Warp speed

[Roshi]

I'm wondering what would the warp speed effect look like.
Do you think we will see the Enterprise fly by like in TOS's opening credits, i.d. extremely fast but no distorsion effect? Will it be like TMP, i.d. prism effect/light and matter distorsion? Will it be like TNG, i.d. a flash of light and matter distorsion?

Btw, have we ever seen the Defiant jump to warp speed? Can't remember.

 

[blaXXer]

I hope it's a combination of the classic and the ENT effects.

 

[Cranston]

I'd actually kind of like to see no "effect," other than the change in surroundings (i.e. sublight = stars stand still, warp = stars move, high warp = stars move faster). That's for ship-POV, anyway.

As for what it should look like outside of the ship's POV (i.e. going to warp), I'd kind of like to see it more as a sudden disappearing effect, as something suddenly going the speed of light would appear to just vanish. But I assume they'll go for something a little flashier.

 

[Thomas Riker]

I'd Prefer if there was no such thing as going to warp 7 or 8 etc directly, that you had to build up to it. Thus the enterprise would have to increase impulse speed up to the speed of light then switch to warp engines to increase speed up through the warp factors.

It would just be far more interesting to see the ship race off in some direction from various angles to show off its beauty. It might be blasphemy for mentioning this here, but I think this is something that Stargate SG1 got spot on with the Deadulus Class Ships. You never see them go to Hyperpeed directly, they race off at sublight first.

 

[steveman]

I'd certainly be open to them altering the warp effect. I mean, we've been stuck with the TNG stretch-warp for a while now. It's 2008, people. We can do better than that!

 

[martin]

Just please avoid the Star Wars effect, as well as any of these "Corridor" or "conduit" style effects.

TNG effect with some nice shimmering light, almost like smears of colour passing by, if you imagine the effect you get when you do a long exposure of traffic moving by.

 

[Woulfe]

Warp Speed Poll

 

[Holytomato]

A combo of the Star Trek:First Contact effect, and New Voyages.

Outside effect:

Enter- turn off impulse engines. stretch, then flash in the distance.

Exist- flash in distance, then stretch, then reform its stable shape. turn on impulse engines, or thrusters.

Inside effect:

Enter- turn off impulse engines. stretch stars, planets, nebulas, etc. away from ship. then they pop away, except for the stars, they are streaking by.

Exit- stretch stars, planets, nebulas, etc. towards the ship. then they pop into their stable shapes. turn on thrusters or impulse engines.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Oh, but it wouldn't be canon if 'warp speed' doesn't look like it did in The Cage. Everyone knows that warp speed LOOKED different in 2254 than it did in 2275, in 2290, or even in the late 24th century -- physics is always changing

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

Should everything turn to black-and-white when they go into the Cage-style warp effects?

 

[Woulfe]

Cage style.....
Didn't they simply have a simi-transparent star field over the actors ?
Why are we paying ILM hundres of thousands of dollars when I could use the Starfield screen saver from windows....
- W -
* Seems rather wasteful use of ILM's talents *

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

^
^^...and perhaps our heroes can visit the planet where flying toasters rule the sky (you people DO remember flying toasters, don't you?)

 

[Woulfe]

^ I do ! ^
I'm old, it happens....
The same company did a Star Trek screen saver.
- W -
* Ah what memories *

 

[StarMan]

Woulfe said:
Why are we paying ILM hundres of thousands of dollars

"We?"

 

[Woulfe]

^ Metaphoricly speaking ^
We as in the folks at Paramount not we as in the fans, however, when you think about all the Star Trek stuff fans have bought over the years....

 

[Jack Bauer]

I think they'll go for something new. The ship looks similiar but not exact. I think warp speed will be the same way.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Man, I really hope they stay clear from anything that's been used before and do something different. But, really, as long as it conveys the ship is going "very fast" that's all that matters...

 

[Woulfe]

^ So far, the Something Entirely New is getting the most votes here so it seems for the most part, folks agree with you.
- W -
* Not sure if it's a surprise or not that it's getting the most votes *

 

[PKTrekGirl]

My answer: "Don't know. Don't care."

 

[Professor Moriarty]

I'd love to see something new, but it's been so long since we've seen my favorite go-to-warp effect from Star Trek: The Motion Picture that it'd be new all over again!