lpetrich wrote:I was unable to watch that video because of copyright restrictions. Is there any way to get around that, like officially-released stills?

Embedding an alternative link, same trailer...

Alythough Star Trek (in all its generations) is OK idealogically, it has a lot to answer for scientifically, because all too many viewers actually believed the pseudoscience, such as FTL travel, transporter beams, etc.
Not helped by that Japanese physicist/showman, who once tried to persuade his audience that there would one day be transporter beams.

You can't really do epic scale science fiction without FTL travel, and who knows what discoveries will be made in the future, I mean who would have imagined that the nature of time and space would not continue to be Newtonian before relativity came along?

Without FTL universe would be a sad place indeed.

Ironclad wrote:The Klingons do look JJish

The fact they have ridges already makes them non-Roddenberry, as far as continuity is concerned.

DavidMcC wrote:Alythough Star Trek (in all its generations) is OK idealogically, it has a lot to answer for scientifically, because all too many viewers actually believed the pseudoscience, such as FTL travel, transporter beams, etc.
Not helped by that Japanese physicist/showman, who once tried to persuade his audience that there would one day be transporter beams.

Transporter beams are bs but FTL spee... wait, fuck off I'm not going there again!

Mike_L wrote:Embedding an alternative link, same trailer...

Also blocked on copyright grounds.

What country are you in?

zulumoose wrote:You can't really do epic scale science fiction without FTL travel, and who knows what discoveries will be made in the future, I mean who would have imagined that the nature of time and space would not continue to be Newtonian before relativity came along?

Ironically, under Newton, FTL travel would have been possible!
Appealing to the unknown is not an argument for the possibility of FTL travel making a comeback.

Ironically, under Newton, FTL travel would have been possible!

Well they maybe didn't have solid reasoning to declare it impossible, since it didn't break any known laws, but on the other hand to accelerate a vessel to above light speed the Newtonian way would mean throwing something else out the back faster than light, and they didn't know of anything that could do that either.

NineBerry wrote:What country are you in?

The United States of America. That's what that miniature Stars and Stripes flag indicates.

Maybe this one works in the us?

https://youtu.be/3rj4inzcAKk

zulumoose wrote:

Ironically, under Newton, FTL travel would have been possible!

Well they maybe didn't have solid reasoning to declare it impossible, since it didn't break any known laws, but on the other hand to accelerate a vessel to above light speed the Newtonian way would mean throwing something else out the back faster than light, and they didn't know of anything that could do that either.

I meant, of course, possible in principle. But, as you say, it was anyhow not possible in practice to even attempt it. They therefore had no way of knowing that such an attempt couldn't work in any case.

NineBerry wrote:Maybe this one works in the us?

https://youtu.be/3rj4inzcAKk

Beautiful. Thanx. No copyright barrier.

CW: Triggered snowflakes.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/white-g ... ek-series/

I just found out about the recreation of the Star Trek TOS set. This seemed like a good place to post it.

Super!

Nice, I'll watch later

A lot of great photos and discussion of them building the set can be found here. They are also recreating the 11 foot enterprise filming model!

John Platko wrote:They are also recreating the 11 foot enterprise filming model!

The original Enterprise was made by Richard C. Datin Jr., Mel Keys, Vernon Sion and Volmer Jensen.
This video is mostly about the visual effects of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but it starts with Richard Datin briefly describing how he made the 1960s Enterprise models (a 3 ft preliminary and the final large-scale version)...