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   Wouter Valentijn to All   
   Re: Star Trek 2009, I saw it this week (   
   14 Nov 09 23:28:49   
   
   From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: liam@valentijn.nu   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek 2009, I saw it this week (spoilers if you haven't seen   
   it yet)   
      
      
   "Steven L."  schreef in bericht    
   news:U5mdnfD8FsCulGLXnZ2dnUVZ_sOdnZ2d@earthlink.com...   
   > 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.   
      
   Sounds plausible.   
      
   Check out www.ditl.org Graham Kennedy's site.   
      
   It gives about 1,100 for the crew.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>> 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   
   >   
      
   LOL   
      
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