smw@tilt.UUCP (05/04/84)
If I'm right, this is a spoiler. Otherwise, it's a chance the writers missed to do something they should. The TV commercial shows the Enterprise with nearly half of the primary hull (the saucer) blown away or massively damaged. We've known for, GAD! must be 20 years now!, that the Enterprise can jettison her primary hull in case of emergency. Of course, the series never had the budget to do anything like that, but we ALWAYS knew (from the Writers' Guide) that it could be done. I just bet it'll be done. And that's the perfect way for the ship to go, if go she must; invoking a procedure that Roddenberry conceived when first he laid eyes on Matt Jeffries' design of the Enterprise. -- Stewart Wiener :-) "Read and weep as did Alexander Princeton Univ. EECS :-) when he beheld the glories of princeton!tilt!smw :-) Egypt." --G. Roddenberry
boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (05/19/84)
Last weekend, I saw a tv ad for STIII which showed a scene of the new Klingon
ship (I don't want to call it the bird of prey, dammit, that's the old Romulan
ship!!) firing its phasers. This is followed by a shot of the *Enterprise*
tumbling through space with what looked like the entire front half of the saucer
section missing, so if it doesn't get destroyed, it'll at least get banged up
pretty good.
I suspect that this is a method of getting a new design for the old gal
so soon (she was redesigned not too long ago, so she wouldn't be up for a new
redesign so soon). For those of you who would like to see a photo of the new
starship class, the latest issue of FANTASTIC FILMS has a nice double-page
spread showing the *Enterprise* docking at a huge space station, with the
*Excelsior* sitting nearby. It's really a sharp looking ship.
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA)
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ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPAsmw@tilt.UUCP (05/23/84)
/***** tilt:net.startrek / akov68!boyajian / 7:11 pm May 19, 1984*/ / For those of you who would like to see a photo of the new / starship class, the latest issue of FANTASTIC FILMS has a nice double-page / spread showing the *Enterprise* docking at a huge space station, with the / *Excelsior* sitting nearby. It's really a sharp looking ship. Okay, I haven't seen it yet. But I saw a photo of the Excelsior's bridge, featuring Capt. Stiles (James B. Sikking). Twice the familiar size; so you lose any sense of intimacy with the bridge crew. Feh. I'm dubious. The Enterprise is an absolutely gorgeous ship, and became even more so after the *minor* changes made for ST:TMP. But I can't see the Excelsior-class ships looking better than the Enterprise. More powerful, sure. But it can't be as aesthetically beautiful. From one who thought Kirk's flyover of the Enterprise was the best scene of ST:TMP... --Stewart Wiener / Princeton Univ. EECS / princeton!tilt!smw