Comments on: Star Trek Exclusive: More Detailed Look At The Enterprise!

By: John Sullivan

John Sullivan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:49:24 +0000

Even as old as I am now, I hope AMT or ERTL or whoever owns the contract now will put out an old-fashioned model kit. They are really screwing with the original in many ways, but I like the look of the front caps of the nacelles, which I have always suspected played some part in attitude and gyroscopic stability, as well as projecting some sort of guidance in the Warp environment to change the course of the ship at high speeds – something that is not easily achievable for a ship on a ballastic inertial line of travel through a vacuum.

A little trivia: although unseen on TV, the original model’s hull lettering was surrounded by a small golden colored outline. Looks like they’ve copied that feature for this film.

I don’t know … I still think this movie will be the sequel to LOST in space … a film where the actors were replaced with Hollywood A-list actors and the technologies were updated, but still the movie fell short of expectations. Sort of like what happened in 1979 to this very franchise, if I remember right.

Based on what I’ve seen so far, this is entirely a movie preceeding the timeline of the original series, so I don’t think we’ll be seeing a lot of this ship with our crew on it, but perhaps we’ll see a little Robert T. April and far more Chris Pike on the Enterprise.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:01:19 +0000

When this baby’s finished it’s gonna scare the hell out of the Klingons!

By: Art

Art — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:34:56 +0000

I am beginning to think those two big turbines have nothing to do with the Enterprise. Maybe they are somehow used to take the saucer section into orbit. They don’t look right in comparison to the saucer.

By: Marina

Marina — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:49:12 +0000

Much to my own chagrin, I’m actually starting to get excited about this project.

By: steve adams

steve adams — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:20:23 +0000

Nice Job Dataschmuck!!

This inhancement puts the size of nacelles in a better perspective than the original.

By: Dataschmuck

Dataschmuck — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:20:50 +0000

Andy, that’s the whole reason I made it! I’m glad you guys like it. I figure it will tide us over until some more revealing shots come from the official channels.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:44:44 +0000

AWESOME job on the picture, DataSchmuck!! Hope you don’t mind, but it’s now my new desktop!!! I am so psyched for this movie!!!!

By: Lou Sytsma

Lou Sytsma — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:45:01 +0000

Nice job DataSchmuck! It does indeed show off the scale much better.