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Nibiru: Inspired by STO's Exploration?
bergins
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Ok, a confession first: I am watching Star Trek: Into Darkness right now. Yeah, I know.
During the opening shot, where Kirk is running from the natives of the planet Niribu, I had a sudden realization: The planet looks like it might have been generated by STO's Exploration System. Oddly colored ground and rocks, strangely shaped plants in contrasting colors, odd random fauna.
What do you think? Did set designers/producers pay a little STO to get some inspiration? Or did both draw inspiration from some of the brightly colored sets from TOS, or elsewhere?
During the opening shot, where Kirk is running from the natives of the planet Niribu, I had a sudden realization: The planet looks like it might have been generated by STO's Exploration System. Oddly colored ground and rocks, strangely shaped plants in contrasting colors, odd random fauna.
What do you think? Did set designers/producers pay a little STO to get some inspiration? Or did both draw inspiration from some of the brightly colored sets from TOS, or elsewhere?
"Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock
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If so, it's definitely inspired by STO's "exploration."
Only if he went there to fight the 3rd Borg Dynasty. If that was the case the movie might actually be a good one, I'm a huge fan of the 3rd Borg Dynasty.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
After all, ID is the movie that wraps up by making “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her five-year mission: to explore strange, new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before” into the Captain's Oath. Oath? It isn't an oath. At all. And why on earth do all captains talk about the Enterprise? And, since in the next scene, Spock says they are on the longest mission ever attempted, why do all captains talk about a 5 year mission? Other captains talked in the shows about their own including things like upholding the Prime Directive, which isn't mentioned here, why? There are so many ways this doesn't even make sense. In fact, the lack of thought and imagination demonstrated just in this one place gives credence to the idea that perhaps they really did steal a set from STO's Exploration System rather than think up their own version of Niribu.
I really don't know why I watched that movie again. Makes my blood boil. My only hope for the 18th is that JJ really IS a bigger Start Wars fan and as such, shows more respect to the IP than he showed to Trek.
I can hope...
That we know of. Its entirely possible that the Constitution herself was in the running for the 5 year mission, and Enterprise's sister ships like the Lexington, Exeter, and Constellation are currently under construction. Just because we didn't see any other Connies doesn't mean there aren't any other Connies.
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Like the first of the NX Class was the U.S.S. NX right?
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Interestingly, since the NX-class is presumably named after the U.S. STS vehicles, and barring some sort of alternate-universe chicanery, the first ship shouldn't have been named Enterprise: OV-101 was specifically named after the fictional starship Enterprise in our universe, but Star Trek doesn't exist within the Star Trek universe itself, so the fan-based campaign to have it named that wouldn't have happened. So, by no small irony, the intended original name for OV-101 was "Constitution".
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