What do you think of this more accurate Warp Drive VFX interpretation

[Kamen Rider Blade]

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This guys take on a more "Accurate" interpretation of what would Warp Drive look like from the outside 3rd party perspective is interesting. He got Erik Lentz who wrote one of the more recent papers on Warp Drive to comment on his interpretation of the Warp Drive VFX.

 

[fireproof78]

Looks fine.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I always felt that a ship's warp field was much closer to the outline of a ship's hull. The original TNG warp effect (and maybe even earlier warp effects such as those in TMP) could be looked at as afterimages, IMO. The ship is already long gone, but there's a brief lag before the light from it catches up, at least to an outside observer.

Not a big fan of the current warp jumps seen in recent Trek productions. Too generic and indistinguishable from the lightspeed jumps in Star Wars, IMO. The less said about the Discovery's spore drive effect the better. I would have had the ship just disappear and then reappear in a blaze of light rather than all that spinning around.

So uncivilized...

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

The less said about the Discovery's spore drive effect the better. I would have had the ship just disappear and then reappear in a blaze of light rather than all that spinning around.

The Spore Drive isn't a "Warp Jump". It literally falls into it's own category and is closer to Naruto Teleportation than anything else. I'm going to accept it as part of canon, regardless of how I feel or anybody feels since CBS / Paramount / Star Trek IP rights holders have made it canon. Now we can literally have Naruto style Teleporting battles, something I never dreamed possible until they added the Spore Drive into canon. But that's a seperate topic from Warp Drive.

I have a entire Laundry lists of limitations and rules in my Head Canon on how Spore Drive works if you don't have a Genetically Modified Biological Navigator for long range Spore Jumps and using Computer Automated Spore Jump that is only effective to very "Local" distances and literally worthless for long range travel.

It's basically good for getting yourself into a position you want to be in or getting yourself out of trouble and running away or running to some place.

But that's Spore Drive stuff.

Let's not get distracted from the Warp Jump.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The Spore Drive isn't a "Warp Jump".

That's why I didn't call it that. But when the spore drive's engaged...(sighs)...I'd have to put it below any kind of actual warp jump we've seen as far as a FTL exit goes.

 

[wayoung]

My first thought is that filming yourself reciting a script into a camera while skateboarding (?) scootering(?) whatever down a city street is a good way to turn your YouTube science video into a YouTube fail video.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

That's why I didn't call it that. But when the spore drive's engaged...(sighs)...I'd have to put it below any kind of actual warp jump we've seen as far as a FTL exit goes.

Think of it as a Teleportation Device, but for StarShips.

 

[Vger23]

I like "cool/entertaining" much more than I like "scientifically accurate."

 

[Deks]

I like "cool/entertaining" much more than I like "scientifically accurate."

Scientifically accurate can look cool and entertaining too. At this point its a matter of being used to something.
And besides, Trek did change Warp effects throughout the franchise... so altering how a ship enters Warp wouldn't be the worst thing to do.

 

[Vger23]

Scientifically accurate can look cool and entertaining too. At this point its a matter of being used to something.
And besides, Trek did change Warp effects throughout the franchise... so altering how a ship enters Warp wouldn't be the worst thing to do.

I can't say that I care either way...as long as it looks and sounds cool.

 

[wayoung]

I sincerely doubt any current visualization of "warp drive" will still be considered "scientifically accurate" in 50 years anyway.

 

[fireproof78]

I like "cool/entertaining" much more than I like "scientifically accurate."

Same. This is entertainment not scientific technical manual. Space travel will look nothing like Star Trek.

 

[publiusr]

This wasn't too far off

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Any real warp ship looks to have to be a ringship though.

 

[wayoung]

I do wish we got to see more of that effect. There and gone in the blink of an eye and never seen again

 

[F. King Daniel]

Yes, the show with sound in space where spaceships move like sailing ships or jet fighters needs realistic warp speed effects.