Destructor!!!

The phone interface lacks page numbers. I've just realised what problem that is. Ignore/delete this post, please.

Ok, I'm having trouble expressing my thoughts well lately, but I've found a review that basically nails everything I didn't like about the film, without getting bogged down, as I so often do, with the technicalities and science of it. It even expresses a few thoughts that I had not managed to fully articulate.

 

Please read this <= HUGE spoilers.

My god... That's a Big ship!

I'm pretty burned out. I couldn't sleep after seeing it, knowing this is the future of Star Trek... I feel like I'm losing a family member.

 

Then, on four hours of sleep, I'm woken by a phonecall (voicemail) telling me that my mother "has had a -=muffled by wind=- in the car park of the garden centre here". Frantic scramble to find out what that missing word is, followed by frantic scramble to get a neighbour to give me a lift to the garden centre to get her. She's fine. She tripped and fell, and is bruised and grazed, but she's ok.

 

Why'd I tell you that? To explain the lack of formatting that follows. But first, a coherent answer to your question:

 

THERE BE SPOILERS HERE

 

 

And in case I missed anything, here's my stream of consciousness from Reddit this afternoon...

 

MOAR SPOYLARS (and unfiltered rage)

 

PEOPLE WHO LIKED THIS MOVIE:

I see where you're coming from, really. There was a lot to like - I really swooned over the visuals , and there was a lot of cool intrigue going on.

But DO NOT debate me on this. I'm not in a place where I can handle that yet, so prepare to be ignored.

There was a lot more lazy, insensitive dream-trampling going on here than there were positives. Impact-wise, anyway.

 

Give me a few days to possibly be less angry about this.

 

I'm not one to invoke clichès like this, but half way through this movie, something broke inside of me. I realised that Star Trek, the Star Trek that I love, is dead and gone. And thanks to this highly likeable and well-made atrocity, it's never coming back.

 

Very inventive! Well done!

I started this project in the Playmates forum, but I think it really belongs in Custom Ships, and since no moderator has moved the original topic, I figured I'd start a new one and link from one to the other.

To see the start of this project, click here.

I finally got the impetus under me to start working on this again. First thing I did was solder a few of the wires that had previously only been twisted together. Then I drilled a hole through the upper surface of the secondary hull, into the compartment behind the Impulse engine. I lined the compartment with red tape (it's accessible when the neck is detached from the secondary hull), and popped a red LED into the compartment.



I then soldered wires to the positive and negative terminals on opposite warp nacelle pylons, and soldered the other ends to the corresponding stalks of the LED.



Then I posed a blue LED and taped it to the front of the battery compartment, within the secondary hull, aiming the LED directly forward. I soldered them to the Impulse LED's terminals, in parallel.
I insulated all the solders and drilled out a little of the interior of the Nacelle pylon flat part, to accomodate the new wires. Then I sealed her up and pressed some buttons!



The port nacelle here still has the old Playmates lighting scheme, the starboard one has two LEDs in it now. As you can see, there's a lot of light bleed from the deflector LED, I'll put a foil cupola or something in around the LED to direct more light at the deflector. I cut a pice of brown electrical tape to shape in the centre of the deflector. I'll be cutting the appropriate patterns into it soon.



I'm particularly happy with how the main impulse engine turned out. It just looks perfect!



In ordinary lighting, the Deflector light bleed isn't such a huge issue, but a cupola would still help push a bit more blue through the red plastic.

Thoughts?