I just seems “HD” is just marketing newspeak for: this figure is now based on the “remastered” CGI “model” version of the ship which supposedly has greater closeup detail as opposed to the original physical mock-ups.

No whip antennae on the nacelles and the TOS would seem to indicate it is Kirk’s Enterprise after WNMHGB to the end of the series.

Am I skeptical that the CGI closeup detail is duplicated on the merchandise? Yeah, but I’m willing to entertain that they’ve increased the detail with respect to their previous editions.

I already knew the differences between the pilots and series (and Mirror), but I fail to get how the HD version differs from the classic seres version. The only thing in that article are glowing red impulse engines. Aside from that, shouldn’t the ships otherwise be identical from TOS to TOS-R?

I’m going to have to check IV out again. I thought Klingon weapons had no stun settings?

Chekov would have wounded or killed his interrogators?

Also Klingons had Type I and Type II phasers? Because I clearly recall Chekov’s was a Type I.

Maybe they adapted the Klingon/Romulan tech? Clearly there was a lot of that going on on Vulcan with regards to the ship itself. Although it seems odd that they couldn’t pick up Federation weapons/hand-gear on a Federation world? Maybe they were already personas non gratas due to the impending court marshal?

For that matter it was odd that Spock “misplaced” his ability to replicate…err..”find” his uniform.

I believe you will find your answers here:

http://ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/tos_ships.htm

What’s next the HD “Cage”, HD “WNMHGB” & HD ISS Enterprises? I don’t get it.