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Which do you prefer?

Which version of the USS Enterpise NCC 1701 do you prefer?

  • Original Enterprise

    Votes: 40 26.5%
  • Refit Enterprise

    Votes: 85 56.3%
  • New Rebooted Enterprise

    Votes: 26 17.2%

  • Total voters
    151
  • Poll closed .
If the original NCC-1701 were completely decanonized from the TREK canon and lore and had the past two years' worth of Remastered TOS episodes not shown a simply more three-dimensional, detailed and dynamic version of the original Jefferies design I'd say the new movie ship fits extremely well into the starship lineages. But since the TOS Enterprise is still considered official and a pop culture icon there are problems.
 
There have always been problems of that sort. Trek fans have been doing mental gymnastics for years attempting to make them all fit. This merely presents a new thought exercise, does it not?
 
Well when I saw the refit as a child I thought it was real! :rommie: I think mainly because the special effects were using models and not CGI. I guess the new movie is going back to that so it might win me over.
I'm pretty sure it's not. ILM don't even have a model department anymore.
 
There have always been problems of that sort. Trek fans have been doing mental gymnastics for years attempting to make them all fit. This merely presents a new thought exercise, does it not?
The 79 episodes of TOS are actually the works of a 23 century holovid company who didn't have permission to use an old decommisioned Connie so they made a set with what little budget he had. The chronicle the life of the most famous Starfleet captain ever James T. Kirk and have been used at Starfleet academy for years as a docudrama on the mans life with some historical inaccuracies because certain information has been kept top secret. The new movie ship is what the Enterprise really looked like..

How's that.... Nah that's kinda lame.
 
How's that.... Nah that's kinda lame.
Actually, if we just remaster the last scene of Newhart, we can show Bob Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette watching Star Trek in bed, and the whole thing would've been in their reality! :) Maybe have Bob (who, thankfully, is still alive :)), shoot a new angle, saying something like, "William Shatner? T.J. Hooker in space? R-r-right ... "
 
Well when I saw the refit as a child I thought it was real! :rommie: I think mainly because the special effects were using models and not CGI. I guess the new movie is going back to that so it might win me over.
I'm pretty sure it's not. ILM don't even have a model department anymore.

ILM's old model shop guys (kerner optical) do tons of work for ILM, and they have been mentioned as doing work for STAR TREK in addition to most other ILM shows.
 
And you've spent the better part of 2 days telling us all how 'uninterested' you are. :lol:

What, it is so much better to be quiet about stuff you don't like? Maybe you'd've stood by and let them pass an amendment so Bush the Second could have pretended to be prez for ANOTHER 8 years!

You do know Dubya still has time to envoke MARTIAL LAW!!!

Sadly, not an HOUR goes by that this doesn't cross my mind ... though it is more pleasant than last month, where I kept imagining that Palin woman doing the Martin Sheen bit from DEAD ZONE (put your finger on that button or I'll cut it off and put it there myself!)
 
There have always been problems of that sort. Trek fans have been doing mental gymnastics for years attempting to make them all fit. This merely presents a new thought exercise, does it not?

More like the straw that broke the camel's back.

Kirk's middle initial can be worked around. His convoluted service record can be tweaked and fiddled with to something reasonable.

The frat boy humor passing for history and a horribly misshapen ship with an Apple iStore for a bridge? No, there's no way to reconcile that with the established record. We're either looking at a major reset button ending or total reboot, either one of which is an insult to my intelligence and a complete waste of my time.

AND ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING TIME TRAVEL!! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE STAR TREK, NOT DOCTOR WHO!!
 
Well when I saw the refit as a child I thought it was real! :rommie: I think mainly because the special effects were using models and not CGI. I guess the new movie is going back to that so it might win me over.
I'm pretty sure it's not. ILM don't even have a model department anymore.

ILM's old model shop guys (kerner optical) do tons of work for ILM, and they have been mentioned as doing work for STAR TREK in addition to most other ILM shows.

Yeah I've never been convinced by CGI, models all the way for me!
 
I'll have to go with the Refit, for now. I'm really liking the new design, but I just haven't seen enough of it yet to say it's my favorite.
 
^ Nope, it's Karl Urban's McCoy mirrored. :p
Yeah, I'd thought at first that it was Chekov mirrored, but I spent a minute looking back and forth between your av and the original image, comparing the posture and the creases in the uniform fabric and worked out that it was McCoy, recolored and repositioned.
Oh, I just noticed that I wrote something that is incorrect: I did not mirror the McCoy image. I merely removed Sulu and Scotty from the background and inserted different pieces of the viewscreen (and Uhura's Starfleet delta). Who can guess where the image of Bruce Greenwood's head is from?

Love the avatar.
Thank you, guys. :)
 
You need further examination!

Naturally - or are you still talking about the XI Enterprise? :lol:

The first pic I saw of the refit Enterprise was in a model magazine and there, it just looked totally deformed (For one thing the the nacelles were pointed slightly downwards, and the front of the saucer section pointing somewhat upwards. When I saw that, I thought they'd butchered it, but when I saw a decent pic, that's when it became my favourite)

Well when I saw the refit as a child I thought it was real! :rommie: I think mainly because the special effects were using models and not CGI. I guess the new movie is going back to that so it might win me over.

No, Star Trek uses CG-models (since ILM went all digital some time ago).
 
Naturally - or are you still talking about the XI Enterprise? :lol:

The first pic I saw of the refit Enterprise was in a model magazine and there, it just looked totally deformed (For one thing the the nacelles were pointed slightly downwards, and the front of the saucer section pointing somewhat upwards. When I saw that, I thought they'd butchered it, but when I saw a decent pic, that's when it became my favourite)

Well when I saw the refit as a child I thought it was real! :rommie: I think mainly because the special effects were using models and not CGI. I guess the new movie is going back to that so it might win me over.

No, Star Trek uses CG-models (since ILM went all digital some time ago).

See above, ILM continues to employee Kerner Optical, their former modelshop guys, on most projects (including ST.)
 
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