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CountArioch · « **Reply #20 on:** May 20, 2009, 02:39:58 PM »

I was impressed when they asked Uhura if she could speak Romulan, and she said "All three dialects".

They must have an impressively homogenous culture if that's the case, considering the 40+ dialects of English spoken just in America, and the dozens spoken overseas. (Hell, between everyone I know, there's about 5 or 6 dialects od English just in my peer group.)

altpersona · « **Reply #21 on:** May 20, 2009, 02:57:23 PM »

languages and dielects die off every other day.. its not surprising that they would have only three russian dialects left in a couple hundred years..

altpersona · « **Reply #22 on:** May 21, 2009, 03:41:34 PM »

i may have a compaint. not sure havent researched it enough to be sure..

but i think the enterprise may be bigger on the inside...

AlterFrom · « **Reply #23 on:** May 21, 2009, 06:24:32 PM »

Quote from: altpersona on May 21, 2009, 03:41:34 PM

i may have a compaint. not sure havent researched it enough to be sure..

but i think the enterprise may be bigger on the inside...

LE GASP. THIS IS SHOCKING NEWS.

altpersona · « **Reply #24 on:** May 21, 2009, 06:40:51 PM »

for TOS, it dosnt bother me... they seem to have fixt it in NG and the rest... for them to go back is bothersome..

tarbrush · « **Reply #25 on:** May 25, 2009, 02:54:57 PM »

I hate time travel so much. I mean, it's very clever, wiping out the entirety of the trek canon at one fell swoop so they can make more movies, but really, I hate time travel.

altpersona · « **Reply #26 on:** May 25, 2009, 03:27:37 PM »

after another viewing, im pretty sure the water tubes scene dosnt fit inside the ship.

CountArioch · « **Reply #27 on:** May 25, 2009, 05:01:26 PM »

I assumed it was some sort of weird alien future-liquid.

Kari · « **Reply #28 on:** May 26, 2009, 02:37:44 AM »

Quote from: altpersona on May 25, 2009, 03:27:37 PM

after another viewing, im pretty sure the water tubes scene dosnt fit inside the ship.

We talking size wise, or do you just not believe there's giant water tubes?

tarbrush · « **Reply #29 on:** May 26, 2009, 10:08:33 AM »

I initially thought it was full of industrial coolant like in Sunshine and Scotty was going to die a horrible gruesome death.

Hallack · « **Reply #30 on:** May 26, 2009, 10:24:32 AM »

Quote from: Kari on May 26, 2009, 02:37:44 AM

Quote from: altpersona on May 25, 2009, 03:27:37 PM
after another viewing, im pretty sure the water tubes scene dosnt fit inside the ship.
We talking size wise, or do you just not believe there's giant water tubes?

*Gets mental image of the kids from Galaxy Quest going over ship schematics and discussing details of function*

altpersona · « **Reply #31 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:24:44 AM »

i think the size of the room they are in dosnt fit inside the ship.

Prime32 · « **Reply #32 on:** May 26, 2009, 11:44:46 AM »

Quote from: altpersona on May 26, 2009, 11:24:44 AM

i think the size of the room they are in dosnt fit inside the ship.

Yeah, all the ships looked tiny with the shuttles that seem to take up more than 30% of the space onboard.

altpersona · « **Reply #33 on:** May 26, 2009, 12:26:48 PM »

the original enterprise was built off spec from the carrier enterprise (where i lived for 4 years)..

the new, original enterprise is marginally different.

we had rooms like that, lots of them. but we didnt have a saucer section, a think 'neck' area, warp engines, and a pencil thin main body..

Kari · « **Reply #34 on:** May 26, 2009, 02:12:38 PM »

The CG people needed to work on their proportions. The shuttles were too large in relation to the rest of the ship in the scene they showed one docking. But in general, proportions and scale were the biggest problem of the movie. (Seriously, less than 5 minutes from Earth to Vulcan? Or the fact that everything in the Enterprise seemed to be only a couple of hallways away from each other? Or seeing Vulcan from Delta Vega?)

If you look at it, the saucer section is at least five levels thick, and each of those has to be at least 20' or so (for all the ventilation, plumbing, wiring, etc etc etc...). That means the saucer's at least 100' thick, and the main body was at least that thick, as well. That room would have no problem fitting.

Actually, in my opinion, they made the Enterprise a bit on the small side - or I'm misguessing the number of levels in the saucer section.

altpersona · « **Reply #35 on:** May 26, 2009, 03:12:53 PM »

the saucer section is probably 100 feet thick... but i dont think that that the water works is in the saucer.

Kari · « **Reply #36 on:** May 26, 2009, 03:22:44 PM »

As I said, the 'main body' section is at least as thick as the saucer section itself, and while not as 'wide', it's still a round structure - and you have to see it as that engineering section being the only thing in the main body. Well, that, and the shuttlecraft bay at the tail. It's probably a good deal longer than it is wide, as well.

But, as I also said, I could be guessing very low. There could be twice as many decks in the saucer than my estimate, making the whole thing that much bigger. (And, in my opinion, I believe it should be bigger.)

Prime32 · « **Reply #37 on:** May 26, 2009, 03:48:13 PM »

Quote from: Kari on May 26, 2009, 02:12:38 PM

The CG people needed to work on their proportions. The shuttles were too large in relation to the rest of the ship in the scene they showed one docking. But in general, proportions and scale were the biggest problem of the movie. (Seriously, less than 5 minutes from Earth to Vulcan? Or the fact that everything in the Enterprise seemed to be only a couple of hallways away from each other? Or seeing Vulcan from Delta Vega?)

If you look at it, the saucer section is at least five levels thick, and each of those has to be at least 20' or so (for all the ventilation, plumbing, wiring, etc etc etc...). That means the saucer's at least 100' thick, and the main body was at least that thick, as well. That room would have no problem fitting.

Actually, in my opinion, they made the Enterprise a bit on the small side - or I'm misguessing the number of levels in the saucer section.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale

Kari · « **Reply #38 on:** May 27, 2009, 04:30:19 AM »

Seen that already. Believe me, if it hadn't already been on the Star Trek entry, I would have added it myself.

Michael · « **Reply #39 on:** May 27, 2009, 06:51:56 PM »

I watched it at IMAX when it came out. I thought it was pretty good, and was glad to see people who would otherwise never watch a scifi go to see the film. The complaints I hear about this movie are the same problems the multiple television series have, so I don't understand all the hoopla.

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