I do like the Harry Mudd reference A LOT!
Enhanced TOS - anyone else really hate the swirling lollipop on the front nacelles?
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Hate it, no — but I admit I’ve always wondered what exactly was going on with the mechanism, especially with the later retcon that those were (perhaps among other things) Bussard collectors. Is the seemingly solid dome a sieve? And if it is, what are the internal “propeller blades” for?
I think that the nacelle caps are a sieve designed to allow hydrogen to be attracted by the the spinning impellers inside (using some form of charged field that emanates from them)
I think we were just supposed to see chaotic, random blasts of luminous energy in there. The broken mirror pieces, light bulbs, and rotation were meant to portray crazy power that could barely be contained.
When they got it built, It ended up that the rotation was visible on film, but I don't think that's what they were going for. The effect was still good, though, and the show had limited time and money. And I was captivated by the nacelle caps as a kid. It worked.
Not so lucky: the Companion lighting effect in the shuttlecraft ("Metamorphosis" teaser) wasn't meant to look like a spinning wheel of colored gels, but they went with what was ready when it was time to shoot.
I always thought that the swirling lights on the nacelles represented the matter/antimatter reaction inside the each nacelle. The M/AM reaction is steady state, so, it should NOT change based on the speed of the ship.
I put the Bussard Collectors as the black vents behind the front of the nacelle caps. At warp, these collectors are very important as they "scrap" the accumulated gas/dust particles off the front of the warp bubble (aka. the ship's windshield wipers
).
I put the Bussard Collectors as the black vents behind the front of the nacelle caps. At warp, these collectors are very important as they "scrap" the accumulated gas/dust particles off the front of the warp bubble (aka. the ship's windshield wipers
).I was upset when I started rewatching the episodes a few years ago, and found out they had been what I will call ‘tampered with.’
If I had somehow managed to be in charge of "enhancing" TOS I would have fixed some things in such a way that many might not even notice (mostly) to reflect "what could have been" if TOS had had a bit more time and money to finish things more fully. But the one overriding guideline I would have would be to maintain the original aesthetic and creative intent. There would be no effort to retcon or try to tie it in with later productions.
If Strange New Worlds is allowed, the nacelle caps open to allow gas inside.
Why wouldn't SNW be allowed, it is the adventures of the United Star Ship Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike.
Some fans draw hard lines between TOS and the spin-off shows.
Which I believe (honestly) is totally ludicrous. I may not like some of the "NuTrek" but the powers that be are claiming that it is part of canon (but supposedly Discovery might have been exiled to its own pocket universe like what has happened with the Abramsverse reboot movies, but I can't find anything to confirm it)
Discovery is prime universe canon, like it or not. But that's probably a topic for another subforum.
It's hard to say what we can learn about the TOS ship by studying the SNW ship. Maybe the TOS ship is a refit. Maybe the SNW ship is a reimagining. Either way they clearly have many differences.
Very.
SNW is spun off of DSC so they are banished to their own continuity and have nothing to say about TOS. They are reimaginings of that era so they’re their own thing.
Oh I'm mostly with you. That show was abominable.Gonna go with Not on that one.
The powers that be also had an SNW episode, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow", clearly show that the SNW timeline is altered when compared to the TOS timeline so the technology we see in SNW won't necessarily be the same as in TOS. (The same episode also implies that the timeline is constantly being altered as well, so nothing really can be consistent
)I do however like the idea of the nacelle nose cap opening or the grills behind the nose cap letting gas in to the nacelles.
That "fix" is about funky dates not tech.The powers that be also had an SNW episode, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow", clearly show that the SNW timeline is altered when compared to the TOS timeline so the technology we see in SNW won't necessarily be the same as in TOS. (The same episode also implies that the timeline is constantly being altered as well, so nothing really can be consistent
I do however like the idea of the nacelle nose cap opening or the grills behind the nose cap letting gas in to the nacelles.
That because it didn't happen.
A good while back now, I somehow arrived at a decision to treat DIS and SNW as a separate timeline. You won't believe how much easier my life has been since. While I watched and appreciated but never wildly cheered DIS, now I can watch and enjoy SNW without any concern that some random line just violated or made a mockery of canon.
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