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Rumor Mill: The New Enterprise May Be Online
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on December 4, 2007
AICN has directed us over to a site called Movietome this morning to see what can only be described as a possible concept for the new Enterprise in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. And until we get that reader email that tells us that this is not true, we are ok running with it for now. I mean, when have the folks at Ain’t It Cool ever lead us astray?
Don’t answer that. At this point, the only confirmation we will be able to get is on January 18 with the release of Cloverfield. As we reported yesterday, a Star Trek teaser should precede the much-hyped monster movie. For now though, I am willing to say that this could be what the Enterprise will look like. And from where I’m sitting, it doesn’t look much different than any of the other Enterprises that I’ve seen.
As you can see from this breakdown over at Screenrant, they are all pretty close. Especially the original NCC-1701 (first one designed for the screen) and the NCC-1701-A (used in the six films that starred the original cast), which were only slightly different. As someone who is not a huge fan of Star Trek — and as someone who thinks that J.J. Abrams has already crashed the Enterprise into a wall with poor casting — I really don’t care what the Enterprise looks like either way. But that doesn’t mean that some of you out there won’t be up in arms about this. Feel free to let those frustrations out in the comment section below.
Up for Discussion: Do you buy this as the new Enterprise? If so, what do you think of it?
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9 Comments
December 4th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Yeah I buy it, it looks EXACTLY like the old Enterprise.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:56 am
A. This does NOT look “exactly like the old Enterprise.”
2. It’s not from the film.
Having said that, it IS pretty cool and I like it.
:-)
Vic
December 4th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Thank you for following up point “A” with point “2.” I needed a good chuckle this morning. And, yes, this does look exactly like the old Enterprise. Granted, I’ve seen exactly one episode of Star Trek. But I HAVE seen the opening credits a bunch, and this very much resembles that iconic image.
December 4th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
No prob, Josh. :-)
Of course it’s similar, but there’s a big gap between “similar” and “exactly the same.”
You can see the original here:
http://screenrant.com/archives/want-to-see-all-the-new-star-t-1198.html
Vic
December 5th, 2007 at 11:58 am
The shape is quite similar, but it’s definitely NOT not exactly the same.
December 5th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Looks an awful lot like the fan re-imagining of the Enterprise from http://www.startrekreborn.net/viewpage.php?page_id=84 to me. The squares on the pylons, the uplights on top of the saucer, the spine down the back of the saucer… in other views you can also see the transparent nacelle tops: http://www.startrekreborn.net/images/enterprise_orbit_1080.jpg
December 6th, 2007 at 12:26 am
James,
Exactly. It’s the same ship.
Vic
January 18th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I have to say that I like the new design but I fear that this ship could be just as technologically historically inaccurate as the NX Enterprise with Cpt. Archer where the technology of that ship was well beyond the capabilities protrayed in the original series and described in the Star Trek encyclopedia which chronologically came after the NX. That said, I admire the “possible” new design since it doesn’t look like a fart of solar wind from a star will completely decimate the ship. I always thought the original Enterprise was flimsy, clumsy, and on the verge of utter collapse if it wasn’t for the illustrious Mr. Scott. Just don’t over do the technology, thats TNG and beyond’s job. Rick Berman help me if I see one blue quantum torpedo flickering through space! Otherwise nice design, did say that?!
January 18th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
One more thing, looking more closely at the “new” ship in comparison to the “old ship, what a paradox, it would seem that there are more than 23 decks on this new version. Just stating one man’s observation.