Back during the fallout about First Contact, there were a lot of fans on various sites asking opinions about "which is the coolest-looking starship?" - and a lot of us said the Akira.
Now I've got a nasty hunch at least one of the inquirers was a Paramount flunky doing a survey[Hmmm, we have to design a new Enterprise. Let's do a demographic analysis with the fanboys and see which design they like the most, and then create it's ancestor].
Other than a complete lack of originality (which I find hard to believe), I can find no better theory to explain the similarities.
Posted by Dr. Obvious (Member # 271) on :
Yes , Its Called Market Analysis , and companies do it all the time.
Give the People What they want.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
That is the complete antithesis of Star Trek though... re: giving them what they want.
1. Boldy Go where no one has gone before not rehash what everyone has done before
Well yeah... they're giving fanboys what they want. When Seven came on Voyager their ratings went up like the buldge in 13-year-old horney teenagers pants. So what do they do? Give us T'pol, who suppose to be even more sexier than Seven. Fanboys like Wes1701E obsess over the Akira, so we get the USS Akiraprise. And since NX is considered cooler than NCC they're giving us that too.
Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
I think we sould shut up in future... Lol. Not that I'm complaining about Seven, of course.
Posted by Dr. Obvious (Member # 271) on :
"Its the Antitheisis of Trek"
Uhh I think thats what these producers are going for.
Star Trek isnt some artistic masterpiece with unflapable credability , its a campy scifi series.
I'm sure back when TOS was coming out they conducted countless surveys and discovered that if they found some creative way for Kirks Shirt to come off every other episode they would attract female viewers , and if they brought in a weekly hot alien chick to go along with Kirk they would attract a male audiance , its just Human nature.
Star Trek is a Business like any other , give the public what it wants.
Its an Entertainment Franchise , people make what they want out of it.
Some make it into this Huge artistic masterpeice and a guide book to our future.
Others , who dont wear rose colored glasses look at it for what it is.
A Campy TV show with some cool episodes and some cool technology and ships.
Posted by Treknophyle (Member # 509) on :
Actually Hobbes, NX stands for prototype starships (ones not yet in production). Remember the Excelsior? NX-2000. It became NCC-2000 later.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I'd be willing to bet that Hobbes knew that. His (slightly sarcastic) point was that NX is considered, for want of a better word, cooler.
It has 3 things going for it.
The Excelsior (which was quite cool) The Defiant (which was very cool) The letter X (which is cool by default)
What more do you want?
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
"Enterprise was brought to you by the letters N, X and the number 01!"
Tune in next week when Count Von Count attempts to count the number of starships to bear the name Enterprise. . . 8)