Phase II- Blood and Fire teaser released!!

[GSchnitzer]

Nevertheless, the battle was thrilling to watch because of the effects

I have to say, the "burning" warp nacelle was the coolest effect in the sequence. I couldn't take my eyes off of it. It really suggested peril!

My favorite shot--and it's a subtle thing--is when the Klingon ship cloaks as it flees the Enterprise. It's streaming some burning flame stuff from a phaser hit, and as it cloaks, the streamed stuff is outside the vessel's cloak. So after the ship has vanished, a small plume of flame stuff is still visible, tracking right alongside where the vessel had previously been visible--just a small plume of flame retreating into the distance.

Greg Schnitzer
Star Trek Phase II

 

[Maurice]

Re the teaser battle:

My point exactly is that it's repetitive. It's by-the-numbers for fan films. And, with all respect, a good teaser sets up something about the story. The insane pilot flying into the sun in "Operation -- Annihilate!" is a clue about the ultimate solution, or the Horta killing the minor in "The Devil in the Dark" sets up the primary threat of the story, etc. In this case, it appears be all just to damage the Enterprise and establish the Klingons for Part 2.

 

[Lightinspire]

From Trek Today BBS..read the last sentence..
TrekMovie.com reports that Star Trek: Phase II has released a new episode, Blood and Fire, Part 1. TrekMovie reviewed the episode, and they found that "'Blood and Fire' is another good entry from the Phase II team...."

Doesn't sound like a good one to me, says only the teaser was the best part..apparently you only read what you want and close your eyes to the other parts.

Lightinspire, I think you might have misunderstood the overall summary of the review. I think it doesn't only say that the teaser was the best part. I think the last paragraph says two things: that "Blood and Fire" is good and that the teaser was the best part. Did you not read the second to last sentence in that final paragraph?

Overall, I agree with you Lightinspire: while the teaser was probably about a 10, the rest of the episode was probably only a 9.

Probably..I do that sometimes, misunderstand things.

 

[GSchnitzer]

Re the teaser battle:

My point exactly is that it's repetitive. It's by-the-numbers for fan films. And, with all respect, a good teaser sets up something about the story. The insane pilot flying into the sun in "Operation -- Annihilate!" is a clue about the ultimate solution, or the Horta killing the minor in "The Devil in the Dark" sets up the primary threat of the story, etc. In this case, it appears be all just to damage the Enterprise and establish the Klingons for Part 2.

Well, I don't think the teaser just damages the Enterprise to set up the return of the Klingons in Part 2 (although I agree that it does set up that future part of the story, too). More importantly, as I indicated, it sets up the main point of the story in Part 1: Peter Kirk is at risk and in harm's way. We shot the episode in June of last year and when we began to edit the episode together, we saw that we didn't have enough close-ups of Peter in the bridge scenes, right in the thick of it, being exposed to our pyrotechnics and such. So to better drive home the main point of the teaser, we did some additional pick-up shots in October of last year to get more Peter Kirk action and close-ups.

By adding those extra pick-up shots, we were better able to demonstrate the narrative point of the teaser: Ensign Peter Kirk is onboard, and can and does get injured. This sets up Peter getting treated by Medical Technician Alex Freeman and Captain Kirk having really mixed feelings about having his nephew onboard. (And way down in Third Place, it does, as you suggest, set up the return of the Klingons.)

So while you suggest it's repetetive and by-the-numbers and doesn't set up the story, I concede that it is repetitive and by-the-numbers but actually does set up the the two important story points of Part 1 as indicated above--and one story point yet to come in Part 2.

I also stand by the notion that, for whatever reason, the teaser, so far, appears to be the most popular aspect of Part 1--despite how overdone it might be in fan films. But your mileage might indeed be varying from other peoples' mileage.

Greg Schnitzer
Star Trek Phase II

 

[Maurice]

Peter Kirk isn't identified anywhere in the teaser, and we don't actually see him get injured: he recoils from an explosion, but there's no hint he's injured...Heck, he doesn't even react in pain. Kirk doesn't even bat an eye at him. All we see is he nameless redhsirt (him) drags the nameless helmsman away from his station and we don't see him again until Act One. I submit that a lot of people wouldn't even connect him with the guy in the Teaser until they re-watch it.

I'm, not trying to be hard nosed about this. I can see that lots of people are excited by the fireworks. That's fine. That's the decision your team made, but please don't try to ascribe narrative weight to it that it clearly doesn't possess.