Comments on: Quantum Mechanix Gets Star Trek Movie Replica License – Will Make ‘Studio Scale’ Enterprise & more

By: Star Trek 11 Merchandising - Seite 8 - SciFi-Forum

Star Trek 11 Merchandising - Seite 8 - SciFi-Forum — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:56:09 +0000

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By: why guy

why guy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:35:05 +0000

As for a new trek enterprise model. I bought the toy and completeley disassembled it and started refinishing it. I will publish pics of the progress soon. And guidelines as to how to make this toy NOT look as such. But, as a truly accurate replica.
Otherwise if your a truly competent modelmaker yourself you might want to give this a try. The toy costs 30 bucks and when you take it apart it is much like any model kit you would buy just not on sprue and far from detailed. It can be done! But you will have to work for it.

By: Doctor Mobius

Doctor Mobius — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:40:55 +0000

Considering the widely different scales The other movie Enterprises had (How many decks in the rocket boot scene in V for instance) I’m not gonna worry too much if somebody throws out a number that doesn’t jive with how big the Enterprise looks. Quite frankly the movie worked, and worked well.

The brewery seemed a bit odd for a set, certainly the biggest change, but hey it’s being run by a Scottsman now so really is a brewery all that out of place?

By: THX-1138

THX-1138 — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:47:24 +0000

Does the scale of the forward window/viewscreen jive with the scale of the shuttle bay above? I am having a difficult time reconciling the two scales. It APPEARS that the scale of the shuttle bay is smaller than that of the bridge. And all of it APPEARS different than the scale of the workers on the scaffolding. Is this just a matter of not quite getting the perspective and aspect correct between the three shots or do you think that ILM is just being a bit vague?

By: Hat Rick

Hat Rick — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:23:52 +0000

You’re more than welcome, 57. I agree with you that it seems to be a very compelling image from the standpoint of understanding the sheer scale of this new Enterprise.

By: Steve Mavronis

Steve Mavronis — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:35:58 +0000

53. Hat Rick, big thanks for that bridge shot! This new Enterprise is indeed huge based on this image. I like many others was having a hard time digesting that it is supposed to be 2500 feet long (even at 1/1000 scale a model would be 30 inches long) but looking at the height of that bridge viewscreen opening (which is what, as big as a person?) I’m starting to believe the scale of it now. In this alternate Star Trek universe Starfleet must like to build big, and Nero’s to blame!

By: MC1 Doug

MC1 Doug — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:19:22 +0000

#36: “Seconded about the “Making Of” books. I can’t believe they’ve got ones out now for the new Terminator and even freakin Angels and Demons… but no Star Trek? … Did Paramount think we wouldn’t be interested???”

Actually, you’re probably closer to the truth than you think. No one need look closer than to the publication frequency of TREK books in recent years.

Pocket Books has reduced the number of new TREK titles in recent years… they have even reduced the number of staff dedicated to editing and soliciting.

(Although personally, I think PB overdid it anyway; by creating a glut on the market as they did, it was nearly impossible to keep up with all the books published in the 1990s).

And with an apparent lack on interest, why else would Pocket Books NOT publish an update on the venerable ST Encyclopedia to include info on the ST Enterprise years or of Nemesis… or an Enterprise Companion book?

Sadly, just too many fans lost interest around the time of the release of Insurrection/Nemesis/Enterprise.

Hopefully, the movie’s apparent success will signal a re-birth of interest in new TREK literary materials.

By: Hat Rick

Hat Rick — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:35:53 +0000

Regarding the picture at 53, based on that picture, which I got from a thread posted at StarTrekMovie.com, the ship cannot be merely the size of a modern-day supercarrier. Assuming that the silhouettes in the viewscreen/window are individual crew members, and remembering that the viewscreen/window is about the height of an individual, compare the size of the primary hull (saucer) with the entire supercarrier in the following picture of the Navy’s USS Enterprise:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/USS_Enterprise_(CVN_65)_underway.jpg

The Navy’s Enterprise is 1,123 feet long. The sailors in the foreground are actually larger than the figures in the starship’s viewscreen/window. The figures near the back of the ship are closer in size to those seen in the viewscreen. In the image posted at 53, the camera’s perspective is that from a location not even at the saucer’s edge, and still the figures are about as small as those at the back of the Navy ship in the above photograph. This must mean that the RADIUS of the saucer alone is about 1,000 feet — the radius. The saucer itself, then, may be as much as 2,000 feet in diameter.

There is some uncertainty as to the actual height of the viewscreen/window, but the general idea is conveyed by the above estimate.

The length of the new starship Enterprise may be around double the diameter of the saucer, lending credence to the belief that it is either 2,500 or 3,000 feet in length.

By: BrandonBR

BrandonBR — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:24:25 +0000

@ 46. I know that the venting on the nacelles occur in the movie and are very prominent in the final shot of the enterprise before it goes into warp.

The sucked in deflector dish effect starts to occur in that same shot as well..you can see the plates start to open up to prepare the deflector arms to pull the dish in.

@ 49 There is a shot from the front of the bridge during the flight to the Narada where Pike call outs to Kirk “you shouldn’t be here anyway” that shows the viewscreen. Contrary to earlier postings here the lights that illuminate the designation NCC-1701 are nowhere near the bridge.

For those of you looking for comparison points of this new version of the Enterprise I can say to look towards the first film, TMP refit, as one of the points of departure for the ship design and allocation.

By: Hat Rick

Hat Rick — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:11:04 +0000

47, thank you for the information.

49, ask and ye shall receive:

http://www.startrekmovie.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1221&d=1242002428