...
You can see what looks like a bussard collector peeking out below the saucer.
I'm not convinced that's a bussard collector. Looks more golden to me, like the TOS Enterprise deflector dish. Which makes me wonder about the eyeball. Most likely the deflector dish, but I don't know.
I hope there are two nacelles, perhaps symmetric vertically, above and below the saucer. I hope.
Why does there have to be 2? We've seen ships with 1, 3, 4 and even no nacelles. As long as it is recongizable Starfleet, (which it is) why should the number of nacelles matter, besides Roddenberry being mad at whats-hi-face (Franz Joseph?).
Actually, it reminds me rather of the Mego Star Trek: TMP playset from years ago, just with a little more color: http://www.megomuseum.com/startrek/sttmp.html
The uniforms look pretty good as approximations of the series proper, though the rank stripes being silver is garish and, strangely enough, the solid stripe system and layered look/pronounced shoulder seams also remind me of the Mego interpretation of Trek: http://www.megomuseum.com/startrek/index.html
None of the actors so strongly resemble their original counterparts that I immediately feel simpatico--Pine, for instance, seems to have the shrunken head of a gymnast, and are his eyes blue on the EW cover?--but I think I can adjust. Too bad the Kelvin looks more like a prototype for the movies than anything from the original series. Bana looks tough and villainous.
Final grade" for interest? B-. It looks shiny and expensive but is a weird melding of 60s uniforms and 80s technology. I can understand now why Paramount was reluctant to release images sooner. I'll defer to seeing the images in action, though, because what looks odd in stills sometimes looks great in motion (and vice versa).
Well, I don't recall ever seeing a single-nacelle ship onscreen ever. I'd rather this movie stick to even-numbered nacelles on ships. Personal preference, given my understanding of "warp physics" in-universe. Frankly, it's not a deal breaker - I'll see the movie regardless - but I'd have to wonder how the single-nacelle manages to propel the ship without a neighboring nacelle to with which to interact and form an asymmetric field.
If we see a 1-nacelle ship onscreen, then the more secondary tech manual is overwritten in canon, since onscreen canon holds more authority.
Well, perhaps they're ignoring that technobabble altogether.
OMG!
Is that a fricking "blue warp nacelle"!?!
Somebody sombrerify this, STAT!OMG!
Well, yeah. I mean, I like the supplemental materials, but onscreen trumps all.
Of course, we would have to accept what we see in this movie as part of the overall canon and not a separate continuity. It remains to be seen where this movie will land in that regard.
Re: U.S.S. Kelvin pic!
it makes me think of some trendy nightclub bar and a bit of speed racer mixed in.
I'm sure were going to get a sylar/spock moment with that choke
That bridge is fuckin' fantastic! These are the types of shots I've been waiting to see.
it makes me think of some trendy nightclub bar and a bit of speed racer mixed in.
I'm sure were going to get a sylar/spock moment with that choke
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