Comments on: Play Esurance’s New Star Trek Game Online & Learn Clues About The Star Trek Movie

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:41:18 +0000

I’ve been editing a story for a new star trek series called passages which emanates from TOS: The Enterprise Incident. It’s about a time travel corp group that existed in about Kirk’s time or 2266 to 2269 and then was disbanded by the Federation. They however reformed with Sarek’
s and those punctual beings the Tholians. Eventually they help map Romulan space so that the Romulans won’t take over the galaxy and screw up Federation as well as everyone elses destiny.

By: Brenert

Brenert — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:12:39 +0000

Big huge unrealistic “monsters”? What the heck? Seems more like Star WARS :/

By: El Chup

El Chup — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:52:16 +0000

Scotty’s mate Keeser looks a bit like those aliens in Nemesis at the beginning during the dune buggy scenes. Reckon its the same race? If so I have to respect JJ & co for including those sorts of references that even most TOS fans wouldn’t spot.

By: falcon

falcon — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:38:56 +0000

@85 – hmm, interesting concept.

My take on Delta Vega – it’s just a different nomenclature for planets; for instance, orbiting the star Vega is a planet (fourth from the star) that has a marginal Class M atmosphere (and it’d be really neat to hear them refer to a planet at least once as a Class M). Using the Greek alphabet, Delta is the fourth letter – so the fourth planet out would be considered either Delta Vega, or Vega IV, or whatever you wanted to call it. Different names for the same thing.

Like Earth is the third rock from the sun – so it would be Sol III, or Gamma Sol, or just Terra.

(This may bring up a whole new discussion about planets such as Gamma Hydra IV [in "The Deadly Years"] and could, indeed, make Hitch’s head explode.)

By: Dierna

Dierna — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:25:40 +0000

Delta Vega being a mining planet makes sense if you read the prequel comics as Nero is a simple miner who befriends Spock some 40 years after the events in the last movie.

By: RTC

RTC — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:22:10 +0000

#78 rangerone314, I once looked into that very question, and the ‘edge’ vertical to the galactic plane is still many thousands of lightyears away, and thus hundreds of years away even at warp 8. Again, it’s one of those scientific facts that a Trek viewer has to shrug at and not get lathered about.

By: John Sullivan

John Sullivan — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:48:36 +0000

Just to correct a typo … Delta Vega would be the 3rd (not 4th) star that is not a planet at all. Gamma Vega would be the 4th. So the name is bogus as an astronomical term, and has been since 1965.

By: fred

fred — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:47:44 +0000

And, isn’t it just possible that Archer actually got some action and had a kid? And the kid grew up and named his dog the same as one his pop had? More likely than any other scenario.

By: John Sullivan

John Sullivan — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:36:30 +0000

#90- Delta Vega the lithium cracking station would have to be very far away, on the other side of “the Barrens” in “Enterprise,” in a direction “positive z” away from Earth in a direction towards the Galactic North Pole (from Earth) towards the Constellation Coma Berenices. This is simply because the “edge of the galaxies” where stars end and one can say one is leaving the galaxy is closest to Earth and neighboring stars in this point, and from there, Delta Vega was only days away AT IMPULSE (rocket/sublight) speeds. “Star systems that were once days away are now Centuries away).” Why even make the station automated if it were not so out of the way and far from the main routes of civilization? The better question is, why even bother to do all of that unless it really was rare in “Lithium Crystal” quality and importance to the growing Starfleet, perhaps their version of a new Saudi Oil field out in the middle of galactic nowhere? But so far as to what “Delta Vega” is, like many Star Trek names it was an attempt by a TV show to sound more astronomically cool than it ever really was. Delta Vega, if there were such a thing, would be the 4th star in a singular Vega Star System, and not a planet at all. Something closer was “The Vega Colonies” spoken of in “The Cage,” which according to staff member Bjo Trimble, was supposed to mean Vega 9, which for that blazing superstar, is still a little close to house humans, but that one sticks with a little more credibility.

By: fred

fred — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:25:21 +0000

Probably the movie makers didn’t remember about Delta Vega being used, it’s just a coincidence or they faintly connected it with ST somehow.

I’m sure it’s not an attempt to fit into canon after all the other changes.