Galileo 7 TOS-R...simply glorious...

[Brutal Strudel]

Ahem. The updates are nice but I'mm still more impressed by what the original team managed to accomplish with beads and rattles (or should that be stone knives and bear skins?).

Let the shouting down of my comment commence.

 

[Holytomato]

TOS-R trashing: The gift that keeps on giving.

:thumbsup:

 

[Warped9]

Holytomato said:
TOS-R trashing: The gift that keeps on giving.

:thumbsup:

Particularly when the subject is so deserving.

 

[TowerPower]

jep316 said:
This is a cool shot too..but I think I spotted a goof...where's the Columbus?..we should be able to see it at this angle in the Bay..

I think this shot is similar from one in Journey to Babel that was cut for syndication. May have something to do with why the Columbus is missing.

Please, when this airs, someone get some really big screencaps that we can use for wallpaper. I love these shots.

 

[Forbin]

I not only went to art school, I've been draftsman, kitchen designer, technical illustrator, graphic artist, yadda yadda, and at this moment I'm creating isometric parts drawings for a manual from orthographic views . the Columbus is at least half a shuttle-height too high off the ground in that shot. I'm guessing they cheated it to get it in the picture and didn't care if the perspective was off - won't be the first time that happened in an effects shot.

 

[ancient]

TowerPower said:

jep316 said:
This is a cool shot too..but I think I spotted a goof...where's the Columbus?..we should be able to see it at this angle in the Bay..

Interesting how they seem to have made the rear wall of the hangar a blank grey wall.

Suddenly "Journey to Babel's blank wall shot springs to mind. Too bad the physics of the situation are off though.

 

[Doug Otte]

jep316 said:
This is a cool shot too..but I think I spotted a goof...where's the Columbus?..we should be able to see it at this angle in the Bay..

While we're speaking about odd angles...Does it look like the saucer is tilted down to the left but the shuttlebay is tilted down to the right? Or is that supposed to be some kind of fisheye lens effect?

Doug

 

[GodThingFormerly]

Whew! After almost two hours of intense Googling I have finally discovered what was bugging me about these new CG effects shots. The Galileo Seven was originally aired in 1967, two years before the black hole and accretion disk model of quasars (and, for that matter, galactic microquasars which would account for Murasaki 312) was proposed (PDF) by Dr. Donald Lynden-Bell in his Nature paper of 1969. Although it won't effect 99.9% of the potential viewership, this blatant scientific anachronism makes me feel even queasier than usual regarding TOS-R.

TGT

 

[Outpost4]

If a shuttlecraft falls into a quasar and nobody has envisioned it yet, does it make any noise?

 

[ancient]

Doug Otte said:

jep316 said:
This is a cool shot too..but I think I spotted a goof...where's the Columbus?..we should be able to see it at this angle in the Bay..

While we're speaking about odd angles...Does it look like the saucer is tilted down to the left but the shuttlebay is tilted down to the right? Or is that supposed to be some kind of fisheye lens effect?

Doug

Just normal perspective effect. If you look at a large building at an angle; the ground line and roof line are not parallel, they converge to some point off in the distance. The saucer and hangar lines would converge somewhere off to the left.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

ancient said:
Just normal perspective effect. If you look at a large building at an angle; the ground line and roof line are not parallel, they converge to some point off in the distance. The saucer and hangar lines would converge somewhere off to the left.

Perhaps. I think there is a bit of fish-eye distortion evident in this shot, though. CBS-D probably used a really short focal length on their virtual camera to get a more dramatic angle. Unfortunately, not only does this make the saucer appear to "dip" slightly to the left, it also makes the secondary hull appear to be slightly twisted along its longitudinal axis.

And yeah, where is the Columbus?!

 

[Profhig]

Oooh, burn!

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Holytomato said:
TOS-R trashing: The gift that keeps on giving.

:thumbsup:

Funny how a post which begins by calling the nex fx "nice" is characterized as "trashing."

Whatever.

 

[Hambone]

[/QUOTE]

There's an airlock "barrier" which slides up from the deck behind the turntable/elevator whenever the clamshell doors open. This way the maintenance crews can keep working on the other shuttles without having to wear space suits. Look closely and you'll see that the turntable/elevator is right in front of the airlock wall. The Columbus is behind it.

In previous episodes, we only saw shuttlecraft launches from a "looking aft" perspective, in front of the airlock. I hope this clears it up for everyone.

 

[Outpost4]

^ Swift.

 

[TowerPower]

That's the first I've heard of a barrier sliding up, but that could make sense. I'll have to look closer into that. Anyone seen it on any deck plans?

 

[Vulcanian]

Beautifully remastered

 

[payndz201]

TowerPower said:
That's the first I've heard of a barrier sliding up

What, you don't remember Kirk's "Plan B" from TFF?

Granted, the barrier we saw probably wouldn't hold in much air, but...

 

[Timo]

The rising bulkhead idea sounds pretty odd: what we see in that picture, ahead of the putative bulkhead, is clearly the entire known shuttlebay...

For that matter, how do we know that what we see is the Galileo, and not the Columbus?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Rat Boy]

Timo said:
For that matter, how do we know that what we see is the Galileo, and not the Columbus?

I assumed that it was the Columbus, as well.