what if the Enterprise-D was destroyed during early season six?

[BillJ]

Major successes...are Avatar, Star Wars, DarkKight to which no Trek Film has come remotely close to.

I think the thing you're missing is the fact that Star Trek is a 'bankable' project. Anytime the studio commits money to a Trek film... it knows that it will be receiving a return on its' investment. Even on Treks' darkest night (Enterprise and Star Trek: Nemesis), Paramount profited.

Now ask a studio executive which one he'd rather bankroll:

Make a Star Trek flick with a smallish investment and guaranteed $20 - $30 million dollar return.

-or-

Gamble $400 million on an 'unknown' film that general audiences may or may not take a liking too. Yeah it may hit it big... then again it may bankrupt your studio.

 

[Saquist]

Major successes...are Avatar, Star Wars, DarkKight to which no Trek Film has come remotely close to.

I think the thing you're missing is the fact that Star Trek is a 'bankable' project. Anytime the studio commits money to a Trek film... it knows that it will be receiving a return on its' investment. Even on Treks' darkest night (Enterprise and Star Trek: Nemesis), Paramount profited.

Now ask a studio executive which one he'd rather bankroll:

Make a Star Trek flick with a smallish investment and guaranteed $20 - $30 million dollar return.

-or-

Gamble $400 million on an 'unknown' film that general audiences may or may not take a liking too. Yeah it may hit it big... then again it may bankrupt your studio.

I'm part of the group that thinks if Star Trek is bankable and marketable as a brand name then it's a market that can be exploited like Star Wars or Jame Bond because any marketing team knows that a name in advertising is perhaps the most valuable commodity in the game and Trek has under used for a good...eh..13 years.

So the brand name is there but the executives have sat on their hands with a block of gold when they could have Billions.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I would have loved for them to have had the Enterprise E the whole 7 seasons. That is my favorite starship

 

[Saquist]

It's one of my least favorites and it's number two on the worse designed ships in Trek.

1- Prometheus
2- Sovereign
3- NX Class
4- Akira
5- Norway

 

[JamesSmith]

What if they built the Y-wing starfighter without any engines and pylons and glued the Jupiter 2 on the cockpit section and the Enterprise-A pylons and Enterprise-D nacelles and the body? That would make a good looking kitbashed starship for DS9 and TNG.

 

[Rojixus]

I would have loved for them to have had the Enterprise E the whole 7 seasons. That is my favorite starship

Thank you! The Galaxy-Class is one of the ugliest designs I've seen yet! The Sovereign-Class looks like a work of art, the Galaxy-Class looks like a plodding, awkward mess.

 

[Solarbaby]

I would have loved for them to have had the Enterprise E the whole 7 seasons. That is my favorite starship

Thank you! The Galaxy-Class is one of the ugliest designs I've seen yet! The Sovereign-Class looks like a work of art, the Galaxy-Class looks like a plodding, awkward mess.

I think the galaxy has a boldness and strength none of the other ships, bar the nebula, had. It also has a pleasant aesthetic aerodynamic frame that doesn't take it to the absurd. The Sovereign is built to look like it's fast which is silly from a design point of view as any ship would be able to travel at same speed with the right compensated warp geometry. Fair enought it looks pleasant enough from a viewers point of view. However there's many ugly details of the sovereign which make it ugly compared to the galaxy. Plus I love the size of the galaxy, I'm glad we had it throughout the series on the small screen.

Sad as I am it was destroyed in Generations, it didn't look good on a big screen, the way it is filmed

 

[Alrik]

^

This

 

[BillJ]

Sad as I am it was destroyed in Generations, it didn't look good on a big screen, the way it is filmed

I disagree. I thought it looked fantastic in Generations. Plus here is a thread that shows the 'D' in First Contact (scroll down).

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=132080

 

[Solarbaby]

scroll down to what? I've seen the galaxy in the first contact photoshop thread already. It doesn't change my opinion.

I don't think the model held up on a big screen. The detailing was not as good as the sovereign model. They were originally going to make a larger scale model of the deflector dish for first contact, but then when they viewed the footage from the model it held up very well on its own.

 

[BillJ]

I don't think the model help up on a big screen. The detailing was not as good as the sovereign model.

But they went way too far the other way with the Sovereign class, where the details overwhelm the design.

 

[Solarbaby]

I don't think the model help up on a big screen. The detailing was not as good as the sovereign model.

But they went way too far the other way with the Sovereign class, where the details overwhelm the design.

Exactly

 

[Gepard]

What if they built the Y-wing starfighter without any engines and pylons and glued the Jupiter 2 on the cockpit section and the Enterprise-A pylons and Enterprise-D nacelles and the body? That would make a good looking kitbashed starship for DS9 and TNG.

What.