Comments on: Today Is A Good Day To Watch The ‘Errand Of Mercy’ Preview

By: Christopher Seeley

Christopher Seeley — Sat, 12 May 2007 17:42:37 +0000

FANTASTIC!!

I also have some wallpapers I created if the guys at Trek Movie are interested!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:25:15 +0000

Red Phasers, Blue Phasers, Green Phasers… So when they get a certain well-known actor to play the captain of his own ship…. Purple Phasers??

By: the king in shreds and tatters

the king in shreds and tatters — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:20:45 +0000

No new Klingon ships?

Boo.

By: Dupe

Dupe — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:39:42 +0000

I don’t know if anyone has brought this up, but isn’t it a bit odd that in the original the Klingon weapons fire came up from below the Enterprise, but Big E returned fire straight ahead. Maybe they had guided phasers.

By: Cervantes ( looking up at a Scottish sky )

Cervantes ( looking up at a Scottish sky ) — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:41:29 +0000

At the time, as a (very) young child watching the original Star Trek episodes, I used to think that the Enterprise was the FIRST and ONLY starship out there in the undiscovered vastness and unusualness of space, and used to think how lonely and isolated and dependent on the “E” the crew inside her were… Because of that misconception, I always watched it with a huge sense of uncertainty in their ongoing missions, which seemed dramatically exciting and almost melancholy, because I thought they were “out there” all by THEMSELVES…
I wasn’t old enough to follow and understand the nuances of the “Federation” you see, and I STILL watch the episodes with a sense of the original crew being vulnerable and alone aboard their speck of machinery, being engulfed in the vast cosmic granduer of the unexplored Universe(s). :D

By: dm

dm — Sun, 06 May 2007 08:59:42 +0000

cmd r, couldn’t have said it better myself. There was much more at stake with fewer ships so each battle or disaster that befelled a starship was much more dramatic.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:53:13 +0000

116- I remember watching DS9, seeing the huge battles, and thinking, if Starfleet has this many ships, why was losing 40 ships such a huge loss? They made a very big deal out of it in BOBB. They even used the term, “Rebuilding the fleet” towards the end of prt. 2. At the time, this was great and seemed to make sense, but a few years later we see fleets in the hundreds, and the impact is no longer the same. However, considering how big space really is, and how large the Federation has become, I feel the larger number of ships makes sense in that aspect. And… the space battles in DS9 were frakking cool.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:22:44 +0000

I always though klingon weapon fire was green and hit an opponent with plasma bursts that emitted from the front of the engines and trailed off in smaller segments.Seems like an angrier color than light blue.(green w/envy vs. true blue,baby blue etc.)

By: CmdrR.

CmdrR. — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:13:50 +0000

113, 114 — “There are only 12 like it in the fleet.”(from TIY) That could mean 12 or 13. I absolutely agree that it makes for better story telling if a starship is a rarity. In “Best of Both Worlds” it makes a huge impact when 40 starships are trashed by the Borg. But a scant few years later, in the Dominion War we’re talking about combined Fed-Klingon battle fleets in the hundreds (or is it a thousand.) I KNOW this was a production decision, because they could just hit the ‘dup’ button on the ‘CGI Belchfire-3000.’ But, when you see ships blow up without even getting a cutaway of a bridge shot… who the hell cares? Less is more, even in Trek. I hope they keep THAT in mind for STXI. An ‘intimate’ story on a grand stage would be very nice.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Fri, 04 May 2007 14:36:31 +0000

Agreed, I always thought the Constitutions were the most impressive, advanced ships at that time, and always felt the rest of the fleet was made up of a mixture of less powerful and older classes. It makes sense to me that the fleet is smaller at this point in time than it is in the TNG era, and I too have always loved the autonomy shown by ship captains in the TOS era.