When the retro series shows up I'll be impressed.
Or give Cawley all the money. Seems sound.
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Or give Cawley all the money. Seems sound.
I definitely think the kurtzman people could have gotten closer to canon. It like they have gone out of their way to make everything totally different.
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Good luck. It's all canon.
Im not seeing how its visual canon all fits. The other shows during the berman era managed to incorporate TOS pretty well. So far Kurtzman has not. To me TOS visually never happened in kurtzman trek.
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The SNW bridge looks much better still, though.
TMP was forward in time. Also the movies the enterprise looks less advanced then SNW so they are no longer visual canon either.
TMP undid TOS pretty much from the word go. The 3 year time span was not sufficient.
Regardless, "visual canon" doesn't work for me. The stories and characters mean more than the advancement of tech.
No they don't.
Based upon...what?
Regardless, TMP doesn't work for me going from TOS. So, even if it had 100 years still feels out of step. Are they still part of the same continuity? (Note: Not canon).
So, about those Gorn ships.
I like the three-pronged Gorn destroyer (shuttle readout gives designation). It’s reminiscent of the ships of the extragalactic Gorn Armada from the Kelvin timeline.
However, the big ship was just an organic blob. There’s a trope that to make ships alien just make them random organic structures.
I’m not sure it will be a popular model for when Eaglemoss tackles it.
In terms of continuity, I have no problems with these designs. The ST: Adventures RPG confirmed the Gorn are a collection of species, with distinct cultures. Like the Xindi they may have different ship design lineages.
I like the three-pronged Gorn destroyer (shuttle readout gives designation). It’s reminiscent of the ships of the extragalactic Gorn Armada from the Kelvin timeline.
However, the big ship was just an organic blob. There’s a trope that to make ships alien just make them random organic structures.
I’m not sure it will be a popular model for when Eaglemoss tackles it.
In terms of continuity, I have no problems with these designs. The ST: Adventures RPG confirmed the Gorn are a collection of species, with distinct cultures. Like the Xindi they may have different ship design lineages.
It was 18 Months in Universe time according to the movie dialog.
It was a little over 10 years between the last episode of TOS and TMP premier for us.
(Tuesday June 3rd, 1969 and Friday December 7th, 1979)
What's really weird is that the Colony ship looked somewhat more like the Gorn ship from TOS remastered...
(minus the top two nacelles)
I liked Enterprise's Mirror episodes. It showed the TOS aesthetic could be done on 21st century television and look believable. TOS design is like Windows XP--an interface looking like colorful candy, yet actually more advanced than its grayer predecessors (Windows 2000 etc.)
Remember, all the bridge sets, even the ones now on Strange New Worlds, are fake. The consoles on Strange New Worlds have no more realistic function (other than actual working screens) than TOS consoles did 50 years ago. It was a tv show then, and it's still a tv show now.
TOS looks more like a TV show. Even LCARS, as clunky an unfunctional as I found it, looked a little more practical.
Not saying TOS aesthetic couldn't be modified to work, but as is? Strains my suspension of disbelief.
To me - with the actual use or CRT screens at a few of the TMP 1701 ship's stations - the TMP Bridge looked more privative and a throwback, compared to what they showed on TOS where yes, it was static plastic overlays; but on screen the screen graphics were higher resolution than the stuff shown on the CRTs in TMP (although yes, they were actual moving and animated computer graphics of the type that were possible in 1979 even if they were more monochrome.)
I know it's a stretch, what with the 24th century ship being a lot less organic looking, but maybe the Borg stole this ship from the Gorn?
Well it said Kirk was at a desk for two years but it never specifically states it was two years after the last TOS episode.
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