You'll note that I said "poorly thought out" rather than "old," though the TOS props are in many cases both.
First photo of phaser prop...for real this time.
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You'll note that I said "poorly thought out" rather than "old," though the TOS props are in many cases both.
You're misunderstanding my point.
I'm not saying that I, personally, think that the audience is dumb. I don't. I think that the audience actually doesn't NEED the "spinning barrels" thing to tell that the phaser has been adjusted.
What I'm saying is more about the prop-designers and the production staff than it is about the audience. I see this as yet another example of something I've seen too much of so far re: this film... "looking down" on the audience.
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Well just about everything in this movie, as production design go sucks,so it is know surprise to me that they came up with something so ugly for the phaser/laser or what ever they are going to call it in the film! It matches the new Enterprise "UGLY"
Well just about everything in this movie, as production design go sucks,so it is know surprise to me that they came up with something so ugly for the phaser/laser or what ever they are going to call it in the film! It matches the new Enterprise "UGLY"
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Nothing in this film approaches being as ugly as the Sovereign-class Enterprise, though. Most of it, in fact, looks pretty good.
Nothing in this film approaches being as ugly as the Sovereign-class Enterprise, though. Most of it, in fact, looks pretty good.
This ... isn't too bad. I agree the grip needs work, and parts of it are a tiny bit overwrought, but I can live with it. I'm sure the Federation has plenty of variations on phaser pistol design, and this is just one of many.
I'm still waiting for the perfect phaser, though. One that looks real, badass, and still looks like a product of the TOS generation.
I'm still waiting for the perfect phaser, though. One that looks real, badass, and still looks like a product of the TOS generation.
Phaser looks good. 
Apparently you prefer the shallow and mindless (look at the shiny things!) to the intelligent and well thought out.
Trek isn't supposed to be about things looking flashy. It's supposed to be about well done stories that please both the mind and the heart.
Even the people who don't care about visual aspects being changed say this.
Or it could be more like what he said.
It's a scifi movie, not a docudrama. It needs to be fun, it needs to be
entertaining, and seeing cool things is part of that. We're watching a
show featuring aliens and spaceships, phasers and warp drive.
These are the things that carry all that drone and drama and have made it
palpable starting in TOS. That's what's always been cool about Trek, making
the drama and tales exciting by being in a cool, optimistic future setting.
Let's bring the fun back, bring on the kewl flashy spinning barreled Phaser guns!
Except for the metal grip, I love it.
Fuck you Dennis.
Fuck you Dennis.
Meh.
Still looks like a Galaxy Quest reject, only one that's been in a closet for the past ten years.
Still looks like a Galaxy Quest reject, only one that's been in a closet for the past ten years.
And considering Galaxy Quest was a great film made by people who clearly knew and loved Star Trek, I still fail to see why this (purported) GQ resemblance is a bad thing.
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Galaxy Quest is a great movie, so I'd see this as a compliment.
Ain't that the truth, it's better made and and acted than most of the proper trek films!
I like it, it reminds me of the phaser pistol from STIIITSFS.....
Something can't look "badass" and look like TOS at the same time. The TOS-based movies, maybe. But TOS design itself was very consciously "futuristic" in 1950s/1960s terms, virtually the antithesis of badass.
Yeah, the whole point of TOS was that it was bright and friendly looking. The closest to badass it got phaser-wise was the tiny black phaser. Which was only scarey-ish because it was a tiny black box that could disintigrate things.
I know TFF gets a lot of flak, but design-wise it made some of the best sense Trek has EVER made. Black phasers that looked like actual weapons. Redshirts who wear boots and khaki combat gear on the sand planet, rather than black and red.
A bridge that looked clean and futuristic, but still like TOS.
Anyway, this movie is far from my 'ideal look' for a Trek movie, but it still looks bright and flashy, and like a modern TOS, so I can't complain too much.
OR CAN I? Dun dun dUUUn.
...no. Not yet....
I know TFF gets a lot of flak, but design-wise it made some of the best sense Trek has EVER made. Black phasers that looked like actual weapons. Redshirts who wear boots and khaki combat gear on the sand planet, rather than black and red.
A bridge that looked clean and futuristic, but still like TOS.Anyway, this movie is far from my 'ideal look' for a Trek movie, but it still looks bright and flashy, and like a modern TOS, so I can't complain too much.
OR CAN I? Dun dun dUUUn.
...no. Not yet....
TFF had the best bridge in the movies. Meyer came in with TUC and fucked it up trying to make it look more like something from "The Hunt For Red October."
I like it, it reminds me of the phaser pistol from STIIITSFS.....
I always loved the TSFS Phaser. It's always stuck me as something that Jefferies would have made or approved for a Trek movie if he had been part of the art department.
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