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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] That's just it. I think the thing that burns me a bit is how a few simple alterations to dialogue (or even a couple well placed title cards) would address many of these fan concerns. If Pike said "400" instead of "800". If it was shuttle 9 instead of 34 (or 407 or whatever it was). If there had been a title card stating "18 months later..." If someone, anyone, had said something, anything, about Nero's miles long mining ship monstrosity. If we'd been given some better sense of Nero's grief/loss and why it was SO focused on Spock (OK this might take a few extra lines, perhaps even a whole scene.) If instead of a single supernova, it was some mysterious supraluminal, subspace compression wake setting off Novae across the quadrant (extra credit if it turns out this was the unanticipated result of a red matter experiment Spock Prime had been conducting from Nero's [i]research[/i] vessel.) What I'm saying is that just a few little things would have made for a movie that would have been every bit as popular with the general public, and wouldn't have bothered hard core fans so much. I still count myself a fan of this movie, but I do so despite these problems and would prefer not to have to do that. I also wanted to add on the subject of scaling: For those unfamiliar with 3D modelling (and I'm not claiming any grand expertise here), but I think it's a pretty common technique to overscale the model so as to wring every possible detail out of the render engine you can get. Also that Star Trek has pretty consistently scaled either planets down or ships up to exaggerate motion or otherwise enhance the storytelling. In my admittedly limited experience, this is A) very easy to do (purposely or otherwise) and B) commonly an entirely separate step (a separate program sometimes) from the actual modelling or texturing. Which makes me wonder if someone was just looking at a number in an animation file to make the new E so gargantuan. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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