"Star Trek: Phase II" Enterprise
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Maybe the tilt-in title should be a cheesey echo-effect instead, like the credits for Space Mutiny.
I stole that. I don't think it's timed quite right, either. Nor, surprisingly, could I find clean generic "swoosh" effects that really sounded anything like TOS.
I wondered about that.
The most sophisticated titles of that era would have been might've been something Robert Able-esque. Certainly nothing 3D. Contemporary shows were not so sophisticated in their titling:
Logan's Run series titles
Fantastic Journey titles
Space: 1999 1st season titles
Also, I seriously doubt the show would ever have hit the air wit the title "Phase II". The marketing people would likely have just opted for "Star Trek 2" or something.
Here's that trailer. The opening narration bit starts at :47...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o4YtpKnT00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o4YtpKnT00
I tend to agree - as I recall from reports at the time in fanzines like Starlog, the title was never settled on.
I recall the writer's guide bearing the title "Star Trek II", although I can't get my hands on my copy to be sure at the moment...
and with a bit under the title that proclaims:
"Now With More Bald Chick!"
"Now With More Bald Chick!"
I tweaked and re-upped this for some timing stuff on the credits and the Decker name issue and a couple of other things:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmNwQXuRySg[/yt]
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmNwQXuRySg[/yt]
On the other hand, Leonard Nimoy was identified in the credits as "Mr. Spock," not "Commander Spock." Maybe better to highlight Xon and Ilia's alieness by using something other than their ranks--like is done for everyone else.
She's "Christine Chapel" and they're "Xon" and "Ilia" entirely on my impulse and what you can call intuition if you like (or something less flattering if you prefer). There so often seem to be the odd characters in these credit rolls who are identified differently without explanation. They stand out from the others a bit because of that, IMAO.
There are other questions one can ask about the character IDs that have no answer, either - why do some characters have full names and others only surnames, for instance? First I thought all this stuff through, and then indulged in some studied illogic. It seems more real to me than something completely consistent that makes immediate sense would.
And of course I don't care how hard the fictional characters fictionally worked for their fictional degrees.
Ranks, rank order and credentials don't have anything to do with the importance of a character to a story or a television series, and I didn't figure the credit order based on rank - I've no idea, for instance, whether Xon would rank equal with or above Chekov in the Starfleet hierarchy (did you know that Clint Eastwood is both the star and the lowest-ranking character in "Kelly's Heroes"?)
Something like that, I think. I also figured that putting them at the end of the roll was a way of featuring them a little bit more.
I thought about putting their character names in quotes as well - "Xon" and "Ilia." I don't know why; just did...and then didn't.
There are other questions one can ask about the character IDs that have no answer, either - why do some characters have full names and others only surnames, for instance? First I thought all this stuff through, and then indulged in some studied illogic. It seems more real to me than something completely consistent that makes immediate sense would.
And of course I don't care how hard the fictional characters fictionally worked for their fictional degrees.
Ranks, rank order and credentials don't have anything to do with the importance of a character to a story or a television series, and I didn't figure the credit order based on rank - I've no idea, for instance, whether Xon would rank equal with or above Chekov in the Starfleet hierarchy (did you know that Clint Eastwood is both the star and the lowest-ranking character in "Kelly's Heroes"?)Something like that, I think. I also figured that putting them at the end of the roll was a way of featuring them a little bit more.
I thought about putting their character names in quotes as well - "Xon" and "Ilia." I don't know why; just did...and then didn't.
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Me too. I absolutely love it!
Very cool!
Captain, I'm sure.
