New Star Trek Movie Trailer Released!

[MikeTheC]

See, now, if it were me, and I was J.J. Abrams, what I'm thinking I'd do is have this teaser made, have it in reality have nothing to do with the movie, but put myself in as one of the welders to sort of say "Hi, I'm J.J. Abrams, and I'm here to re-build this show, hull plate by hull plate."

 

[RacerX]

I would like to think I know the hull of a Constitution-class starship rather well, and this doesn't look the least bit familiar.

Your first image is the rear of a warp nacelle looking forward, the second image is looking down along the edge of the primary hull, third is looking forward towards the primary hull near a nacelle support, and the last is a panning shot of the front of the primary hull.

There are quite a few detailed reference plans for the original Enterprise filming miniatures that can help with familiarization, including the Sinclair 11 foot plans, the Casimiro 11 foot plans and my 33 inch plans of the very first model built in 1964.

I've spent the last year doing research on the history of the original Enterprise. While my primary goal was to produce plans for the original 33 inch model (lost in the late 1980s), I was also researching Matt Jefferies' original designs which was the foundation of both the 33 inch and 11 foot miniatures.

Some additional materials on this subject that I have produced...

33 Inch Enterprise Plans (PDF, 3.1 MB)


Dimensions of the Enterprise (PDF, 1.0 MB)


Jefferies 1964 Plans of the Enterprise (PDF, 1.4 MB)


Phase II Enterprise (PDF, 1.4 MB)


11 Foot Enterprise References (Click to Enlarge)​

As for any of what is seen in the teaser showing up in the movie... very doubtful. The movie takes place around the time when Captain Pike hands off the Enterprise to Captain Kirk. The Enterprise would have already served at least two five year missions by that point (assuming that they stick to Pike/Spock's original back story for this film), so no construction would need to be part of the story.

As for how close this Enterprise is to any other version... I would guess that it is based more on the Motion Picture version than what was in the original series. But at this point, there is no reason to believe that anything has been finalized for the film.