From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Abrams' Trek Sequel To Be Released 29 June 2012   
      
   "Your Name"  wrote in message    
   news:hig0qs$p72$1@lust.ihug.co.nz:   
      
   > "Jaxtraw"  wrote in message   
   > news:4b4b4ae8$0$2481$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...   
   > > Your Name wrote:   
   > > > In article <4b49617c$0$2474$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>, "Jaxtraw"   
   > > >  wrote:   
   > > >> Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>> Actually no.  We kept *hoping* they were fixing things, stuff Abrams   
   > > >>> had said during the shoot that he couldn't address in the script   
   > > >>> because of a writer's strike, or add The Shat, or fix that   
   > > >>> embarrassingly bad shot of the Big E sitting on the ground, but I'm   
   > > >>> told they locked the film months before they released it and just   
   > > >>> sat on it.   
   > > >>   
   > > >> And what, pray tell, was wrong with the beauty shot of the Ent under   
   > > >> construction? Would have been better if they'd only been wise enough   
   > > >> to ask you to do it, would it?   
   > > >   
   > > > The original Enterprise (and Kirk's later ones) weren't constructed on   
   > > > Earth and didn't have the ability to land / take off from a planet.   
   > > > It was built in Space Dock.   
   > >   
   > > I don't remember anybody in TOS describing the construction of the   
   > > Enterprise at all. Can you point me at the episode in which they described   
   > > where it was built?   
   >   
   > From the Star Trek Encyclopedia ...   
   >   
   >      Enterprise, USS   
   >      Perhaps the most famous spacecraft in the history of   
   >      space exploration, the original USS Enterprise was a   
   >      Constitution-class vessel, registry number NCC-1701.   
   >      Launched in 2245 from the San Francisco Yards   
   >      ORBITING Earth, ...   
      
   The only canon is that which appeared in episodes.   
      
   I grant you it's pretty silly to build a 2,000 foot long starship on    
   Earth.   
      
   But there was never anything in any episode or prior movie that stated    
   it hadn't been done that way.  (Though the refitting of the Big E in    
   ST:TMP and the construction of the U.S.S. Excelsior in STIII:TSFS were    
   pretty big hints.)   
      
      
      
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