Star Trek Messes-Up San Francisco: Skyline Like Hong Kong

http://zennie2005.blogspot.com/2009/03/star-trek-messes-up-san-francisco.html -- I'm looking forward to the new Star Trek movie and the great story and special effects, but I'm not looking forward to how the movie treats San Francisco. It messes up the San Francisco Skyline, making it look like Hong Kong. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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[Elepski]

This analysis is completely invalid. Your talking about a speculative future element that has no guide for its creation. There are a unimaginable number of future events that would shape the future. For instance... what is the society did away with urban sprawl and cluster into city centers. It has already been purposed that the existing city centers will need to go up rather than out to accommodate future populations. So any analysis of a potential future would be pure theology.

[rdevil1966]

ur such a loser.

[Kiwibirdman1701]

The whole city we see today was probably leveled in WW3 and completely rebuilt.

[MultiKdizzle]

ARGHH!! As both a progressive and a Bay Area resident, I HATE to see the future restricted by 'activism'. Human scale??? SF already has the largest skyline in the Bay Area, it will only continue to grow! What the hell is this guy talking about.

Thumbs up for progress!

[dcanjura123]

what a douchbag,does this black guy know that the new towers in san francisco are going to stand higher than any other building west of the missisipi in the united states.what a complete ass.

[RomanV101]

@ClemyNX

San Francisco is more restrictive than Paris. The Paris urban form continues to expand outward to accommodate new people- San Francisco is surrounded by suburban sprawl and can't grow outward any more. SF isn't even very urban, or "human scale" as he claims. Everything west of Twin Peaks is two level row-houses on wide suburban streets. Paris actually has narrow streets and a SEVEN floor building limit. San Frisco NIMBY won't allow 7 floor terraced houses for the Sunset District!

[mccookboidat]

This guy's a FIDIOT

[ClemyNX]

@Elepski You obviously never saw a star trek before this one. They used to respect the aspect of the city.

[ClemyNX]

I agree with you. Cities should keep their soul. Look at Paris, it hasn't changed much in the past 3 centuries, no skyscrapers in downtown, and it will stay that way.

[TheCardolan]

I disagree, you forgot to account for the Federation & Starfleet effects. If I recall correctly then 24th century San Francisco houses the Starfleet Academy AND the Federation goverment infrastructure. Any city that suddenly becomes "capital" of a goverment spanning multiple planets and species, combined with being the site of their main fleet headquarters and training facilities will have a rather huge boost.

[tbone1975uk]

it's not 'cannon' but the the Star Trek universe is a different one from ours (There has been no Khan and no space exploration as extensive as in Star Trek) there has also been a third world war which destroyed most the east coast of America (New York was destroyed in a nuclear attack which is why the federation is based in Paris and not on the grounds of the U.N.) Americans would have moved to the west coast (like it or not) so all the west coast cities would have expanded hugely.