Nor is "smaller" or "old-fashioned" or "traditional."
Another new footage report at AICN
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Nor is "smaller" or "old-fashioned" or "traditional."
True. Pike would have been an Academy cadet in the 2230s or early '40s at the absolute latest based on his supposed/conjectural age in the original TOS episodes where he appears. Kirk took the test around 2254. By that time Pike was already in command of the Enterprise and had been for at least two or three years.
Dennis, is it necessary to assume that I want more of the half-assed VFX we've been getting since the 80's because of that one comment?
Christ, even when I agree with you...
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Look at the forum, Dennis. Look at the forum. 
Pike may no more be taking the test than Spock, Sulu, and McCoy were in TWOK.
As Devon pointed out, the real question would be why we'd be seeing shots from outside the ships. Easy answer. Could be what the instructors are seeing in some control room. Simple [convoluted] logic.
Actually, who know's what's going on from this report? I'm still amazed by how inconsistent the description was. There's no indication models were made for the movie, but the guy has a debate going now over whether what he saw was all CGI or models, too.
-- He gives detailed descriptions of the nature of the phasers, photon torpedoes, warping, the cargo ships, and such, but nothing about what any person looked like or what they were wearing (wouldn't this guy have recognized the actors?).
-- He assumes it's a bridge full of cadets. Why? Were they wearing uniforms like in the spy photos?
-- What did the baddie look like?
-- And while he said the Yorktown looked a lot like TOS style ships, what the hell did the Enterprise look like? That's the million dollar question. If it even was the Enterprise. If it isn't the no-win test, my guess, posted before, is it may be the Kelvin.
The person taking the test always plays the captain.
A few things sounded fishy to me. I wouldn't be surprised if this is false... I just hope the bit about the incredible weapons is true. That's all. I can do without orange Planet Express ships and trapezoidal freighters hauling cargo pods with tractor beams.
Yellow/orange phaser beams can go to hell, too. I wouldn't want them to feel left out.
Yellow/orange phaser beams can go to hell, too. I wouldn't want them to feel left out.
IIRC, the KM test we saw in TWOK saw a cadet in the centre seat, a cadet at coms and a few others at other back-stations, while Sulu was at helm, Spock, McCoy and Uhura were hanging around at the back...
ST-One
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The article is quite right in some regards, but that there was an 'overuse' of CGI in Titanic is patently untrue; each and every shot of the ship was created by either using the the 1:1.something replica or various minatures.
ST-One
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You are right, it wouldn't.
But then the Enterprise-E never did.
From an observer's point of view the ships zap around pretty fast considering impulse-speed.
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