The day is saved when the Enterprise arrives, along with its commander, Adm. Janeway (Kate Mulgrew (news)), and the doctor (Robert Picardo (news)) from the “Star Trek: Voyager” TV series.
—Vegas ‘Trek’ attraction could revive franchise (Hollywood Reporter)
Urk! Since when did Janeway command the Enterprise? Her ship is the Voyager.
The technical details of this attraction are enough to freak your inner geek: “Kasanoff and Johnsen assert that it is the first “Star Trek” production to be shot digitally; the first all-digital motion picture to incorporate live action and animation within a 3-D cinema environment; the first multiple-angle 3-D cinema production with 3-D effects from the front, overhead and both right and left sides of the participant; the first time a Steadicam has ever been used in a digital 3-D production; and the first worldwide attraction to use 2K digital cinema projection, which produces the highest-resolution digital projection commercially available.”
Interesting! I never saw the second pilot of the Original Series. However, I knew if there were any inconsistencies in my descriptions of the Classic Trek, you would catch them. After re-reading my post, I also know that I need to “get a life,” as Shatner said in a 1987 sketch from Saturday Night Live. =)
Actually, Bobby, there was a phaser rifle in the second pilot for the original Trek series (that’s the same episode that featured a tombstone marked “James R. Kirk.” And I believe The Original Series used the term “landing party”.
I missed seeing “Nemesis,” the last Next Generation movie, but I was told I did not miss much. “Enterprise” is supposedly set one century before Kirk and the classic Trek. However, it seems to be a hybrid between pre-Kirk and Picard’s Trek. For example, the uniforms in “Enterprise” resemble “Next Generation” because of its two-piece design with rank pips (along the chest in “Enterprise” and on the collar in “Next Generation”), but it uses “Classic” color distinctions (gold=command and red=engineering, security, communications). Another example is Away Team technology. “Classic” always showed tricorders as a slim black case with a strap, worn like a mailbag, but “Enterprise” uses a hand-held style as in “Next Generation.” Communicators remain “Classic” flip-style, like an LG cellular phone, but not even phasers are safe from this juxtaposition of past and future. Type I hand-held phasers are the norm on “Enterprise” (appearance resembles a gun) but Phaser Rifles are also used, which is another technology from “Next Generation.” There are plenty more as I keep watching the series regularly, but those are only a few.
Hmm… after 35 years, the “formula” may have overtaken the “fiction,” but I confess I haven’t seen more than 10 minutes of the latest series, “Enterprise.” How do you think it compares? And I’ve missed the last 2 movies.
Kirk, Bones, Spock; Picard, Riker, Data; Sisko, Kira, Bashir; Janeway, Tuvok, The Doctor; Archer, T’Pol, Flox. All of them are fun, but also formula fiction at its best, no?
Oh for the days of Kirk, Bones, and Spock. Sob!