I'm rewatching TNG now. For the 80s the tones are warm, they look weird now, but then it was warm and opened, no switches and levers everything was touchscreen and the computer had a nice familar voice. I guess this one started out with that too. I enjoyed the heck out of the 1st one, I even got a kick out of the 2nd one, but this one I just feel bleh about. I'd of given it a 2 in my rating but it's ST so I gave it a .5 more for posterity. It's keeping the franchise alive so that's important.

I did like the visual of the warp bubble. That is really starting to annoy me in these old series. How the heck can you see (on the monitor no less) a vessel or be seen while travelling in warp?

morningsong said:

I'm rewatching TNG now. For the 80s the tones are warm, they look weird now, but then it was warm and opened, no switches and levers everything was touchscreen and the computer had a nice familar voice. I guess this one started out with that too. I enjoyed the heck out of the 1st one, I even got a kick out of the 2nd one, but this one I just feel bleh about. I'd of given it a 2 in my rating but it's ST so I gave it a .5 more for posterity. It's keeping the franchise alive so that's important.

I liked the Battle Bridge for the saucer separation

kpowers said:

morningsong said:

I'm rewatching TNG now. For the 80s the tones are warm, they look weird now, but then it was warm and opened, no switches and levers everything was touchscreen and the computer had a nice familar voice. I guess this one started out with that too. I enjoyed the heck out of the 1st one, I even got a kick out of the 2nd one, but this one I just feel bleh about. I'd of given it a 2 in my rating but it's ST so I gave it a .5 more for posterity. It's keeping the franchise alive so that's important.

I liked the Battle Bridge for the saucer separation

It's nice. See I get all emotional over these ships.

You know they even had the nerve to have a saucer descetion in this movie? I was like WHAT? I know this is a different timeline universe thing but seriously, they're just going to jump around and grab random things for various series?

’50 Years of Star Trek�...ry Channel

I wasn't crazy about it because of the looping cities over heard. The clear sphere I liked, but those long streets bending over each other just reminded me of Inception. But a lot of people liked it.

Starbase Yorktown.

Yorktown was what Roddenberry's entire source material was about. Living together in harmony, with other planets and cultures we have all discovered.

Let's start on the outside, with the outer doors that let starships fly into the very heart of the base. The first image here shows an earlier iteration of the design, which was later widened

This next sequence continues the Enterprise's journey inside the base, showing the staggering scale, and glimpses of that lovely see through quality of the design that makes the cities visible from within the arms, and lets ships travelling within be seen under the waterways in the arms.






This oxygen fan and 4 gravity plane area was a collaboration between myself and Art Director Dan Hermansen. Milena Zdravkovic also did a beautiful rendering with more green and trees. I always thought of this as an industrial hub. Dan Designed the Cool circular room at the end of the film where the fight takes place, known as the 'Zero Point Chamber'. Note the 2 Dubai Burg buildings on the right which were an agreement between the production and Dubai as we were shooting there.




Leading to this central point are those huge arms, with cities built along them. They are apparently 17.5 miles long!





Weird you cant find a picture that really shows all the looping cities over head. I had just a instant second of vertigo when they showed it, then it passed.

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Pictured is an illustration of Dr White's IXS Enterprise, an interstellar ship drawn by artist Mark Rademaker that could be an accurate representation of what the first mission beyond the solar system will look like. The IXS Enterprise is a theory-fitting concept for a faster than light (FTL) ship

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.u...z4GyS8knIZ



The ship has a number of features that make interstellar travel possible. This includes the two rings surrounding the central spacecraft - these are known as an Alcubierre drive and are used to 'warp' space-time and travel many light years in a matter of days



The engine for Dr White's ISX Enterprise is based on something known as the Alcubierre drive. As shown in the illustration above this stretches space-time in a wave that causes the fabric of space-time ahead to contract while expanding the space behind, theoretically allowing 'faster than light' travel



This illustration shows Dr White's design in its entirety. Struts around the spacecraft show how it would be directly attached to the rings. At the front is the 'bridge' where the crew would conduct operations on the spacecraft. Towards the back is the cargo area where so-called exotic matter for fuel would be stored



The rings around the spacecraft (shown) would actually shift the surrounding space. The drive would require something known as exotic matter to work, hypothetical particles that violate the known laws of physics (possibly such as dark matter), but as of yet none have been found or created



The main limitation of the concept, (pictured) is energy - previously it was thought mass equivalent to a planet would be necessary to provide the energy required for a warp jump. But revised suggestions claim mass similar in size to a car might be more realistic

He also confirmed a popular theory that’s been circulating recently, about the time period the series is set in. “It’s set 10 years before Kirk, and will bridge the gap between Enterprise and the original series. We’re most closer to Kirk’s mission and get to play with that iconography.” Fuller also said that the series will be exploring events that have been mentioned in other Trek series, but that were never fully explored. He also confirmed that the incident at the center of the series is not the Romulan War, as previously speculated.

Just picked this up, very good, covers everything of Star Trek

I don't have it yet but I want it.

morningsong said:

I don't have it yet but I want it.

I got that Time issue too. Just got back from seeing Star Trek Beyond, I liked it. I'm glad the Enterprise got destroyed and hoping the new Ship dosen't look like the Apple Store. One question, when everyone is going to the escape pods why did Kirk and Chekov change uniforms? Well sounds like they are going to make 2 more movies since they are in 3 years (after the third movie) into their 5 year mission.

kpowers said:

morningsong said:

I don't have it yet but I want it.

I got that Time issue too. Just got back from seeing Star Trek Beyond, I liked it. I'm glad the Enterprise got destroyed and hoping the new Ship dosen't look like the Apple Store. One question, when everyone is going to the escape pods why did Kirk and Chekov change uniforms? Well sounds like they are going to make 2 more movies since they are in 3 years (after the third movie) into their 5 year mission.

Oh, that movie you liked. Whatever.

morningsong said:

kpowers said:

I got that Time issue too. Just got back from seeing Star Trek Beyond, I liked it. I'm glad the Enterprise got destroyed and hoping the new Ship dosen't look like the Apple Store. One question, when everyone is going to the escape pods why did Kirk and Chekov change uniforms? Well sounds like they are going to make 2 more movies since they are in 3 years (after the third movie) into their 5 year mission.

Oh, that movie you liked. Whatever.

I think it's the best of the new movies, first one was so over rated by critics.

kpowers said:

morningsong said:

kpowers said:

I think it's the best of the new movies, first one was so over rated by critics.

Critics never enter into the equation for me. In fact I never even bothered to see how this one rated. It wasn't for me, and I won't be seeing it again for a long time.

Me too

kpowers said:

morningsong said:

kpowers said:

I got that Time issue too. Just got back from seeing Star Trek Beyond, I liked it. I'm glad the Enterprise got destroyed and hoping the new Ship dosen't look like the Apple Store. One question, when everyone is going to the escape pods why did Kirk and Chekov change uniforms? Well sounds like they are going to make 2 more movies since they are in 3 years (after the third movie) into their 5 year mission.

Oh, that movie you liked. Whatever.

OK rank the last 3 movies. For me 3, 2, 1. Part 1 is the worse for me because the destruction of Vulcan and changing of the time line.

kpowers said:

morningsong said:

kpowers said:

The mall is destroyed

Nah, the sterile labortory is destroyed. I kept thinking that the whole time while they were on the ship, "with all the glass it does look mall-ish, but damn it's so white I feel like I'm in a lab, where's the caged rats?" Maybe the crew were the caged rats, it was weird looking at it after a while, no personality whatsoever, just flat, gleaming and sterile. I felt nothing when it got destoryed.

They built a new ship, old mall was destroyed

kpowers said:

morningsong said:

Nah, the sterile labortory is destroyed. I kept thinking that the whole time while they were on the ship, "with all the glass it does look mall-ish, but damn it's so white I feel like I'm in a lab, where's the caged rats?" Maybe the crew were the caged rats, it was weird looking at it after a while, no personality whatsoever, just flat, gleaming and sterile. I felt nothing when it got destoryed.

They built a new ship, old mall was destroyed

Oh trust I have more on my that's just stupid list for this 3rd one. But I'll let it go...for now.


Yes, the magic robot arms speed building another ship big whoop. I bet it'll look like the Voyager ship since they're trying to cram all the various series into this timeline.


Oh and I finally saw RT, I don't care, I still liked ID 2 better.

Rant over.

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Well, it could happen.

morningsong said:

kpowers said:

They built a new ship, old mall was destroyed

Oh trust I have more on my that's just stupid list for this 3rd one. But I'll let it go...for now.


Yes, the magic robot arms speed building another ship big whoop. I bet it'll look like the Voyager ship since they're trying to cram all the various series into this timeline.


Oh and I finally saw RT, I don't care, I still liked ID 2 better.

Rant over.

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Well maybe Justin Lin hated the way the new ship look and wanted to reboot the reboot ship. Hope it has more of Star Trek the motion picture look to it.

Nah, probably more...

morningsong said:

Nah, probably more...

most likely, hoping Star Trek Discovery will be more to the Original series

kpowers said:

morningsong said:

Nah, probably more...

most likely, hoping Star Trek Discovery will be more to the Original series

The outside of the ship looks nice.

morningsong said:

kpowers said:

most likely, hoping Star Trek Discovery will be more to the Original series

The outside of the ship looks nice.

for Discovery or for the new Entrpise?

kpowers said:

morningsong said:

The outside of the ship looks nice.

for Discovery or for the new Entrpise?

Discovery.

Went to the store and had to pick up this magazine as well

Gotta get to Barnes & Nobles.