Work faster, damn you! Trying to get something to publish on my YouTube channel for Star Trek Day but it’ll be tight… looks like this won’t be finished until around 10 PM. Nothing that you guys haven’t already seen before a hundred times; it’ll just be 2 1/2 minutes of the Enterprise swimming through space being the beautiful lady of the evening that she is and always shall be. ❤️
"Lady of the evening"? Uh, are you saying the Enterprise is a...prostitute?! Yeah, I know you didn't intend that, but "lady of the evening" is occasionally used as a euphemism for that profession.
That's already an awesome in-progress rendering. And two warp engines, I mean GPUs! Your M/AM reactor, I mean Power Supply must be working at full-power Looking forward to seeing the beautiful lady this evening.
Barely made it under the wire. Work has been absolute hell the past two months, but I couldn't just let the 55th anniversary go by without doing something. So here's something. LLAP Vimeo: YouTube:
Oh holy crap, I just realized that yesterday was my 20th anniversary of being a member of trekbbs.com! So, uh, happy birthday to me too I guess?
I accidentally watched it without sound and then with and found the video captivating either way. Well done @Professor Moriarty
Love the music choice. With your beautiful imagery, it really encapsulates how (besides being adventurous and scary and moving and all the million other things Trek has been and can be) just plain fun Trek is.
Thank you for the (too) kind comments everyone. Sunday night I realized it was the 55th anniversary and I’d been so overwhelmed with work I almost missed it entirely. This was a hasty effort that was planned out in only a few hours--definitely not my best work but I hope everyone knows my heart was in the right place. I think you just about exactly captured how I feel about the Enterprise. 49 years ago this week, my mom suggested to eight-year-old me that I might like this show called Star Trek that was going to be on in the afternoons on Channel 6. The episode that they showed first was "By Any Other Name", and I was instantly hooked. And yes, I loved (and love) the iconic characters and the grown-up stories that were very different fare from the silliness of Lost in Space or the weirdness of UFO. But... That Ship. That wonderful, beautiful, mesmerizing starship. A starship! The USS Enterprise and her gallant crew were utterly captivating to that scrawny second-grader. Watching that show also made me face some uncomfortable truths at a very young age--that I lived in a deeply ignorant town and that I needed to get the hell out of there as soon as possible. And ten years later, I did! I now pursue a successful career in the sciences, and I'm not sure I would have started on that path without the inspiration that I drew from a certain science fiction show. A show flying on an aircraft carrier-sized starship into our living room five afternoons a week. So thank you Gene Roddenberry for Star Trek, and thank you Matt Jefferies for giving a little boy the metaphorical vehicle that captured his heart and carried him away to a better future than he ever could have imagined.