Poll: The new Starship Enterprise

[Praetor]

I don't like it. I don't understand why they seemed to tweak the proportions so much and lose most of the original details that were hallmarks of the classic design. Why not simply update the original shapes and proportions with new details? Why push the engineering hull forward? True, it is evocative of several of Mister Jefferies Phase II sketches, but this isn't Phase II. This is more or less a prequel. Now, I'm convinced it's a remake.

I noticed that over on Trekmovie.com Ryan Church made some comments that the proportions may appear off due to the camera angle. Because of those statements, I now cling to the faint hope that (1) this is an intentional red herring somehow or BETTER YET (2) this is one of the 'variations' of the Enterprise from other timelines that were mentioned early on. Does anyone else remember that?

I know, I'm grasping at straws.

 

[David cgc]

And reading those spoilers of scenes and indications of characterization nails it that this has zero to do with our beloved TOS.

So, not a fan of "Best Destiny," then?

 

[Relayer]

It's terrible. They've missed the mark so badly with this that if they hadn't already announced the cast I'd be worried that Mr. Spock might turn up as a woman.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

My eyes! Burn it! Send it to Hell!

 

[Captain Robert April]

I say again....

 

[IcecreamLtDan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8B1GNCSfX0

 

[The Doctor]

The picture itself doesn't look great. The nacelle struts look too far back and the secondary hull seems small and too far forward.

HOWEVER...

Having seen the Big E in the trailer, I can say that she looks almost entirely different in action than in that one still. The angle must be wonky or something, because the two or three fleeting glimpses we get paint a far more graceful and dynamic picture.

I like it, quite a bit.

 

[Cary L. Brown]

I say again....

Nice picture... but try putting it in the other orientation. That's what seems to be happening here (and why so many people are put-off by it).

The "new take" isn't just existing alongside the old. The new is, essentially, firing on the old and destroying it. Or rather, trying to do so.

Maybe a better image would be the new version firing on the original, but the beams glance off and hit the new one, allowing it to destroy itself?

 

[Captain Robert April]

Maybe a better image would be the new version firing on the original, but the beams glance off and hit the new one, allowing it to destroy itself?

Sounds more like an animation project.

 

[ncc-1017-e]

It is gross!

 

[Tallguy]

It's growing on me. And I'm mighty excited to see the movie. It'll be it's own thing. I'm cool with that.

(And I've still got all my TOS DVDs handy.)

 

[The Doctor]

Just saw the new girl in HD.

Very nice.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

I'm sold now.

 

[Admiral2]

So what do you think about the new design for the starship Enterprise?

I think I would rather be the lynchee at a Klan rally than watch any movie with that monstronsity as a centerpiece.

So, of course, I picked "My eyes...!"

 

[Captain Robert April]

Finally saw the trailer on the big screen.

Hard to believe it looked even stupider.

 

[ncc-1017-e]

Gene Roddenberry is rolling over in his grave!

 

[Tallguy]

Finally saw the trailer on the big screen.

Hard to believe it looked even stupider.

As long as you went in with an open mind. ('Scuze me, going to go watch the trailer again.)

 

[ancient]

What a hot ass.

Sorry, what were we talking about?

Oh yeah. I still like the TOS ship best, but the new ship...I can live with it. That is a particularly bad angle on it though.

 

[Psion]

I saw her first ... get your eyes off her ass!

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

it looks fine, people. The ship design, the interior, and the uniforms, all of it. Fine. It looks like a Star Trek ship, and that's what it will be recognized as. It's not like Abrams made it look like a Star Destroyer.

People will recognize it as the enterprise. The general audience would laugh at or at least be very confused by the ridiculousness and dated look of the original 60s or even the evolved "refit" 70s-80s version (and early 90s). This enslavement to 1960s limitations is as short-sighted as people insisting that the new Batman movies use the 1954 Lincoln Futura as the Batmobile and also use the same Batcave sets and Adam West / Burt Ward style costumes.

it just ain't gonna fly. Abram's Enterprise will, even from a grounded starting position