Saturday, January 26, 2008

(Re) Design And Refit

Visitors to the official Star Trek film website will no doubt see a red blinking light to the right of the words "UNDER CONSTRUCTION", which, when clicked on, transports you to a new viral site-NCC-1701.com.

The sub-site, if you will, features four camera angles of the shipyard, seen in the teaser, which you can control by changing the frequency.

Here is a photo of one of the starship 's new corridors, as seen on the viral site, by the flick's set designer Dawn Brown



"I think a lot of hardcore fans are going to freak out," Brown told SyFy Portal/Associated Content (and friend of this very blog) contributor Will N. Stape in a recent chat-adding:

"As far as I know, only the exterior of the Enterprise had to stay the same. I don't know if that came from J.J. or Paramount."

If you want to get really nit-pick-y about this issue--one could argue that the interior of the ship changed between the first pilot for Star Trek: The Original Series, called "Star Trek" The Cage and the second one that sold the premise "Star Trek" Where No Man Has Gone Before--and then again when it became a full fledged show...I have the attitude of "wait and see"-before getting all bent out of shape...

Be sure to read Will's entire interview in which Brown also talks about working on Watchmen!!

On a related Trek note: James Cawley, executive producer of the popular web series Star Trek: New Voyages, has been very outspoken in the past, about the look of the iconic starship in the film...

Director JJ Abrams proves he has no hard feelings over those criticisms by giving Cawley a small part in the reboot...

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