USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Discovery' started by EJD1984, Jul 24, 2017.

  1. Belz...

    Belz... Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

    Joined:
    May 19, 2013
    Location:
    In a finely-crafted cosmos... of my own making.
    Yeah, those helped, though they're pictures from a poster, so not as clear as I'd like. Plus we're missing the rest of the views.

    I know they were triangles-ish, but their apparent movement in the episode seems to indicate that they've changed them. See what I mean:

    [​IMG]

    They look like rectangular depressions, the shadows of which would appear as triangles under some conditions.
     
    jaime likes this.
  2. Ar-Pharazon

    Ar-Pharazon Admiral Premium Member

    Joined:
    May 19, 2005
    Location:
    Far North Chicago Suburbs
    But looking at it from the end, with the light source almost directly behind it....

    Ent Triangle 1a.jpg

    Though it looks recessed in your example, and raised in mine, it could be a trick of the lighting in the first shot. It wasn't great quality CGI, plus poor lighting. Either way I want to see a clean image or that model. Probably a lot of things we didn't even see in those 20 seconds.
     
  3. Belz...

    Belz... Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

    Joined:
    May 19, 2013
    Location:
    In a finely-crafted cosmos... of my own making.
    The light source is in front of the ship, not behind. Plus you can see the rest of the "rectangle" on the left of your image.

    I don't see how it looks raised at all.

    That's for sure. Mayhap the model isn't completed so they kept it in bad lighting to hide that.
     
  4. Ar-Pharazon

    Ar-Pharazon Admiral Premium Member

    Joined:
    May 19, 2005
    Location:
    Far North Chicago Suburbs
    The lower sensor dome is a brighter light source than anything external. There's also those left & right facing, large windows on the underside of the saucer that are lighting up the registry #'s. That's why these things look both raised or recessed, depending on how you look at them and/or where the light is coming from.
     
  5. ITDUDE

    ITDUDE Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

    Joined:
    May 15, 2001
    ^^ You guys probably can't wait for 4k blu-rays? I think you are over-analyzing each pixel in a blurry 1080p image.
     
    Tuskin38 likes this.
  6. Gepard

    Gepard Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Oct 20, 2007
    I seriously doubt they rendered any any of these effects in 4K.
     
  7. ITDUDE

    ITDUDE Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

    Joined:
    May 15, 2001
    We all better hope for CBS sake that they had. What's the point of filming a "prestige show" and not using latest technology?
     
  8. fireproof78

    fireproof78 Fleet Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Apr 11, 2014
    Location:
    Journeying onwards
    Why am I hoping this? :shrug:
     
  9. thribs

    thribs Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Oct 23, 2017
    Is it on 4k on Netflix or just HDR?
    The Enterprise hasn’t shown up yet but the Discoprise has.
     
  10. Belz...

    Belz... Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

    Joined:
    May 19, 2013
    Location:
    In a finely-crafted cosmos... of my own making.
    Now you're just wildly speculating. You have absolutely no basis for this.
     
  11. Ronald Held

    Ronald Held Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Feb 21, 2005
    Location:
    On the USS Sovereign
    What is the native resolution DSC was filmed in?
     
  12. ITDUDE

    ITDUDE Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

    Joined:
    May 15, 2001
    I don’t think it was ever confirmed
     
    Ronald Held likes this.
  13. cooleddie74

    cooleddie74 Fleet Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Apr 25, 2001
    Location:
    The Warped Sector of the Demented Quadrant
    Well, we are talking about CBS here. I mean...look at so many of their series.

    As per the triangular, dark recesses under the saucer section they look largely the way they did on TOS, just more surface texturing and they may not be in the exact same locations on the underside that they are on the TOS shooting model. But they're more or less the same and I didn't even seriously consider that they might not even be triangles nor the same structures until I saw yesterday's posts.

    They're either just like the TOS Enterprise's triangle "landing gear" features or close enough to it to not be an issue for me.
     
  14. LtChange

    LtChange Captain Captain

    Joined:
    Apr 30, 2001
    Location:
    Aboard the Destiny
    I remember that Netflix was showing 4K HDR when the first two episode aired but a few days later had become 1080p HDR and that is strange.
     
    Ronald Held likes this.
  15. Nightowl1701

    Nightowl1701 Commodore Commodore

    Joined:
    Oct 29, 2011
    Location:
    Orlando, FL
    Is it cheaper to film 1080p than 4K? If so, there's your answer.
     
  16. XCV330

    XCV330 Premium Member

    Joined:
    Sep 24, 2017
    Location:
    XCV330
    The cameras are generally leased for the duration of the season, unlike a studio-filmed production where they'd own everything and would probably get what was passed on. My guess is they would have planned the extra expense of 4k up front. No one wants a Babylon 5 situation now
     
  17. Ar-Pharazon

    Ar-Pharazon Admiral Premium Member

    Joined:
    May 19, 2005
    Location:
    Far North Chicago Suburbs
    I would think the only added cost would be the cameras capable of 4K. And could that really be an issue, even for CBS?
     
  18. Ronald Held

    Ronald Held Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Feb 21, 2005
    Location:
    On the USS Sovereign
    More than the filming in costs, the post processing and the VFX.
     
  19. Saul

    Saul Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Dec 27, 2002
    Location:
    東京
    [​IMG]
     
  20. F. King Daniel

    F. King Daniel Fleet Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Nov 5, 2008
    Location:
    A type 13 planet in it's final stage