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Spoilers STAR TREK BEYOND

I know, but the nice shiny new Enterprise at the end will make it all better. She'll be twice as big and have even blue-er nacelles to make up for it.
 
I know, but the nice shiny new Enterprise at the end will make it all better. She'll be twice as big and have even blue-er nacelles to make up for it.

Never liked the black floors n white walls on the interior. Had a very star wars star destroyer feel to it

Hope new ship is closer to org - red nacelles shaped n swept differently etc.
 
Have you guys seen this? Found it on r/startrek on reddit. Someone apparently saw it on a tweet before it was taken down.
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the swarm ships look like the enterprise is attacked by bees.. (especially when in the trailer you see those ships literally get inside the enterprise) fascinating concept (and kinda scary)
 
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Yup, and effectively, nothing to solidly lock onto or fire on. And even if you hit dozens, you miss hundreds. They've gone for the warp drive first and force the habitable piece towards the planet, making sure they keep the maximum amount of new slaves alive.

But I doubt this new hyper-paranoid Starfleet will sit back after this. Marcus might be dead, but there'll be another half dozen high ranking officers behind him who still believe in a more powerful fleet.

After this, they'll promote one of them without much discussion.
 
Have you guys seen this? Found it on r/startrek on reddit. Someone apparently saw it on a tweet before it was taken down.
HquepWP.jpg
Looks fake IMHO. The impulse drive area in particular looks like something off of one of the fan models, as opposed to the refit we saw at the end of STiD and the Trailer. The lighting also seems kinda dodgy, but IDK, I'm no expert.
 
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the swarm ships look like the enterprise is attacked by bees.. (especially when in the trailer you see those ships literally get inside the enterprise) fascinating concept (and kinda scary)

Yup, and effectively, nothing to solidly lock onto or fire on. And even if you hit dozens, you miss hundreds. They've gone for the warp drive first and force the habitable piece towards the planet, making sure they keep the maximum amount of new slaves alive.

But I doubt this new hyper-paranoid Starfleet will sit back after this. Marcus might be dead, but there'll be another half dozen high ranking officers behind him who still believe in a more powerful fleet.

After this, they'll promote one of them without much discussion.

The comparison to bees is apt. Even low tech in great numbers can be formidable. If anything, an attack like this shows just how vulnerable any ship in the fleet can be no matter how cutting edge its technology is. If there are still Marcus-types in Starfleet, they'll have to rethink what constitutes a real threat. Not even the Vengeance would be able to stand up to an onslaught of perhaps thousands of those little ships or drones. An entire star base in orbit probably couldn't. It's almost the opposite of a Borg cube. The best technology the Federation has, dying of a thousand little cuts. And if this swarm is comprised of "manned" ships (we really don't know, yet), then what does that say about the civilization that employs such methods? Thousands of essentially suicide missions to take out one starship.
 
Looks fake IMHO. The impulse drive area in particular looks like something off of one of the fan models, as opposed to the refit we saw at the end of STiD and the Trailer. The lighting also seems kinda dodgy, but IDK, I'm no expert.

Agreed, the impulse deck doesn't match the updated, wider version seen at the end of STID. So unless the effects guys blew it and didn't use the refitted model... *cue Senator Vreenak*

EDIT: I just checked the teaser trailer screen caps and it looks like the flatter and wider impulse deck is in fact used on the ship so...
 
Agreed, the impulse deck doesn't match the updated, wider version seen at the end of STID. So unless the effects guys blew it and didn't use the refitted model... *cue Senator Vreenak*

EDIT: I just checked the teaser trailer screen caps and it looks like the flatter and wider impulse deck is in fact used on the ship so...

Indeed, and now that I look at it more, the lettering also seems to be off. Compare the - in the NCC-1701 in particular, and it looks like the outline in the wrong color, and missing the inner red outline as well. The damage also looks kind of dodgy compared to the level of detail we've already seen, and the trailer was put out before VFX was even completed as I recall.
 
At this point, I've already made up my mind on this film. If it gets bad reviews on the level of something like Batman v Superman, I'll probably give it a skip until the film eventually leaks online in Blu-ray quality. I'm not exactly dying to go see it.

This is less of a "Paramount is screwing up the marketing!" or "Star Trek: The Fast & The Furious!" post as it is just general disinterest in the film on my part.

If it gets generally good reviews from critics and fans, then I'll go see it. But I'm not all too bothered either way. The new series from Bryan Fuller is something I'm much more hopeful and excited for, that's something I'll be watching day one regardless of what anyone says.

Oh, okay, I get it now.

I'm not allowed to be excited for stuff I find exciting. Sorry, I'll make sure to get it right next time.
This isn't meant to be argumentative so much as a genuine curiosity for my personal interest. You don't care what other people say, but you're also curious as to what the critics will say before seeing Beyond? Am I'm following that correctly?

I am curious as to what would interest in you in the film, if anything at all?

Very deliberately so, I'd say. Even the framing of that particular shot is almost identical. Of all the movies to 'homage', though... *shudder*

No kidding. Sorry, Generations is one thing where "fan service" must have been posted on every note to the writers on each draft.
 
This isn't meant to be argumentative so much as a genuine curiosity for my personal interest. You don't care what other people say, but you're also curious as to what the critics will say before seeing Beyond? Am I'm following that correctly?
Obviously, critics aren't people. Or you could say other people aren't professional critics, so there's your differentiation. Some people trust professional critics more than other people; some don't. Like trusting a plumber to fix your sink - and your spouse, maybe not so much.
 
Oooohhh - I do like that [now-deleted twit-pic, or whatever they call it] shot of the Enterprise.

Fingers crossed for new replacement nacelle struts, swept back!
 
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