They should have destroyed the Enterprise in this film, one of the reasons the film fails is because the Kelivin set before the original Kirk Spock TOS timeline looks far too advanced for a pre-TOS era ship. If they went with their original plans and had the TV show design Enterprise commanded by Capitan April be destroyed by Nero then the alterted time line story would have made sense.
Whose original plans were these?
This is also why many die hard fans have a hard time buying in to the new time line story because the Kelivn does not have the 'look' of an older space vessel and thus the believability factor in this Trek universe disappears.
Who are these "many die-hard fans" for whom you claim to speak? I've found that they're usually neither nearly as old nor nearly as numerous as they'd like others to think they are; you're certainly not speaking for me or for a lot of people. The rest of your claim is equally unsupportable and is belied by the facts.
You mean that they're rather vigorous in enforcing against people who won't abide by the rules.
Do learn how to use the quote function correctly, please. It makes things easier for everyone.
How is is it lame to fail to acknowledge previous era ship designs?
Eh? I'm not sure your question asks what you think it's asking.
It's ridiculous to call this film Star Trek and ignore the Star Trek aesthetic design universe that predates this film. We have 40 years of Trek on TV and in films and yet lets just ignore all that, and come up with something 'new' and 'better' and set the film in the pre-TOS era and not bother with keeping the same design elements. Now thats what I call "bullshit". When you look at TNG episodes like Relics and Yesterdays Enterprise, they work because the design team had made a conscious decision to keep things relevant to what came before. Another good example of this approach is the film 2010 where the Odyssey's exterior and interior are in keeping with the film 2001: A Space Odyessy design elements and not reimagined or rebooted. If JJ is going to create a new timeline at least he should have given the audience the visual common starting point before going all reboot on us.
All of these are part of the same litany repeated again and again by a relative handful of fanboy-types who are disgruntled over the fact that J.J. and Company didn't make the same movie which
they would have made, had the owners been so rash as to have handed them the keys to the franchise. I'm a bit bemused by the notion that anyone thinks that there's still an audience for this kind of balderdash outside their own closed ranks and inflexible thinking; you've already got all the converts you're likely to get. Then again, the username does have an air of "true believer" about it -- sort of like a claim of being the One True Church or the One True Religion -- so I suppose I really shouldn't be all that surprised.
