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There's brilliance already flashing from your work-in-progress, @SCE2Aux, and it's thrilling to watch. Most of what you've integrated into your design are refinements that I could imagine being incorporated into an evolved refit configuration, say on the NX-02 or "NCC-02." But there's one big...

It's been a long road, you might say, getting from the day I wrote a review of the premiere episode of "Enterprise" for this very BBS, to here. To give you an idea of just how vast that distance is, allow me first to cite a few paragraphs from that first Trek BBS review, September 27, 2001...

Scott, I am gob-smacked by how elegant this is! I don't know if too many modelers have considered before, what if we applied a finish to the ship that looks more like polished marble than satiny dolphin skin or rusted steel? The psychological effect it gives the viewer is that this vessel is...

I'm not so sure it's as think as you separate it is, to paraphrase Red Skelton. People who want to learn a craft need some kind of inspiring framework to give them a leg up. CBS and Paramount are saying to amateur craftspeople, you can't use episodic Star Trek as a framework, because if you...

If I may be permitted to disagree with my long-time friend, Maurice, with whom I spent many a day and night during those magnificent times of 1200-baud connections and character-based games where the =E= was the hero and the >K< was the villain: As you may recall (or may not, it's been so long...

My understanding is: a license is a grant of privileges over a specified time under terms that are usually standardized and is revoked following a legal process in the event of a breach, whereas a permission is an understanding that applies to a specific case only and that can be revoked at will.

My suggestion here involves CBS and Paramount's implementation of these guidelines. Let's try to be as fair as we can to the proper copyright holders of the Star Trek franchise. Let's suppose that the guidelines spell out the circumstances in which an amateur, unlicensed production is...

Good. It doesn't need to spoil anything. All this promo needed to do was legitimize the news that the show is coming, and reinforce that it's Star Trek and not "someone else's idea of a space party starring people in Star Trek uniforms." It did that, and I'm pleased. DF "Now, If Only CBS...

Here's some more info about WCKT, which now uses different call letters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSVN It was very common in these days for the stars of U.S. network shows to do little 15-second promos, all of which conclude with the name of the location station but which don't show the...

I like this way, way better than the "Santa Clause" version of warp ascent used in "Into Darkness." You can't look at that version without thinking, where are the reindeer? DF "'Mr. Sulu, on Dasher, on Dancer...' 'On Dasher, On Dancer, Aye, Sir'" Scott

A few things I haven't heard said yet about Nimoy, the man: One of the key reasons we all are here commenting and grieving, and a few of us arguing, in a forum devoted to one of the thousands of TV series produced in the 20th century, is not just because this actor played this role so very...

Wow, @KTJ! What a fantastic piece. Folks, if you ever want to know how Leonard Nimoy understood the soul of the Spock character while he was portraying him, read this incredible, real response to fan mail from 1968.

In many people's lives, a fictional character comes along who gives them the will to live. My time was age 8. My parents had split, my legal custody had shifted, and I was in the care of people I didn't know and who didn't know me. I was genuinely alone. Spock became my hero. Leonard Nimoy...

If I may, some suggestions: I think you'll find that, even with the X-Men posters your style is based on, the artist took some liberties with smoothing details between the two actors' faces that would otherwise be glaringly obvious. Chris Pine looks enough like Shatner to be able to take over...

I'd like to go back to Bry Sinclair's original question: If the order on the table is, "Reboot TOS," how would I prefer it be done? I can tell you what I had hoped for (as opposed to "expected") before the 2009 movie was released. The preview posters, with the blue and gold shirts and the...

Uh-oh... this one's cool, too. You have to admit, you can see the Paramount merchandising executives taking advantage of this one. You could picture it as a toy by itself, or in a special release of the Barclay action figure. "Power Mad Barclay!" You can see the ad on Saturday morning TV...

Stunning, Albertese! Flat-out phenomenal. Boy, am I proud of this one! She's a ship that tells a different story. I'm imagining a scene where Kirk's seated as his desk with the little vault behind him, arguing in favor of some daring course of action to McCoy, and this ship is behind Kirk's...

Well keep in mind, Albertese, that the "Trek aesthetic" to which you refer was drilled into our heads over the first three seasons, though there's plenty of evidence to suggest that it hadn't yet gelled until then. (Case in point: the rocket fire behind the ship as depicted on the "Star Trek 1"...

I absolutely adore this, Albertese! I love that you're giving yourself challenging constraints, like staying within the '60s design motif and sticking with ingredients the show's prop designers would have had at the time. (Hey, they made the Constellation out of an AMT kit, so no, you're not...

Not really, because you wouldn't expect to see the Gym Dandy set as a prop that Paramount would have used in a movie or one of the shows. (Although these days, I wouldn't put anything past Roberto Orci. Maybe it could happen.) Sure, that's a collectible, and in an historian's view, adorable...