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Red Shoe: I think that the NX-01 is a really interesting example of Zee Rust — or perhaps the converse of Zee Rust; I mean, it's dimly lit, it's got exposed wiring and steel grates and stickey-out-bits, but we still intuitively say that it looks "more advanced" than the clean, smooth, well-lit TOS Enterprise. I think what it points to very strongly is how our sense of what constitutes "futuristic" has changed.
Looney Toons: <nod> It may be completely unconscious, but I'm sure somewhere in people's heads there's a little voice saying "something that's 40 years old is not futuristic."
Space Ace: I think that may actually have more to do with the original Enterprise being so obviously a set. Ergo, the TOS Enterprise doesn't look specifically old to our eyes, but the show does. The Enterprise NX-01 looks roughly like we'd expect a NASA spaceship would look like if the Vulcans made first contact tomorrow, but the show itself looks far newer than TOS.
But I'm sitting here pretending Enterprise never happened, so whatever.
Arugula Z: Yeah, I know what you mean. If the Shatner series is known as TOS, Enterprise should be referred to as POS.
Earnest: That's one of the subtler weirdeties of this and the new Star Wars trilogy. They go from really cool Holographic Terminals to knobs and switches? Talk about Decade Dissonance.
Looney Toons: From my quote file. No good as a page pull quote, but still fun for those of us who remember Quantum Leap:
- Theorizing he could space travel within his own galaxy, Captain Jonathan Archer stepped onto the bridge of the Enterprise and vanished...
Big T: That made my day, LT. Have you been Made Of Winned for that yet?
Sean Tucker: Could the Xindi be considered a Shout-Out to Star Control 2?
KJMackley: I took this out because it is just complaining and also misleading. Moore wasn't fired, he left on his own with hard feelings (that have since been mended). Also, Moore happening to be the showrunner for BSG is irrelevant to the comment Braga made. I know the guy is blamed for a lot of things, but make sure it is accurate.
- Wall Banger: creator Brannon Braga once claimed that ENT was judged unfairly because it had to compete with the likes of Battlestar Galactica. Just to be clear: BSG is a show created by Braga's former writing partner, Ronald Moore, who created it after Braga fired him from the [1] writing staff for the crime of wanting to make the show more realistic and less bad. Braga, this is your Frankenstein. You deal with it.
