From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek 2009, I saw it this week (spoilers if you haven't   
   seenit yet)   
      
   Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
   > "Steven L."  schreef in bericht    
   > news:xY6dnVx3SKChaGPXnZ2dnUVZ_rudnZ2d@earthlink.com...   
   >> The producers have admitted that the movie Big E is over 2,000 feet long.    
   >> The engineering hull is large enough to contain an entire brewery.  :-)   
   >    
   > More than twice the size of the original NCC 1701 and more like the length    
   > of a Galaxy. Or Sovereign.   
   > I wonder how many crew they had. Starship class were supposed to be the    
   > biggest, badest vessels out.   
      
   There was a short scene of the Engineering Deck of the Big E that was    
   just filled with people.  Extrapolating, there were certainly well over    
   a thousand on that ship--maybe two thousand.   
      
      
   >> And finally: What was with all those lens flares??? Almost every scene got    
   >> washed out by bright lights.  It gave a surrealistic experience, like we    
   >> were watching a distortion of the future through some kind of time portal.    
   >> :-)   
   >    
   > They should do away with the flares. Agreed.   
      
   Somebody did a satire of what TOS would have looked like with those    
   Abrams lens flares:   
      
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAaX8Aq6smQ   
      
      
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