What I love about that idea, honestly, is that it fits my personal pet theory: the discovery of time travel in the Star Trek universe has fucked up the timestream so often that fundamental technologies change as waves of history get rewritten.
And much though I love the old series, I have to say: the ship looks wonderful in the reboot. Black radio shack kit boxes, tape cassettes, and flashing christmas tree lights are NOT going to cut it for any audience not already deep in fandom's grasp. It makes absolute sense to show a ship that grows out of today's "futuristic" design aesthetic, because that will look advanced and state of the art -- rather than retro and dated. (When we revisited them in DS9 and other series, being retro and dated worked in their favor -- not so much so now.)
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What I love about that idea, honestly, is that it fits my personal pet theory: the discovery of time travel in the Star Trek universe has fucked up the timestream so often that fundamental technologies change as waves of history get rewritten.
And much though I love the old series, I have to say: the ship looks wonderful in the reboot. Black radio shack kit boxes, tape cassettes, and flashing christmas tree lights are NOT going to cut it for any audience not already deep in fandom's grasp. It makes absolute sense to show a ship that grows out of today's "futuristic" design aesthetic, because that will look advanced and state of the art -- rather than retro and dated. (When we revisited them in DS9 and other series, being retro and dated worked in their favor -- not so much so now.)