Tidbits from Kirk's viewing of Enterprise
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If you look over his left shoulder early in the shot, you will see the UFP flag...
And that is the starfleet seal, not the federation seal...
And that is the starfleet seal, not the federation seal...
Oops, you're right...my bad
It's cool how today we have the technology to dissect this stuff within a day of its release. 
Those monsters! 
And to think, some people want it built in space, where those poor people couldn't breathe.
Those monsters! 
Sombrero!
Not scaled up in size no, but shown with more scope. The ship is going to apear bigger than ever before if I read the interviews with J.J. Abrams correctly, which is fine by me. Even though I loved all the TNG films and the TNG era series, as time progressed it seemed like they lost the scope of things, ships no longer seemed to have the on screen presence, with the shooting style they are using in this it looks as though even a smaller vessel like the Kelvin will seem huge.
Oh and isn't killer we get to see the different components being installed? Such as the deflector and major section of hull... *drools*
Not scaled up in size no, but shown with more scope. The ship is going to apear bigger than ever before if I read the interviews with J.J. Abrams correctly, which is fine by me. Even though I loved all the TNG films and the TNG era series, as time progressed it seemed like they lost the scope of things, ships no longer seemed to have the on screen presence, with the shooting style they are using in this it looks as though even a smaller vessel like the Kelvin will seem huge.
Oh and isn't killer we get to see the different components being installed? Such as the deflector and major section of hull... *drools*
Thats kinda my thoughts aswel.
Look at the model shooting work in TMP-TSFS, its fantastic. Then TFF had shoddy model work and shoddy filming of that model work, then again in TUC we have a return to that perfectly and majestically shot model. The tng movies, to me, just didnt have that kind of atmosphere to the model work/filming. I mean, they were just there, there was no grace to it.
This new movie has, even in the trailer this early, has fantastic model work. If its CG, then i rivals physical models flawlessly, and even if the have gone back to physical models, then it adds that bit of realism to the shots in some scenes. The closeup of the exploding KElvin for instance looks like a model shot, but, it maybe CG. either way, its fucking good work.
Yes.
Fully how Kirk ends up at the site just as these major components are being installed... If this is not a coincidence, and the work proceeded at that pace every day, how long would it take to finish the ship? A week?
Perhaps the ship indeed is built in bits after all, and those bits are then shipped in for a fast-paced final assembly, which may take equally well on an Iowan cornfield, a misty San Francisco coastal dock, or an orbital box dock (where we see some TNG era ships assembled in a similar plate-by-plate manner in VOY "Relativity").
Timo Saloniemi
Perhaps the ship indeed is built in bits after all, and those bits are then shipped in for a fast-paced final assembly, which may take equally well on an Iowan cornfield, a misty San Francisco coastal dock, or an orbital box dock (where we see some TNG era ships assembled in a similar plate-by-plate manner in VOY "Relativity").
Timo Saloniemi
GodThingFormerly
A Different Kind of Asshole
Perhaps, but cleaning out all of the cockroaches, wasps, ants, spiders, bats, birds, squirrels and Goddenberry knows what other nightmares that made their home in the semi-completed hull while it was left totally exposed to the elements would very likely take months if not years.
TGT
The handwave field keeps them away.
TAS is an odd one - if it was shown in the UK, I never saw it or heard about it.
I don't believe it is exposed to the elements.
When Kirk pulls up to the construction site, you can see a reflection in the left portion of the shot that seems to be of one of the lighting towers in the right portion. This implies to me that there is some sort of force field 'dome' covering the assembly area.
But I agree that the Enterprise should be assembled in space.
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I think I found something. Did someone notive the giant headgear in the background?
[snip photo]
I see the sombrero is being constructed separately. No doubt they will do the final assembly of 'hat to ship' in space. That's the only logical way to do it.
I think I found something. Did someone notive the giant headgear in the background?
[snip photo]
I see the sombrero is being constructed separately. No doubt they will do the final assembly of 'hat to ship' in space. That's the only logical way to do it.
It is completely and utterly ludicrous to think that a Somrero could be flown from earth into space - where are it's warp engines? how would it maintain a warp field in the atmosphere.
It is clear to me that off-screen some giant robot Mexicans are being constructed. They will wear the Sombrero and fly into space. It is logical.
It definitely was, I remember watching on Saturday mornings back in the 70's.
ST-One
Vice Admiral
Ever heard the term lens-flare?
I'm 33 - so it never happened to me. I'm sure it's part of the mental map of Trek for more dedicated followers but for causal viewers below a certain age in the UK, I don't think it "exists" - it doesn't seem to have been repeated in the way the other series have been.
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