What Was Your Favorite Special Effect In THe New Movies?

[TRON JA307020]

I do like the effects in the New Treks and I have a favorite one that stands out. Its in STID. When Marcus is chasing the Enterprise in the Vengeance while in warp. He starts to fire phasers at the Enterprise and of course compromises the hull. Starfleet personnel fall through the breaks and are sucked out into space screaming all while in warp. It was actually a impressive effects scene and showed how merciless and unfeeling Marcus was. Any other favorites?

 

[martok2112]

Yeah, that was a good shot. (Although methinks he was firing torpedoes at the Enterprise....some of them had curved trajectories I believe, and it would hold with the notion that phasers cannot be fired at warp, but torpedoes can. But, then again Star Trek since the beginning of TOS had been a bit inconsistent about their weaponry physics. )


My favorite shot would probably be torn between the Enterprise rising above the clouds on Earth (a sort of redo of her rising above the asteroids in Trek 2009) and the Vengeance crashing into San Francisco.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Yeah, that was a good shot. (Although methinks he was firing torpedoes at the Enterprise....some of them had curved trajectories I believe, and it would hold with the notion that phasers cannot be fired at warp, but torpedoes can. But, then again Star Trek since the beginning of TOS had been a bit inconsistent about their weaponry physics. )


My favorite shot would probably be torn between the Enterprise rising above the clouds on Earth (a sort of redo of her rising above the asteroids in Trek 2009) and the Vengeance crashing into San Francisco.

You are right it may have been the torpedoes. I have only seen the movie once so I am a little cloudy on certain aspects of the effects.

Yeah the crashing of the vengeance was also pretty good.

 

[Smellmet]

The opening Kelvin battle at the Start of ST09 takes some beating for me.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Yeah, that was a good shot. (Although methinks he was firing torpedoes at the Enterprise....some of them had curved trajectories I believe, and it would hold with the notion that phasers cannot be fired at warp, but torpedoes can. But, then again Star Trek since the beginning of TOS had been a bit inconsistent about their weaponry physics. )

They were "arcing phasers", one of many new weapons designed for the Vengeance (several others, like neutron torpedoes, never made it to screen and are only described in the Official Starships Collection magazine)
The arcing effect was originally a distortion due to firing at warp speed, but JJ liked it so much he requested it be the standard way Vengeance phasers fired.

 

[F. King Daniel]

My favourite FX has to be during the Spock/Khan chase (and all the other San Francisco and London shots). I've always wanted to see future Earth in all it's glory, and here I finally did. Trek's world has never seemed so real.

 

[martok2112]

Yeah, that was a good shot. (Although methinks he was firing torpedoes at the Enterprise....some of them had curved trajectories I believe, and it would hold with the notion that phasers cannot be fired at warp, but torpedoes can. But, then again Star Trek since the beginning of TOS had been a bit inconsistent about their weaponry physics. )

They were "arcing phasers", one of many new weapons designed for the Vengeance (several others, like neutron torpedoes, never made it to screen and are only described in the Official Starships Collection magazine)
The arcing effect was originally a distortion due to firing at warp speed, but JJ liked it so much he requested it be the standard way Vengeance phasers fired.

Fascinating. Thanks for the info. I need to get more of those ships and mags... I only have 8 I think. Would love to get the Vengeance.

My favourite FX has to be during the Spock/Khan chase (and all the other San Francisco and London shots). I've always wanted to see future Earth in all it's glory, and here I finally did. Trek's world has never seemed so real.

Agreed on that notion that the futuristic cities look much more fully realized.

 

[BillJ]

The Enterprise rising out of the ocean.

 

[lurok]

The opening Kelvin battle at the Start of ST09 takes some beating for me.

Yes. As Dennis said in the other thread, that's one of the best all-time: the upside-downy, ambient bridge fx nails it.

Plus the Vengeance attack.

And...

The Enterprise rising out of the ocean.

 

[Galileo7]

The Enterprise rising out of the ocean.

Agree. Extremely impressive first for the 1701JJ.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I really dig the new ship designs they created for NuTrek 09, from the Kelvin to the task force that was wiped out by the Narada. For some perverse reason, I really enjoyed finally seeing odd-numbered nacelle starships being added to the canon. I'm guessing that, in the more advanced tech seen in the alternate timeline, they figured out a way to bypass the "nacelles in pairs" limitation.

I'm on the fence about the Enterprise herself but I've warmed up more to the Vengeance since its reveal. Really wish ID had more of the new ships in it, but it is what it is, I guess.

 

[Smellmet]

The opening Kelvin battle at the Start of ST09 takes some beating for me.

Yes. As Dennis said in the other thread, that's one of the best all-time: the upside-downy, ambient bridge fx nails it.

Plus the Vengeance attack.

It had an almost Return of the Jedi quality to it with the crazy camera angles, no other Trek battle has looked or felt like it for me. As much as I loved the Vengeance attack in STID, that was just as much about the sound as anything else, and seemed to lack that big epic quality of the ST09 battle, and for my money was way too brief too. More ships should have got involved in that battle as they were close to earth.

 

[Kemaiku]

They were "arcing phasers", one of many new weapons designed for the Vengeance (several others, like neutron torpedoes, never made it to screen and are only described in the Official Starships Collection magazine)
The arcing effect was originally a distortion due to firing at warp speed, but JJ liked it so much he requested it be the standard way Vengeance phasers fired.

As I mentioned in another thread long ago, watch in slower motion, the hull of the Enterprise seems to show something similar to a laser point or a surface laser excitment effect.

The Vengeance can "paint" a location and the "phaser arc", something like a polarised beam jumps from the emitter to that point and lances it with a vicious amount of energy, almost like a lightening bolt.

Which only happens at the close range while at warp, likely it only can work at short range, or the only one that can work at warp speeds, since it connects the two points.

That's a pretty damn smart new weapon to have, and I'll bet it was one of Khan's ideas. A full power phaser assault at warp that essentially can't fail, or can hit very precise targets at sublight if you risk getting close enough, which the Vengeance most certainly can.

 

[Cyke101]

I do like the effects in the New Treks and I have a favorite one that stands out. Its in STID. When Marcus is chasing the Enterprise in the Vengeance while in warp. He starts to fire phasers at the Enterprise and of course compromises the hull. Starfleet personnel fall through the breaks and are sucked out into space screaming all while in warp. It was actually a impressive effects scene and showed how merciless and unfeeling Marcus was. Any other favorites?

Yeah, that was a good shot. (Although methinks he was firing torpedoes at the Enterprise....some of them had curved trajectories I believe, and it would hold with the notion that phasers cannot be fired at warp, but torpedoes can. But, then again Star Trek since the beginning of TOS had been a bit inconsistent about their weaponry physics. )

They were "arcing phasers", one of many new weapons designed for the Vengeance (several others, like neutron torpedoes, never made it to screen and are only described in the Official Starships Collection magazine)
The arcing effect was originally a distortion due to firing at warp speed, but JJ liked it so much he requested it be the standard way Vengeance phasers fired.

Just to add, Starfleet phasers in this reality are red, torpedoes remain bluish white (there's even a drone from the Vengeance that fires torpedoes before crashing into the Enterprise).

When I first saw the Vengeance firing on Enterprise, I thought the arcing phaser did so because they can't/won't be fired at warp (or so the legend goes), and that the official explanation finally was because the ship would eventually outpace a phaser blast at warp. So having them arc, I thought, was a brilliant yet surprisingly canon way of explaining that legend; the phaser arced because it had to at warp speed, and that phasers couldn't be used at warp before because they were inaccurate. And so there's the warp distortion mentioned above.

I was a little disappointed then when I realized that the phaser blasts still arked in normal space. But hey, it's not a totally made-up concept; energy can be drawn to certain sources, after all.

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Anyway, I'm stretching the definition of special effect here, but I just realized fairly recently that the Jellyfish shares plenty with the Vulcan ships of Enterprise, specifically the giant hole in the ship where the ring goes. Of course the Jellyfish went another step beyond by making the rings spin in different directions.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Karl Urban's accent.

 

[Amaris]

The Enterprise rising out of the ocean.

The whole sequence, from where they dove into the ocean and swam to the Enterprise, and where the Enterprise rises out of the ocean were just brilliant, IMO.

 

[M'Sharak]

It's not the most extensive use of effects, but I still like the sequence with the Enterprise and other ships departing for Vulcan, especially the first ten seconds or so, as Enterprise slowly rolls away from the docking position at starbase (it's at the very beginning of this clip.)

 

[Cyke101]

It's not the most extensive use of effects, but I still like the sequence with the Enterprise and other ships departing for Vulcan, especially the first ten seconds or so, as Enterprise slowly rolls away from the docking position at starbase (it's at the very beginning of this clip.)

It reminds me of how much I've wanted see a larger fleet of Starfleet vessels warp out TNG-style with the warp flash. The closest we got to it was the end of Generations, but that was a measly 3 ships

DS9, with all of your fleet actions, you were so close! SO close.

 

[lurok]

Karl Urban's accent.

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[TRON JA307020]

I thought I would post video of the attack effect I mentioned. Its pretty sweet because the vengeance shot while in warp. Also the effect of the crew that fell through the hull breaches tumbling through the warp corridor. I have to admit a nice effect. It also showed what a dick Marcus was. He just didn't care who he killed.

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