Oh yeah--great angles, man!

Wow.

Y'know it's always a little weird (and fun) to see a Constitution-class ship other than the Enterprise--sure, it's the same design, but it's not The Enterprise. Same equipment, same look, but different ship and crew.

I lean toward the notion that the Enterprise is something special rather than being "just another ship"--which she was in TOS, of course. For me, the mission seen in TOS was what made the ship famous later on (as the subsequent series indicate). Sure, any other ship might have the same design, but, to quote Altman's M*A*S*H*--it "just doesn't...quite...make it.".

This carried over into my watching and coming to love TOS. I really liked the idea that there were 11 other ships (as eventually revealed) like the Enterprise, all with captains and crews off having their own adventures. (Some may recall I have often said I sort of wished TOS was more of an anthology series, rotating thru the different ships from week to week.) I didn't need Kirk to be the best of the best. In fact, I rather preferred that he wasn't!

This carried over into my watching and coming to love TOS. I really liked the idea that there were 11 other ships (as eventually revealed) like the Enterprise, all with captains and crews off having their own adventures. (Some may recall I have often said I sort of wished TOS was more of an anthology series, rotating thru the different ships from week to week.) I didn't need Kirk to be the best of the best. In fact, I rather preferred that he wasn't!

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I suppose my thoughts on the matter are partially informed by the fact that TOS wasn't an anthology--and the Enterprise was the one ship out of 12 that was deemed by the TV gods as the one we got to see, if that makes any sense. The other ships may be just as good or just as fun, but none of them are the one the series was about.

The ladies in the second pilot were wearing uniforms left over from the first, tho the pants did persist as part of the female uniforms even after the first actual episode brought in the miniskirts.



(This unfortunate lass gets aged into an old lady in the next shot, with a pan up from her legs -- which is probably why she was wearing slacks! Still, there's the precedent!)

Several sources have suggested the NCC-1701-A was another ship renamed, mostly by way of explaining how it could get built so fast. Now, me, I really have no problem with the idea that in the 23rd Century we should possess the technology to be able to throw a starship together in the time it takes to press a couple of buttons -- but others seem to think otherwise, and so we have the Yorktown "explanation".

The previews for Scism look great! I can't wait to pick this one up.

I apologize if this has been mentioned before, but how many issues is this mini-series? Is it another two-issue series like The Hollow Crown?