Re: The bridge shots
I liked the Pike bridge from The Cage, always have done. Especially the way that the large screens were done in a way that made them look like large flat screens with different elements displayed, kind of like a multi tasking screen on a home computer these days. Prime example of multi tasking by watching a movie while surfing the net while burning a disc etc. Then to be replaced by static pictures that just looked, well, crap. But the budget slashed them.
Anyway, back on topic, we know it is the Enterprise bridge but WHAT enterprise bridge. Could be Pikes, Kirks or pre-TMP refit or ANYTHING. All we have to go on is a four digit number telling us its the Enterprise. All things point to it being the Enterprise, it probably is and were reading way too far into things, but were not Trek fans we dont do that now are we.
Im loving The Chair. not too sure on the rest of it still though. But the chair is cool, i decent re-design idea that doesnt look gaudy or crappy.
Maybe he isn't in mourning. Now that I read these articles, it look more like Kirk is still officially a cadet - all the others having achieved at least junior officer status. The Kobayashi Maru stunt held him back, maybe.
Kirk as a cadet, I can't buy. Kirk as a post-graduate Command School student, that's possible. I just don't think the crew is
fresh out of the Academy. I can accept that they're at a point before WNMHGB, but not just out of the Academy.
Even if it is a reboot, they're clearly keeping some aspects from TOS, so I can't imagine why the story would need the entire command crew to be from the same Academy class. It just doesn't make sense to me.
I see rank braids on McCoy's sleeves, and Scotty and Sulu's, too. It looks like McCoy has the 1 1/2 braids of a lieutenant commander, and that Sulu has the single braid of a lieutenant. If they're all fresh out of the Academy, they'd all be no-stripe ensigns.
It doesn't fully make sense to me either, yet I can't think of any other logical explanation since it seems that Kirk is of lesser status than the rest of the crew, and we know the academy and the Kobayashi Maru are involved.
Doesnt make sense to me either.
As said earlier, it could be the undershirt, which is highly likely.
Or Kirk has at this this stage lost or ruined his over shirt hence maybe the bandage, so to quote the 'perfectly cast and acted Alan Rickman ' from Galaxy Quest; To Taggart: "I see you finally got your shirt off."
Or, this could be a still from the end or near the end of the movie.
Also, if it is from a 'present timeline' perspective, and if they are all in uniform but Kirk is in cadet uniform, all are different ages, McCoy, Spock and Scott being the eldest and Chekov being youngest, they cannot be in the same academy class. Or, he could be a future/past/alternate present Kirk, we just dont know, so as time travel is used, my opinions on sets/ships/costumes and scenarios are, to be fair...
WIDE OPEN AT THIS TIME.
