Spoilers The Roddenberry Archive brings every iteration of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise bridge to life

[IMC Headquarters]

They were reunited in the end to explore the undiscovered country...together...

Damn. Now I'm going to start bawling again.

 

[fireproof78]

 

[Turtletrekker]

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[Yistaan]

All I want to know is what Gary Mitchell's involvement in this story was...

Seems the story is that Gary Mitchell resurrected Kirk and brought him and Saavik to Ambassador Spock’s deathbed in the Kelvin timeline. What happens to Saavik and Kirk afterwards is the big question.

 

[Tomalak]

Seems the story is that Gary Mitchell resurrected Kirk and brought him and Saavik to Ambassador Spock’s deathbed in the Kelvin timeline. What happens to Saavik and Kirk afterwards is the big question.

Saavik wasn't there at the end. It was only Kirk.

 

[James Cole]

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Trekyards has a frame by frame analysis

 

[JoseNoodles]

No, I don't think that's it. Kirk hasn't returned to life.

You know how, when people die of old age, they sometimes claim to see long-lost relatives or friends at the end? We just saw that from the other side.

Kirk was in Heaven, wandering through Paradise, content in a way he never was in the Nexus. Those people he was seeing - Saavik, her son, an elderly Wesley 'The Traveler' Crusher and Yor - were all dead. That uniform badge was a way for him to cross over, briefly, to the Kelvinverse. One last mission.

He was sent to be there with Spock at the end. To bring the only other man he called 'brother' back to the afterlife with him.

Yeah that's how I interpreted it. Glad I wasn't the only one.

I demand something in one of the shows to contradict this. Otherwise people will be confused.

I expect the pilot episode of Star Trek: Legacy to address this issue immediately!

^^This little movie will make watching Generations not so bad now.

And i am sure a lot of other people will be very happy indeed with it, took 30 years, but their wish has now come true, but my friends, we've come home.

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This is basically BringBackKirk Redux, but with much less cringe.

 

[Disposable_Ensign]

Sorry if someone has asked this before, but what did they base the bridge of the XCV-330 on? I wasn't aware of any source material beyond exterior sketches.

 

[StarTrek1701]

Let's be realistic though. They wouldn't do it. Their salary asking would be too high and who knows how appearing in something like this would affect their contracts for potential movie sequels down the road.

Quinto did appear in a couple of commercials, in one of them he dressed like Spock from 2009 but then it could have been a tie-in ad for the movie.

 

[Macintosh]

Sorry if someone has asked this before, but what did they base the bridge of the XCV-330 on? I wasn't aware of any source material beyond exterior sketches.

From the Roddenberry Archive:

"The command center of the Starship Enterprise XCV-330 was envisioned in a series of concept art for a proposed television series devised by Gene Roddenberry in the 1970s. Its design was a departure from the bridges we'd seen in early Star Trek productions, but still retained some familiar elements like a central command pit and large main viewscreen."

The series is normally referred to as "Starship". The concept art was by Matt Jefferies. You can view it here. The series proposal also used the "ring-ship" design that Jefferies originally came up with as one of the concepts for the Enterprise.

This series concept never went anywhere, but later served as one of the inspirations behind Andromeda.

 

[Tosk]

Seems the story is that Gary Mitchell resurrected Kirk

Or maybe he's simply an observer.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Who is the "Crusher" mentioned in the credits?

 

[James Cole]

A few thoughts after more than a few rewatches...

Once seen, this cannot be unseen. Not treating this short as at least de facto canon by future productions would be a massive failure of reading the room.

Will anyone be able to watch GEN again without having this queued up to immediately follow it?

Will anyone be doing an Abramsverse rewatch without slotting this in between STID and STB?

Finally, if you haven't yet, watch this on your TV. If you have a recent one, override the default settings of your YouTube app and get it playing in 4K.

EDIT: alright fine, sub "anyone" with "most people"

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Will anyone be able to watch GEN again without having this queued up to immediately follow it?

Will anyone be doing an Abramsverse rewatch without slotting this in between STID and STB?

It's currently unseen for me and I'm pretty sure it'll remain that way after my next watch of Generations and Into Darkness.

 

[Daedalus]

A few thoughts after more than a few rewatches...

Once seen, this cannot be unseen. Not treating this short as at least de facto canon by future productions would be a massive failure of reading the room.

Will anyone be able to watch GEN again without having this queued up to immediately follow it?

Will anyone be doing an Abramsverse rewatch without slotting this in between STID and STB?

Finally, if you haven't yet, watch this on your TV. If you have a recent one, override the default settings of your YouTube app and get it playing in 4K.

It'll certainly be banging around in my head as the credits roll.

 

[fireproof78]

Will anyone be doing an Abramsverse rewatch without slotting this in between STID and STB?

Yes.

For the simple reason that they are not this Kirk's story. They are Kelvin Kirk's story. This would be appropriate to watch as an ending. I have no desire to watch Generations again so that's the only place it would fit in on a rewatch.

 

[Yistaan]

It's interesting that in fiction Kirk and Spock get a final goodbye to each other here whereas in real life Nimoy died during a reignited feud with Shatner. This movie gave the characters a closure that the actors didn't get in real life.

 

[MakeshiftPython]

A few thoughts after more than a few rewatches...

Once seen, this cannot be unseen. Not treating this short as at least de facto canon by future productions would be a massive failure of reading the room.

Will anyone be able to watch GEN again without having this queued up to immediately follow it?

Will anyone be doing an Abramsverse rewatch without slotting this in between STID and STB?

Finally, if you haven't yet, watch this on your TV. If you have a recent one, override the default settings of your YouTube app and get it playing in 4K.

Yes, yes, and no thanks.

 

[Daedalus]

I'm 99% sure it's the same garden, the question for me is whether it's on the Enterprise-J, or if it's a real park that was itself later replicated on the ship.

After watching the Robin Curtis interview, I'm now convinced it's the late 25th Century and on the Enterprise-J. She noted that they made her look way older deliberately, which they really wouldn't need to do if its the Picard era.

 

[Tosk]

Who is the "Crusher" mentioned in the credits?

Best guess seems to be an older Wesley, seen here as the man in Nemesis-era dress whites.

She noted that they made her look way older deliberately, which they really wouldn't need to do if its the Picard era.

Unless time is irrelevant, and Saavik is simply seen here at the age that she died.