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GrahamKennedy wrote:Perhaps it's a really easy upgrade?

And anyway... what if his ship mines dilithium or some other massively important and valuable commodity? It might be crucially important to the Empire's economy or something.

Yeah, I guess you could say they used the transwarp that Voyager's crew created in "Threshold", perfecting it so that they wouldn't all turn into newts.

Varthikes wrote:Yeah, I guess you could say they used the transwarp that Voyager's crew created in "Threshold", perfecting it so that they wouldn't all turn into newts.

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Another point... they seem to have redesigned the stardate system again. The Kelvin's captain gives the stardate as 2233.04... 2233 is the year Kirk was meant to be born. In the 25 years later section they give the stardate as 2258, and Spock's ship says it was built on Stardate 2387, which Spock said was 129 years in the future.

So Stardate just means "year" now.

GrahamKennedy wrote:...So Stardate just means "year" now.

Good.

I agree. That makes it at least easy to calculate.

Yes, I read on TrekMovie that Abrams did decide to change the stardate system.

I toast to the death of a fallen friend; Chief Engineer Oslen who was killed when he got vaporized by the Narada's drilling beam.

GrahamKennedy wrote:Another point... they seem to have redesigned the stardate system again. The Kelvin's captain gives the stardate as 2233.04... 2233 is the year Kirk was meant to be born. In the 25 years later section they give the stardate as 2258, and Spock's ship says it was built on Stardate 2387, which Spock said was 129 years in the future.

So Stardate just means "year" now.

Year and fraction I guess. This is the year (2233), this is where we are in the year (.04)

Nickswitz wrote:

LaughingCheese wrote:What really annoyed me, unless I misunderstood that scene, wasn't the Enterprise already rather far away from Delta Vega???

TRANSPORTERS HAVE RANGES PEOPLE, THEY AREN'T INFINITE!!!!

If I remember correctly, from an epp., it uses the subspace field to allow the beam to travel at warp speeds without deteriating, so therefore being able to travel a longer distance than normal.

Ahh, interesting.

And about seeing Vulcan from Delta Vega, is Delta Vega a new planet or something?

I don't remember ever hearing about it.

So could it be in the same system?

Though even if that were the case, it would have to be as close to Vulcan as the Earth is to the moon. Maybe closer.

Oh yeah, and what was with the MULTIPLE cores?!??!?

And exiting SIDEWAYS, not down?! Hmm...

About the only thing they didn't have was something about shield modulation.

Delta Vega was the planet in TOS's "Where No Man Has Gone Before". The site of a lithium/dilithium mining station pretty much on the outer rim of the galaxy.


On seeing the destruction of Vulcan from Delta Vega, I was thinking that maybe Nero left Spock with a long-range holo-viewer. Something like that.

Tsukiyumi wrote:

Varthikes wrote:Yeah, I guess you could say they used the transwarp that Voyager's crew created in "Threshold", perfecting it so that they wouldn't all turn into newts.

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Is that a joke, implying that the episode was so bad that you choose not to register it? Or, do you truly not know?

Varthikes wrote:

Tsukiyumi wrote:

Varthikes wrote:Yeah, I guess you could say they used the transwarp that Voyager's crew created in "Threshold", perfecting it so that they wouldn't all turn into newts.

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Is that a joke, implying that the episode was so bad that you choose not to register it? Or, do you truly not know?

I'm sorry, I have no idea what episode you're talking about.

Oh yeah, and what was with the MULTIPLE cores?!??!?

Loved that bit,
the core in TOS was never really explained, seen, it makes a hell of a lot more sence in my opinion to have multiple reactors that make up the core.
also note, water cooled.

also, was the Klingon home world taken out? i know a fleet was, but was the home world? in neros day it would have been a major player in the Federation.

Loved the movie btw, thought it was great. didnt slash trek at all.

Royal_Foxx wrote:I have a crush on the new Spock.

And I agree with Graham on this point.

GrahamKennedy wrote: Everybody involved absolutely NAILS their respective characters. These are absolutely the same people we see in TOS. Chris Pine especially does the impossible and just becomes Kirk.

I felt that way about the new Spock also.
Thought, if the relationship with Spock and Uhura continues, when Nurse Chapel comes on board, assuming that happens, there's going to be a cat fight.

Nurse Chapel is already on board, you hear McCoy tell her to do something.

Well we've now seen it five times, and we're off to see it in IMAX later today. Non-technical things I notice so far:

- After seeing it five times, and that's four times in one day, it does not get old or boring. It's still fresh and interesting.

- Listening to people coming out the of film the reaction is very positive. I even heard someone say, that even though it was trek it was great. Clearly this was not a Trek fan, and indeed she was put off by the fact it was a Trek film. She saw it anyway and from her reaction she really liked it.

- The cinema was really full every time we saw it. That goes for the 11:30am showing and the 8:30pm showing. None of them where completely full but it's a big cinema with large screens. There were also two difference screens showing the film in an overlapping pattern. (one starting in the half hour and anther starting at 20mins to the hour an hour later).