Amazing Beyond graphics

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Awesome graphics from Star Trek Beyond by G Creative, including a close-up of Balthazar Edison's service record (which wasn't meant to be seen up close, but is really cool nonetheless. Note "Freedom class" USS Franklin, a mention of Scotty, incorrect dates and registry number)

 

Great name for the class.

The database is from the Enterprise.

Some people remember seeing the registry number NCC-7317 when the film was in the theater. Now, it can be confirmed that this was not their imagination. It did appear.

 

I'm thinking the graphics people were working from an earlier draft of the script. I just noticed the station is called Yosamite and not Yorktown!

 

There were a number of graphics created for Yorktown which did not make an appearance in the film.

 

That's unfortunate.

 

These are great, but I still like the Federation UI designs from ST 2009 and STID better. These look older than the previous movies, such as not using a futuristic font like the PCAP font.

 

These graphics are from the system of a long-lost ship, not a current vessel. But seriously, going to Kaypro II monochrome green isn't very clever.

 

The Franklin user interfaces should have been kept consistent with the design styles established for ENT.

 

Also, trying to look at that web page just clobbers relatively older machines and browsers...but that's not relevant to the discussion.

 

I'm talking about the Enterprise Federation UI.

 

You wrote "These are great, but I still like the Federation UI designs from ST 2009 and STID better. These look older than the previous movies, such as not using a futuristic font like the PCAP font."

So you like the ST09 and STID graphics better than the Franklin ones, is that your point?

 

I hope they didn't use that spelling.

 

Yes, but I wasn't speaking of the Franklin in the first place.

 

Although I get that it shouldn't be clever, I *loved* the retro 80's green graphics on the Franklin. It would have driven me nuts if they'd done it on a TV series, but a one-off where we spend probably 40 minutes on board total, I liked it.

My bad, "Yosemite". And I guess it may be the same of a town or arm within Yorktown? The same graphics refer to "Andorian environs" which goes back to an unrealized concept that each arm of Yorktown would represent a different Federation race.

Talking of bad spelling, I did spot "readyness" on some of the Enterprise graphics (which all use the ST'09/ID version of the ship).

 

Yeah, I agree that the ENT overall design might be seen as "leading directly into TOS" in terms of the colors and squares and whatnot, in which case the Franklin graphics would be a bump in the middle of that road.

But there's a gap of a century between ENT and TOS, and thus plenty of room for different display approaches in between. We know that every other span of a century features evolution of displays in random directions, rather than any sort of staying power for specific elements or colors or philosophies. Having the UFP ditch the ENT format and do something completely different for a while sounds natural and looks good. And heck, they're doing something else altogether in the 2230s, so that the Kelvin is its own thing and evolves into that blue-on-transparent for at least two different takes on the 2250s...

Timo Saloniemi

 

I think the Starfleet UI font choices for Movies XI and XII were not geared towards legibility. Particularly this one:

https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/changeling-neo

 

Yeah, but in terms of movie use it "looks cooler" than the Beyond typeface.

 

trekcore tweeted that the graphics were fixed (at least the franklin registry number) for the blu ray release. justin lin's commentary track mentions the blu ray is the final version of the film and features tweaks not present in the theatrical, so sounds legit.

 

Pretty cool.

Beyond is definately the best looking movie out of the 3 rebooted films.