• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Spoilers Picard Prequel "Children of Mars"

In actuality, I believe that the Tugs are more of an offshoot of the USS CLARKE...

1pCt0Wy.jpg


Rather than the Magee class.
:biggrin:
Yeah, the saucer is from the Malachowski class (the Clarke there), nacelles are from the Hoover class. The added bit between the pylons is brand new.
 
Yeah, the saucer is from the Malachowski class (the Clarke there), nacelles are from the Hoover class. The added bit between the pylons is brand new.
I posted this in another thread awhile back...

vlTrq8o.jpg


It's the production breakdown of how They actually created the Tugs.


( and thus everybody can truly see that I am indeed a Star Trek Starship Connoisseur)
:cool:
 
Even a Connoisseur can appreciate an off example occasionally.
;)

(I don't hate the Enterprise-E, it's just not one of my favorites)
 
Do They really though?

God only knows what happened to all the CGI assets from Berman Trek's final years.
I really doubt that in the last year of ENTERPRISE's production anybody thought to hang on to those CGI files.
Well we know Eaglemoss has them. All they needed to do is ask them for the models.
 
Seriously, they needed a ship for a ten second shot, it was quicker and cheaper to grab one that's already rendered and available then it would have been to create a new mesh. And really, I was absorbed enough in this Short Trek that the presence of a ship from Disco didn't even register. At all. And I'm usually nitpicky AF.

And it was just ten seconds. Get over it and enjoy the rest of the six minutes.
 
If that was the case I just wouldn’t have shown it at all. Just show a wide shot of Mars. I doubt they could mess that up.
I just wish the old production team was still around. You hear stories of them working in their free time on things so that it fits proper. They wouldn’t have done something like that.
 
Seriously, they needed a ship for a ten second shot, it was quicker and cheaper to grab one that's already rendered and available then it would have been to create a new mesh. And really, I was absorbed enough in this Short Trek that the presence of a ship from Disco didn't even register. At all. And I'm usually nitpicky AF.

And it was just ten seconds. Get over it and enjoy the rest of the six minutes.
But, but, but...
<whiney-ass Trek Nerd>
:vulcan:
 
I just wish the old production team was still around. You hear stories of them working in their free time on things so that it fits proper. They wouldn’t have done something like that.
Huh? When has anyone on any Star Trek ever worked to make sure things "fit proper"? And things like this have always been happening in Trek, going all the way back to TOS. And they'll continue to happen in the future as well.
 
Please tell me those Discovery Era ships that we saw were relegated to simple duties like Tug Ship / Buoy Repair?

They are WAY out of date for their original tasks by the time Picard is Admiral.
 
The actor who played the Vulcan principal, Robert Verlaque, is the same actor who played Saru’s dad in DSC S2.

Please tell me those Discovery Era ships that we saw were relegated to simple duties like Tug Ship / Buoy Repair?

They are WAY out of date for their original tasks by the time Picard is Admiral.
Short Treks probably don’t have the budget for new designs.
 
If that was the case I just wouldn’t have shown it at all. Just show a wide shot of Mars. I doubt they could mess that up.
I just wish the old production team was still around. You hear stories of them working in their free time on things so that it fits proper. They wouldn’t have done something like that.
Are you serious? The Bergman era production team would have done it in a second if time or budget demanded it. Wouldn’t have bat an eye about it. How many alpha quadrant ships make it to the Delta quadrant? How many 24th century ships fight future Xindi? How big is a Bird of Prey???? You can have the opinion that you wished different ships were used, but to say it reflects poorly against this production team versus any other Trek series production or that certain crews wouldn’t have done it is simply flat out wrong. TOS look the Romulans have a Klingon design? Why, because they lost the romulan ship. Look why did that bird of Prey explode the same exact way in two different movies? Why is that freighter in 8 different races and three different time periods.....you could literal find over a hundred examples of this happening, easily.
 
Last edited:
I just wish the old production team was still around. You hear stories of them working in their free time on things so that it fits proper. They wouldn’t have done something like that.
Star Trek reused effects shots all the freaking time. It reused props, designs, ship models, matte paintings and every asset possible. Yes, it would have been done because time is limited.
 
I'm curious to know who covered "Life on Mars." I didn't see it mentioned in the credits (which is surprising). Does anyone know who it was? Apologies if someone already mentioned it. I only skimmed the 300+ new posts.
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top