Official Movie Site Dossier's...
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They turned up a week or so back, iirc. You may have seen a couple of the images turning up in avatars, and I believe some of the dossier images were also used in a set of trading cards which came out recently.
Edit:
I take that back. The trading card images are all different; none duplicate the dossier photos.
While nice, they've had the same 5 sitting up there for over a week now. At this late date, would be nice if they would start updating some of the remaining slots as well.
Looks like they have finally updated it adding 3 more "Dossiers"
Updated the Federation one looks amazing.
Hmm is it just me or does the space station on the Federation page look a lot like Franz Joseph's "Star Fleet Headquarters" from the old Tech Manual?
It looks close to it. The ships also look like they are out of the tech manual and/ or Starfleet Battles.
-Chris
No, that resemblance was pointed out before, following the station's appearance in the November trailer.
darkwing_duck1
Vice Admiral
Does anyone have decent size screencaps of the "dossiers"? I hate having to go through Macromedia H*ll on a dial-up...
All the dossiers so far...click to get bigger picture
Anyone else find it a little odd that while Kirk and Pike's place of origin are fairly specific (not down to a city, but at least narrowed down to a general geographic area), Uhura is just from "Africa"?
Africa is a giant damn continent. It's not even as specific as a nation, let alone a state or specific spot within that nation (as Kirk and Pike are privy to). If you're gonna be that vague about it, just leave it out like with some of the other characters (McCoy doesn't list his place of origin, though he does go to school in Mississippi. Maybe Uhura went to Africa College, too?). As it is, it's just... weird.
Africa is a giant damn continent. It's not even as specific as a nation, let alone a state or specific spot within that nation (as Kirk and Pike are privy to). If you're gonna be that vague about it, just leave it out like with some of the other characters (McCoy doesn't list his place of origin, though he does go to school in Mississippi. Maybe Uhura went to Africa College, too?). As it is, it's just... weird.
No, it's not odd. It took Classic Trek nearly 20 years to get around to specifics on where Kirk was born.
darkwing_duck1
Vice Admiral
Cheers! Many thanks!
All the dossiers so far...click to get bigger picture
Ta.
Like the Mojave reference, i love JJ at the moment.
I'll start finding it odd when they eventually get around to establishing some sort of full name for her. I hate Madonna syndrome myself the only possible exception would be for Spock and its indicated in ToS he does indeed have a family name (I don't understand how Amanda's remark lead anyone to think she was referring to a first name and not the surname) just not easy to say.
Sharr
Not to discount what you're saying -- Africa is huge, and an extremely diverse place for peoples, languages and cultures -- but I think they're going in the dossiers with what details had been established for the characters in previous TOS material, mostly on-screen.
For Kirk, Pike and McCoy, those places were mentioned on-screen (though McCoy's not until DS9) but there wasn't anything like that in the OS or movies for Uhura. She was apparently fluent or at least conversant in Swahili, suggesting east-central Africa; Blish and Roddenberry both identify her in novels as Bantu, which doesn't necessarily match, but for which plausible explanations could be found; the Star Trek writer's guide gave her a birthplace within the United States of Africa, yet the writer's guide for Star Trek II (written by Roddenberry and Povill) says it's the African Confederacy.
Apparently, the story in this movie doesn't call for her birthplace to be identified, so they left it vague. It's hard to know who made the call, but you're probably right that leaving it out altogether might have been a better bet.
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