You’re all wrong. The question we **should ** be asking is where’s Ropert April?
Here is the official site.
The thing that Abrams really brings is slick marketing. Look at the marketig for Cloverfiled. It’s really inventive but doesn’t tell you squat. That’s what we’re going to get for Star Trek.
This just makes that Futurama episode so much better! Thanks.
I am not sanguine about the upcoming film, but this trailer doesn’t really affect that opinion one way or the other. I think the “Enterprise under construction” bit is just another way of saying that they’re going back to the start of the franchise, as it were. Like it says, “The future begins…”
Come on, like the Enterprise was welded together with acetylene torches? That guy isn’t even wearing a space suit. This is so NOT a scene from the movie.
However, I’m embarrassed to admit that I had a few brain-twisted moments trying to figure out how the Apollo-era recordings fit in. “Oh my god, they’re using the Guardian of Forever to go back to the 1960s! The Romulans must be trying to save Kennedy! Does this mean that Gary Seven is somehow involved? What about the-- oh, wait! Goddamn it, it’s just a metaphor for the original series! Deep breaths…” I’m better now.
Teasers are frequently scenes that aren’t even in the movie. Transformers and Spider-Man come to mind.
Don’t see any reason to get worked up over this.
I’m glad that someone remembers him. McIntyre’s novel Enterprise says that Pike was captain for 11 years, which leaves a bit of time after Kirk graduates, I think. I’ve read (and I can’t find it now) that April was the first captain. It might be on the timeline at the Las Vegas Hilton ST show.
I also think I’ve read that the Enterprise was built at Mars.
Quite so. A little more close to home: http://www.startreksite.com/plaques/ded_1.jpg
Edit: Never mind.
You know what I always liked about the Enterprise crew? They have class, baby. Starship class.
Yes indeedy. Although later ST canon has it as a Constitution-class starship.
Well, the entry on Constitution class ships doesn’t say where it was built. Clearly the refit shown in ST:TMP was done in Earth orbit. I looked through my Technical manual (first edition from 1975 
) and couldn’t find a mention of this. I might have picked up this idea from the TNG manual, but I’m not sure.
That’s clearly a forgery, since we all know the Enterprise is a Constitution class ship, and was obviously built in orbit. Star Fleet is in SF, but not shipyards.
Only if you count 1975 as later. That’s when the ST Technical Manual with this info was published.
There were several books prior to 75 - ‘Making of Star Trek’ -the ‘Official Blueprints’ (1973), the Compendium, etc… not sure if they mention Enterprise history at that point - in 79, with the release of the first movie came several more items that are considered ‘canon’ - “Spaceflight Chronology” etc, - Robert April was the first captian, Pike had 2 successful 5 year missions on ‘our’ enterprise - Spock was Pike’s Science officer - Kirk was a Lt on the Farragut - Kirk succeeded Pike on the Enterprise - his arrival on the Enterprise is not covered TTBOMK - several of these are confirmed in the series.
This, much like the Star Wars Prequels suffer from the same malady - the fanbase has had way too much time (and material) to think of how it “should be”.
I’ll enjoy the ride - it would be nice to know what Abrams considers ‘canon’ from the materials available (I generally don’t count the novels - just the more “technical” guides and histories - most (if not all) from 79 and prior were created with Roddenberry’s aproval/input - along with D.C Fontana and others.
Officially, the original Enterprise was identified as Constitution-class in the TNG episode “Relics”, and possibly in that show’s second episode “The Naked Now”, among other places.
It was ‘officially’ identified as such much earlier than that - the aforementioned tech manual and blueprints for sure - both considered canon. Reasonably sure it was also mentioned as such sometime in the original series - there was no “Enterprise” class -
Going by the definition of Trek canon, it’s not official until it’s shown on-screen and that includes all the Paramount licensed books.
I couldn’t find an actual photo of Kirk’s Enterprise’s dedication plaque through Google, but the original did say San Francisco. The same is shown on p. 71 of Michael Okuda’s, Denise Okuda’s and Debbie Mirek’s The Star Trek Encyclopedia (Pocket Books 1994). The plaques of the USS Excelsior, USS Enterprise-A and USS Sutherland all further say, “San Francisco Fleet Yards.”
Just as VGR showed the Utopia Planitia yards to be in orbit of Mars, so too may we assume that the San Francisco Fleet Yards are in orbit over San Francisco (synchronous, presumably, or there’d be no reason to name them after a feature on the planet’s surface).
