Silence in space! It's about time!

[data65]

Ok, I know there were some shuttle sounds and Nero's ship made some sound, but for the most part the filmmakers did succesfully convey that, indead, sound isn't present in the vacume of space! As in 2001 they have replaced alot of sound effects with music, and it worked . It actualy gave me chills when I heard the woman screaming inside the Kelvin and when you see her come out of the ship you hear nothing. I loved that!
I hope that we get that amount of realism in the sequel.

 

[urbandk]

Going to warp sounds as well, but yeah, for the two scenes they omitted sound, I was very happy.

 

[sidious618]

Yeah, the scene where the woman flew out was really cool (I sound so sadistic!) and very effective.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Yeah, that's the scene where someone in the audience yelled something and we all heard it because it was just as it went silent.

I like the new warp sound, too--not to mention the jump-to-warp effect. It really does give the impression of a very massive ship breaking the lightspeed barrier.

 

[AdmiralSteven]

I thought it was a bit refreshing as well.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I was glad to see this.

May not jive with Trek canon. But does jive with reality.

 

[urbandk]

I was glad to see this.

May not jive with Trek canon. But does jive with reality.

Is there a difference?

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

I loved it. People have always said "make space silent -- when done well it would be chilling". And they're right.

 

[backstept]

the skydive scene was cool too how the wind noise gradually increased as they entered the atmosphere

 

[Kpnuts]

the skydive scene was cool too how the wind noise gradually increased as they entered the atmosphere

Yeah that was excellent

 

[Alrik]

Loved it. It worked great.

 

[MikeS]

Big thumbs up from me.

 

[Hambone]

I was glad to see this.

Me, too. It was a jarring, slap-in-the-face moment that no one expected.

May not jive with Trek canon. But does jive with reality.

"Jibe". The word you're looking for is "jibe".

 

[Overgeeked]

Ok, I know there were some shuttle sounds and Nero's ship made some sound, but for the most part the filmmakers did succesfully convey that, indead, sound isn't present in the vacume of space! As in 2001 they have replaced alot of sound effects with music, and it worked . It actualy gave me chills when I heard the woman screaming inside the Kelvin and when you see her come out of the ship you hear nothing. I loved that!
I hope that we get that amount of realism in the sequel.

Going faster than the speed of light. Disintegrating matter and reconstituting it in another location, completely unharmed. A turbolift that gets you from the flight deck to the bridge in a second (without killing you with g force). Artificial gravity. Alien races that are not only nearly identical to humans but can interbreed with humans. Time travel. Artificial blackholes. Red matter...

Any you're impressed with the realism of no noise in space. Uhm... it's fiction. It's not supposed to be realistic.

 

[Psion]

Ok, I know there were some shuttle sounds and Nero's ship made some sound, but for the most part the filmmakers did succesfully convey that, indead, sound isn't present in the vacume of space! As in 2001 they have replaced alot of sound effects with music, and it worked . It actualy gave me chills when I heard the woman screaming inside the Kelvin and when you see her come out of the ship you hear nothing. I loved that!
I hope that we get that amount of realism in the sequel.

Going faster than the speed of light. Disintegrating matter and reconstituting it in another location, completely unharmed. A turbolift that gets you from the flight deck to the bridge in a second (without killing you with g force). Artificial gravity. Alien races that are not only nearly identical to humans but can interbreed with humans. Time travel. Artificial blackholes. Red matter...

Any you're impressed with the realism of no noise in space. Uhm... it's fiction. It's not supposed to be realistic.

Portions of the early universe moved faster than the speed of light after the Big Bang. Teleportation has already been demonstrated for particles in the laboratory. Turbolifts mitigate g-forces with the same technology that allows artificial gravity which might be possible once a full understanding of Unified Field Theory is achieved. Alien races that can interbreed with-- alright, that one's bullshit. Time travel has been hypothesized as possible under extreme conditions. Artificial blackholes were one of the huge worries discussed last summer as CERN's Large Hadron Collider was being tested. And Red Matter is a complete unknown regarding its physical properties, but it may not be "simple" matter at all.

You're confusing "fiction" with "fantasy" ... a mistake made by a number of Trek writers in the past. But good fiction, and especially good science fiction, is the product of a writer who understands the science behind the story and makes efforts to keep the two in good standing. Far too many stories in Star Trek have been compromised by sloppy writing that ignored science or contradicted it with no good explanation. Some of those, like Wrath of Khan and its ridiculous "Genesis Device" even turned out to be successful. But that doesn't excuse still more sloppy writing.

As many mistakes as were made in this movie, I have to applaud this crew for taking the time to try to get some of its science right. Personal exposure to space was kept quiet deliberately and that's a step in the right direction.

 

[Brodels_Nazz]

"Finally silence in space" is exactly what I was thinking with those scenes.

the skydive scene was cool too how the wind noise gradually increased as they entered the atmosphere

Yeah that was really cool.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

"OOOHHH Look at us! We're so kwEL! We're scientifically accurate!"

Whatever...

Won't stop me from going to see the film (eventually), but it's a point against it in my book.

 

[Eric Cheung]

My interpretation of the silence was that it was primarily for dramatic effect, like almost all of the sound design in any movie, not scientific accuracy. It played a lot more like the end of Saving Private Ryan than 2001 in that respect. For that reason I liked it.

 

[NumberOne]

the skydive scene was cool too how the wind noise gradually increased as they entered the atmosphere

That was cool and if I'm not mistaken there was a bit of a sonic boom noise at one point in their fall.

 

[Overgeeked]

You're confusing "fiction" with "fantasy" ... a mistake made by a number of Trek writers in the past. But good fiction, and especially good science fiction, is the product of a writer who understands the science behind the story and makes efforts to keep the two in good standing. Far too many stories in Star Trek have been compromised by sloppy writing that ignored science or contradicted it with no good explanation. Some of those, like Wrath of Khan and its ridiculous "Genesis Device" even turned out to be successful. But that doesn't excuse still more sloppy writing.

You're confusing hard science fiction with all science fiction. Only the hard stuff cares one bit about scientific accuracy on any level. Which is why Star Trek, as a space opera (soft science fiction) ignores real science as a matter of course.

And you're confusing good science fiction with hard science fiction. That is a matter of taste, not fact. Some hard SF is good, some bad. Some soft SF is good, some bad. Star Trek has never been hard SF, and real science is irrelevant and often at odds with Star Trek.

It's good that the director threw real science a bone here, and if you like that, great.