Enterpsie-D TMP-Style

[NiteTrek]

You are definitely not alone! I would have loved to see this. The Galaxy class is a beautiful design. Spending some time to cherish and acknowledge that beauty would have been great.

I have to disagree there. I always hated the Galaxy class. The saucer just seemed too large in proportion to the rest of the ship. Some of the shots of the ship, like the view from underneath just looked FUGLY as hell in my opinion.

 

[Kegg]

Andrew Probert is one of my favourite starship designers. Simply because of his resume: The TOS movie Enterprise, and the Enterprise-D. Just doesn't get any better than that for me - so to reiterate, yeah, the D is a beautiful ship in my book.

The Enterprise-E, though? Well, actually I like that too, but I'll take the D over it anyday.

 

[RyuRoots]

The flyby scene in TMP was annoying as hell, ... taking us aside for several minutes to say "HEY GUYS LOOK AT THE SHIP" is absolutely obnoxious.

You have to rembember at the time of TMP it was all about the Enterprise. During the rerun period in the 70's we fans felt the ship was as big a star as Shatner and Nimoy... we had blueprints, models, and magazines. It was the most realistic ship in sci-fi, so the "fly by" scene was a total gift to the early fandom since we only had 5 stock images from the tv show for all those years... I still love it.

Yeah, I always hear this, and I get it now just like I got it the first time I heard it. The scene is still annoying as hell to me, and it would be no matter what ship it was.

 

[STR]

Whilst a huge fly-by scene might have ruined the pace of the film, there was certainly room for a few beauty shots in Generations. I remember being very disappointed that our first view of the ship is from the rear as it moves about half way into the frame before cutting away.

Generations didn't have a pace to begin with. They went from probably the most action packed sequence in Trek history (the crash of the Enterprise-D) and follows it up with the glacial (and utterly wasted) Kirk/Picard Nexus scene. I can only imagine how the meeting was that thought that up.

BB "Okay, so we just blew up half the ship with a giant explosion, and the other half sliced a 50 mile gash across a planet. How do we top that?"
RB Have James T Kirk, the most concentrated pool of violent awesomeness since Hercules...
BB "Yeah! Yeah! I'm feeling it"
RB "...cook some eggs"
BB "Awesome! ####ing awesome! Let's have Picard annoy him while he's doing it!"

 

[Tom Riley]

Whilst a huge fly-by scene might have ruined the pace of the film, there was certainly room for a few beauty shots in Generations. I remember being very disappointed that our first view of the ship is from the rear as it moves about half way into the frame before cutting away.

Generations didn't have a pace to begin with. They went from probably the most action packed sequence in Trek history (the crash of the Enterprise-D) and follows it up with the glacial (and utterly wasted) Kirk/Picard Nexus scene. I can only imagine how the meeting was that thought that up.

BB "Okay, so we just blew up half the ship with a giant explosion, and the other half sliced a 50 mile gash across a planet. How do we top that?"
RB Have James T Kirk, the most concentrated pool of violent awesomeness since Hercules...
BB "Yeah! Yeah! I'm feeling it"
RB "...cook some eggs"
BB "Awesome! ####ing awesome! Let's have Picard annoy him while he's doing it!"

 

[BolianAuthor]

Well, I still would have loved to have seen a nice flyby scene of the ship, accompanied by some nice music.

As for the rest of GEN... I also feel that almost every FX shot of the ship could have been done better than it was, in terms of casual space scenes, because a lot of stock footage from TNG was used, and it showed. I would have loved to have seen more close-on shots of the ship, as it flew by, or held position near the Amargosa Observatory, etc, instead of distance shots.

And the ONE thing I will NEVER forgive the TNG movies for... never showing us the full awesomeness of a D'Deridex-Class Warbird, on the big screen.

 

[Bones2]

^
Well, for all we know, there were D'deridexes everywhere. Think about it. There might have been 10 of them sitting there at the Battle of Sector 001 while their commanders ate popcorn and made bets on the outcome.

 

[Yug]

The flyby scene in TMP was annoying as hell, ... taking us aside for several minutes to say "HEY GUYS LOOK AT THE SHIP" is absolutely obnoxious.

You have to rembember at the time of TMP it was all about the Enterprise. During the rerun period in the 70's we fans felt the ship was as big a star as Shatner and Nimoy... we had blueprints, models, and magazines. It was the most realistic ship in sci-fi, so the "fly by" scene was a total gift to the early fandom since we only had 5 stock images from the tv show for all those years... I still love it.

Yeah, I always hear this, and I get it now just like I got it the first time I heard it. The scene is still annoying as hell to me, and it would be no matter what ship it was.

Hear it again...
Rembember that at the time of TMP it was all about the Enterprise... we had blueprints, models, and magazines. The "fly by" scene was a total gift to the early fandom since we only had 5 stock images from the tv show for all those years... I STILL LOVE IT !!

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