New Enterprise Toy Revealed
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Oh, of course - but since you post your opinions as flatfooted, unqualified declarative statements, why do you protest when others do the exact same thing?
Blue is the best color.
Oh, of course - but since you post your opinions as flatfooted, unqualified declarative statements, why do you protest when others do the exact same thing?
Blue is the best color.
Wrong! Everyone knows that red is the best.
Not an inch to the East, not an inch to the west.
Oh, of course - but since you post your opinions as flatfooted, unqualified declarative statements, why do you protest when others do the exact same thing?
Blue is the best color.
Wrong! Everyone knows that red is the best.
Not an inch to the East, not an inch to the west.
Actually, it's green.
But your opinion is outnumbered, and will very likely find itself beaten and missing it's lunch money.
Actually, I tend to agree with him this time around. The props/sets look pretty weak. (The toy versions, anyway.)
I still plan to see the movie, though, and I suspect I will enjoy it.
My enjoyment of the film is not likely to turn on the design of the props.
And this just means that I'll have some extra cash to spend on something else at this year's Comic-Con.
Comic-Con toys, feh!
Watchmen toys, double-feh!
I can buy six Sparky Ray Guns for the cost of a single Abrams phaser! You effete twenty-first century noobs cannot win this arms race!
Muwahaha!
Oh, yeah?!? Well, I can buy six apples for the cost of a single apple!
Wait a second...
No, it's not. 
trevanian
Rear Admiral
Well, when it stops sparking, you can stab somebody in the throat with the exposed metal trigger, so it is probably more useful than the trek guns.
I am excluding the wondrous ST 5 phaser, which even w/o a powerpack looks deadly. You can beat somebody to death with the heavy metal weapon, or, if you want to use it on 'stun,' you can catch their pointed ear in its cocking action.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
The funny thing with the bridge is how those window/wall things might get in the way if a crewmember needed to see the viewscreen from one of the stations around the bridge.
Also, didn't they put window/wall things like that on the Enterprise-D bridge in Future Imperfect?
Also, didn't they put window/wall things like that on the Enterprise-D bridge in Future Imperfect?
Yeah, but you know one of the reasonable questions about the basic design of "Star Trek" bridges is: why would every crewperson at every station be expected to be looking at a big movie screen for information relevant to their function?
The whole "main viewer" thing is more of a distraction than a useful feature (in-story. Obviously, it provides a dramatic focus for the actors and audience). Yeah, it looks like NASA's Mission Control and that was probably a big part of the point. But beyond that - well, hell, if it is important for everyone at every station to watch TV instead of paying attention to their own instruments (which could feature video relays if it were important) then why in hell are they all seated with their backs to the thing?
The main viewer should be assumed to serve some important function for the three or four crewmembers who are facing it - the captain, the navigator and helmsman, and in Abrams's version the communications officer - and let everyone else get on with their work.
I always saw the main viewer as more for the captain's sake than anything. Uhura and Spock certainly didn't need it. I suppose Chekov and Sulu used it somewhat, though both explicitly used their own viewers at various points as well.
If anything the 'main screen' seems to be a more 'redundant' viewer, to pull in information from other stations so that the Captain can digest it more than anything.
If anything the 'main screen' seems to be a more 'redundant' viewer, to pull in information from other stations so that the Captain can digest it more than anything.
According to the toy descriptions, the window/wall is a data viewer. So it's not blocking the big screen, it's a more relevant big screen to the not command stations.
Makes sense.
This is odd...those rumors that there are two different versions of the Enterprise in the film might be true. Here's another view of a Playmates Enterprise:
(Click for larger.)
I think I actually like the first version better!
There's a whole gallery of new Trek stuff here.
So, I kinda skimmed through the thread and I apologize if I missed it if anyone else said it. I saw the suggestion that this is the equivalent of the Enterprise-E toy made for Star Trek: First Contact where they got early blueprints and the 'actual' design was subsequently changed...
BUT
What if this is the reset button staring at us, ladies and gents? What if this is the 'regular' pre-TOS 1701?
Also as we saw in Star Treks 5 & 6, whatever is on the main viewer can also be displayed at the individual stations through monitors so they wont need to necessarily turn around all the time to keep up.
I've been looking at the two different versions of the Nu-1701 and I'm quite interested in the differences between the two versions. I put them both in the same image below, and you are right Praetor! You can see there are quite a few differences between the two versions. Due to time travel? A Refit? To sell us more toys?
I don't know, but I'm hoping there will be something like this in the movie, rather than just a model made of a pre-production version of the new Enterprise.
I don't know, but I'm hoping there will be something like this in the movie, rather than just a model made of a pre-production version of the new Enterprise.
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