How exactly can the Enterprise see itself using external view? You always hear the captian say external view now, but where is the 'camera' that is showing the ship. Now I know its a dramactic device for dramatic purposes, but is there an expalination as to how this is done.
External view?
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I'm sure there are sensors located on the exterior hull, including types of imaging cams. Wouldn't need to be large enough to see from a distance. Send the sensor feed from some hull location to the main viewer.
Also, the "external views" called for are almost always taken from a vantage point located somewhere on the ship itself, looking aft/port/etc. I don't recall any view that was inclusive of the whole ship as seen from a distance. And even then, that shot could be achieved remotely via a launched probe.
Also, the "external views" called for are almost always taken from a vantage point located somewhere on the ship itself, looking aft/port/etc. I don't recall any view that was inclusive of the whole ship as seen from a distance. And even then, that shot could be achieved remotely via a launched probe.
Oh there have been dozens of times where ships in star trek are shown using thier veiwing systems which show the entire ship sitting in space, next to planet etc, all supposedly using 'external view' but yeah the prob thing makes sense, though they never mention any probes being launched. Guess its a cheat kind of thing.
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but quite a few.
.....and even just one specific example would help. You could provide us with episode name, a plot description, a link to a picture from the episode, the name of a guest star in the episode, or anything specific enough to get the example you are referring to in our minds......
That's not the ship's exterior on the bridge viewscreen -- that's your TV screen.
Yeah, I'm also not recalling any time where a "whole ship" distant external view was seen on a viewer.
However... I recall something similar.
TNG "The Loss", with the 2D lifeforms trapping the Enterprise. Data showed a viewscreen depicting the "whole ship" external shot of the Enterprise trapped in the thing. There are other examples of this type of thing.
In these cases, it's not realtime external cam views of the ship. It's sensor data projected on a computer-simulated realistic image of the Enterprise. This could appear to be a virtual external view of the ship.
Am I getting it right?
However... I recall something similar.
TNG "The Loss", with the 2D lifeforms trapping the Enterprise. Data showed a viewscreen depicting the "whole ship" external shot of the Enterprise trapped in the thing. There are other examples of this type of thing.
In these cases, it's not realtime external cam views of the ship. It's sensor data projected on a computer-simulated realistic image of the Enterprise. This could appear to be a virtual external view of the ship.
Am I getting it right?
^ Actually, I think that was data transmitted from a probe. There is a similar example from TNG: The Last Outpost, of a view transmitted from a probe.
This is the only example that comes to mind for me:
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=89&page=8
This one makes more sense:
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=33&page=6
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=89&page=8
This one makes more sense:
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=33&page=6
Well, that shot from Galaxy's Child would have been better if it were from the point of view of a camera mounted on a nacelle, but that shot might have been hard from them to rig for the episode.
In The Motion Picture, when Enterprise was receiving the transmission from Epsilon IX detailing the attack on them by the cloud, Kirk asks for and gets an "external view". They didn't explain this, but I assumed there were multiple channels available in the transmission, and Uhura just switched to a signal from a sensor drone, similar to the kind that had observed the attack on the Klingons.
Yeah, I never understood exactly what was supposed to have happened to the poor dude. It happens about the time the assimilator beam would have caught up with him, I believe, but why does he sort of double over? Why not just get phased out like everything else?
