Do you like the *NEW* NCC-1701? Simple Yes or No.

[BenRoethig]

Thats just rude. Must we keep seeing that thing?

Yes! I'm hoping reality hits you smack between the eyes.

They really screwed up. Why, just look at the registry! It's backwards! I refuse to go see this film. Good-bye to all of you as I refuse to let them rape my childhood anymore.

That's a photo shop mirror image done to show what the ship would look like from the other side.

 

[Gepard]

That's a photo shop mirror image done to show what the ship would look like from the other side.

And T'Cal's comment was a joke.

















(I, uh, think. It's getting hard to tell.)

 

[dave_R_treker]

Overall its a great looking ship. Though I do have to say it does look too much like a cross between the TMP-VI and the Enterprise-C.
Now that they have changed the Enterprise in the new film, they're gonna have to go back to the old series again and change the look of the ship again.
Oh well, more money to be made with them releasing it on DVD.
What will that make three original series sets on DVD?

 

[Ghrakh]

 

[Tom Servo]

Overall its a great looking ship. Though I do have to say it does look too much like a cross between the TMP-VI and the Enterprise-C.
Now that they have changed the Enterprise in the new film, they're gonna have to go back to the old series again and change the look of the ship again.
Oh well, more money to be made with them releasing it on DVD.
What will that make three original series sets on DVD?

Oh god, imagine if that happened? THe TOS purists would freak. Just leave TOS as it is, its great as is.

 

[RAMA]

Yes! I'm hoping reality hits you smack between the eyes.

They really screwed up. Why, just look at the registry! It's backwards! I refuse to go see this film. Good-bye to all of you as I refuse to let them rape my childhood anymore.

That's a photo shop mirror image done to show what the ship would look like from the other side.

Yup

Ryan Church

I’m not going to get involved in the mud slinging, here, but needed to assure you guys and gals: we’ve built you a fine ship. To clarify: there’s a slight optical illusion occurring here, consequence of the “camera” angle. For Rick and others who worry the nacelles don’t have a clear line of sight over the disc — they, in fact, do. We were hardly working in a vacuum. I raided ILM reference photos like a madman. We were deferential to “inviolates” of Star Trek design vocabulary. Additionally, the profile here isn’t 100% representative, because, as you’ve noticed, the Bussards are dimmed. The true profile of the nacelles may or may not be revealed here, and that’s all I’ll say.

 

[Disco Bones]

Not crazy about it, pending more info/watching the film

 

[BillJ]

This would still be running 55-45 six months ago when no one had any idea what the ship even looked like.

I'm convinced of two things:

55% would vote yes even if J.J. Abrams had taken a runny dump and taken pictures.

45% would vote no even if the damned thing looked exactly like the original.

Everyone is so convinced that their opinion is right.

For me, it is close but no cigar. I'd have probably been happy if it had been the photoshopped version that had the saucer and nacelles moved forward.

 

[BillJ]

By the by...

I'm still not convinced that the original configuration wouldn't work. People say that it would be laughed off the screen. Why? It carries the same basic configuration as this beast. I think with some additional detailing it would have looked great.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Noob here.

I like it. Bit puzzled as to why some on here are noting it doesn't look like TOS Enterprise. Er it won't, it's from a movie made in 2008 . Its not 1968 anymore folks!

The design isn't dated simply because it was created 43 years ago. The effects and filming technology are dated, but the design is timeless. If it wasn't, someone would have changed it long ago instead of just adapting it. The refit version (Enterprise A style) was a gorgeous updating of the ship without adding pointless bits of architecture along the hull. It was simple, functional and really pretty.

Not for anything, but the original design could have been used and made to work with the addition of more surface detail. Images made for a TV series for small screen viewing are not good yardsticks to measure the design by. The CGI used to create the "Mirror Darkly" and the TOS-R effects were done quickly and for less money than a feature would get.

Eh, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter much to me. I'll get used to the new design like I will get used to the wacky bridge set, the new actors and so on. The film will stand and fall on the story and execution of same. But to say the original design is "out of date" simply because it was designed a generation ago is questionable. The design is perfect, it always was.

 

[Qonos]

Noob here.

I like it. Bit puzzled as to why some on here are noting it doesn't look like TOS Enterprise. Er it won't, it's from a movie made in 2008 . Its not 1968 anymore folks!

The design isn't dated simply because it was created 43 years ago. The effects and filming technology are dated, but the design is timeless. If it wasn't, someone would have changed it long ago instead of just adapting it. The refit version (Enterprise A style) was a gorgeous updating of the ship without adding pointless bits of architecture along the hull. It was simple, functional and really pretty.

Not for anything, but the original design could have been used and made to work with the addition of more surface detail. Images made for a TV series for small screen viewing are not good yardsticks to measure the design by. The CGI used to create the "Mirror Darkly" and the TOS-R effects were done quickly and for less money than a feature would get.

Eh, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter much to me. I'll get used to the new design like I will get used to the wacky bridge set, the new actors and so on. The film will stand and fall on the story and execution of same. But to say the original design is "out of date" simply because it was designed a generation ago is questionable. The design is perfect, it always was.

Actually it's been about 3-4 generations...You had the Hippie/Yuppies, the Baby Boomers, the X Gens and now we have Generation Y out there about to hit the work force. So this was designed in the Free love generation of the hippies that turned into yuppies, then you had the baby boomers who had tng ds9, then the Gen x's got Voy, and Ent.

Now I will say that maybe some designer could have made the old E work, but (and I'm done going on about the flaws I see in it's design) that's not the direction they took. I think the design we got from Abrams will work as long as it's consistent to all federation ships in the new movie. As long as there isn't one single ship that has a different design aesthetic in the film it should be fine. Now I know some fans here have their underwear in a bunch about this new Enterprise. They are calling it ugly and an abbhorration, but really is it? How does it not look like a Star Trek ship, other than that how does it not look like a Constitution class vessel? No body can answer that because It does look like a Constitution class vessel and as long as every Connie we see in this movie LOOKS like the Enterprise picture we saw the Design will work in the context of the film and Abram's vision. I just feel they took artistic liscence with the look which they are allowed to do.

 

[JuanBolio]

No, it does NOT look like the Enterprise, it looks like an uninformed attempt at doing a Star Trek ship.

THIS is the Enterprise...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/CaptApril/060831insider1popresized.jpg

One version of it.

THIS is the Batmobile:

...and yet, somehow, so is THIS:

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

Now I am over my initial shock I have voted yes.

It's different from what I expected and I am going to assume that as I am an old TOS fan that this can only be good for the future of Trek.

That is pretty much my reaction. The more I see it the more I like it. For some strange reason the reversed photo-shopped image looks better, IMO.

A number of people have said it looks like a cartoon or parody of the 60's original. It reminds me of the drawings at the start of the Mad TOS satire - but that isn't a bad thing, if you ask me.

I think it definitely looks like the outside of a ship that contains the bridge we saw in the earlier photos.

So I voted YES.

 

[starburst]

Actually it's been about 3-4 generations...You had the Hippie/Yuppies, the Baby Boomers, the X Gens and now we have Generation Y out there about to hit the work force. So this was designed in the Free love generation of the hippies that turned into yuppies, then you had the baby boomers who had tng ds9, then the Gen x's got Voy, and Ent.

DS9, Voy and Ent are more in Generation Y, Enterprise especially I was 17 when that came out...unless your refering to those later people who were born in the 90s so too young to appreciate it

 

[Vonstadt]

I voted no, too much like a blend of the Ent-C with the Motion Pic Ent.

However I am waiting to see the film before i go all Dooooooooom!

I love Classic Trek and am slow to new things but who knows maybe this one will grow on me.

I refuse to show contempt prior to investigation! I need to see how she handles in the film before I go "Oh no's! That isnt the E! "

Different time, different look.

We will see

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

I voted yes.
There are some minor things I'm wondering about.
Like if this design would look slightly better if the secondary hull was moved back a little, the bussards were lit and the deflector lights red instead of blue...
Is there a photoshop-wizz here who could "adjust" the colors of the bussards and the deflector?

 

[Admiral2]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mach5]

I absolutely hate the nacelles, but I'll get used to them (voted YES)

 

[Therin of Andor]

It looks how I imagined it would. Love the nacelle caps! (Ha! Didn't see the previous post until I posted!)

 

[THE CHEBB]

Re: Do you like the *NEW* NCC-1701? Simple Yes or No.
...yeah so far.