Off-Topic Friday is upon us again... In the spirit of "Trek", choose the best USS Enterprise
by Donny Rivette on May 22, 2009 6:42 PM EDT
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The one that, well, started it all in 1965. Remains a classic design featuring lines and shapes that make sense in a pseudo-realistic way. After all these years it retains the looks of which a valid design for space travel might be built upon. Ironically, the drafting team initially had the ship inverted. The model really came to life recently after a complete clean-up by CBS during conversion to the remastered set. Unreal.
My personal favorite. Never before - and most likely ever - will a better starship cross our movie or TV screens. Yes, I grew up with it, but a more formidable, solid, and utilitarian design you'll not find. Simply art. No topping this...not 2001, not Star Wars, no where.
Bloated, stretched way too far, and performing double-duty as a bottom-feeding space-borne sturgeon, this design is everything a Star Trek craft should not be. One portion of the eighties I can and will live without (though "Yesterday's Enterprise" was undeniably sweet).
Growing on me with each viewing, JJ Abrams and his staff at ILM were certainly on to something. Take the Enterprise from The Motion Picture, spice it up with a bit of 60's GTO inspiration, and you just might have the perfect Enterprise. Excepting the early movies, of course. And static pictures do it little justice. Only in motion does this Big E begin to shine with the type of grace, elegance, and bad-assness that should be expected.
Your comments, complaints, brickbats? Care to beat me down? Let's hear it below.
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Lol. Personally, I don’t really care either way. Just saw that picture and thought it was kinda funny. I was a Star Wars kid growing up. But I’ve seen the Treks (movies, never the TV shows though). The new Star Trek was just blah for me. I dunno. The whole alternate time line was just too convenient for me. And going back, Star Trek was just too political for me. Too many races that didn’t get along, or some did and some didn’t, I dont know. Give me the good ol’ fashioned good guys vs. bad guys. Empire and rebellion. But by no means did I ever really “get into” them, nor do I have anything against those that did.
Is it July 1st yet?
Awesome take on it all, Stan. Kudos from The Box. JJ Abrams, the man behind the mask on this newest Trek, was an avowed “Wars” fan before taking on the project.
Lots of big holes in the plot, convenient meetings, situations wrapped in a hurry, etc. No doubt I’m with ya on all that.
And being a longtime old school Trek boy, it may have teetered on the fence a bit too much.
But a new production and writing crew, new cast, new everything, has reinvigorated what was a dead franchise…killed slowly over 15 years by a couple of jaded filmmakers. Even Roddenberry would be proud of the crop that’s been sown.
This flick was simply the beginning…the crew coming together (albeit rather easily) and establishing the universe which the next movies will exist in.
The follow-up film is being written as I type this…now that the introductions are ut of the way, a REAL story can be told.
See it again anyway…it’s a lot more fun the second time around!
by Donny Rivette on May 22, 2009 9:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Ya, I had little doubts this was the kind of movie they had to do in order to keep making more Star Treks. You can only have so many “Generations” before the same story is told too many times. Obviously now they can make at least 3 or 4 of these “alternate time line” movies.
Maybe I was just jaded by the couple in the front row who cheered out loud, clapped and laughed hysterically at every inside Trekkie joke and reference made in the movie. “I’m giving it all she’s got, Captain!” followed by “YEAH SCOTTY!!!!” cheers kinda got old… lol.
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