quote:Originally posted by Masao: will wear blue jumpsuit uniforms emblazoned with a starship shoulder patch
Thank goodness. As soon as I heard about the series being placed before TOS I started to wonder how many episodes or how many minutes into the pilot it would be before the first red shirt would die.
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Anyone ever read Trimble's Concordance? It also lists the names of episodes in other languages. The Japanese titles, translated back to English, are very funny:
The Man Trap - A Bloodsucking Monster on Planet M-113 Charlie X - A Boy from the Planet Tharsus The Enemy Within - Two Kirks Dagger of the Mind - The Lunatic from Devil's Island Miri - 400 year old girl The Devil in the Dark - Horta: The Underground Monster The Changeling - Secret of Nomad, Ultra-Small Spaceship
And my favorite: The Paradise Syndrome - Coming Close to Crash Course with an Asteroid
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Sensical? More like prosaic. Certainly not poetic like some of the original titles.
As for the uniforms, I'd like to see them really break with the ST past. How about some good, old-fashioned buttons and visible zippers? Nothing wrong with them, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Or as Dorothy might say, "buttons and zippers and snaps, oh my!"
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Zippers and pockets have been confirmed in a few places. Dorothy should be happy.
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quote:Originally posted by The_Tom: Zippers and pockets have been confirmed in a few places. Dorothy should be happy.
Sources? I know about pockets, going back to the field jackets of TWoK. But while zippers were always used in the uniforms, they were always concealed to look like something futuristic. And I've never seen buttons. They used snaps, too, in the classic TWoK uniforms, but they felt the need to camouflage them with silver braid for when the jacket flaps were left open.
I want to see the real, unembellished fasteners. Again, if it still works, why not use them? What would be the advantage of some high-tech 22rd century fastener over a plain zipper? Airtightness, maybe, but that wouldn't help with a shipboard jumpsuit.
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Well, unofficial reports of what the uniforms look like have swirled around for several weeks, and jumpsuits with prominent zippers and pockets has been a consistent thread. Official word confirmed these last week.
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The cadet movie uniforms also had poctets. Actually, don't some of the modern jumpsuits have combat-trouser like leg pocters?
To be fair about JMS, when his titles were good, they were good "Deconstruction of Falling Stars, Falling towards Apothesis" etc. But, by season 5, we'd gotten to the point where he'd run out of variations on "light" and "dark" and "war". I'd have trouble putting season 5 titles to episodes. Actually, I'd have slight trouble doing that to some season 4 episodes, but that is probably due to the fact that by late season 4, there were rarely individual episode stories. Still, season 5 titles were largely "The darkness in the shadows with war at night".
I do agree with faux-Echevarria about one thing. I couldn't stand that drum-beat.
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About the Enterprise title, I emailed Doug Drexler as to why they omitted Star Trek from it and here's what he said...
quote:In answer to your question:
1) Star Trek: Enterprise sounds like a company that sells Trek merchandise.
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Holy Sh*T! You have Doug Drexler's email address? Why don't you email him about those damn ships he drew for the DS9 Tech Manual to see if he based them on actual models he saw, or if he has photos?
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I'm pretty sure that his email address has been available for a while, and that the ships were not based on models.
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In an email response I received from Okuda, the VFX department had gotten together and built several kitbashed models for the "Dominion battle aftermath." Of all the models, though, only the Centaur and the Curry were seen in the show. I had asked Mike if Drexler's drawings were based on the other unused models, since there were already two drawings which were loosely based on the Centaur and the Curry. Okuda said he thought they were.
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I would guess models were involved in Drexler's drawings, but probably not the original models. After all, look at the Curry's huge nacelles. That's exactly what would happen if the model-kit Constitution-II nacelles were stuck on bits from an Excelsior model, from what I've heard. The fact that they're sideways suggests that the original model wasn't used, though, since the original clearly had them the normal way.
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