Go Get Your Shotguns (Spoilers)

[Tamek]

So I browse a certain website, which shall remain nameless, and I've noticed a new article there about the set design of the interior of the new Enterprise (as if they dare call it that any more).

Apparely we're going to be treated to the old exterior, but they've dared to change the interiors. What were they thinking!

Everything obviously needs to be made out of cardboard and plywood, and have faux 60's decor, for this movie to have one single whit of credibility.

The set designer interviewed, Dawn Brown, who apparently JJ felt needed to turn the next Trek movie into another copy of the Seaquest DSV set, dared suggest that we might need to keep "an open mind".

I can't believe the nerve...and she even said she wanted to build that abomination of a set as a physical set for the actors in the next Trek movie, instead of using greenscreens!

They obviously don't care about the fans or making any kind of a profit with this movie. It's going to be seaquest in space.

I think if they cared one whit about the fans, they'd use footage from the original series Enterprise, and they'd just digitally impose, hell, even PHOTOSHOP the new "actors" onto it.

Actors indeed.

You can find more on the website that shall not be named (aka Trekmovie)

http://trekmovie.com/2008/01/08/set-designer-talks-about-new-enterprise/#more-1433

Thank you to them for this apt warning.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Re: Go Get Your Shotguns

I'm just going to boycott the movie now and read the article later.

It's the only way to be sure.

Or we could take off and nuke the site from orbit.

That's the other only way to be sure.

 

[ancient]

Re: Go Get Your Shotguns

I was planning on bringing my shotgun to the theater already. The first sign of disloyalty and I shoot out the projector.

Though I won't mind too much if they don't use the same wrinkled screens on the bridge as the original design had. Too much.

I better see some wood grain on the doors though.

Or else.

*sound of shell entering chamber*

 

[Sharr Khan]

Considering the interior of the Enterprise has rather consistently been none consistent with each new incarnation: Pike, Kirk, Movies - doesn't bug me much.

Though I do wonder what they mean by: "The exterior had to remain the same..." since saying that is actually less specific then a first glance would lead one to think.

Sharr

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Sharr Khan said:
Though I do wonder what they mean by: "The exterior had to remain the same..."

I thought the general rule with dirigibles -- or was it just the Zeppelin -- is that the ship remains the same. Not sure if that applies to starships.

 

[Cranston]

re: "The exterior had to remain the same...."

Well, I for one am relieved at the implication that the exterior shots will consist of actual 14' model shots, including nacelles with blinking Christmas lights in them.

We really dodged a bullet there.

And hopefully they'll preserve the rectangular matte lines, possibly even creating them digitally. Now *that's* a use for CGI that I can really get behind!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Well, I've never expected any different.

Interesting that she said that the exterior of the Enterprise "had to stay the same." To paraphrase a great American President, I imagine that "depends on what the definition of 'the same' is."

 

[archeryguy1701]

The way I translated the "The exterior had to remain the same...." comment was that she thought the exteriors were going to be the primary thing the we would get into an uproar about. I could have mis-read it, but that's what I got out of it.

 

[StarMan]

The same obviously means a saucer, two nacelles and an engineering section - not a literal copy of the 60's model (thank god!).

StarMan - looking forward to the freak out. :thumbsup:

 

[misskim86]

I hope they don't make the interior cheezy like in the 60s, people will laugh

 

[StarMan]

^Don't worry. Everything said by those involved (esp. these latest comments) indicates they haven't.

 

[Superman]

Cranston said:

re: "The exterior had to remain the same...."

Well, I for one am relieved at the implication that the exterior shots will consist of actual 14' model shots, including nacelles with blinking Christmas lights in them.

We really dodged a bullet there.

And hopefully they'll preserve the rectangular matte lines, possibly even creating them digitally. Now *that's* a use for CGI that I can really get behind!

\S/

 

[Professor Moriarty]

The rest of you can do whatever you want to do. Me, I'm wearing a raincoat to the premiere to protect my clothing from all the exploding heads of Trekkies.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Professor Moriarty said:
The rest of you can do whatever you want to do. Me, I'm wearing a raincoat to the premiere to protect my clothing from all the exploding heads of Trekkies.

"Gallagher Presents Star Trek!"

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

93% of us are going to geek out and love the new sets the second we see them, no matter how different they are.

 

[Jon1701]

Interiors - different.
Exteriors - Not that different.

Pretty much exactly what I'm hoping for. From that article it seems to suggest that's what we are getting.

Personally, outside of a saucer, a neck, an engineering section and two nacelles on struts - I really don't care. The detail doesn't matter that much.

Oh, but the nacelles need to vector.

 

[Woulfe]

^ Victor Von Fankenstine ? ^

What does that have to do with anything ?

* smirks *

 

[ancient]

It's funny how people try to read "the same" to mean "altered".

Very interesting...

 

[Flake]

ARGH, will we see the bowling alley or not? that's all I want to know!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

What's with this newfangled shotgun talk? Something wrong with the old school approach? (Torches and pitchforks.)