Star Trek

[Mylochka]

Oh, wait, I do have this one...

[Buster's Uncle]

The fellow who played Crippled Pike under all the makeup?
 

This is Sean Kenney in considerably less makeup.
 
I'm quite surprised by this revelation.  Once I became aware that it was someone else in the part long ago, I'd always since thought the difference really showed, and it only worked at all because you didn't tend to notice at the time.
 
50 lashes to the makeup department for successfully concealing what features made a younger actor look so much like Jeffery Hunter.  Those eyes and that brow should have definitely shown more, and surely they could have found a way to let the marked and characteristic intensity of demeanor come out in Pike's frozen face.  That was a botch.

[Geo]

How about a steampunk Uhura with glasses that point upwards? So she's likely to look at you with a raised chin instead of the other way around? 

[Buster's Uncle]

Sort've like the moment in the rec room in Space Seed when she wordlessly defies Khan's goon?  She looked all cute and gutsy when she did that.

[Unorthodox]

Is Steamtrek considered blasphemous by fans?  I seriously would like to see a full on cast/LARP/cosplay of this. 

Oh, and for BU. 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fans-name-star-trek-darkness-604978

Galaxy Quest is the seventh greatest Star Trek movie ever made, according to Trek fans -- who also judged this summer's Star Trek Into Darkness to be the worst of all time. At least that's the pronouncement of fans from this past weekend's Star Trek 2013 Convention in Las Vegas, who were invited to rank the movies inspired by Gene Roddenberry's long-running space fantasy.

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The results were pretty much as you might expect -- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was the favorite film, closely followed by Star Trek: First Contact, the second Next Generation movie, while the much-maligned Star Trek V: The Final Frontier propped up the bottom of the list -- with the distaste for Into Darkness coming out as the biggest surprise.

According to Faraci, "Star Trek Into Darkness was met with boos when it was mentioned, and one guy took the mic to say these reboots shouldn't even be considered for a list of Star Trek movies." Into Darkness was met with hardcore fan apathy when released in May -- although both fans and mainstream audiences seemed to enjoy it -- but that it's unpopular to the point of booing (or being named the least popular movie in the series, for that matter) may be something that Paramount and executive producers/writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman might want to take into account before planning the third movie in the rebooted serie

First contact is, of course, my personal favorite.  But Frakes openly admitted to basically copying horror movie pacing when directing it, so that makes sense. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I desperately wanted to hate First Contact, and it has some non-trivial flaws, but I found myself loving it.

I 'spose we could wrangle out our own rating list of the movies, but I haven't seen Nemesis or Wrath of the Abomination...


SteamTrek is loved by those who love it, and I think, ignored by the rest.  Mylochka could speak from superior knowledge.

[Sigma]

I desperately wanted to hate First Contact, and it has some non-trivial flaws, but I found myself loving it.

I 'spose we could wrangle out our own rating list of the movies, but I haven't seen Nemesis or Wrath of the Abomination...

Not a big Into Darkness fan I see?

[Buster's Uncle]

Haven't seen it.  Those guys proved they just didn't get it, already.

[Mylochka]

I don't know of anyone playing around with Steamtrek ideas except for me and some of my friends at the Star Trek Builders Unite thread at DAZ's forum.  No stories so far, just some discussion, a few pictures, and a couple 3d models.

Here's some pictures by my pal Ptrope of models he's created.  I'm still waiting for him to complete and release these.  (His art gallery is here if you'd like to see more of his work: http://ptrope.deviantart.com/gallery/ )

[Unorthodox]

Little too shiny, but love that communicator pocketwatch idea.

The idea of the view screens is good, but needs some fleshing out, like big old predicta TV's.  http://www.scotthelmke.com/predicta.html

[Mylochka]

I'll pass that suggestion along to Ptrope.  Here's a Steamtrek Sulu...

[Mylochka]

And here's another angle of Ptrope's SteamTrek bridge...

[Unorthodox]

Yeah, that phaser on Sulu's the ticket.  Not so shiny, and the rivets.  That asthetic needs to be carried onto the ship. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Strongly disagree.  The bridge of the Enterprise was always very bright, with glaring orange rails - Kirk runs a tight ship.  He's got his people so well trained that we never see him having to say anything.  And SteamKirk sees that the brass on the bridge is always immaculately polished, or he isn't Kirk at all.

The engine room and likely some other working areas of the ship would be an entirely different thing, mind you.

[Unorthodox]

That's just it, it shouldn't BE brass everywhere.  Brass is for decoration, structurally, we should be seeing more bronze. 

Take the bottom pic of the first 3 there.  The wood paneling accented with the brass, the handrails of different material, that makes some sense.  The other where the whole thing is polished brass is too much shiney.  I say have it bronze with riveted brass accents on the edges.