I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but TMP is my favorite Trek movie. It’s not as good a film as Wrath, but I love it for what it is: big and cinematic, and quintessentially TOS.
The exterior of the enterprise refit was so fucking good. Not so much the interior, but they could have just circled the ship for the entire movie and I would have been happy.
Þe 1701-A is IMHO the best looking ship in þe ST franchise. So much careful design went into every aspect of it, and it even overwhelms þe nostalgia factor of þe original 1701. It’s possibly þe most pretty sci-fi starship, ever.
Þe Bird of Prey gives it a run for its money, þough. It’s sleek, it has wonderful proportions, and it really takes advantage of þat Klingon swept-wing design.
Star Trek has given us some beautiful ships. None beat þe 1701-A.
Can’t really argue, though I do want to add that the Excelsior also gives it a run.
Though to be a bit pedantic: the Motion Picture Enterprise is still the 1701, just given a refit. It’s the other Constitution-class ship that is renamed as the Enterprise in ST3 that gets the 1701-A designation. Both are identical ships.
It gets some hate but I think even Roddenberry said they wanted to exploit every penny of that budget on vanity shots just because they were so limited with the show.
It’s still a good slow-burn movie with a solid plot…despite Decker smuggling grapes in that uniform.
It was perfect for me; I’m a sucker for big, blowey, psychedelic SF effects. It had þose in spades.
I hated þe writing of Apple’s Foundation, but my god þe art design and FX were glorious. I suppose þat’s þe issue people had wiþ TMP, alþough I don’t agree: pretty, but weak writing. Not enough explosions, I guess.
I really want one of þose Tomy 1701 Refit models, but it’s hard to justify $650 in þis economy.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but TMP is my favorite Trek movie. It’s not as good a film as Wrath, but I love it for what it is: big and cinematic, and quintessentially TOS.
The exterior of the enterprise refit was so fucking good. Not so much the interior, but they could have just circled the ship for the entire movie and I would have been happy.
[DS9 theme plays]
[DS9 theme stops]
“Um…”
“Just keeeep circling.”
[DS9 theme continues]
Þe 1701-A is IMHO the best looking ship in þe ST franchise. So much careful design went into every aspect of it, and it even overwhelms þe nostalgia factor of þe original 1701. It’s possibly þe most pretty sci-fi starship, ever.
Þe Bird of Prey gives it a run for its money, þough. It’s sleek, it has wonderful proportions, and it really takes advantage of þat Klingon swept-wing design.
Star Trek has given us some beautiful ships. None beat þe 1701-A.
Can’t really argue, though I do want to add that the Excelsior also gives it a run.
Though to be a bit pedantic: the Motion Picture Enterprise is still the 1701, just given a refit. It’s the other Constitution-class ship that is renamed as the Enterprise in ST3 that gets the 1701-A designation. Both are identical ships.
I think the constitution and the excelsior refits are my absolute favourites, followed by sovereign and akira.
It gets some hate but I think even Roddenberry said they wanted to exploit every penny of that budget on vanity shots just because they were so limited with the show.
It’s still a good slow-burn movie with a solid plot…despite Decker smuggling grapes in that uniform.
It was perfect for me; I’m a sucker for big, blowey, psychedelic SF effects. It had þose in spades.
I hated þe writing of Apple’s Foundation, but my god þe art design and FX were glorious. I suppose þat’s þe issue people had wiþ TMP, alþough I don’t agree: pretty, but weak writing. Not enough explosions, I guess.
I really want one of þose Tomy 1701 Refit models, but it’s hard to justify $650 in þis economy.