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Post by BeastBoy on May 20, 2023 13:04:58 GMT
My favorite starships are:
U.S.S. EQUINOX, U.S.S. Voyager, U.S.S. Defiant, U.S.S. Prometheus, FEDERATION MISSION SCOUT SHIP, Timeship Aeon, Romulan warbird, NX-01 Enterprise, U.S.S. Relativity and U.S.S. 1701-D Enterprise.
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Post by Yorick on Jun 2, 2023 8:44:53 GMT
The Motion Picture Enterprise. Perfection.
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Jun 9, 2023 2:28:30 GMT
The Motion Picture Enterprise. Perfection. Same. No ship in the franchise has ever quite hit that perfect combination of grace, power and beauty as that ship. There's a reason audiences in 1979 were okay with a 6-minute flyby of it. |
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Post by RobinBland on Jun 19, 2023 20:31:19 GMT
The TMP Enterprise - me three.
It's just beautiful. I want it to be real.
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Post by BeastBoy on Jun 19, 2023 21:09:30 GMT
The TMP Enterprise - me three. It's just beautiful. I want it to be real. But NCC-1701 is much better! What do you think about that?  |
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Post by RobinBland on Jun 20, 2023 22:23:49 GMT
I love it too.
It was called "The First Lady of starships" for a reason.
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Jun 21, 2023 12:04:53 GMT
I love it too. It was called "The First Lady of starships" for a reason. I do as well, but the TMP refit took it to another level by making it so much more graceful. |
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Post by RobinBland on Jun 21, 2023 22:38:05 GMT
I love it too. It was called "The First Lady of starships" for a reason. I do as well, but the TMP refit took it to another level by making it so much more graceful. . We we keep calling her it. She's a "she!" The original 1701 is genius in terms of design. She looks powerful, but welcoming at the same time - not intimidating, but you wouldn't want to cross her. She's a genuine mothership. Matt Jeffries had her painted that very faintly greenish battleship grey, because that seemed to chime with what a semi-militaristic organisation like Starfleet would've done at the time when he was working, in the 1960s. It was smart thinking. Looked good on tiny 1960s TV screens, in B&W and color. Didn't clash with the basic blue screen technology they were using to create the VFX. He really knew what he was doing. But so did Mike Minor and Doug Trumbull and Andy Probert and all those guys who had a hand in redesigning her and the way she looked in TMP. They knew she had to be beautiful for the big screen. Jeffries wanted to keep the battleship grey for Phase II, but when the TV project got upgraded and the FX team went through all those revisions, there somehow came about refinements and streamlining that (for me at least) created both the most convincing ship of the future ever. (Well, I know you think that too, Vie.) She is luminous. She never looked quite as vast and serene, as beautiful and believable again, although she always looked wonderful in the subsequent sequels. I really do love that design. |
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Jun 24, 2023 1:45:08 GMT
I do as well, but the TMP refit took it to another level by making it so much more graceful.
The original 1701 is genius in terms of design. She looks powerful, but welcoming at the same time - not intimidating, but you wouldn't want to cross her. She's a genuine mothership. Matt Jeffries had her painted that very faintly greenish battleship grey, because that seemed to chime with what a semi-militaristic organisation like Starfleet would've done at the time when he was working, in the 1960s. It was smart thinking. Looked good on tiny 1960s TV screens, in B&W and color. Didn't clash with the basic blue screen technology they were using to create the VFX. He really knew what he was doing. But so did Mike Minor and Doug Trumbull and Andy Probert and all those guys who had a hand in redesigning her and the way she looked in TMP. They knew she had to be beautiful for the big screen. Jeffries wanted to keep the battleship grey for Phase II, but when the TV project got upgraded and the FX team went through all those revisions, there somehow came about refinements and streamlining that (for me at least) created both the most convincing ship of the future ever. (Well, I know you think that too, Vie.) She is luminous. She never looked quite as vast and serene, as beautiful and believable again, although she always looked wonderful in the subsequent sequels. I really do love that design. To Robin:   |
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Post by ashleytinger on Jun 28, 2023 18:58:06 GMT
While I love the TOS Enterprise (especially since she was my favorite to draw as a kid) the TMP through Star Trek III Refit will absolutely tie with the TNG Ent-D for graceful lines and just this look that made them both majestic. I even like the 'bulldog' version of the Ent-D they did when they made the smaller model  |
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Post by RobinBland on Jun 29, 2023 22:37:46 GMT
I also love the D. It's not trendy to say that, as these days she's the odd one out - the big ol' mushroom-headed thing. I was distraught when they crashed her in Generations.
And I am very fond of the Enterprise B and Voyager. The Akira class is also very pleasing on the eye.
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Post by ashleytinger on Jun 30, 2023 2:18:42 GMT
I also love the D. It's not trendy to say that, as these days she's the odd one out - the big ol' mushroom-headed thing. I was distraught when they crashed her in Generations. And I am very fond of the Enterprise B and Voyager. The Akira class is also very pleasing on the eye. The Excelsior and the Ent B refit are high on my list as well. |
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Post by nombrecomun on Jul 6, 2023 17:08:20 GMT
I thought the Defiant was something different and I enjoyed that. Smaller, sleeker. It's not the 'big city in space' like a lot of the ships in TNG seemed to be. No frills. Felt more like a Klingon Bird of Prey.
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Post by BeastBoy on Jul 6, 2023 17:19:57 GMT
I thought the Defiant was something different and I enjoyed that. Smaller, sleeker. It's not the 'big city in space' like a lot of the ships in TNG seemed to be. No frills. Felt more like a Klingon Bird of Prey. Defiant is good but not beautiful as Normandy SR-1.  |
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