Mandy, I tend to think in terms of the production models, not the "what-if-it-were-real" dimensions of the on-screen fiction, so a TOS Big E would be about 11 feet, a refit 1701A would be about 12 feet, etc. The U.S.S. Constellation from The Doomsday Machine would only be about 16" as it was an AMT kit model.
And don't bag on J.J. Abrams. He's getting a lot of heat from the Ubergeeks about "ruining" Star Trek, but I don't see that their bitching is justified. I really didn't care for the way, the old production crew had handled the franchise after Roddenberry's death. It became very repetitive, and seemed more intent on focusing on geek-speak than good drama and story-telling. All of the later TNG era series seemed to suffer from being done very haphazardly.. A classic example of this was when Rick Berman was questioned about what the Klingons would look like in Enterprise. His response was, "We've been doing them this way since 1979, so we're gonna keep them this way." This seems to be how they approached a lot of things in the series and films, and I think it's why they failed to draw a new audience to the franchise. I think the new movie will be great, and if it looks nothing like the 700+ hours of Star Trek that came before it, I'll be just fine with that. Live Long and Prosper, Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: "cat" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 6:51 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 36318] Re: Models finished. > > Mandy wrote: >> Stop it... Now I'm getting all hot and flustered! <waving of fan made of >> paper> > > No, you can't make a full size Big E. Where would you put it (and all > the Paramount lawyers)? > Besides you'd have to put up with JJ Abrams trying to "reimagine" it. > (of course you could just tell him to get Lost) > > cat > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
