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[gastrof]

Re: AICN report from four days ago...the bridge (spoilers)

Because it's supposed to be the same continuity...

They are not "Re-making" TOS.

They are making a film that is supposed to be in the spirit of TOS, with the familiar TOS characters having the same personality traits they did in TOS, and abiding by the same major historical facts as the rest of the Star Trek universe.

To me, that IS existing in the same continuity.


EDIT TO ADD:
If the "in-universe explanation" for TNG's touch screens and displays being more advanced-looking than TOS's gum-drop lights and toggle switches is because TNG was set 80 years in the future, then I would say that was a ridiculous explanation.

It looked different because it was a TV show made 20 years later -- that's all. If I accepted that "in universe explanation" as I described above, then I would have no way of accepting that TOS took place in OUR future.

Bottom line:
If the "look" of the controls is that important to continuity, then there is no logical "in universe" way to explain the differences in the look between TOS and TNG
However, I can easily accept the differences in the look as simply being a later-produced TV show, just as this Film is a later-produced entry into the Star Trek universe.

Nobody said they were remaking TOS. You're replying to something that was never said.

If they're NOT remaking it, then it must be the same. Therefore, you'd expect things to look the same.

As for changes in tech, if you look at telephones in 1960 and telephones today, they're quite different, and in this span it's only been 40 years. (Okay...nearly 50.)

Same with computers, TVs, wrist watches...

And you think an 80 year jump in time can't explain a change in types of control panels there'd be on a starship?

Oh please...

Hey, if Enterprise could show a TOS starship and have it come off as looking "right", it could be done in a movie.

Don't get yourself so upset.

The movie could easily have things look very much like the original, and be a big success.

I'd expect it to be.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

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^^When I wrote "they're not re-making TOS" I meant that they were not trying to make an exact copy of TOS. They were instead making un updated version of the show, but staying within the existing historical and character continuity.

Also, it's not the 80 year jump from TOS to TNG that I cannot accept...it's the jump from 2008 to 2266 that doesn't look right to me. The only way to explain why TOS looked the way it did is to accept the fact that it was made in 1966 using 1966 TV technology. Once I accept that, then I have no problem accepting the fact that the bridge in Abrams 2008 film could look different than the TOS bridge but still be perceived by me to be taking place around the TOS timeframe.

 

[Devon]

To Powdered... if you're reading, can we assume since there is no debunking of the story after this time as passed that this is indeed accurate after all?