Comments on: It’s Official – Star Trek Is Back 12/25/08 – Film To Embrace Canon

By: STV - Squiggy

STV - Squiggy — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:42:31 +0000

…Personally I thinkg they are bloody idiots for two reasons:
1) TOS is the basis of all trek canon, and, despite thier best attempts, ENT, nor TNG/DS9/VOY especially tried to stick to it much..however, I do believe if they try, they might come close.
2) It CAN NOT BE TOS BASED. Why? TOS requires the following things:
A-William Shatner to be 40 years younger
B-Leonard Nemoy to undergo 40 years worth of make up to look 40 years younger((Probably irrelevant at that point))
C-De Kelley to be alive – NOBODY can ever do a Dr. Mccoy impersonation right… and nobody ever will.
D-Jimmy Doohan. Simple. NOBODY can replace Mr. Scott.
E-The collective IQ of Paramount Movies to exceed that of any given ant colony
F-Santa’s forgiveness. CHRISTMAS DAY? I’m not even Christian, but I won’t go see ANY movie on christmas. Spock be damned.

That’s just my opinion, but seriously… Who are they going to hire to replace De Kelley? I seriously hope it isn’t say… Hugh Laurie from House, MD, or more annoyingly, that annoying janitor from Scrubs.

By: andrea

andrea — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:59:47 +0000

i would like they don’t take star for lead characters because kirk, spock & Co. in the last 40 years are iconic images, so i prefer they take unknown actors for this movie. what do you think?

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:26:23 +0000

I am totally seeing this on Opening Day. Santa be damned!

By: Skippy 2k

Skippy 2k — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:47:56 +0000

#204 I was modifying it but it was actually built by Sean Robertson. When someone I knew on the net was wanting to use the cage bridge for something I started changing it but never finished.

Didn’t realize untill then that there were more changes than I thought. Mainly giving the helm a harder edge but still need to remove the bars under the consoles and change the upper screens… with trek xi coming I kinda want to work on it again.

I kinda liked the greys from the first bridge, I understand the later one was to take advantage of the color tvs but I think the earlier one could look cool on the big screen without too much updating.

Here is what the bridge above started out as…I am using lightwave and its availible online.
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2118/tosbridgevy3.jpg

By: GOOSENECK VIEWER™

GOOSENECK VIEWER™ — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:23:22 +0000

Looking GOOD Skippy!!!

Need to fix that texture map on the Gooseneck™ though. You’ll have to apply the map to separate sets of polygons to get it to fit that shape correctly…so that the ribbing wraps around the ol’ Gooseneck™ like it’s supposed to. ;-)

What software are you using, just out curiousity? I think overall your bridge looks great!

VERY Gooseneck™ HAWT!!!!

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:54:13 +0000

Sorry folks, dont’cha just hate it when you accidentally duplicate posts?

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:53:01 +0000

Very good Skippy 2k

I also think it would be an interesting visual addition to the new Movie’s instrument panels on the Bridge to have a “Gooseneck” viewer something like this…sorta reminds me of a mini retro (yet futuristic) variation of the original “War of the Worlds” alien technology…

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:52:12 +0000

Very good Skippy 2k

I too think it would be an interesting visual addition to the new Movie’s instrument panels on the Bridge to have a “Gooseneck” viewer something like this…sorta reminds me of a mini retro (yet futuristic) variation of the original “War of the Worlds” alien technology…

By: Skippy 2k

Skippy 2k — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:04:34 +0000

I gave making gooseneck viewers when I was trying to “cagify” the TOS bridge. Pretty sure the original model was SeanR’s.

Hadn’t got around to finishing it but I had rendered an image (part of the wall wasn’t fully set to transparent so can see part of it).

The Bridge:
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1025/cageifyingjz1.jpg

Goosneck:
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9643/playingonthejobba9.jpg

By: Skippy 2k

Skippy 2k — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:52:33 +0000

While I hadn’t seen or heard anything on TV or radio apparently its going around. Two people I work with mentioned to me “you probably allready know this but did you hear there making a new star trek movie?” Pretty much just answered… Christmas Day 2008. She also said she had mentioned it to a couple of guys that were looking at the TOS dvd’s but they should allready know that… I mean if there “true” fans. :-)