But I am so stupidly *thrilled* that IDW gave Number One a mini series all her own. out of all the Trek first officers, she gets the least amount of attention, and it’s been great fun seeing her serving under April, and meeting Pike for the first time. I also really loved Sarah Poole in issue #4–smart, no-nonsense, gruff the way Boyce and McCoy are gruff, but still warm and just that bit insubbordinate.

I wish they’d kept the story 6 issues instead of 5, tho. I don’t want the story to end so soon! In terms of the art, I love the colourists style–the inkwash/watercolour look gives the whole book a light and bright airy feel. Kinderzierski’s just done ana mazing job with teh colours. Byrne’s style has always bugged me slightly (particularly the way all his women’s faces look the same) but the finishing inks and colour really work with his Jack Kirby impression nicely.

I agree wkiryn, the TOS designs are refreshing. I liked the gray and black theme of the ship. Hopefully, the new “reboot” will incorporate more early design elements into the next films, but however, I do notice the comics leaning toward design of the new movie. Notice the front of the “teardrop” below the bridge, does that remind you of something? I guess TMP refit design schemes of the Enterprise have more impact than we realize.

Although I would have prefered the new Enterprise be more like the TOS era, I really liked Gabe Koerner’s version of the ship. It is true to the TOS design but also dresses the ship up nicely for the big screen (see link below.)

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Man if they had only used that design and kept more in-line with traditional starship design. With Scotty being at the beginning of his career and the extra years before the original Prime Enterprise 5 year mission, one can only hope for a couple of refits added in so we can see something more closely to the Prime version of the Big E. And leave the size alone, please, why not make the smaller ships SMALLER, instead of bumping up the Big E’s size, no one really cares if you “tweak” a shuttlecraft but to mess with the Big E, now even that would piss Scotty off.

Ooorrrrrr… “The Cage” and “Where No Man Has Gone Before” were pilot episodes and they were pretty much making that stuff up as they went along. No need to overthink the costumes too much.

‘Crew’ is what tv’s “ENTERPRISE” should have been!!!!!!!

Is this a new design interpretation? Or has this been depicted before?

In particular, I find the red engineering uniforms mixed in extremely intriguing. In The Cage in particular, there could have very easily been red shirts down in Engineering only, since we never saw anyone from engineering – actual engineers vs. all other support divisions.

It’s a little more complicated in WNMHGB since we see Scotty on the bridge, representing Engineering as a department head. However, Scotty is also seen operating the transporter and helming the ship and he is never identified as the chief engineer. It’s entirely possible then that there are still red shirts down in engineering and Scotty is the 2nd Engineer & Support Departments head, not the chief engineer yet. In other words, representing Engineering on the bridge while the chief engineer is where he’s supposed to be as the ship prepares to leave the galaxy. Or perhaps it’s the other way around and Scotty wears the beige color as the Support Department head of which engineering is a subsection.

Either way, I like the idea of the red shirt being part of the The Cage era uniforms.