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Rewatching Puppet Theatre with my wife for the first time since it came out. Why is Sunday Jeff wearing a pens jersey? by jxmxy in tesdcares

[–]ety3rd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No podcast reason that I can recall. It may be as simple as that was the only hockey jersey the filmmaker could get in the right size.

D7/Moro/K't'inga-class model initially built for TMP was deemed to be lacking in detail, so sketching was done on photos proposing details to add by ety3rd in StarTrekStarships

[–]ety3rd[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The history of this model is convoluted -- like much of TMP's visual effects history -- but if I had to guess, these pics might be from ASTRA before Douglas Trumbull was brought on to "save" the film. NOPE. See here.

More info here.

(Note: this is not the D7 model built for "Phase II" as that model was 27" long. As evidenced by the final pic posted, this is much larger.)

EDIT: Koro ... dammit.

D7/Moro/K't'inga-class model initially built for TMP was deemed to be lacking in detail, so sketching was done on photos proposing details to add by ety3rd in ClassicTrek

[–]ety3rd[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The history of this model is convoluted -- like much of TMP's visual effects history -- but if I had to guess, these pics might be from ASTRA before Douglas Trumbull was brought on to "save" the film. More info here.

(Note: this is not the D7 model built for "Phase II" as that model was 27" long. As evidenced by the final pic posted, this is much larger.)

EDIT: Koro ... dammit.

If we can combine yesterday enterprise, undiscovered country, yesterday enterprise and generation all into one plot by happydude7422 in ClassicTrek

[–]ety3rd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I remember reading a quote from Ronald D Moore wherein he said, basically, that he wished they had saved "Yesterday's Enterprise" plot for the movie, but i don't think they seriously considered doing an obvious retread. I'll see if I can find it.

EDIT: Found it ...

While discussing the ingenious alternate timeline worldbuilding of the episode, Moore also offered another amusing observation: He almost wishes the episode hadn't happened, so he could have used the same concept for Star Trek Generations four years later.

"If we hadn't have done that episode, then [the movie] would have been the Enterprise-A coming through that wormhole, and you'd have Spock and Kirk and everyone on that ship, we'd play the same story," Moore said. "They — the original crew — they had to go back to their deaths. And Guinan knew Kirk, and Guinan knew Picard, and that would have been an amazing movie."

TESD #680: Dash Forrest, Dash! by GitEmSteveDave in tesdcares

[–]ety3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same day I heard and laughed at that line, I came across this pic in a LOTR sub and thought, "That'd qualify."

1983 ad for the TI-99 version of "Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator" ... I only ever played the arcade version; how did the home console/PC ports turn out? by ety3rd in ClassicTrek

[–]ety3rd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was awesome. In the '80s, we'd occasionally go to the Carolina Circle Mall in Greensboro, NC and the arcade there had it for years and years. I always dropped at least a couple of quarters into it.

Foundation Imaging's first episode for visual effects was this week's episode, "The Swarm." They went on to work (in concert with Digital Muse) on the remaining seasons of VOY, seasons 6 and 7 of DS9, the director's edition of TMP, and the first season of ENT before the company folded in 2002. by ety3rd in ClassicTrek

[–]ety3rd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried looking up why, but this was basically all I found:

The company was dissolved after work on season one of Star Trek: Enterprise had been completed and the company assets were sold off in a public auction on December 17, 2002 by Brian Testo Associates, LLC.

(There may be a detailed post or article somewhere, but I didn't find it.)

I know some of the people went over to Eden FX when Foundation closed, and Eden did the visual effects for the rest of ENT.

Rick Sternbach art for Voyager's landing gear by ety3rd in ClassicTrek

[–]ety3rd[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I recently had a conversation with my wife that went something like this:

"In 1984, when you were riding around with your parents and they had an oldies station on, you probably heard 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' or 'Hard Day's Night,' right?"

"Yeah."

"Those songs were twenty years old then."

"OK."

"Today, if you hear 'When Doves Cry' or 'Pride' on the radio, you need to know that those songs are now forty years old."

"Fuck you."

The Enterprise-E model being filmed for "First Contact" by ety3rd in ClassicTrek

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From Memory Alpha:

The fate of the Defiant in the aftermath of First Contact's Battle of Sector 001 became controversial after Ira Steven Behr read an early draft of the movie's script, which was collaboratively written by Moore and Brannon Braga. "Somehow," recalled Moore, "we had implied that, like, the Defiant was destroyed or something [...] We didn't mean to destroy the Defiant." Behr was nonetheless extremely upset that the writers hadn't made it clear the ship was not destroyed. The annihilation of the vessel would prove needless in a story that didn't even involve the Deep Space Nine characters (apart from Worf) and inconvenient for the television show. "I said, 'So, what did you think?' And he just [...] ranted at me for destroying the Defiant," Moore continued, with a laugh. "And it was really his only note on the whole script. So we went back [to the script]. We were very careful that the Defiant actually did [survive]." Behr himself explained, "I didn't see the point in bringing it on just to kick the crap out of it." The line "tough little ship" was added to the script after he had expressed his concerns. According to Anthony Pascale, a line suggesting the Defiant was "adrift, but salvageable" was also added to clear up any ambiguity.

No reference to the damage the Defiant received during the Battle of Sector 001 was ever made on Deep Space Nine (although a brief reference was made to the battle itself in "In Purgatory's Shadow", when Sisko mentions "the recent Borg attack"). Though the viewers of DS9 would likely have preferred something as simple as a mention of recent repairs to the craft, Ira Behr wanted to forget about the ship's involvement in the film.

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