Probably the same way the cast of the original series didn't get epileptic seizures from all the blinking lights on their set.
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I'm not quite old enough to have seen the Excelsior when it was first introduced in STIII but the design has always been a favor of mine. True, it has bad angles and ILM seemed to use more of them than they should have particularly in STIII, it was one of the first model kits I ever assembled and I became quite fond of viewing it from different angles as a kid so I know that there are good angles to be found there. Personal fondness aside, I think the design carries a nice balance of grace and power and is strongly evocative of the original Enterprise. I think a lot of the negativity, beyond the people who just didn't like the way it looked, came from, as others have suggested, the way it was set up to look like a failure in STIII.
Probably the same way the cast of the original series didn't get epileptic seizures from all the blinking lights on their set.
Onb the excelsior the entire walls were coverd with them and there was about 200 more.
You actually counted?
^ Gotta have something to do between movies... (Just kidding, Phoenix!)
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(Just kidding, Phoenix!)Cheers,
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The Excelsior is okay, but it kind of looks like a person with a very slight neck wearing a turtleneck sweater.
Come now, we are trek fans!
Come now, we are trek fans!
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trevanian
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Doesn't that sum up the pre-ds9 TNGverse?
Except for Riker... He subscribed to the "Kirk theory on inter-species relations" and ignored the whole "fraternization between officers" rules.
I don't think the public would've reacted all that differently, some hard core fans may not have liked it, but that wouldn't last. However a year after The Voyage Home was released we would get The Next Generation, and a new Enterprise - I think that is when fans (and people in general, I suppose) got used to the idea of there being a new design and such. I suppose some people just wanted Kirk and Co. in familiar surroundings or something. But when TNG aired we found out there were two other Enterprises before the D came into service - so then the speculation began as to what class of starships they were, and I think fans eventually started enjoying the fact there were different Enterprises.
Ummm... I always thought in Riker's case it was more WHO he was "on", not WHEN.
At least, as far as TNG went...
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He did a lot of Kirking around...
Sometimes he even had to go to the holodeck to Kirk off.
trevanian
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I recall many fans calling it "the pregnant guppy".
