'Star Trek'09: An Exclusive First Look at the Enterprise

EW.COM ^ | 11/11/2008 | Jeff Jensen

[Dallas59]

JJ Abrams wasn't a huge fan of the original Star Trek TV series as a kid, but he does have one unabashed gee-whiz Star Trek memory: watching the first feature film (1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and marveling over the big reveal of the Enterprise during a long sequence in which James T. Kirk takes a slow-boat tour around the iconic starship. "The coolest thing about it—maybe the coolest thing in the movie—was when you flew around the ship, you could see all the different panels that made up the ship," says the director of the forthcoming Trek reboot, slated for a May 8, 2009 release. "It was the first time I had ever seen that level of attention, that love of detail, given to the tangible, practical reality of the ship."

[Jet Jaguar]

Cool.

[kalee]

ping

[unkus]

ping

[MeanWestTexan]

Still my favorite Star Trek ship (although I did not care for DS9):

[chippewaman]

After Jan. 20, I’d like to get on this ship so I can go to another planet.

[Names Ash Housewares]

I reject this whole rehash as non-canon anyways.

So the Fuglyprise happily is no disappoinment to me.

[Dallas59]

The back end I could do without.

[aft_lizard]

Well since DS9 was a space station and not a ship I can understand why, lol. Anyways I thought the USS Defiant was a good ship, a bit tiny but packed a whole lot of fire power.

[Rocko]

NCC-1701.

[MeanWestTexan]

The picture was the Defiant.

I despised the SERIES DS9, not the space station itself.

[exist]

Can I say ‘friggin’? That is friggin’ awesome!

[12th_Monkey]

SWEET!! First time I’ve seen that shot of the ship.

Hope the re-boot is good. Things aint been the same since Star Trek went off the air.

[12th_Monkey]

How about Mr. Sulu, lock photon torpedoes on the Whitehouse..

[12th_Monkey]

Me too. I guess we are all fix’n to be on DS9 come Jan 20th...

[HossB86]

One word:

No.

[apastron]

I was looking at the promo photos linked in the story. How can a 16 year-old run a starship? ...learners permit?

[Dr. Sivana]

After Jan. 20, I’d like to get on this ship so I can go to another planet.

It won't do you any good...

The Wrath of Farrakhan

Warning, kind of salty language/lurid situations and NOT for the kids.

[Dr. Sivana]

Of all the Star Trek movies to be inspired by, the FIRST one?!

Granted, the Save the Whales movie and the one where Kirk wins an argument with some force masquerading as God (using 20th cebtury pop-psychology, no less) were even more lame, but that first one was a snooze fest, and utterly forgettable. I just remember some bald lady in it. After that movie they didn't try that again until Sigourney Weaver (with even WORSE results).

[BenLurkin]

SciFi ping.