What if: Berman Led Star Trek Remake?

[The Wormhole]

Star Trek The Beginning would have been shit, on that we can all agree.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

No, it isn't. Really. There is NOTHING inherently "wrong" with either the nacelle count or the registry number--no rules that say they are not allowed, no precedent that excludes their possibility.

Roddenberry's Rules of Starship Design say warp nacelles need an even number of nacelles, which the Kelvin is in blatant defiance of.

And registries have never started with zero, and there have been three-digit registries before. Like the Grissom.

Wormhole, I love ya, but you are starting to sound like you are losing it with this stuff.

This is pretty trivial, even for trivia.

 

[Jon1701]

Star Trek The Beginning would have been shit, on that we can all agree.

Don't you mean 0Star Trek The Beginning

I agree. It would have sucked. Hard.

 

[Sci]

The fact that there has never been a registry in 42 years of Trek starting with zero should be enough reason to not do one. That is there's never been a registry higher than two digits starting with zero, so don't try using NX-01 as an argument this time.

As for nacelles, it may not have never been directly said on screen, but you can tell it's always been on writer's minds. Take the Voyager episode Inside Man. At the end, Deanna Troi asks Lt. Barclay to join her and Riker on their date, which he declines saying "I wouldn't want to be a third nacelle." See, that referance proves that Voyager's writing staff was aware that nacelles should not be in odd numbers.

Again...

Who gives a shit? (Other than you?)

Why does it matter?

This has NOTHING to do with whether or not it will be a well-written, well-acted story. Nothing at all.

If it turns out that it's a brilliantly-written film that happens to feature a goof on the USS Kelvin registry -- hey, that's great then. That's wonderful. I will besmirch the legacy of Star Trek ship designs if it means a good movie!