Enterprise Bridge Console - discuss!
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I don't think we are going to agree on this one. As I stated above, TOS was a rich tapestry of many things. People didnt just tune in for the stories and characters - they tuned in for a variety of reasons.
Frankly, it was a story about a bunch of guys (and gals - in short skirts
) flying around in outer space, seeing what was new. It was exciting. It was something they didn't see every week. There was a lot of stuff in there. Of course it wasn't just about the technology. I never said that. But as a kid (and I first saw TOS about 3 years old), I remember being amazed by the spaceships. As I grew up, I was fascinated by them. There were pictures all over my wall. The Doomsday Machine was (and is) one of my favourite episodes. I loved watching those starships get blown up 
As for the aliens - they were scarey. the Horta! The Horta scared the shit out of me as a kid. When the Kelvans crushed that pretty young ensign into dust I nearly cried. Star Trek worked on many levels. Many levels.
You can't just attribute highbrow sensibilities to it. Star Trek was more than that. It was a space action adventure show. In living colour. Kirk had a fight with some green lizard in the sand, and one time he met some space hippies.
Yarmek... Horta... Cloud Creature... Gorn... Metrons... Tholians... M113 Creature... Several Killer Computers... Oh yeah they definately looked and acted decidedly human :-S
That's fine.
Far be it from me to re-write your childhood 'memories'.I loved watching those starships get blown up
Please, don't remind me.Kirk... met some space hippies.
Can we please just put Archer and tribbles in the film, and not talk about space hippies too much?
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There were no Alien Aliens in TOS!!!! Must follow THE CANON tm!!!! 
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Well, that would be telling wouldn't it. And a still tongue does make for a happy life!
True.
Late '60s opticals only allowed for so much flexibility. Even huge-budget space movies like 2001 could only do so much with the spacecraft shooting models and remember, this was before the revolutions in moving/motorized camera shooting and bluescreens for effects and models achieved by George Lucas and his people during the first STAR WARS.
Id say half and half.
Well, folks...we have to remember something here.
Abrams is trying to bring a more realistic look to this movie than what the original TOS had.
TOS was a product of the '60s. And the idea of sci-fi tech was not much more advanced, at least in terms of control panels, than not much better than what NASA had at the time.
Here we are just 40 years later and we've more more hi-tech equipment in our cars than what the TOS Enterprise did...control panel-wise again. I mean we have touch screen GPS devices and what not...so why not think forward enough and make this 23rd centruy craft at least look like it's actually a product of that era rather than try to retro-fit it to make it look like Phase II of the '70s.
Abrams is trying to bring a more realistic look to this movie than what the original TOS had.
TOS was a product of the '60s. And the idea of sci-fi tech was not much more advanced, at least in terms of control panels, than not much better than what NASA had at the time.
Here we are just 40 years later and we've more more hi-tech equipment in our cars than what the TOS Enterprise did...control panel-wise again. I mean we have touch screen GPS devices and what not...so why not think forward enough and make this 23rd centruy craft at least look like it's actually a product of that era rather than try to retro-fit it to make it look like Phase II of the '70s.
Okudagrams an touchscreens will always take a backseat to gumdrop and jewel controls on TREK consoles. There's a lot to be said for three-dimensional, blinking buttons and toggles that look like physical controls.
just been 2 toyfair,bridge playset on view there,faithful layout to trek canon,champagne coloured metal finish around consoles,and view screen in front as always.transporter room slightly different but retro,costumes almost exactly like st tos,kirk in jumpsuit,and also space suit
Wolfe's point is quite appropriate.Aragorn said:
Apple laptop computers are very Romulan though.
Everyone's assuming that because we see A CONSOLE, that it's an ENTERPRISE BRIDGE CONSOLE.
Maybe this is the console Kirk uses to reprogram the Kobayashi Maru. Maybe it's the console of a Romulan ship. Maybe it's the condiments counter at the 23rd-century McDonalds!
It just doesn't show ANYTHING that makes me think "Enterprise bridge." Not in terms of the shape, the size, the appearance of functionality, or the fact that there's a transparency with stuff behind it. If that IS on the bridge, this bridge is NOTHING like the bridge we've seen before.
My money is on "Starfleet Academy Computer Facility Console."
^ It's not an assumption. It was stately quite clearly and repeatedly that the cast and crew were answering the questions from the bridge set during the filming of the last scenes of the movie. Heck, the caption under the photo reads, "JJ Abrams takes a station on the bridge of the Enterprise to chat with fans."
It is the bridge of the Enterprise but its clearly hasn't finished being built. Way too early to be saying "this bridge is nothing like we remember"
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