Delta Vega = Dharma Station?

[ztiworoh]

Ok - loved the movie - JJ Abrams does it yet again! That said - as a LOST fan, I couldn't help but think that the Federation station where they picked up Scotty looked freakishly like one of the Dharma Initiative stations, especially similar to the medical station shown a few times in the show. Anyone agree?

Also - it almost looked like one of the monitors in the station was running Windows XP.

 

[Eddie Roth]

Yes! I thought the same thing. That greenish corridor with the fluorescent lights... Totally like that Dharma Station...

 

[LiChiu]

Interesting how delta vega was right next to vulcan.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Yes! I thought the same thing. That greenish corridor with the fluorescent lights... Totally like that Dharma Station...

And being a DHARMA station it has to be manned by a lonely mad Scotsman pushing buttons every 108 minutes or so.

 

[Michael]

Yes! I thought the same thing. That greenish corridor with the fluorescent lights... Totally like that Dharma Station...

And being a DHARMA station it has to be manned by a lonely mad Scotsman pushing buttons every 108 minutes or so.

Ha, great! I totally missed that similarity. I don't think it was on purpose, though. But I would have loved to see a DHARMA logo somewhere in the background.

 

[Brent]

Wouldn't that be cool if there is an easter egg here, like the DI logo somewhere? hehe

Yeah, I kinda got that feeling slightly. If it had been underground that would have sold it as a DI station hehe.

I'll loook at the monitors more closely, I'm giong to see the movie again tonight for the 3rd time.

 

[Capn Flukie]

I thought that it looked like the med station too, esp the entrance and corridor.

 

[Meredith]

Interesting how delta vega was right next to vulcan.

The star it orbits decided to vist the Vulcan system.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Most interesting.

Maybe we can put forth some interesting theories over in the LOST forum as to what, exactly, this means.

Surely it means SOMETHING!!!

 

[Trippy]

I thought that it looked like the med station too, esp the entrance and corridor.

It did! Yes, a Dharma logo easter egg would be a hoot!

 

[Capn Flukie]

Part of the score near the end of the flim sounded just like the 'on a journey' theme from Lost, listen to the end of 'Follow the Leader' when they head out to Jacob and you'll see.

 

[T'Paul]

If it was that close to Vulcan, wouldn't it fall into the black hole Nero created?

 

[T'Paul]

Part of the score near the end of the flim sounded just like the 'on a journey' theme from Lost, listen to the end of 'Follow the Leader' when they head out to Jacob and you'll see.

Totally right, I noticed that too. It fit well but was distracting as hell.

 

[Psion]

If it was that close to Vulcan, wouldn't it fall into the black hole Nero created?

Nah ... Vulcan should still have roughly the same mass as it did when it was a planet, so if Delta Vega orbits it or orbits a mutual center of gravity (or T'Khut), things should go on the same way for a while.

Might that shot of Vulcan from Delta Vega been metaphorical, instead of literal? A view for the audience of Spock's perception of billions of Vulcan minds crying out at once as they're dying. Delta Vega could easily have been light-years away.

 

[Capn Flukie]

^ it was a mind-meld after all.

 

[Eddie Roth]

It would be a great question for Orci and Kurtzman about Vulcan and Delta Vega. But given the mind-meld nature of the scenes, it might just as well have been an illustration of Spock feeling Vulcan perish like the Intreprid Vulcans in The Immunity Syndrome.

 

[Green Shirt]

Might that shot of Vulcan from Delta Vega been metaphorical, instead of literal? A view for the audience of Spock's perception of billions of Vulcan minds crying out at once as they're dying. Delta Vega could easily have been light-years away.

That's the way I saw it, epecially if it is the same Delta Vega that's supposed to be the one near the galaxy's edge.

 

[npsf3000]

As I have stated before, there is planet in the Vulcan system that orbits so bloody close to Vulcan that it appears as a large moon for part of the year.

This is where Spock was dropped. This is where kirk is put.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Yes! I thought the same thing. That greenish corridor with the fluorescent lights... Totally like that Dharma Station...

And being a DHARMA station it has to be manned by a lonely mad Scotsman pushing buttons every 108 minutes or so.

Ha, great! I totally missed that similarity.

And "Our Mutual Friend" was played by Deep Roy.

 

[SalvorHardin]

It would be a great question for Orci and Kurtzman about Vulcan and Delta Vega.

The only comment I've seen from the writers on the Delta Vega issue is this :

For the Trek fans, this film includes many little references. For example you have Kirk dropped off on the planet Delta Vega, which was seen in second Star Trek pilot. It is a cool reference, but didn’t you also fudge canon by ignoring that Delta Vega was way out next to the galactic barrier.


Orci: True. Yeah we did. We moved the planet to suit our purposes. The familiarity of the name seemed more important as an Easter egg, than a new name with no importance.