Comments on: First Look At QMx Star Trek 2009 USS Enterprise Studio-scale Replica

By: Cowcharge

Cowcharge — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:45:04 +0000

Sorry, but it’s a stupid-looking ship, and glaring errors like trying to claim it’s half a mile long without changing the windows is just plain lazy. This is what you get when your director is more interested in stuff “looking cool” than he is in respecting the history (too bad it only looks cool to the short-attention-span, “look-at-the-big-shiny-thing” Transformer generation). “It should have stuff that moves on it!” What a ridiculous, slapped-together way to make a movie. The director of any series movie should already be a fan, and be dedicated to upholding the standards of that series, and not be primarily interested in putting his own mark on it.
Lose the stupid lens flares, and buy a friggin’ camera dolly, will ya? It looks like my 89 year-old father shot this with a hand-held. If I’m paying $10 to see a movie, I don’t want the director doing everything in his power to keep me from seeing anything. And I’m sorry, but you CANNOT make a space movie without a nice long, slow flyby shot. Ya just can’t. And ya can’t drive something that big like it’s a Mini. Ya cannae change the laws o’ physics.
There were some good things… Most of the acting was ok, I thought Bones was good, and Scotty was pretty funny, Spock was ok, and they did make some effort to hold to their original relationships. I can accept the cast, no problem. But did anyone else think it was ludicrous to promote a fugitive, stowaway graduate/ensign to captain solely on the basis of Spock being pissed off at his world being destroyed (like any captain would keep his equanimity in that situation)? And if a bit of mourning is enough to can a captain, in a crew of however many thousands it takes to run a ship that absurdly big, there were no experienced officers? I mean sure, this is a fictional crew in a fictional ship in a fictional universe, so getting TOO worked up over things like the brewery or the scale or the unrealistic military aspects is silly, but you still have to have “suspension of disbelief” for a movie to be anything more than a cartoon. Audiences are much more tech-savvy than they were during TOS, so attention to details is more important now than it was in the 60s.
Contrast with Bond, for example. Although Bond has had his very, very silly moments, mostly with Roger Moore’s last couple of films, there is still a certain consistency throughout, even if the tone has shifted from less to more to less tongue-in-cheek over the years. In every Bond movie, you can still accept the universe without much trouble, thanks to consistent things like Q and Moneypenny (ok, a big asterisk next to Moonraker). You can even accept Remington Steele (barely), if you’re stoned enough.
Would anyone accept a 6-foot Hobbit, just because it was too hard to film them at their “real” height?
The net result, for me, of Abrams’ screwing things up? I’ll watch all the future Trek movies, but I’m done paying to see them in the theater, I’ll just wait and get them off Frostwire. The theater “experience” pretty much sucks these days anyway, and I know they’ll never miss my money.
$1000+ for a model? Never. If I want one that big, I’ll build it myself for $200.

By: j

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:47:49 +0000

Looks very very ugly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Eddie.

Eddie. — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:03:24 +0000

Hey! Guys.
Where can I buy a model just like this one?

Bing Fan.

Eddie.

By: James Random

James Random — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:00:01 +0000

If you look at the videos here

http://www.quantummechanix.com/Enterprise_Project.html

You’ll find that the bussard ramscoops also rotate when the enterprise is switched on. Unfortunately, there are no current plans to release a retail version.

By: plazztrek

plazztrek — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:02:52 +0000

the next generation enterprise bridge is on display at the franklin institute in philadelphia until sept 20th 2009 also the engine room and also the small craft that picard and data stole to crash their way out (in star trek nemisis) and get back to the enterprise

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By: Rocket Scientist

Rocket Scientist — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:46:42 +0000

86. dmduncan

I would have had the Enterprise designed on paper both inside and out.

*****

Absolutely! I very much enjoyed this movie and look forward to the sequels, but yes. I feel that this is the sort of attention to detail that should have been paid. I can’t imagine it would take a talented artist/designer more than a couple of days to lock down some essential elements, and it would mean so much to fans like ourselves. It would make this Star Trek universe seem that much more real.

And NO MORE BREWERIES! Having recently toured one, I can confirm that it did NOT give me the feeling that I was aboard a starship.

By: kmart

kmart — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:34:53 +0000

119, There’s another excellent size reference on TMP, the guy staring out the porthole (actually modelmaker Mark Stetson, now a vfx supervisor) as Scotty backs the pod in.

Plus, and I’m not sure how visible they are on blu-ray, but hope springs eternal, there ARE images behind most of the windows, they just don’t read well. Stetson confirmed that for me a week or so back. He worked on the little deck T garden section in the engineering hull as well as the little lounge under the bridge (which you CAN see as the refit pulls away on impulse after leaving dock.)

I just wish I could see what details are there in the rec deck window area of the model …

By: Chris Knight

Chris Knight — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:25:17 +0000

I’d tap that.

By: The Angry Klingon

The Angry Klingon — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:43:34 +0000

119.
We DO have an established scale for windows on the refit. we had the rec deck windows in TMP and we have K/S/M looking out the officers lounge window in TMP and again in STV. We also base scale in TMP from the Drydock shuttle. We have Kirk and Scotty in the window so we know their relative size to the shuttle pod and we know the pods size compared to the docking ring on the refit. The problem with the new poorly thought out scale of the NEW E is that the (various) scales dont match up. We see Kirk and Spock in the window of the Bridge on the new ship. It doesnt match up. We see Kirk’s pod ejected from that airlock and we its size relative to the airlock and then we see the pods size relative to kirk on Delta Vega. The naysayers seem reluctant to admit that the production crew quite simply didnt communicate or didnt care. The ship was never intended to be 2500 plus feet long. They screwed up and are trying to spin it like it was intended. Again, I dont care how big the ship is but what I do care about is the lack of detail orientedness on the production crews part. That same sort of nonsense was one of the things that made Trek 5 so laughable.