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Saying that, there was an element of humour in it - i.e. when Uhura was getting gooey over Spock, Kirk's face was a Classic!!
Another thing I have found is the resurgeance in interest in Star Trek in general, ALL the series (bar the Animated series) are shown on several cable/satellite TV channels here in the UK, and the films are running again on Channel 4 TV.
Its a little complicated, both types were mentioned in background comm chatter in the "Epsilon 9" scene at the beginning of the film; the Federation Class (as the USS Entante - NCC-2120) and the Hermes Class was mentioned when you hear orders sent out that the USS Revere(NCC-595) has to rendezvous with the USS Columbia (NCC-621).
A gereric Hermes/Saladin schematcs were shown on the bridge displays during STII & STIII. The same goes for the Ptolemy Class this was seen on Bridge displays too!
ALL these classes were actually from the (then) canon publication "Star Trek Starfleet Technical Manual" by Franz Joseph, it was de-canonised by Gene Roddenberry shortly after due to disagreements between him and Joseph, more recently his widow (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry) more of less stated it could be considered canon.
Hope this helps.
My fandom has waned since Paramount and Brannon Braga raped the series into the dirt and I wasn't totally sold on the new movie either, however I can still appreciate the art. Yours is no exception and this is really neat. Nicely done! This must have taken a long time to put together and get the scale just right (1 pixel being 1.5 meters and all).
How did you do it? Do you have a reference schematics or something? I didn't think the supplementary material they sold back in the day (like the Michael Okuda's Technical Manual) were still being made/sold.
Also is the reimagined Heavy Cruiser the JJ Abrams Enterprise? As the comments say below: it is huge! It totally didn't sink in that the ship was that big.
JJ's STXI, made me laugh (for all the wrong reasons) the stupid engineering (a Budweiser brewery), the constant flares, and the oversized starships (this was done by JJ himself who is a well known Star Wars fan, everything there IS big! The Enterprise was built ON Earth not in an orbital construction yard, for an Engineering point of view - that is a no-no, the stresses on the warp necelles AND the saucer Primary Hull would have snapped them off!! Kirk went through Starfleet Academy NOT the way they showed - his first ship was the USS Farragut - so they messed up there.
The charts were done simply by copying vaious sideviews off various sites and google images and resizing them, the whole project was originally done for myself a couple of years back, but a friend of mine said I should put them up here!
For me the thing that really started my straying-away from Star Trek began with the massive disrespect for the franchise's continuity by the writers/producers. This partly began with the widely loved "First Contact" when they made Zephram Cochrane from Earth, a small nitpick I suppose, but much of the supplementary material on Star Trek listed him as being from Alpha Centauri, but I digress... However, when Enterprise started introducing Klingons and other continuity breaking bugs, I lost whatever little interest I had.
Another part of it was also that starting with Voyager, Star Trek just wasn't feeling like Star Trek anymore, I'm not sure what it was, I can't quite put my finger on it. Voyager felt like a return to form (i.e., the exploration) but not sure what it was that just lost me (it's been so long I don't remember lol).
I think it might have something to do with the overuse of the Borg whenever they wanted ratings, an enemy that had already grown stale by the time TNG had ended. The show, like the Borg, had grown stale.
I really wish I had watched Bablyon 5 back in the day, Star Trek needed someone like J. Michael Strazynski, a guy who had a plan to tell a story instead of just milk a franchise until it was withered and dessicated. He could have done wonders for the franchise.
Anyway, I am sorry for the long reply. I hope I didn't ramble too much :]
I saw Babylon 5 from the start and yes I feld DS9 was similar (it was), but both series had a charm of their own, DS9 had Quark and the goings on with the Ferengi, loved Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) and Leeta (Chase Masterson). On B5 G'Kar was the most noble character - used to find his arguments with Ambassador Londo Mollari hilarious.
Enterprise truly fucked things up, the Klingons weren't supposed to have been met until the early 2200's, and the ships of that time were actually supposed to have been cylindrical NOT like the classes we DID see.
Gotta be honest, First Contact was and is STILL my favourite Trek film, the situation with him being from Alpha Centauri is fluid, I originally read his WENT there to retire, but was originally from Earth. In the non-canon universe, he WAS from Alpha Centauri!
Jonathan Frakes did a great job directing it too, it's a pity he didn't become more of a mainstream director. Damn you Hollywood!
But yeah... between Enterprise and the last TNG movie (which shamelessly duplicated Wrath of Khan with Data's demise) that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Still, deep down I'll forever be a Trekker/Trekkie