To be honest I think the "new" Enterprise actually looks pretty good. It definitely has the feel of the original, but it's had a few design changes to make it look a little more sleek. I can deal with that.

I think it looks fantastic! Nice continuation of the basic concept with tones from TOS and the movies as well as modern design aesthetics. And the last is precisely why they have an iBridge and not a retro-bridge that would look laughable on the screen. Besides the bridge set changed in pretty much every movie anyway.

AWESOME! BEAUTIFUL!! WONDERFUL!!!

I dig it. I think the saucer needed more changes like the rest of the ship got, but it's definitely hard to tell from one photo how it will look in motion.

cool
and yes it does look like the genius bar haha

sleek was the exact word i said to myself when i saw it, I really like the subtle changes that were made to the design really update it and i think improve on the classic look. Very well done

that's a sexy ship

Pretty nice design. Looking forward to seeing this thing animated.

Glad to see they aren't trying to "hipster" shit up. Yes, it looks shiny enough to be the creation of a 2008 special effects company, but has a timeless quality to it. Good show.

Well I guess I'll be the first to say I don't care for it. The saucer is the only thing that looks correct in any way. The nacelles look like they're almost touching the rest of the ship, the taper of the body is just weird too. Would it have killed J.J. to leave one part of canon unmolested? The least he could've done was read "Mr. Scott's Guide To The Enterprise."

The secondary hull's a bit smaller in proportion to the saucer. It's also been pushed waaaay forward, which makes the photon torpedo launcher look less prominent. The shuttlebay's smaller, since the secondary hull tapers to a tip much more drastically.

Not that happy with it.

Damn, now i have to buy yet another Enterprise model! That brings it to...8 now is it?

No really, that ship is freakin awesome!

Will, stop whining, you nerd.

I'd rather it look like a Genius Bar than something out of Serenity.

I suppose ultracore fans will be pleased at how similar it looks to the original (or later) designs.

Personally, I was expecting something a little more drastic and "risky" with fans. I never liked the color white for starships- it's just ugly to me. I would have loved it if they had given it a more metallic silver look, similar to the color of the NX ship from "Star Trek Enterprise."

I was never a fan of ST or could ever get into it. But that ship design always managed to be cool to me. I like this new one they did for the new film.

To Star Trek fans, what's more important to you? Keeping the characters as close as possible to the tv show or previous films? or expanding on them?

I like the original design better. Still, I suppose it could've been much, much worse.

Why does the outside and the bridge look so completely shiny, when the other pics we've seen of the interior look like something from BSG?

Are they mixing styles again?

Otherwise the outside looks fine.

It's no Millennium Falcon. :)

What Says:

November 11th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

I’d rather it look like a Genius Bar than something out of Serenity.


Fail.

It looks too much like the Enterprise from the movies, which Abrams himself invokes in the EW piece.

The problem is that this movie is supposed to take place far before even the original series. So it doesn't really make much sense.

So it's really another statement from the writers and director of this movie where they say they wouldn't change a thing about [fill in the blank] and then show you something that is changed. LOL.

That being said, she's a fine looking ship. And I think they are being very thoughtful about to keep and what to change just like Ron Moore was with BSG.

That's just ugly. It should look like the Enterprise from The Cage.

Yeah, my first thought upon seeing this ship was the remolded Enterprise (and the 1701-A) from the motion pictures. I think it will be weird for me, at least at first, to see this ship and not expect an older red-uniformed cast inside.

Its a beautiful ship, but it is not the Enterprise. Seems such a shame to be creating a prequel - even if a re-imagining - with so casual a disregard for one of the most important SF icons ever created.

The recent remastering of the original series should have been the guide here - not some hybrid of original series and movie, which looks as if it belongs in the Next gen era.

Note: It's a prequel, not even at the beginning of the Original series.
Of course the shuttle bays, photon torpedoes, and etc are a bit off- this could be the "Beta Version" of the final thing we saw back then.

I'm stunned. What's with all the love for this piece of crap?? Trek fandom is truly dead and forgotten.

Seriously, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Besides, I was expecting (like a fool) some actual continuity with the original series, as in, the Enterprise from the 1960s should be making an appearance here in relatively unaltered form, much like those old '60s uniforms that have been largely retained. What the hell is THIS thing? It's easily the worst Enterprise design I've ever seen (even worse than that unrecognizable little dart-shaped thing from the last three Next Gen films), all awkward, gangly and lopsided. God I hate it. They took the thing of beauty that was the original Enterprise and made it look even "sleeker" and ultramodern than its wonderful refit for the motion pictures. Damn it's offensive. Every incarnation of my beloved Enterprise gets uglier and less imaginative than the one before. They can't hit much more rock bottom than this putrid design.

The notion of unnecessarily "rebooting" such a beloved series with such a beloved cast already made me feel nearly nausous, but this new Enterprise is the final nail in the coffin. If Voyager and Enterprise hadn't all but completely killed my Star Trek fandom already, this new design would make me vomit. Just horrible. There's no beauty or symmetry to it at all. If Gene Roddenberry weren't a mere collection of ashes floating out in space right now, he'd be turning over in his grave repeatedly over this whole misbegotten project. I cannot believe what Paramount has allowed Star Trek to devolve into. And this after Rotten Tomatoes details four completed scenes they were shown that sound more terrible than I was expecting and utterly disregarding any and all preexisting Star Trek canon and chronology. Leonard Nimoy should've told them to shove the script for this thing up their asses, not agree to actually appear in it and tarnish his marvelous legacy forever.

Oh my god, I just can't stop venting. This new Enterprise just opened the floodgates. Somebody burn every work print of this awful film before it ever sees the light of day and destroys our long-held love of classic Trek forever. I hope it tanks horribly when it's released. That's right, honest to God, I wish the most awful failure on this thing. Paramount just isn't getting it anymore.

Damn you, J.J. Abrams. Damn you to hell. And damn you to hell again.

i totally agree with the comment above, who does this guy think he is messing with the original series of my favourite show. What the hell is this? It is not the enterprise, if all the other incarnations of trek can stay true to the original show why the hell can't he? there are so many inconsistencies in this so called star trek movie it would be impossible to list them all. I read somewhere the J.J. was a star trek fan from this abomination i don't think so. he will go down in history as the man who killed STAR TREK.

THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To comment on the characters in this movie, If it's a "Prequel" to Star Trek TOS WHAT IN THE HELL ARE Mc COY AND CHEKOV DOING IN IT? we all know that in the first episode with Kirk it was Dr Piper and NOT Mc coy and i could be wrong but i don't think Chekov was even in the first season, he joined the crew fresh from the academy much much later on. Oh and the uniforms are wrong again tin "where no man has gone before" they were different to the rest of the series. And what happened to Chris Pike? wasn't he the captain before Kirk and Robert April for 5 years before him?

THIS IS NOT A STAR TREK MOVIE IT'S A COMEDY SPOOF !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not a spoot, it's a sellout.

paramount's mouth is watering for the pokemon generation's $.

Get a gossip girl, high school musical looking cast, put them in the i-pod store, and have them blow up shit. good to sell tickets to the 17 yr olds, horridly shitty for the actual fans.

I think it's a good looking ship but think it looks un-necessarily over futureistic, meaning that all of the latter (newer?) ships will be out of date!

Still, not much we can do is there. Will have to see the trailer on the weekend, unless it's been leaked anywhere

I think those that hate the new look are taking themselves way, way too seriously. The new version looks almost EXACTLY like the A model from the first movie, except with a modern sleekness to it. I know theres some continuity shenanigans going on as far as the crew goes, but I don't think we could've hoped for anything more excellent than what we got from a modern re-envisioning of the 70's Enterprise.

@ Dominocracy

Exactly. People are getting their panties in a bunch for nothing. They could have done a LOT worse with the design...And actually I'm surprised they didn't just totally redo the Enterprise. I'm glad they didn't.

says the non-fans.

see how you'd feel if they messed with Buffy the vampire slayer or whatever it is you two are into.

@ nick holmes

I think maybe you should do a little more research into the intentions of this film.

And Trek fans in general should probably chillax a little on the fine details. Especially considering it's already established that there are multiple timelines in the film and any number of things could be different from old school canon based on that alone.

Plus, it's brand new movie. It should go without saying that things will look different. I mean, come on.

I would almost have rather seen Abrams use some other ship with a different name - a starter ship, if you will - througout the movie and then introduce the original Enterprise at the end. I don't know what that thing is in the pic, but it ain't the Enterprise. Sure, it's cool-looking, but it's like seeing a friend you grew up with years later after he's had extensive plastic surgery. He might be your bff, but it's still creepy.

@ Jaybee U Tler

How did you come to the conclusion that I like Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Because I don't hate the new Enterprise, I must be a fan of Buffy? As Spock would say...That's illogical.

Either way...You fanboys still need to relax. I love how some of you say things like "I don’t know what that thing is in the pic, but it ain’t the Enterprise". That's a load of crap. It look just like the Enterprise, except it's a little more sleek. The enterprise is different in every Trek show/film, so why is this any different? I don't even like JJ Abrams, but IMO you're all just being anal fanboys. I can relate, because I hate it when they mess with my favourite movies too, but c'mon...You guys are acting like it looks NOTHING like the Enterprise. I could understand you're b----ing if it really did look nothing like the Enterprise...But it does - whether you like it or not.

Behold the, i-ship...

Yes, there's a 5 year contract you have to sign....

Dorks, calm down. This is NOT a prequel to TOS but a reimagining of it from year one. Ergo, continuity as you knew it is out the window. Actually ST hasn't worried about canon since the finale of DS9 so I don't know what you people are crying about, especially those of you who actually liked "Enterprise" which had the most glaring and horrible continuity errors of ANY version of Trek, and the least successful (no coincidence). If you've been reading about this version of ST you'd know that Chris Pike is actually in it. Whether they'll establish that Spock spent 10 years on the Enterprise serving under Pike's command before Kirk remains to be seen. As for the new ENT design, I don't see where it's that different from the Motion Picture version. We'll have to see it in action. I do like the costume updates however, and I'm glad they brought back the Starfleet miniskirts and go-go boots!

@cockring,,,

(Dorks, calm down.)
Then you say
(continuity as you knew it is out the window.)

Yeah that's prob not the best path to sprinkle bread crumbs down me lass.

All this time I thought you were a rocket scientist ?,,, hmm

Just seen the new movie "Enterprise" on Ex Astris Scientia. Has anyone noticed a simularity the "new" Enterprise has with Ralph McQuarrie's design from 1977, for the still-borne film "Planet of the Titans"?
Speaking as someone who grew up with Star Trek, (I was 4 when it first aired in the States), YES it would have been nice to see the Original Enterprise on screen, BUT, as "Zephram Cochrane" states "This is NOT a prequel to TOS but a reimagining of it from year one".
Think about it here, Paramount (appears to be) trying to get a younger audience involved, (remember this; the media portray Star Trek fans as dorks, to be laughed at!). Actually all this re-hashing has caused a LOT of interest and I think that is the point. On a personal note, I will go and see the film next year before I make my mind-up, if it bombs, like the X-Files film, then it'll disappear without trace, if it doesn't, watch out for Star Trek XII!

you guys do have a point. but why call it a prequel when its clearly a remake of TOS, it's as though TOS never existed. Fair enough if they want to get a younger audience but they should have left well enough alone and picked a different ship with a new crew.

the enterprise is an iconic symbol and to mess with it is just wrong. if they wanted to change it they should set it further on in time and made the enterprise F.

i am sorry i was mistaken about Chris Pike.

I can't believe I'm actually reading posts from those who seem to like this design. I'd bet that these folks aren't even Trek fans. Instead, they're probably anti-trek fans (or those trying to build support for this flop) who are glad to see something that goes against Trek history; both past and future. Sure the primary hull has the look and feel of the Motion Picture model, but the rest of it looks like something that came out Wal-Mart. I wonder if JJ Abrams was clean when he thought of this design. Only someone high on crack would have come up from this 2001 Space Odyssey design.

This has to be a trick to stir up attention. I'm pretty sure James Cawley will have more support for his non-profit films in StarTrekNewVoyages vs this thing JJ is trying to do. His movie Clover Field sucked, and I wouldn't expect much more from this. I'd rather see Star Trek end where it has, than to see a new generation idealist trying to reinvent the wheel here.

Sorry JJ, but this is not the future of mankind.

Joe

I just showed my 7 year old daughter, who doesn't like Star Trek, but does like the Refit Model of the USS Enterprise (Motion Picture); she hates the rest of the models, but does like to watch a few TOS episodes.

Here's her take on this new Enterprise want-a-be. "THAT'S UGLY DADDY!"

Take it from a 7 year old JJ! Forget about trying to win a new generation of fans.

My daughter loves Star Wars though....but only the new cartoon movies.

@ Joe

"Only someone high on crack would have come up from this 2001 Space Odyssey design."

Are you on glue? You think the ship designs from 2001 were bad? You obviously have no taste.

And as for me not being a total trekkie...So what? Don't be such an elitist. You just sound like a total a--hole when you say stuff like that.

"Are you on glue? You think the ship designs from 2001 were bad? You obviously have no taste.

And as for me not being a total trekkie…So what? Don’t be such an elitist. You just sound like a total a–hole when you say stuff like that......"

Wow! You come up with that all by yourself? *laughs*

If I have to be on "glue" in order to like this design, and thus "have taste", I'll gladly pass. I suppose my 7 year old daughter is on something; she thinks it's ugly......those were her words. It sounded so cute when she said it. *laughs*

I'll at least give this new Trek a chance, but JJ would be better off starting a totally new Treck, vs. using TOS characters to help him out. But that brings up a great point doesn't it? Why would JJ try to stay true to the characters, but not their beloved ship?

There's only one Enterprise, and no other. The rest are nothing more than designs carrying the name. TOS Enterprise will always be the Enterprise, and her refit represents the rebirth of her glory and splendor. I think JJ should change the name of his design to.....USS WEIRD"

Joe

I never said you didn't have taste for not liking the new Enterprise...I said you have no taste for thinking the designs in 2001 were bad.

Either way...You are entitled to your opinion, and in all honesty I think this movie is going to suck as well. I just don't understand you people that say the new enterprise looks "stupid" or "ugly" or "weird"...It really doesn't look too different from the original on the outside IMO.

OH NO! THE NACELLES ARE CLOSER TO THE SAUCER SECTION!

OH NO! THE SHIP LOOKS MORE STREAMLINED!

Deal with it.

Piece of advice,,, if you don't like the ship or the directon of the new Star Trek film,,,,,, don't see the movie...

Best way to voice your opinion!

>Piece of advice,,, if you don’t like the ship or the directon
> of the new Star Trek film,,,,,, don’t see the movie…

> Best way to voice your opinion!

Nah. The best way to voice your opinion is to be a total asshat on as many forums as you can.

From the safety of your parent's basement, of course.

This is from someone who has seen every episode of the Original Series, Next Generation, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise, as well as all ten movies. In fact, I grew up with Trek, and even read the books. And let me tell everyone that hates the new movie(before even seeing it, I might add): your Star Trek is dead. Enterprise and Nemesis(with a little help from Voyager and Insurrection) killed it. Now you have a choice. You can either go to the bar, drink yourself stupid lamenting about the death of your old flame...or you can move on. You can open your minds and accept a new flame into your life that you may end up loving more(if never the same as) than the old one. Are there things I don't like about what I've seen of the new movie? Of course. But I refuse to judge it before I've seen it. I will remember the old Trek fondly(most of it anyway), but I'm moving on and giving this thing a chance. Maybe, just maybe, all of you should as well.

I agree with you Rob, but to me, and in my personal opinion, it just won't happen. Like you, I will always remember the "OLD" Trek. But why would JJ steal from the tradition of the old Trek to establish his new trek? That to me is robbing from Peter in order to pay Paul. He's using a hint of the Heroic Trek legion to build his own generation of Treks. But his generation lacks the ability to dream beyond the stars. They're too focused on sex education, the wear of condoms, and same sex marriage. *laughs* Not to sound insulting to them, but their priorities are on their personal behaviors, and not scientific exploration. My fantasies with Trek removes me from the realities of our current troubles, and places me in an imaginary world, where instead of riding in fast, and attractive cars, we travel through space in fast, and attractive star ships. But this ship has no attraction what-so-ever.

The Motion picture Refit of the USS Enterprise was love at first site. Both her original build, and her Refit build, were very attractive. But this design just doesn't have it. It's too flaky.

I wish him luck, but I just don't see this movie becoming a huge success. If anything, it will be Paramounts chance (or excuse) to bury Trek, which is what they wanted to do in the first place. It was JJ who wanted to do Trek.

Let's face it guys. Without Gene, Trek will never be the same. Ever since Gene left the scene, Trek began its decay into the hands of the one producer to the next, and nothing will change it. The only reason why I would watch this new movie is out of curiosity. But I don't expect this movie to be successful, especially from non-trek fans. Unless a new Trek movie contains mindless comedy, brief nudity, hip-hop music, and neon lights attached underneath, it just won't happen.

Joe