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Well, it's not just "cannon to say" it, it's pretty much specified in the dialog.
"We just spent 18 months redesigning and refitting the Enterprise."
"This is an almost totally new Enterprise."
I'm not saying that makes any logical sense since it clearly would have been simpler to make a brand new ship. But they had to justify the upgrade for the big screen and still have fans of the original feel like the old girl was in the movie.
Despite the writers' obvious intention, there's still enough wiggle room in that dialog to get away from it. They just spent 18 months refitting a ship named Enterprise that was not the TV ship. The TV ship was long gone when TMP begins.
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That's why I think that certain things "always looked like this." Like Roddenberry's attitude about the appearance of the Klingons. Only they kept having images of the original Enterprise scattered about (in the Rec Deck of TMP, on the deck plans on TSFS, etc.).
Funny, as a kid, my brain just accepted it and simply considered one "the TV Enterprise" and the other "the movie Enterprise."
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Mar 3, 2015 - 1:36 PM
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jackfu
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Wet-blanket perspective, but while very rarely if ever discussed in films such as this franchise and others, for obvious reasons is how economics factor in. The spaceships in these films are usually disposable.
Capital ships would have a significant dollar value and likely would be repaired, refitted, etc., until they were obsolete by virtue of the cost of such eventually approaching the cost of building new ships. I’ve never noticed if any of these films go into any detail as to specifics of changes in interstellar drives, weaponry, etc. that would also necessitate refitting so as to attain higher speeds and so on, but I would assume such upgrades are part of it.
As an aside, I always liked the hearing in Aliens and the discussion therein and its portrayal of such meetings in which losses of company assets and how they will be budgeted, written off, etc., are discussed. Weaver’s acting was, I thought, dead-on as far as her realization of “where this is going” - being blamed for the loss of $42 billion (adjusted) in company assets.
I would imagine that a Starfleet Captain would likely face similar scrutiny if he/she had a record of wrecking starships.
Anyway it would have been cool to see the refitting in process.
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