maybe the AICN correspondent wasn't enough of a fan to know the difference between a nacelle and an engineering pod/secondary hull...
EW FullUSS Kelvin Picture
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That ship is fugly. And why is the registry NCC-0514? Wouldn't it make more sense to make it NCC-514? Jeez, that's a stupid registry number.
I don't know, sir. Both appear to be the same diameter. Could we be seeing one blue ramscoop and one red one?
They're essentially the same diameter, but the reddish one appears convex, while the blue device is either flat or concave.
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This blue thing has a concave shape... it is quite probably the deflector.
Maybe it's original registry was NCC-514, and Starfleet re-ordered its registry system to go to 4 digits in order to keep everything in line. Therefore the registry ended being NCC-0514....
Thats my reasoning. I don't care either way.
Little do you know that it's J.J. Abrams' ATM PIN number. Off to the bank I go...
It also happens to be the password to Abram's Yahoo account. Good thing I found it before 4Chan did.
I see nothing to indicate convexity on the lower ramscoop. That's not to say it isn't, just that we can't tell from this shot. Who knows? We might be getting concave ramscoops in this movie, which wouldn't be unthinkable considering what they're designed to do.
full shot of the Kelvin and another picture of sulu
Don't be a jeebus, Jeebus. In the pre-TOS and TOS Period, JJ and Orci are establishing that Naval Construction Contract Registry Numbers are four digits long.
Only during the decadent and touchy-feely 24th Century, when Captains are forced to have therapists sit on the Bridge next to them, does Starfleet's numeric system get completely out of hand. I can't account for the whole five digit thing for the USS TITAN, for example.
Hey, at least the ship has a deflector (or so it appears). Orci and Kurtzman made it a point to say that ships in their Starfleet still look like the ones we know and love -- saucer and nacelles. However, had they not included a deflector I seriously would've doubted their knowledge of how these ships actually work, as the deflector is obviously a key component to space travel in Trek, clearing things out of the ship's way.
I guess I care more about the fact that they actually have it, as compared to how it looks.
I guess I care more about the fact that they actually have it, as compared to how it looks.
Several ships in Trek, both alien and Federation, lack obvious deflectors.
The operative word there being "obvious."
The wide majority of Starfleet ships we've seen have clearly had a deflector of some sort. Those ships that haven't have been few and far between.
Again, exception to the rule. The vast majority did.
And if you're Orci and Kurtzman, I don't know why'd you go out of your way to make one of the film's main ships fit into that small minority. I mean, the NX-01 had a deflector... even the Defiant did, embedded in its nose. Smart money says one of the things on either side of the Kelvin is a deflector dish.
... and they didn't last long without them.
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