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Looks like bolts to me, considering there are two more bumps below the dash. Kinda looks like the surface of the TMP Enterprise.
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Gamma welding was supposed to be joining the metals on a molecular level, wasn't it? Like, turning two pieces of metal into one piece by bonding the molecules along the sides? I like the idea of phase transition bonding...
Anyway, I think it's been made pretty clear that in the Star Trek universe, commuting to work in orbit wouldn't be anything more complicated than taking the metro into town is to us. Beam, shuttle, whatever...nobody thinks twice about it.
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I concur on the point about the nacelles looking Koernerish . . . there definitely seems to be a line of structure going from the top of the nacelle 1/3rd to midway back and down to beneath the Bussard collector, with extra humpiness above that line, much as happened on GK's. Note also the circle at the very front of the collector. And also the 'walkway' inset along the side of the nacelle (visible on the starboard nacelle of the movie pic with lights running down it, though it may be too low to be the same thing). It may be that the nacelle isn't missing her forward endcaps at all, but that they're transparent like on GK's.
As for the lettering, grrrdammit. I was always annoyed when I'd see people put the numbers on the flat part, and now they're going to think they were justified. And where's my TOS lettering? ST:ENT, ST9 . . . it's like none of these guys can find the old font. Grr.
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Maybe they really can't. I mean, did they have 'fonts' in those days? They still called them typefaces, I think, and I've always wondered exactly how they got lettering to look so uniform without printing it, or how they got it superimposed over the film...I mean, where did the letters come from? Did they, what's it called, lithograph? the writing onto the film, or ... what? I know nothing about film-making except from the digital side of things..
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They're using something close to the original font on the official website, which just makes it all the more strange that they've switched to Jeffries Extended, or whichever that is now.
"I mean, did they have 'fonts' in those days? They still called them typefaces, I think..."
My understanding is that, technically, a typeface is a particular set of similarly-designed characters, while a font is a specific combination of typeface, size, style, etc.
That is, Times New Roman is a typeface. 12-point italicized Times New Roman is a font. These days, no-one draws the distinction, though.
And, regardless of which term you use, fonts/typefaces have been around for hundreds of years. Yes, they had them back in the dark, uncertain days of the 1960s.
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lol Well this is my point, I have absolutely *no* idea how that kind of thing worked prior to 1990 or so. I guess I'm lucky to even know about "movable type" printing.
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I've been idly pondering how to include whatever prop weapons feature in this film on my site. Do I just put them as part of the (already crowded) TOS/2260's section? Or give it a whole new section of it's own? Or compromise and shunt all pre-TOS TOS stuff (ie the Cage/WNMHGB weapons) into a 2250 section, and include STXI stuff therein? (not knowing the date setting of the new movie might make this quite premature now, and even incorrect in the future)
Anyway, I was playing around with link icons. And one thing I notice is that the Starfleet arrowhead as featured in the teaser is wider than usual, certainly wider than the version in the original blue/gold teaser poster image. Now, I'm sure the height-to-width ratio of the arrowhead has varied widely over the past 40+ years but it might (or might not) be significant, in that the version as seen on the Cage/WNMHGB uniforms was very wide indeed. The teaser arrowhead isn't as wide as that, but it's still one of the wider versions I've seen.
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Ah the good old days of Letraset and Chartpak.....
Long, long ago....in a technology now far far away... there existed Letraset & Chartpak.
These were transparent sheets that contained multiple examples of each number, letter, and punctuation of a particular typeface. These examples were like a 'dry-ink' printed on the underside of the sheet. you placed the sheet on the object you wished to letter, aligned baselines, and used a burnishing tool to transfer the ink from the sheet to the surface. Naturally, you had to have multiple point sizes and a HUGE amount of storage to use multiple fonts and there was always the fact that you would almost invariably NOT have the right amount of a particular letter and have to use another sheet.
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