PACIFIC 201 - A Star Trek Film
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Enough with that school stuff--let the really important work begin! 
Eight of those? This looks to be a fairly large-scale production... looking forward to seeing the project unfold further...
Eight of those? This looks to be a fairly large-scale production... looking forward to seeing the project unfold further...
Enough with that school stuff--let the really important work begin!
Eight of those? This looks to be a fairly large-scale production... looking forward to seeing the project unfold further...
Eight required to create our octagonal bridge set, which will definitely be the largest, most complicated physical aspect of our production. But the set is going to be entirely modular, so we can create a number of sets from the same components. We want the illusion of "big" without having to go huge like some other fan productions of late. We still want to be able to produce this on a feasible budget, after all!
Great work!
Glad you're able to get some more done between real life demands
Glad you're able to get some more done between real life demands
Wait wait--Pacific 201 IS your real life, didn't you know that?? 
Cool space-age vacuum cleaners too!
(Just kidding, looks good and glad you're back at it! I hear Paramount are taking pitches now...)
Cool space-age vacuum cleaners too!
(Just kidding, looks good and glad you're back at it! I hear Paramount are taking pitches now...)
Nice!
Thank you for sharing. That is really coming together
Thank you for sharing. That is really coming together
She's purdy, Spongebob! 
I look forward to pictures of the cast though...
I look forward to pictures of the cast though...
That looks awesome!!!
Those of you who've been following us on Facebook would have already seen this, but this is a fairly recent render of the Pacific I whipped up as we gear up for our Kickstarter in the next few weeks here.
She's a beauty.
She's finding her way onto my tablet
http://www.trekbbs.com//www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/
Just make sure to adhere to the Fibonacci principle in your designs!
Nice stuff as usual...
Nice stuff as usual...
The Romulan wars did reach Earth (or at least the Sol system), per this line of dialogue from DS9:
From Homefront:
A couple of questions: 1) why don't any of the Federation ships have active bussard collectors? 2) what is the extraneous superstructure above the nacelles?
I looked at the crowdfunding video then polled a few friends who routinely contribute to such things, and several of them said they were put off by what they perceived as a dismissive attitude towards other fan films in the pitch. I tend to agree that it's unnecessary to pillory other productions as you hype your own.
YMMV
YMMV
I don't think that quote is as much about Earth itself as it is about the Jem'Hadar's tactics of indiscriminately killing civilians and combatants, which may very well describe the Romulans as well. Overall, that's a good catch - gotta remember that.
Also, considering the bussard collectors, the short answer is that it wasn't until TNG where it seemed mandated that ALL bussard collectors looked red and glowing. Cochrane's Phoenix had gold nacelle caps. The "Cage"-era Enterprise had opaque, reddish-brown ones. And the refit Constitution, and the Constellation have grills. The Oberth has no ostensible collectors at all. So there have actually been a number of different styles of nacelle caps, and we don't really see a canonical problem with trying something different. The Pacific does still have spinning blades a-la the TOS Constitution, though. The glow color is blue. We considered making it purple, since that's actually the color of a real deuterium discharge, but we thought that was a little radical, and blue seemed like a good compromise.
The superstructure above the nacelles is a mount for the subspace antenna, long-range sensors, and thermal control systems.
I do feel really bad that it comes off that way to some people - it's not something that came up in any of our preview audiences, so it's not something we addressed ahead of time. But that wasn't the intent at all - those lines aren't meant to bash any other productions. There's nothing wrong with "trekkies playing dress-up" - which I don't consider a particularly derogatory comment anyways.
For instance, "Star Trek: A New Beginning" is one of the most low-budget fan productions I've seen, and I would definitely classify it as "trekkies playing dress-up," but I'm not ashamed to say that I really enjoyed it, because there's actually a lot of ingenuity that I respect (check out some of those Micro Machines battle sequences!)
https://youtu.be/wCLqBUSsDYY
Or even "Continues," which is definitely my favorite fan series, and far and beyond the call of duty for fan productions, is "guilty" of things I mention in the video - "replicating what's been shown on screen before," and Vic hasn't hidden the fact that dressing up as Captain Kirk is all part of the fun. I don't think that's a bad thing at all. It's simply just not what Pacific 201 is doing, and that's what we wanted to communicate. We're not saying "these productions are bad because they do these things." It's not a better/worse thing in my book. But this sort of approach is something that sets Pacific 201 apart, and that's what we wanted to communicate.
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