Yeah, on the original model from the 60s show it was an actual shallow, parabolic ‘dish’ mounted separately on the front of the lower hull. I don’t ever remember the original series ever showing any kind of special effects coming from it (unless they re-did it in one of the ‘remastered’ episodes).
When the ship was redesigned for the first time for ST:TMP***** it was changed to a more modern, built-in, illuminated, multi-purpose ‘beam emitter’ of some kind, and that has continued in all subsequent ship designs.
*****technically that’s the Enterprise-A but they were identical…
And… now it’s delayed until May 2017. Which I guess isn’t too surprising since they have no cast yet, the ship is apparently still being finalized, and scripts for only the first few episodes are completed.
Since the series was first announced in late 2015, what have they been doing all of 2016? I know Bryan Fuller is also show runner on another show coming up, but maybe he should have stepped aside or delegated some things if it was going to be this much (literally) of a show-stopper.
is it possible that not enough people are showing an interest in signing up for their new network and they’re trying to buy more time to get people interested? The movie did not do that well and they may have been hoping for a large enthusiastic group of trekkies that is not materializing.
Yeah, I doubt that there’s anyone who wants to sign up to a single-channel subscription service. Why would you, when you can get Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, and Prime each with enough content to keep you busy for the rest of your life, even if they never upload another thing?
Not that it makes sense to even bother launching CBS All Access, but it does at least make more sense to launch the service a few months before Star Trek and see if anyone at all comes to try it out. If not, they can launch Star Trek on regular TV a few months later instead of putting it on All Access and discovering just how powerful the force of bittorrent can be when you try to compete with a non-competitive product and lock a major title into it.
When they hadn’t announced a cast yet I figured a January release was impossible so I was not surprised at the delay. But they are working on it. They showed a Brief video at the Star trek Discovery panel at Star Trek Mission New York.and it showed some clips of the new ship and something that looks like a pink Andorian. these were different from the pictures and videos they had already released online.
“These… are the voyages of the starship Discovery. Its three to ten year mission: vamp until that goddamned Kirk comes on the scene, visit places without anyone remembering so Kirk can get the credit, keep the galaxy safe so Kirk can save it, and very quietly go many places Kirk, Picard and Janeway will go later without leaving so much as a smudge on the canon record.”
ETA: Or be forever doomed to the tsunami of fancry, *“That’s not how it happened!”
ETA2: Unless it’s after the Kelvin incident. Hmm.
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My personal take on registry numbers is that when Starfleet commissions a new ship class a block of registry numbers is reserved for that class. However, if that block is used up and a new, say, Miranda class is needed, it just gets any old number that’s available. This theory explains both sequential and non-sequential numbers but, alas, not the Constellation.
It has been stated it is to be set in the Prime timeline. Meaning the universe that applied to TOS/TNG.
So somewhere around Fed space there’s a Lieutenant Kirk actually rising through the ranks and they may have to slap down some writers who’d want him to cameo in an Ep or two…
Well, good luck to them in that respect. I don’t think the audience will be as large as they think. There already are too many streaming services out there, each with its own “must see” programs (or at least what they hope are must see programs). No one is subscribing to all of them.
The first episode will air on CBS proper. After that it’s All Access. Star Trek Beyond and celebrating Trek’s 50th at Mission New York have rekindled my love for the franchise so they got my couple of bucks a month even though I had believed previously I wouldn’t do it.
I personally wouldn’t mind paying to see it, but from everything I’ve heard of their app is horrible. If they’re getting $6 (with ads) or $10 (no ads), I want a decent app to use.
Canada’s CBC has been apologizing up and down because twisted-up rebroadcasting rights will forever forbid them from releasing the last Tragically Hip concert in any format, ever, anywhere. I commented that they need not worry about it because it was posted at The Pirate Bay the day it aired. And so it will be with this new Star Trek series and every other series until the end of time.
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