Star Trek XI - spoilers!

[moyer777]

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20233502,00.html?iid=top25-20081016-%27Star+Trek%27+movie%3A+Inside+scoop%21

Nice article online about the new movie!

[Geekyfanboy]

LOL.. Rick that is the article from this Friday's Entertainment Weekly.. I posted that a few posts up. :) And yes it is a good article.

[moyer777]

You know what's really funny?  I read it then.  :)  BRAIN FART!

[Yeoman Mara]

Woah!  I love the uniforms!  This is looking very exciting!

[Bryancd]

Ladies and gentelman, I give you the USS Kelvin, the first upside down starship!!!

[Rico]

That looks weird Bryan.  We sure it's all real?  That blue thing on top looks out of place.  Is that the engine?  Maybe some Photoshop work done on this one?

[Geekyfanboy]

Yep.. this is a real picture.. it's from the EW article.

[Bryancd]

That looks weird Bryan.  We sure it's all real?  That blue thing on top looks out of place.  Is that the engine?  Maybe some Photoshop work done on this one?

It's the secondary hull on top. So they have kept to the basic idea of a Federation Starship, just inverted it. The engine nacelle is below.

[Rico]

Ahhh - now I see it.  Kind of looks like a Scout class ship from the old Tech Manual.

[Bryancd]

Ahhh - now I see it.  Kind of looks like a Scout class ship from the old Tech Manual.

Actually, it's a Jeffries based original design but with just one under nacelle. I'm glad at first you thought it looked weird, it's good to be critical sometimes. :)

[Rico]

I said weird because the image looked to have mismatched colors, not because I had any problem with it.  I'm all for seeing other Starfleet ship designs.  And it's hard to tell, but it looks like maybe only one nacelle under the primary hull.

[Feathers]

Where's the bridge? Do we assume it's still the bulge on the top of the primary hull (just in fromt of the secondary hull joint)?

I think it's quite a neat design in its balanced top/bottom approach. A similar symmetrical approach to the Stargazer with it's four warp nacelles. My only complaint is that as it's drawn here, the deflector dish looks a little too much like an eye - I keep expecting it to blink!

[billybob476]

Here's a little side by side between TOS and the new shots.

(site might be slow right now, it's getting dugg)

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Star-Trek-Side-By-Side-Photo-Comparisons-10546.html

[Bryancd]

Where's the bridge? Do we assume it's still the bulge on the top of the primary hull (just in fromt of the secondary hull joint)?

I think it's quite a neat design in its balanced top/bottom approach. A similar symmetrical approach to the Stargazer with it's four warp nacelles. My only complaint is that as it's drawn here, the deflector dish looks a little too much like an eye - I keep expecting it to blink!

There is indeed one warp nacelle below and the secondary hull above, but's it's not a drawing, it's an actual shot from the film, just not very clear and a bit blurred. And yes, the bridge is where the bridge always is.

[Rico]

What's this part?  Another ship?  Part of the Kelvin??