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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
Today’s picture isn’t large, unfortunately, but it is pretty epic. If my origins are correct, this comes from the photo collection of one original crew members and it’s a shot I’ve not seen before.
That doesn’t mean this is a brand new pic. I grew up a Star Wars kid and while I love TOS, TNG and a good handful of the movies I wouldn’t count myself as any sort of expert, so it’s possible this has been seen by the hardest of the hardcore.
What I love about this particular image, and the reason it’s my first Trek photo even though I’ve collected at least two dozen at this point, is it is a hero shot of the original Enterprise model. Look at how massive that thing is! You can also get a great sense of how they pulled off those model shots back in the day.
So, here’s the first of many Trek images to come. The original Enterprise in all its glory! Enjoy!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Since today is Trek, let’s head back to Star Wars territory with the next Empire Strikes Back photo for tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes pic!
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
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So Sad.
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I have more interest in bewigged Shatner backstage photos than more photos relaying the timeline of how one man's ever expanding neck came to dominate a film industry
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Even the worst Star wars blows all this shit out of the water
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Good one Quint!!
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..might as well read a magazine?
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Love it!
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your comments bring up an interesting quandry. What is worse to the psyche of a Sci-Fi Afficionado, the odd-numbered Star Trek films or the Star Wars prequels? Certainly both sets of films have left equally deep & numerous scars that one has to shudder at a certain memory.
I can tell your a man who'll appreciate a 20 minute pod-race to an intergalactic search for God, wheras myself prefers the company of Patrick Stewart trying to outham his half picard/half ham clone to scenes of Interstellar treaty agreements -
cant respect a series based around a feces collector
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over Insurrection any day of the week.
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Funny how even in a socialist world of supposed tolerance, the "hero" is an individualistic cowboy from middle America. There's a reason for that -- deep in their hearts, everyone knows the marxist utopia of the federation couldn't ever really work. That's why we never actually see it.
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while i have to say that STAR WARS still holds onto the top sci-fi position in my heart(mostly cuz of Han and the singular fantasy of being Luke with the saber, etc.), the prequels made it possible for the TREK monster to crawl into number one in my brain. we can all forget the bad TREKS, as no one ST film ruined all that came before and after......
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We agree to disagree. However Picard was an old turd.
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unlike OTHER sci-fi franschises...and where the hell is the SW TV show???
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The live action SW show is canceled, so you'll have to watch Clone Wars.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Except Kirk is balanced by the logical, analytical Spock ... and Kirk isn't a mean-spirited douchebag. He actually has a philosophy that isn't rooted in illogical fairy tale nonsense ... and he's more than willing to listen to opposing viewpoints.
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that balanced the two of them, Colonel
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If I recall my trek lore correctly there was the episode involving the comms/yangs which at the end had Kirk reading the first lines of the Declaration of Independence. Another showed Lincoln in a very positive light. Kirk spoke to the Organians about standing up to the klingons, the nazi episode where Kirk spoke against facism. And how many times did Kirk about individual rights and freedoms?
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If this is from the original series then why's there a blue screen? I thought they weren't invented yet?
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clone wars? no thanks. well, maybe for free on ntflix streaming..
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Sep 02, 2010 4:52:45 PM CDT
Leo...the only thing in Trek that was communist...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
they gave up money and replicators fed and clothed the world...
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Guess old Zann got shot down pretty good, huh? Too bad. Good screen name.
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a pretty face as I recall. He got all girlish and shy acting.So yeah--I concur with Lord Chop. Bones might fall for Palin between his good old boy, reactionary temperament and his innate auto-pussy-whipped ways.Hell, he fell for that Salt Monster...
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It was about balancing individuality with duty to your fellow people. A more informed, magnanimous version of the American ideal. Trade is good, self-defense is good, but there are certain truths we hold self evident. Modern mainstream conservatism has perverted that very thought.
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Sep 02, 2010 4:59:39 PM CDT
So, Fishus, Bones is just Bill Kristol in Fed leotards?
by colonelfatheart
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'Fuck that logic shit. We're HUMAN, motherfuckers!' - has to be the funniest thing I've read all week. I nominate you for writing the next Star Trek film.
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I thought you were into selling real estate from home and had something to do with the border patrol some years back.You're a surgeon too?And how many wives exactly HAVE you had. Just honest curiosity from your biggest fan.
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politics?
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... he's just ... I dunno. Anyway, this is a cool pic.
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cool to see the primitive use of blue screen.
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Americans are still obsessed with the "evils" of Communism, the only real difference between Communism and Capitalism is that its taking a little longer for Capitalism to die.
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found humanity in Star Trek. Y'know, when it visited from other planets.
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That fat car salesman from that Tv show??? He always said chop, chop???
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in these hour long used car commercials when I lived in Vegas who called himself the chopper...pretty funny stuff, actually...That the same guy you are thinking about?
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*Almost* ruined Trek for me in the same way that thinking about the prequels makes me want to go on bloody rampage. Instead I just gave up on the movies and only watched "the good ones" (II, III, IV, VI, First Contact). I think the reboot makes up for a lot of it. I keep randomly finding ST:Tos on TV and can't stop watching it, way more than I ever did as a kid. Man, most of them are truly not good. But when they are good, they're fucking amazing.
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They are both international fuck-wits though
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Sep 02, 2010 5:31:13 PM CDT
Saw the original Enterprise years ago...
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
...it was in a Star Trek display at the original Museum of Air and Space in DC. Looked like a piece of junk, as did all the props. No high def TV in the 60's, no budget for FX and no time to get detailed. It's amazing it worked so well onscreen, but it did. I remember some of McCoy's medical gizmos were spray-painted wood with lights glued on. The Enterprise was the best piece in the show, however. It was sort of translucent plastic and the signage mentioned it was lit from inside. Of course this was like 15 years ago, so I may be misremembering some details.
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CHOP CHOP CHOP!
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How beautifully put. Star Wars captured my heart with it's adventure bravado at a young age too but it was the moral dramas and ethical explorations of Trek which appealed to my developing brain. I don't begrudge that the majority of what was filmed for the prequels was not aimed at me but a much younger audience, I simply have issues with how it is presented.
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You've been CHOPPED.
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3...2..1..0
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In detriment to your statement, I do agree with you on that point. Picard is/was an old turd! That's why I always found him so interesting a character.
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bursting into laughs whenever he came across the cheap effects of the ST movies/series.i cant blame the guy.ha.
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He was shot down over on the 'Walking Dead' talkback too, for the same reason - talking utter bollocks.
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even Picard's invisible hairs from his head were cooler than Kirk.FACT.
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are one and the same! Just...a feeling I have
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Sep 02, 2010 5:39:59 PM CDT
What was that old issue of The Authority?...
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
...where a villain who was obviously supposed to be Jack Kirby was going to bring down the world and recreate it because without Communism to provide balance, Capitalism would become bloated and corrupt and fail utterly, destroying civilization completely when it did? I always sort of agreed with that point and current events are proving it right, somewhat. Look, Trek wasn't commie, it's just that when a civilization has that level of tech, the old economic systems would naturally become obsolete. Anyway, where's AsimovLives to eviscerate JJ Trek? Must be past his bedtime over there in Portugal.
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have been around since the 30's. I reckon this Choppah chappie is actually Osama Bin Laden. He's just adopting a more subtle approach these days.
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This chop-chop-chop dude has a zero instead of an O. Beware! Beware!
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"Americans are still obsessed with the "evils" of Communism, the only real difference between Communism and Capitalism is that its taking a little longer for Capitalism to die. Star Trek was great in part because it showed us a future where we were smart enough to find a new way to live."Holy shit. "...only real difference..."No my friend...there is a world of difference. Any nation under Communism turned into a cesspool or tyranny.Oh, and that future where we find a new way to live? Science Fiction. Emphasis on the fiction. Humans will never agree on much. So this Utopia Roddenberry envisioned is just a fantasy. Cool stories and all...but utter bullshit.That said, the Klingons had the best damn spaceship designs of all time!
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...accept no substitutes.THE_CHOPPAH is the real thing.THE_CH0PPAH is a commie knock-off.
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Would this be in a museum somewhere? Some obsessed and wealthy fans basement? Or just sitting on a shelf in a massive warehouse like the one at the end of Raiders?
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Turns out bluescreens were invented in the 30's. I seriously thought Lucas or ILM had invented them. As for the "Chopper Impostor" I don't know if that's supposed to be directed at me, but I actually have no idea what that means.
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Turns out bluescreens were invented in the 30's. I seriously thought Lucas or ILM had invented them. As for the "Chopper Impostor" I don't know if that's supposed to be directed at me, but I actually have no idea what that means.
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...about why they went from blue screen to green. Blue screen was used for film because when they did high-contrast black-and-white traveling mattes, they used a film stock which "saw" the process blue color as white, therefore transparent. When we switched to digital, the green channel has the least amount of pixel noise, and is therefore easier to matte out in software programs. It's more complicated than that, but that's the basic answer.
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That certianly wouldn't be Mr. Sulu's chicken eye...
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More ESB tomorrow!!! Now I have a reason for getting out of bed.
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Do you really think that if Apple were to invent the iWarp drive they wouldn't charge people confiscatory prices for it? The idea that technology renders capitalism moot is inane. Capitalism is the only reason we have these internets and these daggummed gadget whoozits we have now. and yes, I am descending into cranky old man mode...
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I have spoken.
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Capitalism wouldn't exist because the replicator would eventually cancel out the need for money.
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transporter technology hasn't replaced the need to fly everyone around on earth in Trek? Seems like a HUGE waste of resources to keep producing aircraft to me. Of course, there IS a big chance I'm wrong, as I am by no means a Trekkie-er.
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the invention (or introduction) of the replicator is what made the Federation possible...Replicator based economies are what the Fed offered to planets who joined.
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Still disappointed
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steaming pile of dog shit > Phantom Menace
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Sep 02, 2010 6:48:11 PM CDT
Just refill with garbage and some dirt and plant material...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
and transporter-based replicator technology breaks down the molecules and scrambles them into scrambled eggs or a new pair of sneakers...
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best lightsaber duel in the prequels. Hands-down. Okay, TWO things: the second being Qui-gon's simultaneous deactivation/reholstering of his lightsaber during the Amidala rescue. Okay, THREE things: the third being Jar-Jar stepping in poo. HI-larious! No? Anyone?
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'Are you an Elvis person or a Beatles person?' You might like both, but you prefer one over the other. Is there anyone who loves Star Wars and Star Trek EQUALLY? I don't think it's possible. I don't think any type of physics can sustain this paradox. I'm a Star Wars guy. Star Trek is mostly dry, clinical, lotsa yammerin'. Watching Next Generation was like sitting in a Doctor's waiting room with staff wandering about discussing patients.
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TOS, specifically. Star Wars is a lot of fun, tho, at least the OT was. I think that if you look at the prequels as more of a political allegory (especially the second and third) then they work much better. But I never went back and rewatched them to confirm this.
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I'm guessing the reason people still use surface and air vehicles on planets when they have transporter tech is that the latter is still very expensive and requires huge amounts of power. Most homes probably don't have the matter-anti-matter power plants needed to run the things.
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Kirk was pretty old for an authoritarian captain in the 'don't trust anyone over 30' era 1960s. Plus the short hair and starfleet protocols. Rodenberry served in the military. The idea of serving one's country used to be less contentious between left and right.
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I just figured that if the tech is there, you should be able to go to the 'transporter-port' in Chicago, and *zip*, you're in the Saigon 'transporter-port'.
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Kirk probably smacked a bitch on the ass off camera.
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Holy mama
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This is a disaster! Epic Fail!
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Flew B-17s during the war, then an airline pilot, then seven years as a Los Angeles cop before his TV writing career took off. What a hippie!
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T'pol, Seven of Nine and Jadzia Dax...in a dark holodeck...
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THE_CHOPPAH after discovering he's been trapped on a planet with only Asimov as company: CH0PPAH!!CH0PPAH!!
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Worf: Wesley, have you ever been in a turkish prison?
Wesley:No sir
Worf:Tonights your lucky night
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"Wesley, Have you ever seen a grown Klingon naked?"
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Sep 02, 2010 8:19:28 PM CDT
Jeezum crowe, does this guy CHOPPAH
by ohsostupidlongassfuckingscreennames
EVER shut up? Just love the sound of your own voice doncha choppy? 40,000 comedians out of work and we get this guy? The world is a cold hard place indeed.
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So um, Sisko talks about his first weeks at the academy, he would beam home (Frisco-Orleans) every night. He bitched about using up all his transpo credits.I wanna know what the chips represent when they play poker on the Enterprise. Time off?Oh as for the pic, she's a beautiful lady, and I love her.
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The bridge?! Uhura's on the bridge!!
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... they got the miniskirts right, but neglected the pointy 60's tits. Just sayin'...
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Sep 02, 2010 8:35:03 PM CDT
Yeah, Billy, it's like they just traded money for 'credits'...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
there are other references like that all thru out Trek..."Scotty, if you don't save the Enterprise, you're fired..."Fired??? You don't pay me, I'm in Starfleet, bitch..."
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No name badges. I've been in the army and you need names badges for a lot of common sense reasons. But I can understand that visually for tv it wasn't wanted. Still...
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tribble fisting...
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Sep 02, 2010 8:36:34 PM CDT
The poker chips still represent money...
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
... but it's like Monopoly money. You play because it's fun, but the chips are worthless.
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Just because of the skirts. Did you know Kirk made it mandatory that all females wear the skirts? Yep, its true.
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...all the computers were stand alones and not linked together. Seems like by the 24th C computers would be in chip-implanted-in-you-brain form and everyone/everything would be linked up.
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Its a large room at the front of the ship but thats not important right now.
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You're thinking of the 'Borg. THEY had the brain implanted computers...
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...Kirk woulda made it mandatory for all females to be nude, so I don't believe that one. Besides, the female cadets would have all filed harassment charges with the Federation Equal Employment Commission. They still have lawyers in the Trek future, ya know.
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Yes, I'm a doctor damnitt!!
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...just sayin': No internet in Trek, for some reason.
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Sep 02, 2010 8:44:39 PM CDT
"Surely you don't expect me ta git the engines back online...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
in that short of time?""Yes, I do, Mr. Scott, and don't call me Shirley..."
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In space, no one can hear you scream.
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but does anyone know how to fly a starship?
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Sep 02, 2010 8:46:33 PM CDT
Thing about Trek tech I wish was NEVER invented:
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
Wish Spock had never figured out time travel in that episode with the water that made you crazy and sing bad Irish ballads. That, and the holodecks.
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drinking Saurian Brandy...
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...Romulan prison movies?
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what female drow elves are to D&D enthusiasts - and I'm one of them.
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...Olivia D'Abo in TNG. Actually, I'd bang Olivia D'Abo anywhere!
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BIG GRIN
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Sep 02, 2010 8:51:35 PM CDT
Olivia provided the voice of Talia in Batman:Animated Series
by leo54304
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Yep.
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... "meth smoking assholes with tourettes". Friggin' brilliant.
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Sep 02, 2010 8:54:42 PM CDT
The warp core generates enough matter/anti-matter energy...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
to power a small Deathstar...Holodecks probably eat up a lot of power, especially the converting light into a solid trick, but they are the first systems shut down when power needs to be diverted. Unless they get hijacked or develop self awareness which DOES happen from time to time...
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Sep 02, 2010 8:58:54 PM CDT
Of course I'd have to take out Wesley Crusher first...
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
... no problem there. And she was a Q... but I like dangerous chicks. Yep, despite the risks, I'd still bang her. Wouldn't even try to get those pink tights off first, I'd bang her through the tights... make her feet flip up and down. Ah yeah... Olivia D'Abo.
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Funny how even in a socialist world of supposed tolerance, the "hero" is an individualistic cowboy from middle America. There's a reason for that -- deep in their hearts, everyone knows the marxist utopia of the federation couldn't ever really work. That's why we never actually see it. (see what I did there? I changed one word and sidestepped all your dumb arguments.)
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Sep 02, 2010 9:00:17 PM CDT
So, if you are enjoying your day off in the holodeck...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
that you had to schedule three weeks in advance, and there is a Red Alert issued, you are only gonna see black Tron rooms with gridded walls.Sorry, no refunds...
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Sep 02, 2010 9:01:11 PM CDT
Anybody see my marxist utopia? left it around here somewhere
by leo54304
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what a scam.
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Sep 02, 2010 9:05:36 PM CDT
In Voyager the holodeck had...
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
...a Buckminster Fuller-esque metal grid with attached projectors. I liked the glowing masking tape grids better.
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Submitted an idea to Prime Directive RPG about uniforms being fire, acid and good in hot/cold climates. They credited me with the idea. Ah geek nirvana.
Bill Clinton on hearing the uniforms were stain resistant was heard to say:
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Sep 02, 2010 9:08:31 PM CDT
SO the uniforms were made of...
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
...unstable molecules? The new Starfleet uniform: Powered by RichardsTech!
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...when Enterprise had that episode with the chick from that "pastrami, the most sensuous of the cured lunchmeats" episode of Seinfeld? Remember how much Harry geeked out about it? Think it was the chick, or the thought of pastrami he was geeking on? Yeah... it was the pastrami.
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...have fun dreaming of replicator-powered Marxist utopias. Me? The Olivia D'Abo dream, hopefully. I better sleep on a coupla towels tonight...
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Sep 02, 2010 9:25:47 PM CDT
Pay attention kids, this is how it's done:
by ohsostupidlongassfuckingscreennames
"Anybody see my marxist utopia? left it around here somewhere".
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If only they'd had better motion control, that model could have made some fuckin' sweet fx shots.
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With transporter tech that allowed the dissemination of molecular bonds and hold those patterns and molecules in stasis within the force fields of the ships warp coil... How much 'undigested' tons of raw material could they carry in ephemeral form?
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Hate to say it, but it's true.
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The one in Mr. Abrams' movie looked pretty cool too. And Quint, can we get a Romero zombie movie pic? I'm suprised we haven't had one yet.
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In 40 years I'm gonna go back and re-master my asshole...in holographic 3-fucking-D you pricks!!!
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Fuck, I am 90% sure that is a fairly iconic shot that got reused multiple times, it's a unique angle that they used a lot. Until I pick up the Blu-Ray sets though, I won't be able to confirm. What bums me out about this pic, besides the fact that we don't have the full-sized version, is that the Enterprise looks magnificent, but all the effects processing really stole so much visually from it. Ugh, I also see something I've never noticed before about prior Enterprise TOS models, the amount of dishing in to the underside of the saucer. The movie version has this, and it's absolutely fantastic, but generally it's underplayed on the TOS model and now I see it there, I loathe all the wrong-ass toys and models and physical incarnations.
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...the drunken, weeping, Howard Anderson, lying crumpled over a broken six-inch popsicle-stick model of the ENTERPRISE three days before filming while Roddenberry looks on, horrified!
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CHOP CHOP CHOP!
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Air and Space Museum in DC.
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You wanna blue screen a space shot with an out of place crowd in it!?!?!?!
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Sep 02, 2010 10:51:45 PM CDT
chomrakey ( I know I spelt it wrong ).... Been around since like
by darthsaul666
Nowadays you use a computer instead of two sets of film negatives!!! The Blue screen was swapped out for green after Superman with Chris Reeves was made because costume was was the same color as the background being removed from the front image.... I wish some you geeks would watch some special features on your DVDS once in awhile.... For those who you who know or found out... I got to this tb late...
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You're not ready.
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Geordi's visor could read heat - he could tell if you're lying, Data could fix the dice, Troi could sense your emotion if your bluffing, etc.
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Sep 03, 2010 12:11:58 AM CDT
Mr. Plinkett has just reviewed J.J. Abram's Star TRek
by jehovahs_witness
http://www.redlettermedia.com/
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My BF is a black man.i met him via
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But what you gonna do?
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will be BIG LOB'ed at by the CHOPPAH
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It's on display in the Smitsonian Air & Space museum on the natl' Mall. It used to hang, rightly so, in the main foyer next to the Spirit of St. Louis and above the Columbia command module and so many others....but I think after the 25th anniversary they removed it from the foyer and put it in the basement gift shop, under glass. To find it, go to the first floor gift shop, go to the rear left corner and take the escalator down (or the elevator). It sits way in the back and as far as I know there's nothing in the guide book or any signage to point the way. It is HUGE, like 12 feet long. I know many people who would have loved to see the Enterprise and have been to the A&S museum, but never knew it was in the Gift Shop. Hope they do something special for the 50th anniversary of Trek!
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is under glass at the Smithsonian, too. Oh-What-A-Nerd-I-Am.
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Great stuff Quint. Keep up the good work!
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[opening riff to "Don't Fear the Reaper begins ominously]
Talkback times have come
Here but now they're gone
Users all fear the Choppah! So do Harry, Massy and Capone...
They can't be like He is...
All you babies...you'll fear the Choppah!
You know he'll never be banned... you'll fear the Choppah!
The Choppah never will die... you'll fear the Choppah!
Babies he's a MAN...
Ain't It Cool is done
Here but now it's gone
Moriarty and Mr. Vern
Left together for a better job...
Moriarty and Mr. Vern
40,000 fewer hits everyday
...Like Moriarty and Mr. Vern
40,000 fewer hits everyday...
See these crappy articles...
Another 40,000 leaving everyday...
We can't be like He is!
All you babies...you'll fear the Choppah!
Better give him a hand...you'll fear the Choppah!
The Choppah never will die... you'll fear the Choppah!
Babies, he's a MAN
SCOTTPILGRIMFAN's done
Here but now he's gone
Came the last night of talkback
And it was clear that you couldn't go on
When the site was open and His Name appeared
The shitty ads shimmered then disappeared
The talkbackers shivered when HE appeared...
saying "YOU'RE ALL AFRAID!"
All you babies...and you quaked in fear!
You all ran from him...
and you don't know why!
You shit your britches and cry and cry!
You can't become like CHOP is!
You've been pwned by mighty hands...
You can't become like CHOP is!
You're all babies..who fear THE_CHOPPAH!!!
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But now I know for sure that you are bat shit, bug fucking molested-as-a-child serial-killer crazy. Kindly go slit your wrists, put us out of your misery and spare us more of your pitiable painful to witness, shockingly un-funny bids for attention. CHOP CHOP CHOP - your fucking head off.
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Sep 03, 2010 9:25:44 AM CDT
And you can suck a bag of dicks fishus...
by ohsostupidlongassfuckingscreennames
You sycophantic choppy scroat sucking imbecile.
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Had you slimey little jagoffs NAILED 35 fucking years ago: WPOD.
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You better chop around. She's nuts.
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Why, sostupid--can I call you sostupid?--I think you're well on your way to becoming a Choppaholic.Welcome!
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As smooth as the great taste you get in Colt .45 beer. Take it from me, Billy Dee.
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Half a bottle of Billy Dee Williams' finest malt liquor will clear the muck out of your kitchen sink almost as well as Drano and Liquid Plumber.Seriously.
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That one kind of worked, Lord Chop...
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Very boring, and no one cares who wins. It ain't Monopoly.They play for something, I just don't know what.
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starred in one of my favorite comedies of the decade: ORPHAN.
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Sep 03, 2010 10:18:29 AM CDT
That's the model as used in the pilot, and the pic has been flip
by crumb
It was a huge model at approx 11ft in length, and was later updated with various bits including the spinning lit domes at the front of the nacelles.
Cheers Quint, really enjoying these BTS pics. Not quite enjoying all the BS in the talkbacks though. Bring out the banhammer. -
Whereas with Risky Business, NOW that had great sex scenes
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The writing is backwards in the saucer.
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McGillis is an out of the closet lesbian and Cruise is a (most likely forever) closeted gay man. Put those two in a love scene and watch the sparks fizzle into smelly, wet cigarette ash.Oh, Chop. Why are you never satisfied...? I'm doing my best.
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Sep 03, 2010 10:28:11 AM CDT
You're right. I should know better...
by ohsostupidlongassfuckingscreennames
Any attention is better than no attention eh children? Have fun now, I'm out. Make sure to pound your puny little chicken-chests and tiny little puds and roar incoherently in victory. But I ask you: What is it you've won? AICN TB bragging rights? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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Don't leave!Shit--I don't even know anything about you. How old are you? Where do you stand politically? Are you man or woman? What movies do you like?I felt like I was just getting to know you. Sniff.
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but I'm gonna find out.
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Name that movie quote!
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Sep 03, 2010 10:55:18 AM CDT
Nope. Out. You guys ain't even fit to insult.
by ohsostupidlongassfuckingscreennames
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"You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object."
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After all I've done for you. The song--the movies...What the fuck more do you want, Choppah?WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!
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You're James Worthy. "No, son, I'm Klingon Koral" My dad doesn't like you though. You're not really a star player, and the only reason you won anything is cause you played with Magic and Jordan and Kareem.
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You've just earned a blowjob from Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in her prime.
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You're a twisted megalomaniac and a user. I'm done.Take care of yourself, Chop. I guess that's what you're best at, isn't it?
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An AICN TB filled with self congratulatory dickheads? Who woulda thunk it?
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About time, from this site.
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Deal with Choppah. He's gone completely bug-nuts insane, and I'm losing my patience.
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That post was the funniest thing I've read all week!!!Cheers Big Ears
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CHOPPA = Vicious Fishus?
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Not likely.
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it would be disturbing were it true... If I could pull that off, I'd be a much smarter and much more insane man than I am. And I'd have a LOT more free time.
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I wish I could quit you.
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I think Lord Chop is one of three people:1. Harry (though probably not--doubt he would spend the time)2. TheEnemy (not as remote a possibility as it seems--teenager with tons of free time)3. Moriarty (I could see him channeling his inner shithead for sure).
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"Supporting" THE CHOPPAH in this TB are the same person? Hmm? It would explain a lot...
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... of the posts. About 2 minutes apart? Something is fishy...
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Fishy's a friend of mine. Take that for what it's worth.
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Sep 03, 2010 5:45:57 PM CDT
Actually, reading back up this thread it appears that
by colonelfatheart
"ErichZann" has a very similar style to The Choppah. Eerily similar, even.
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... but the last half of this TB IS fairly surreal, and it was mostly them, with 2 or 3 minutes separating their bizzaro posts...
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Heh. Don't trust ANYONE!
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But you're right. Don't trust anyone. For all I know you're the Choppah.
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...are BOTH great looking Enterprise designs, unlike the fugly, bastardised 'alternate timeline' version of the latest movie.Hell, J.J.'s design is almost as bad as the awful 'Next Gen' Enterprise!
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The JJ basher showed up! YAY!!!
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He's a conspiracy controlled by every TBer except YOU! Deal with it.
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... been on these boards since '99 with the same handle. Choppy's got a banhammer in his future. I've gotten hostile from time to time, but never spewed THAT much BS. By and large, nice polite conversation, with occasional troll hunting expeditions. Do an 'AICN Google search' for: "Tailend Talkback"...
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I never really thought you could be a choppy clone, you're much too intelligent... I was just trying to be funny.
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RESERVOIR DOGS reference. Sorry I telegraphed it.
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... right over me 'ead Colonel...
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...you, the person reading this right now.
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Sep 03, 2010 9:13:42 PM CDT
The only thing worse than laughing at your own jokes..
by the dark shite
is doing it in the guise of a character you've created, complete with cathphrases, in a tragically pathetic, desperate bid to become some sort of a cult figure/big fish in a small pond.
"Hey everybody! Look at me!!! CHOP CHOP CHOP!! You've been chopped!! THE_CHOPPAH"
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Cuz I was just goofin'. I can't stand that fucking clown. I wish he'd just go the fuck away.
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When I know I'm more intelligent than 95% of the mouth breathers that post here. Present company excluded, Dark Shite. You're good people.
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It was aimed diectly at the source:-).
I don't mind him too much, but it's getting annoying now. Every thread is disrupted with his chop chop bullshit. There's room for that kind of thing, but if a person overdoes it, they become a bit overbearing & just embarrass themselves. I think he's let it go to his head a bit. -
Your post gave me quite the chuckle, by the way. "Tit." Anyway, I admit to getting a kick out of old Chop, but mainly because I feel we are having a laugh at his expense. Still, maybe I shouldn't enable him ...
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Because, dear god, even to be associated with that fucking mental case would be a tainting that would drive me right off this site.
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Sep 03, 2010 9:33:17 PM CDT
Actually, I'm feeling a little guilty now for enabling him.
by colonelfatheart
Gee, thanks, Shite. It's like I'm back in CCD again. ; )
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Otherwise known as "Chop blocking" :-D. There's the embryo of a secret society in there somewhere.
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"Please, Choppah, take your drugs and calm the hell down."
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I always like the refitted blue deflector dish, and nacelles as opposed to the original red shown in the photo. I don't HATE it, but theres just something "off" about the red to me. BTW, e-mail me if ya want some pizza rolls!!
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Proof that you are what you eat.
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Red nacelle domes with the spikes are a dead giveaway. And, as previously noted as well, the image is flipped.
Notice the fact that there are no windows on the side? That's because on the 11-footer only the right side was completed. Whenever they wanted to show the 11-footer from port, they simply swapped out the lettering on the nacelle for a mirrored version, then flipped it in post.
The 33" model (which was actually seen in an episode of the series as a "replica" of the Ent) was fully completed, though.
And the Enterprise was "restored" a couple of decades ago, so the one you can actually see nowadays is a fucking atrocity. On the original model, the panel lines were done with a pencil. Now the entire surface is covered with "realistic" paneling and weathering. It's fucking sad to see the old girl look like that.
Anyway, we all know that the Jefferies/Probert refit of the Ent for the TOS movies is a far superior design, as much as I love the original. Hard to believe that it was actually four feet shorter than the TOS Enterprise model, yet had such a greater sense of scale. Of course, the Enterprise-D is fucking gorgeous as well. Probert knocked that motherfucker out of the park. A duck-egg blue Enterprise with nacelles BELOW the saucer?! Yet it fucking works! A goddamn floating city, it was.
And on the green/blue screen debate: in addition to the technical advantages of green, there's also the practical advantage of blue-hued clothing and lighting being used more often than green. Actually, if you watch the Reeve Superman flicks, aside from the gorgeous and damn-near-flawless Zoptic shots, everytime Superman is in an optical shot, his suit is green due to him being filmed against a blue screen. It's actually really fucking distracting once you notice it. I can even live with the black outline, but a green suit? Bullshit. -
Sep 04, 2010 12:44:28 PM CDT
Green screen started with Lois & Clark, not the Donner films...
by thecomedian
And most of the flying shots of Christopher Reeve where actually done as process shots with filmed backgrounds projected behind him.
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Yup yup. The specific system used was invented just for Superman The Movie. The projector was directly tied into the camera, so that turns and zooms would shift the projected image, allowing the illusion of Reeve spinning and flying into the camera while he was actually completely still.
I fucking love Zoptic. If there was a way to utilize it in stereoscopic filming (two separate projected images with polarized lenses over the camera lenses?) I think we could actually see a revival of old school projection in film. No post-production mess, no worries about costume color or light spill, and the actors would actually have something to look at. -
It could be integrated into a QTVR-type setup, tied directly to real-time motion-tracking data following the camera. The camera could move throughout a scene, while the image or video is projected onto the backdrop, allowing for perspective shifts and the like.
Imagine a multi-camera setup like that used for the street-level views on GoogleMaps, projected behind actors sitting in a stationary vehicle. It would be just like an old school front-projection setup, except that the camera could move around the vehicle, with the exterior view shifting accordingly.
Combined with... with... what the fuck was it called? Intro-Vision? It's like front projection, except an additional half-silvered mirror enabled foreground elements to be projected as well. Anyway, combine that with "New-Zoptic", and we could see a wonderful blending of effects techniques.
If anyone wants me to shut the fuck up, feel free to say so. This is the shit I think about, but I don't have any friends interested in film, so... yeah... -
Hell, Mystery Science Theater 3000 had green screen.
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Sep 04, 2010 6:24:54 PM CDT
"Captain's Log: The Enterprise has been shrunk down and placed i
by mrmysteryguest
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