How many stars are shown in Star Trek?

[Search4]

I imagine Geordi, Data and Seven of Nine can see stars no one else can. Probably other characters, too.

Speaking of tracking the stars, how many of us have noticed the starfield glitch (inside Saturn's rings) in the TNG opening credits?

What really gets me is how the moon skitters off to the right in the earliest shots.

 

[Idran]

I have no problem with being able to see stars thru Saturn's rings. They're not solid, you know, and quite thin actually.

It's not seeing stars through the rings, it's the starfield being stationary on one side and in motion on the other.

I think? That's what stood out to me, at least.

 

[sojourner]

This has to be the most overthought post ever. So much so I'm not sure if it's legit or a very elaborate troll.

Says the guy who argued for hundreds of pages about how big the new Enterprise is, complete with diagrams.

Ahem:

http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/time-and-space-in-the-motion-picture.285569/

 

[NOVE9]

OP has won the forum.

 

[alensatemybuick1]

It's a transition. A wipe. Just like the shots where the screen whites-out and we go to a new shot. If not, where did the planet go when the Enterprise comes sailing past?

Agreed. And although it is a ringed planet, it is not Saturn (which is depicted in the first 2 season openers anyway, and with no such starfield "mis-match"), as suggested by others in the thread.

 

[Forbin]

^Yeah, the original opening showed the point of view of leaving our solar system. The later one, for some arcane reason, shows alien planets from the ringed one on. I never understood why they did that.

 

[JoeCabby]

I imagine Geordi, Data and Seven of Nine can see stars no one else can. Probably other characters, too.

Speaking of tracking the stars, how many of us have noticed the starfield glitch (inside Saturn's rings) in the TNG opening credits?

I remember that used to bug me a lot when I was a kid. When I started to rewatch the series on Netflix, during the opening sequence I was actually looking forward to seeing this glitch again. Then when it didn't happen in the Farpoint intro I started wondering if I was experiencing some odd Yesterday's Enterprise Guinan moment where something just wasn't right. My sanity was regained when I noticed the glitch pop up again in later seasons.

 

[Silvercrest]

I had to have it pointed out to me, but now I look for it every time.

 

[Tosk]

The later one, for some arcane reason, shows alien planets from the ringed one on. I never understood why they did that.

The opening has no planets after the ringed one.

 

[uniderth]

I'm of the opinion that the "stars" streaking by at warp aren't really stars but perhaps particles of dust or something. I know that has been occasionally contradicted on screen. However, it would take very VERY high warp speeds for stars to pass the ship like that. Even at high TNG scale warp star movement would appear very slow.

 

[sojourner]

Little known fact: Every Starfleet ship has a twilight vampire at the prow to provide the streaking stars effect going past the windows.

 

[JoeCabby]

I'm of the opinion that the "stars" streaking by at warp aren't really stars but perhaps particles of dust or something. I know that has been occasionally contradicted on screen. However, it would take very VERY high warp speeds for stars to pass the ship like that. Even at high TNG scale warp star movement would appear very slow.

I was wondering the same thing too, but I think that those stars moving fast in the foreground just might be planets or comets or any sort of debris. To the naked eye most planets, asteroids, etc. just look like white dots.