Paramount+ 60th Anniversary Intro

[Tallguy]

I tuned in to watch Starfleet Academy last night and I was greeted with this:

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You know that scene from Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey is crying and hugging the TV? That was me.

Never mind that this definitive proof that the Original Enterprise holds up just FINE. And the refit 1701 is still the prettiest. And looking really sexy, Galaxy class.

I loved seeing ALL of the ships. From ALL of the (live action) shows. (Well: no Sovereign? Did Captain Freeman make this? Also no Cerritos or Protostar. The anti-animation bias is shocking.) I even loved seeing Discovery. And the Academy (Athena?). Because even the ones I don't like? They're ALL STAR TREK.

What can I say? We all know, it's been a long road getting from there to here.

* Actually, I suppose the Movie Enterprise is the outlier. No Sovereign, no JJ-prise. But you can't leave off the most gorgeous fictional spacecraft of all time, can you?

 

[The Wormhole]

Aren't the ships supposed to be flying at warp? If so, why aren't Voyager's nacelles in warp alignment? The animators of this sequence know nothing of Trek's essentials and as a True Fan it is my duty, obligation and pleasure to bitch about that and demand Kurtzman be fired for allowing this travesty to occur.

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[Dukhat]

I have to admit that was pretty cool. I just hope it’s not the only thing they do for Trek’s 60th. But I have low hopes.

 

[Rahul]

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You know that scene from Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey is crying and hugging the TV? That was me.

Ok, let me nitpick this to death:

• This is the first time we actually see the classic TOS connie jump to warp
• They used the SNW opening titles cgi model - not the in-series ship model (round neck)
• The two saucer exhaust ports of the Ent-D shouldn't glow red - the impulse engine is the thing at the neck
• The sizes are a bit weird - looks like the Defiant is gigantic, but the Athena fragile & fiddly
• Why are the surfaces so shiny? It looks almost like they're mirrors
• Animator put the wrong texture for Defiant's yellow Starfleet delta decal. That shines brighter than the actual windows.
• They forgot or ignored the ships from PIC, S31 & the Kelvin ships. Good.
• However ignoring the Ent-E (while having the classic & the -A) is blasphemy
• The red & yellow in the warp tunnel look goofy
• The Ent-D should have asymmetric shuttlebays. #notmyTrek
• Voyagers nacelles not in warp mode (already mentioned)
• Wrong windows on Discovery's neck
• I do like that they went by by production date, not in-universe chronological

Overall - a cheap copy of ENT's "These are the Voyages" montage. I love it.

 

[Enterprise1701]

I wish they had not doubled up on TOS and SNW Enterprise, but otherwise, it is a very alright sequence for ~25 seconds.

 

[tomalak301]

It was good, but I was bummed there was not Cerritos or Protostar. The California Class is disrespected again.

 

[Tallguy]

Ok, let me nitpick this to death:

• This is the first time we actually see the classic TOS connie jump to warp
• They used the SNW opening titles cgi model - not the in-series ship model (round neck)
• The two saucer exhaust ports of the Ent-D shouldn't glow red - the impulse engine is the thing at the neck
• The sizes are a bit weird - looks like the Defiant is gigantic, but the Athena fragile & fiddly
• Why are the surfaces so shiny? It looks almost like they're mirrors
• Animator put the wrong texture for Defiant's yellow Starfleet delta decal. That shines brighter than the actual windows.
• They forgot or ignored the ships from PIC, S31 & the Kelvin ships. Good.
• However ignoring the Ent-E (while having the classic & the -A) is blasphemy
• The red & yellow in the warp tunnel look goofy
• The Ent-D should have asymmetric shuttlebays. #notmyTrek
• Voyagers nacelles not in warp mode (already mentioned)
• Wrong windows on Discovery's neck
• I do like that they went by by production date, not in-universe chronological

Overall - a cheap copy of ENT's "These are the Voyages" montage. I love it.

Short answer: It's stylized. It's like complaining about the ships on the plaque on the briefing room wall.

I wish they had not doubled up on TOS and SNW Enterprise, but otherwise, it is a very alright sequence for ~25 seconds.

That would have made SOMEONE mad. Replace THE Enterprise with the SNW? No. Disregard their current show because the ship from the 1960's is already there? No.

It was good, but I was bummed there was not Cerritos or Protostar. The California Class is disrespected again.

That's kind of its job.

 

[Firebird]

It was good, but I was bummed there was not Cerritos or Protostar. The California Class is disrespected again.

The irony is the effect they’re using in this bumper to go from ship to ship is basically the same interference field that temporal anomaly caused on the Cerritos in Lower Decks’ finale.

 

[Qonundrum]

Was that rendered at 320x200 resolution and upscaled, then given 8000% mpeg2 compression? (Even switching to 720p from 480p, then 1080p, it looks remarkably grainy and low-def.)

The Constitution class looks more cartoonish than the TOS-R blu-ray project had, which is surprising.

On the plus side, I'm not going to bring up the relative scale between ships as that's not the point and, more to the point, the transition between each ship looks really cool (seriously, the concept behind the animation looks great). It just looks like it was rendered on a Commodore 64...

 

[Qonundrum]

It was good, but I was bummed there was not Cerritos or Protostar. The California Class is disrespected again.

True, but eventually they're going to run out of time for the 120th anniversary where they have to show a few dozen more lead series ships, stations, etc... granted, being the double-diamond anniversary, using their reflections in a diamond or two is an easy way to show quite a number of 'em to cover every facet...

 

[tomalak301]

The irony is the effect they’re using in this bumper to go from ship to ship is basically the same interference field that temporal anomaly caused on the Cerritos in Lower Decks’ finale.

I should have noticed that considering I watched the LD finale last week.

 

[Rahul]

Was that rendered at 320x200 resolution and upscaled, then given 8000% mpeg2 compression? (Even switching to 720p from 480p, then 1080p, it looks remarkably grainy and low-def.)

The Constitution class looks more cartoonish than the TOS-R blu-ray project had, which is surprising.

On the plus side, I'm not going to bring up the relative scale between ships as that's not the point and, more to the point, the transition between each ship looks really cool (seriously, the concept behind the animation looks great). It just looks like it was rendered on a Commodore 64...

Modern Trek in general is remarkably bad in quality with spaceship scenes. No comparison to other contemporary or older sci-fi shows like Lost in Space, For all mankind or Battlestar Galactica.

Seems they focus much more on compositing cgi effects around real actors, digital set extensions, monster effects, make-up enhancements and stuff like that.

 

[Tosk]

If so, why aren't Voyager's nacelles in warp alignment?

Voyagers nacelles not in warp mode (already mentioned)

Funnily enough I saw a Reddit comment yesterday that drew my attention to something I'd never noticed before. There's at least two shots in the run of Voyager where we see her in warp with the nacelles lowered. Sure, probably a mistake...but it's precedent!

 

[Saul]

Blending modern era Trek and legacy Trek doesn't work for me. They want to pretend it's the same. It's not.

 

[Rahul]

Funnily enough I saw a Reddit comment yesterday that drew my attention to something I'd never noticed before. There's at least two shots in the run of Voyager where we see her in warp with the nacelles lowered. Sure, probably a mistake...but it's precedent!

My favourite example is Battlestar Galactica, where on the very first jump they make a big point out of it that the hangar bays are retracting into the ship for the jump - only to have the actual space jump shown with opened hangar bays again seconds later

It's all made by humans after all...

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[tomalak301]

Funnily enough I saw a Reddit comment yesterday that drew my attention to something I'd never noticed before. There's at least two shots in the run of Voyager where we see her in warp with the nacelles lowered. Sure, probably a mistake...but it's precedent!

DId they say what episodes those were? Seems like a good trivia question.

 

[Paul755]

the Cerritos erasure is disappointing but otherwise I love the sequence.

 

[Tosk]

DId they say what episodes those were? Seems like a good trivia question.

Basics 1 (attacked by the Kazon) and Equinox 2 (chasing Ransom).
Edit: Just wanted to note that I did confirm these. I try not to just believe claims without checking.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I liked the 60th anniversary intro. it wasn't meant to be a comprehensive look at Trek, just a brief montage, so I knew not every hero ship could be represented (a testament to how many there's been), but I thought the ones shown were a pretty good representation of Trek's past and present.

Personally, though, I thought it was cool they used the Defiant to represent DS9.

 

[vfxart]

It's a shame they couldn't be bothered to alert the folks they swiped released assets from (that had explicit license terms for non-commercial use attached) and get approval and pay them for the use. And more offensive that they didn't set them up properly to render them. Typical crap with a certain few there.