Cool News
The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day boldly goes where no BTS pic has gone before.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
There are many Star Trek pictures featuring Gene Roddenberry floating around out there. I’ve run a couple in this very column. What makes today’s shot stand out is that it’s capturing a particularly special moment in Star Trek history: the first time Gene Roddenberry saw a built Starship Enterprise. You can see some of Rigel VII in the background as they shot the very first Captain Pike-led pilot, The Cage.
So, even before Kirk was sitting in the chair, creator met his creation and history was made, pop cultured forever altered when the Enterprise was introduced to its true captain.
Once again many thanks to the Practical Effects Group, specifically the very nice William Forsche, for making these bits of history public. Click to enlargen.
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
You’re not ready for tomorrow’s pic, but your kids are going to love it.
-Eric Vespe
”Quint”
quint@aintitcool.com
Follow Me On Twitter
Click here to visit the complete compilation of previous Behind the Scenes images, Page Two
Readers Talkback
comments powered by Disqus-
+ Expand All
-
Move along... ::whistles::
-
...I'm not a die-hard Trek fan, but I love that ship design (and I love the version in JJ Abrams' TREK film which is, supposedly, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT according to some). THE CAGE was a great episode, too. Liked Spock's slightly-different look in that episode, liked the more pistol-like phasers and, frankly, liked Pike much more than Kirk.
-
mikeywood - Agreed, the Gary Lockwood character was a thousand times better... but of course, he could act. It's nice to see an early image of Roddenberry with his trousers on.
-
come on now it's been more then a week and it still doesn't work for some of us
-
Gary Lockwood played Gary Mitchell in the second pilot 'Where no Man Has Gone Before' with Kirk in the chair.
-
Expand button- hit F5
-
Tomorrow's is obviously a shot from the first Back to the Future, which I can't wait for. As for today's... Wonderfully historic, indeed. An amazing moment we are all richer for having seen.
-
Back to the Future! Am I correct?
-
when I post a coment it goes up above all the other comments at the top.....when I click expand all my comment then expands but none of the other comments do.......when I refresh the page my comment goes back to it's rightfull place in the comments order and expand all still doesn't work.
-
No it DOESN'T WORK it hasn't worked for more than a week. It's like the header for the comments section has become detached from the rest of the comments so that when you press it it only works on your comments you've just made (unless you hit F5 and then your comments join the rest of the comments and it still DOESN'T WORK)
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 7:37 a.m. CST
Expand-all = Working OK in Firefox. BTW: I much prefer Rygel XVI to Rigel VII...
by obijuanmartinez
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 7:47 a.m. CST
Yippe! Back to the Future tomorrow. And also enjoy seeing the pic of the Enterprise with Gene.
by iakobos
-
Well,it works for me with Google Chrome.I do agree something is wrong,....
-
One stray phaser beam or photon torpedo shrapnel, and all those beautiful pylons are shredded, and you are one dead in the water (er, space) starship. All vital areas are exposed, crew quarters, fuel tanks, and almost every area habitable are only separated from space by one wall.
-
That's enough for me to go buy a ticket for it. There's no proper grown-up action films any more, even EX2 was a 15 cert. The only other action flick worth seeing this year was The Raid, also an 18.
-
Should have been in the Dredd talkback....
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 8:14 a.m. CST
Amazing the way they painted out that guys hand holding it..or however they did it..
by LeonardsBellbottoms
Looking back would've been better to hang it on strings.
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 8:22 a.m. CST
Most impressive aspects of the original series were the Matte Paintings. Very well designed.
by Christian Sylvain
The blending of detailed sets, models, and paintings gave Star Trek such a unique look. Roddenberry was lucky to have so many talented hands working on his project.
-
Seriously, does anything else come close? I would put Millennium Falcon second, and Klingon battle cruiser third. I can't believe I'm actually ranking these things.
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 8:40 a.m. CST
fuck this digital bullshit. Couldn't even get color. The real Roddenberry was in color- duuuuuh. Fucking emo head hipster created computer bullshit
by UltraTron
-
It was used in a few episodes before the much larger model (now in the Smithsonian) was ready. Roddenberry kept this small model on his desk into the 1970s then loaned it to somebody and lost track of it. Someone has it. You know who you are.
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 9:13 a.m. CST
Episode 5: attack of the giant nerds! Actual nerdcam footage used!!
by cameron
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 9:57 a.m. CST
Will tomorrows pic show Zemeckis holding a prop of the DeLorean?
by kindofabigdeal
-
Without you, the world would be a much sadder place.
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 10:14 a.m. CST
Bless you startrek. Without trek on the tv showing us how we're supposed to behave and what we should aspire to- well look at the fucking world.
by UltraTron
-
Stop using IE and get Firefox. No issues. Haven't tried it with Google Chrome though, maybe someone else has.
-
It wasn't armored to take direct hits, that's what the power-generated shields were for. BSG's Galactica was designed as a heavily armored warship, capable of taking multiple hits. Damn, my geek alarm just went off.
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 10:34 a.m. CST
Best version of the Enterprise is the re-fit version from TMP and subsequent films.
by tritium
No other comes close, except the original. Jar Jar Abrams version is an abomination of the original series.
-
I love TOS but the refit for TMP was an amazing design.
-
...which is built on Google Chrome. I can't think of a more readily identifiable ship in all of science-fiction history. Whoever came up with that really created something special. ??Pseudo?? Out.
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 11:12 a.m. CST
No doubt. The galactica can take a nuke broadside no problems. Enterprise better have the power on.
by UltraTron
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 11:17 a.m. CST
Ultratron's entertainment perspective columb: today's perspective is brought to you by the movie Gorp:
by UltraTron
Hey guys let's go watch Gorp! I got it from the rental store. It's on beta! Fuck yeah gang let's go watch it after we finish playing smear the queer. Aww I'm sick of smear the queer and these stupid dice. Let's go watch Gorp now. Ok. But wash the dirt out of your hair with the hose first.
-
Sept. 5, 2012, noon CST
This site is so slow and boring and has nothing to talk about. There's no good discussion because there's nothing but boring shit out. It's time I wrote a blog on here. I'll just start inserting it in posts. Here is today's topic:
by UltraTron
Gorp. It's got Fran Dresher. It sucks. Your thoughts? Ok we can keep it about startrek if ya want. Quark. It's got Richard Benjamin. It sucks. Ok so I need to get high now.
-
You mean you're not high right now? I keed. In my opinion, the TMP refit E is probably the best starship miniature that has ever been made, but it just about completely owes it's design and inspiration from the TOS version. Jeffries' design of the Enterprise was not that far removed from the contemporary thoughts about spacecraft in the 60's, just amped up to consider a couple hundred years of technological advancement. The nacelles were kept away from the rest of the ship to protect the crew from the high energies they would generate and to form a more optimally shaped and more stable warp bubble to surround the ship. Yes, I AM one of those guys that buys the Ships of the Line Calenders for the ship porn. Yes I build and collect the model ships. I fly my geek flag proudly.
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 1:04 p.m. CST
Anyone else ever get into these inexplicable conversations with women after they've been fighting?
by UltraTron
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 3:48 p.m. CST
Well now I am. I usually get high before sex but right now I'm just building models.
by UltraTron
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 3:49 p.m. CST
I want that perfect trumbull enterprise that's lit perfect. They need to mass produce that thing.
by UltraTron
-
On the 'get high before sex' thing. After six kids I decided model making involved feeding fewer people. On my workbench at home, coincidentally, is a three foot model of the refit that I'm working on. All the lights and gee-gaws one could hope for. Should have it finished about 8 years after I die.
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 6:07 p.m. CST
Always wanted a series of toys based on sttmp. Those little builder ships and the shuttle pod and Spock's shuttle and Vger playset
by UltraTron
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 6:08 p.m. CST
They never had anything. Not until now was there even a toy of the re-fit. It's based on Kahn and is probably done with its run.
by UltraTron
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 6:09 p.m. CST
I was always. Why no re-fit enterprise? Only used in like 6 movies.
by UltraTron
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 6:10 p.m. CST
but now they got that wet dream one that I'd strangle Harry for. Unless he has anti-strangle gear under that thing.
by UltraTron
-
Sounds like Back To The Future will be featured tomorrow (apologies if someone else has already said this).
-
Do you think I should swear? Yes, George, goddamnit!
-
The saucer represents earth, the safe circle of our being. Her soft, rounded edges, her main hull and her nacelles being tubular, all convey a mother earth instinct in the viewer. This is home. This is humanity.
-
Sept. 5, 2012, 10:17 p.m. CST
...and if I may, with all respect...FUCK AICN for no Neil Armstrong obit!!
by tritium
I have posted this in more than a few talk-backs, but you know what...it is too late now. AICN (to use a phrase from "The Right Stuff") really SCREWED THE POOCH on this one. For shame, AICN...for shame.
-
Sept. 6, 2012, 5:42 a.m. CST
The photograph of a true genious who created something that has endured the passage of time.
by albert comin
Say what you will about the man, but everybody who got their fame and commercial sucess and recognition from Star Trek in any incarnation, seats on the shoulders of this giant. Gene Roddenberry, i salut you. I raise my romulan ale to you. And now it's time for me to say an unimaginable heretical blasphemy, the kind that is rarely heard in the AICN grounds: I prefer Star Trek over Star Wars. By quite a margin. I'm expecting the inquisition anytime soon.
Top Talkbacks
- Harry dives into STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS' spoilers to reveal the truth behind the blockbuster we're seeing! -- 253 total posts 123 posts
-
HERCULES ON THE RADIO!!
Learn What Ain’t It Cool’s TV Critic Thinks About STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, Next Week’s HANNIBAL, MAD MEN, GAME OF THRONES, The New Fall Shows And More!! Listen And Call In LIVE Saturday 8pm PT/11pm ET!! -- 236 total posts 110 posts - Nordling Reviews STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS! Spoilers Abound! You Are Warned! -- 1027 total posts 61 posts
- Hey! Fat Face! Here's The New Teaser To ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES! -- 222 total posts 60 posts
- UPDATE The Friday Docback Calls 'The Name of the Doctor'!! DOCTOR WHO's S7 Finale Arrives This Weekend!! Now With Glen's Ultra-Brief, SPOILER FREE MiniReview!! -- 311 total posts 53 posts
- Here's A Behind-The-Scenes Look At MAN OF STEEL With New Footage! Also... Is Supergirl In The Prequel Comic? -- 122 total posts 39 posts
-
‘Darkness Will Devour Them All!!’
Sunday Brings Antepenultimate GAME OF THRONES For HBO!! -- 29 total posts 29 posts - 1st Trailer for Jean Pierre Jeunet's THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET!!! Joy Follows... -- 32 total posts 15 posts
- New PACIFIC RIM Trailer Takes A Battleship Upside The Head Of Every Other Summer Movie Trailer! -- 285 total posts 13 posts
- Capone reviews STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS and considers the art of messing with canon and why it doesn't bother him!!! -- 513 total posts 13 posts