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Fused Photos: The New USS Enterprise NCC-1701

By • November 11, 2008 • 7 Comments

Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive new, first look at the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) from JJ Abrams‘ Star Trek.

In the article JJ Abrams talked about the significant nature of the ship and its role within the series, saying:

“If you’re going to do Star Trek there are many things you cannot change. The Enterprise is a visual touchstone for so many people. So if you’re going to do the Enterprise, it better look like the Enterprise, because otherwise, what are you doing?”

In the article JJ, who is not a proclaimed “Trekkie” talked about his love for the scene in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, when the audience along with Kirk, first sees the Enterprise.

“The coolest thing about it—maybe the coolest thing in the movie—was when you flew around the ship, you could see all the different panels that made up the ship,” says the director of the forthcoming Trek reboot, slated for a May 8, 2009 release. “It was the first time I had ever seen that level of attention, that love of detail, given to the tangible, practical reality of the ship.”

I do not think it looks that bad. I like the little differences but ultimately it is the same ship from the original and that to me just shows JJ’s ability to not stray from the original too much. I love this a lot and can’t wait to see a trailer.

Anyway, that is for all you readers to decide! Below is another photo you can use to compare the ships.

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  • Jorn

    It looks fantastic. Just looking at it gives me chills. Can hardly wait for this one. The trailer hits the web Monday and I will be there watching it probably 100 times to get every single detail. May you boldly go…

  • http://www.f1.com TheDifferenceBetweenDance&DANCE!

    It’s still too freakin modern. I like it, but it remains too APPLE for it’s own good. The necells being changed for no reason also bugs me. Nevertheless; it’s a pretty ship, but it’s the IPOD of ships.

  • http://www.fusedfilm.com Kevin Coll

    I think it looks good and all you people with the Apple issues, I am not a mac user, nor do I really care most Apple stuff, except the I-phone – I really want one of those.

    I do think that the more sleek, non-lofi look on the bridge is cool and I think that the new ship looks great.

    Reason 1 – It doesn’t stray away from the look of the original with the exception their is more blue instead of red.

    Reason 2 – The “Modern” – Its the 23rd Century? WTF? If anything this ship looks more believable from a physics and applicable standpoint than the original.

    Reason 3 – Its somebody else’s vision and with film-making technology today who’s to say that Gene Roddenberry wouldn’t have tried to make it look more like this back in the 60s but they did what they could with what they had.

    Get over the apple comparison because I think you and everyone else who has said to me is making a mountain out of a mole-hill. I sense that JJ looked at what the 23rd century may have in-store more our actual world that he believes that the applications and functionality that Apple have built into our culture will drive future technology use and functionality.

    I agree to an extent – the easier something is to use it will be used – or rather build something any idiot can use and any idiot will use it.

    Plus I like the detail better with this new ship again a testament to modern day film-making.

  • Glenn Jaminet

    This thing is hideous! The nacelles look like they were derived from the pregnant guppy fuselage. The engineering hull has been flattened out; where is the shuttle bay? In engineering? The drive pylons have been moved to far to the stern. What are those warts behind the deflector array?

    And the new bridge? Umm, Apple Store? Too bright, too white.

    I can understand updating the look of the ship but, except for the saucer, this is too much.

  • StarshipTrooper

    Asthetically, it looks like someone took a picture of wavy mirror reflection of the first movie enterprise. Physics-wise, the nacells look so much more massive, if the ship does any severe rolling, or negative Gs, the inertial dampening system is going to be working overtime to keep them from flying off. Why on earth does it need air intakes? There is no air in space to cool anything. The secondary hull is way too short: engineering is too close to the saucer. The whole idea behind the more stretched design, is to make survival more likely in a catastrophe. Also, the torpedo tubes are on the neck. If this is indeed before TOS, the torpedo tubes should be mounted ventrally on the saucer, forward of the sensor array, in a very similar fashion to the tubes in “Enterprise”. The neck-mounted, forward and aft tubes were added in the first movie.

  • David

    Well as for me it sucks, don’t like it one bit.This ship is a icon and should stay the same. If this new movie is going to be about when kirk and rest were younger then they should have used the same design that was used in the “Cage” . Don’t change the look of what I and so many have grown up to love.

  • Brady

    Okay, I thought I would weigh in on this. First of all, who am I? I am a 38 year old trekkie. Not old enough to have seen the original series when it originally aired, but I watched it through the 70′s as reruns, again, and again, and again, and was addicted. I hated the Enterprise 1701-D from Generations, but learned to accept it, and liked the series. I have watched an enjoyed all of the series, and the movies, and I was thrilled when the Enterprise “D” died a fiery death, and was replaced by the rather gorgeous Enterprise 1701-E.

    Okay, here’s my commentary on this new ship. From a movie making point of view, I really don’t see how they could have used the old design exactly, with only more detail added. Gene Rodenberry himself would have done the ship different with today’s technology, and the theater goers they are trying to draw in are not just the hard core trekkies that have seen all of the original series, and original cast movie goers. Abrams could have probably pulled of a TV movie with the original design, but not a theater movie. Movies are expensive to make, and you need to draw a big audience to make a profit, that is a fact.

    That said, it is also vary important to not stray too much from the original design, because while they want to bring in a large audience, they don’t want to offend the bulk of the trekkies either, and since they are making a “Trek” movie, they should pay attention to the story that has already been told.

    So they needed a balance.

    As far as the new ship, there are a few changes I would have made, but overall I think it is a win. It does certainly look more advanced than the original, from the time period they are talking about. I do hope that there is going to be a reasoning for that, and I think it is entirely possible that there will be a reasoning, as they are calling it a reboot, and time travel… there could have been some fiddling with the time line, that resulted in “some changes”. Technology wise, it looks kind of like a cross between the original series, and the first movie Enterprise, but cosmetically different than both.

    If I was all powerful, I would take the ram scoops (not air scoops people) off the bottom of the necelles, and use that extra space to widen out the connection of the support to the nacelle, but leaving the middle of the support the same width to maintain that sleek look… this would make the nacelles a little less bulky, and make the support look more capable. It’s tricky though, because you know what? The design is really kind of crap, as far as physics, period. It looks great, and I wouldn’t ever want the Enterprise radically changed, so the trick here, is to make a unrealistic design look a little more believable, while still keeping it sleek looking, and the Enterprise we all know and love. I would have probably started that upward scooping out of the engineering section a little later than is pictured, but not much, and I might have moved the saucer and neck just a hair forward. …but I don’t know, we’d have to see that to see if it looked better or worse..hehe.. just my ideas though….

    In the end though, I do like the new design, and I do think they had to do something like this to pull in everyone, not just the 1960′s hard core trekkies. Again though, I do hope they have an explanation in the movie for why it looks a bit more advanced, and there is certainly room and ability for an explanation, given the story line. Remember, given with “old spock” going back in time along with these future romulans, some of the inconsistencies we see in the trailers may not be mistakes, but as a result of some time traveling.

    Anyway, just my humble opinion :)