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Ooops.... someone already said that. Heh... great minds think alike (or else, it was such an obvious thing to say that others must have thought that too).
Alright guys (and I mean men), hands up who was fighting the misty eyes at the beginning of Trek when this guy was being like the best Dad/Hubby/Captain ever?
There's an interview with him on Movieline (the site run by alumni of Gawker's late Defamer site). He comes across as an actor with a decent head on his shoulders, and briefly mentions reading for Thor.
What's with all the revamped ships looking like they took their design cues from high-end vibrators? The Kelvin looks like someone kitbashed an original Enterprise model and a Hitachi Magic Wand.
@KiddChaos: Yeah but no one ever complained about how the Nebula Class ships look like someone kitbashed the Enterprise-D model with a slice of cheese on the top of it.
Also, Intel or whoever put up that site, not to get to Star Trek fanboy geeky on you, but the front of the warp nacelle (as pictured above) is NOT where the navigational deflector is located. It's at the forward end of the secondary hull, or that orangy, bumpy bit under the saucer in the first picture.
I'm sure that is simply a description of what a "navigational deflector" does, as opposed to a hint as to how Papa Kirk dies. (I believe it's fairly obvious that the Kelvin gets blasted to bits by the Octoship.)
@Sevius: Agreed - I'm going to be that dork who admits to owning a copy of the Star Trek: TNG Technical Manual, but this is a simplified description of what navigational deflectors do.
In order to avoid the very real world issue of space debris and small objects like asteroids and other small bodies, deflectors keep a small shield-life field up around the vessel at all times at low energy to sweep that debris out of the ship's path. It's so big because it has to emit a field around the entire ship/forward half so a ship moving at high speeds doesn't inadvertantly collide with an object massive enough to puncture a hole in it. :)
There! And I said it all without sucking spit through my bracers!
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Ooops.... someone already said that. Heh... great minds think alike (or else, it was such an obvious thing to say that others must have thought that too).
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But of course I got all weepy at Wall-E too.
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[www.movieline.com]
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And Trekbashing is what the rest of us nerds do..
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In order to avoid the very real world issue of space debris and small objects like asteroids and other small bodies, deflectors keep a small shield-life field up around the vessel at all times at low energy to sweep that debris out of the ship's path. It's so big because it has to emit a field around the entire ship/forward half so a ship moving at high speeds doesn't inadvertantly collide with an object massive enough to puncture a hole in it. :)
There! And I said it all without sucking spit through my bracers!