The city skyline... Shir'kar?
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Indeed. It's the best look at an alien city we've gotten in Trek IMO.
Is there a ship in the right hand side sky?
Yeah, there's something moving there, but too small to make out what.
"ShirKahr" is a typo perpetuated by the ST Chronology and ST Encyclopedia, and novel authors of the late 80s/early 90s were told they had to defer to the Okudas' works for spelling consistency.
TAS rendered it "ShiKahr", and recent novels have gone back to that spelling.
For us continuity purists, ShiKahr is a small country town (and perhaps university town?) of low silhouette in the middle of nowhere. The above skyline echoes the more grandiose buildings of the Vulcan capital that we saw in ENT.
Perhaps Amanda went to have birth in the better equipped facilites of the capital? Hybrid birth might be something the ShiKahr healer hicks couldn't handle...
(Incidentally, I dig those digitally multiplied Vasquez Rocks a lot, but I wonder why the artists used the real formations as a starting point at all. An in-joke? The nitpicking geologist would worry that Vulcan has never had enough seas to create that sort of strata...)
Timo Saloniemi
Perhaps Amanda went to have birth in the better equipped facilites of the capital? Hybrid birth might be something the ShiKahr healer hicks couldn't handle...
(Incidentally, I dig those digitally multiplied Vasquez Rocks a lot, but I wonder why the artists used the real formations as a starting point at all. An in-joke? The nitpicking geologist would worry that Vulcan has never had enough seas to create that sort of strata...)
Timo Saloniemi
Oops! Yeah, of course you are right. Thanks, sir.
I always loved the drawing of ShiKahr from the animated series.
The sky wasn't particularly rusty in the original TMP, or in TAS or ENT. And the planet as seen from space varies from dull grey to yellowish to reddish. Perhaps it only gets a murky red tint when there are big dust storms? It could be a seasonal thing.
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
Well, those times we saw Vulcan with the red sky there were a lot of wild-fires burning. It was the hot and dry season. They have winds that make the Santa Anas feel like the breath of a five year-old blowing out birthday cake candles.
As far as it looking like any old city on Earth goes. Yeah, right. Downtown Phoenix, perhaps? That look screams, "Vulcan!" to me.
This kind of thing is exactly what happens when you give creative people money. If they could've created a Vulcan like this in 1966, they'd have done it. They didn't have the money. So we got orange skies (and styrofoam rocks).
I'm guessing it's Shir'Kahr, since its established canon that's the home city of Spock and his family when he was growing up. It even appeared in TAS.
Nonsense!
Anyone notice the vulcan craft flying in the city on the right hand side... It's moving slowly and is that maroon purple...
My throbbing brain says Rachel Nichols and Zoe Saldana are hot. As for he city...no idea
I said I saw it. Jeez...
