New starships from TOS remastered Season 1

[gaghyogi49]

I recently compiled some screenshots for the Starship Database at Ex Astris Scientia and thought I'd post some of the stuff here as well. Those are DVD screenshots of the remastered episodes as I don't have a HD-DVD player yet, so the quality is not as good as it's on the HD-DVD side. There are some nice surprises, though:

A shot of Mudd's J-class vessel, dead in space, from "Mudd's women"

http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/g...uddswomen14.jpg

An Antares type ship and a Constitution class vessel (USS Intrepid?) in orbit of Starbase 11 from "Court martial"

http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/g...ourtmartial.jpg

A second appearance of the shuttlecraft Picasso, from "Court martial"

http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/g...urtmartial3.jpg

The Denevan vessel, from "Operation: Annihilate!"

http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/g...Annihilate4.jpg

The ultraviolet satellite from "Operation: Annihilate!"

http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/g...ationAnnihi.jpg

Enjoy!

Jörg

 

[GodThingFormerly]

gaghyogi49 said:
I recently compiled some screenshots for the Starship Database at Ex Astris Scientia and thought I'd post some of the stuff here as well. Those are DVD screenshots of the remastered episodes as I don't have a HD-DVD player yet, so the quality is not as good as it's on the HD-DVD side. There are some nice surprises, though:

A shot of Mudd's J-class vessel, dead in space, from "Mudd's women"

An Antares type ship and a Constitution class vessel (USS Intrepid?) in orbit of Starbase 11 from "Court martial"

A second appearance of the shuttlecraft Picasso, from "Court martial"

The Denevan vessel, from "Operation: Annihilate!"

The ultraviolet satellite from "Operation: Annihilate!"

Enjoy!

Jörg

You need to make one hundred posts before hotlinked image files appear.

TGT

 

[BillJ]

Wow...

Is it me, or is the shuttle from Starbase 11 way out of scale?

 

[Lieut. Arex]

Is it me or does the deployed UV satellite not resemble Nomad's original design?

 

[GodThingFormerly]

Lieut. Arex said:
Is it me or does the deployed UV satellite not resemble Nomad's original design?

Nah.

TGT

 

[Lieut. Arex]

You're right. I'm talkin' crazy.

 

[Mallory]

Lieut. Arex said:
Is it me or does the deployed UV satellite not resemble Nomad's original design?

Good catch. That thought hadn't occurred to me until you mentioned it.

And welcome to the board gaghyogi49!

 

[Christopher]

BillJ said:
Wow...

Is it me, or is the shuttle from Starbase 11 way out of scale?

No doubt it's meant to be much closer to the camera than the Enterprise is. Note that it's out of focus while the E is in focus. And it isn't motion blur, because it isn't directional.

(By the way, it's neat that they've added ion-storm damage to the E's hull.)

Mudd's ship and the Denevan ship look like the same design.

And why is the UV satellite glowing red? Wrong end of the spectrum.

 

[Maurice]

Christopher said:
And why is the UV satellite glowing red? Wrong end of the spectrum.

For the same reason the obelisk's "blue flame" is red in the remastered episodes: failure to do some basic research.

 

[gaghyogi49]

Nice catch concerning the Nomad/satellite similarities!

Here are some more nice shots from "Court martial":

The USS Intrepid (?) as close as it gets:

http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gaghyogi49/USSIntrepidCourtmartial.jpg

Denise Okuda aboard the USS Enterprise:

http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gaghyogi49/DeniseOkudainwindowCortmartial.jpg

Two men in EV suits repairing damage to the hull:

http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gaghyogi49/TwomeninEVsuitsrepairingshipCourtma.jpg

Thanks for making the images appear, TGT. Could you work your magic again! ;-)

Jörg

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Why shouldn't the UV satellite glow red - we're seeing waste or secondary radiation of some kind, after all; the UV rays themselves are invisible.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Allow me.

gaghyogi49 said:
Nice catch concerning the Nomad/satellite similarities!

Here are some more nice shots from "Court martial":

The USS Intrepid (?) as close as it gets:

Denise Okuda aboard the USS Enterprise:

Two men in EV suits repairing damage to the hull:

I have a sneaking suspiscion that the hole with the carbon scoring below the window where we see Denise sporting the latest in 23rd Century Starfleet fashion, is where the CGI gurus have decided to put the ever-elusive ion pod.

 

[aridas sofia]

^Yeah, they went with the old fan idea that the light switch back by the hangar deck is the ion pod. Opinion was always split between that and the little doohickey hanging off of the ventral sensor.

I guess that will work. We just need a control panel or something for Finney to supposedly be working when woosh. Off she goes.

 

[Christopher]

North Pole-aris said:
Why shouldn't the UV satellite glow red - we're seeing waste or secondary radiation of some kind, after all; the UV rays themselves are invisible.

Generally UV ("black light") lamps glow violet or white. If it's an incandescent or other blackbody source, then the wavelength distribution is a curve that peaks in the UV but extends into the visible spectrum as well. So the "secondary radiation" would tend toward the shorter wavelengths of visible light, blue and violet.

Captain Robert April said:
I have a sneaking suspiscion that the hole with the carbon scoring below the window where we see Denise sporting the latest in 23rd Century Starfleet fashion, is where the CGI gurus have decided to put the ever-elusive ion pod.

Yeah, I just realized that myself. The scoring is presumably where the explosive bolts went off to jettison it, since it's too regular (at the four compass points) to be storm damage. What does that part of the ship normally look like on the CG model?

 

[Gepard]

gaghyogi49 said:

The ultraviolet satellite from "Operation: Annihilate!"

Enjoy!

Jörg

Normally, I've been a supporter of the TOS: Remastered VFX. Those other images-such as the closeups of the Enterprise's hull--are really cool. But this looks godawful. It's like amateur-level CG from 1994.

 

[Ronald Held]

I may be able to model and render that probe, so you may be correct.
On the other hand the crew needed to make a large number of satellites quickly so esthetics were not considered.

 

[Timo]

So the "secondary radiation" would tend toward the shorter wavelengths of visible light, blue and violet.

I'd think 23rd century technology could be used to narrow the band so that there'd be no visible component to the primary emissions. The red would then just be the glow of the power source.

And I rather doubt this could be a "they didn't read the script" instance, considering how blatant the very name of their assignment is: "Do us some ultraviolet satellites, willya?". I'm actually glad they didn't show any blue light there, just as I'd in "Way to Eden" welcome an ultrasound device that cannot be heard.

I guess that will work. We just need a control panel or something for Finney to supposedly be working when woosh. Off she goes.

Certainly this location would be ideal for Finney's plan: not likely that anybody else would be nearby, and the escape route to the bowels of Engineering is there, too.

Now we only have to figure out why a crewperson needs to be present - and why he has to be a top officer and possibly also a computer expert.

(A really clumsy interface to the ion measurement systems?)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Christopher said:

Captain Robert April said:
I have a sneaking suspiscion that the hole with the carbon scoring below the window where we see Denise sporting the latest in 23rd Century Starfleet fashion, is where the CGI gurus have decided to put the ever-elusive ion pod.

Yeah, I just realized that myself. The scoring is presumably where the explosive bolts went off to jettison it, since it's too regular (at the four compass points) to be storm damage. What does that part of the ship normally look like on the CG model?

Normally it's a large blinking white light.

 

[FalTorPan]

gaghyogi49 said:

Is there a reason why the "1384" and "1837" markings are white in this shot? I thought they were black.

 

[Christopher]

Timo said:
Now we only have to figure out why a crewperson needs to be present - and why he has to be a top officer and possibly also a computer expert.

He didn't have to be; as stated in dialogue, it was just Finney's turn on the duty roster. As for why it was manned instead of automated, you might as well ask that about any starship function. The main reason that starships and space fighters in SF aren't entirely automated to begin with is that audiences want to see stories about people, not mechanisms. So for whatever reason, Starfleet is a culture that promotes human(oid) effort and achievement over automation. Perhaps just as a way of keeping its crewpersons trained and ready for anything in case of computer failure.