By Chris Snellgrove
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Star trek: travel Had many special effects, but no doubt none was more impressive than when the ship landed on a planet in the episode of the first of season 2 “The 37’s”. It was a first for the franchise, giving life to one of the ideas of Gene Roddenberry which he had previously considered too expensive to show the screen. However, this effect was almost a disappointment thanks to the production problems behind the scenes, in particular poorly designed landing legs and a CGI model which was simply too small.
This particular Traveler A special effect has been the one whose team has dreamed for a long time … For example, the franchise graphic designer Michael Okuda previously recommended to the executive producer Rick Berman that this ship should be able to land to distinguish it from what preceded. Consequently, Rick Sternbach had developed several conceptions of possible ships that would adapt to an landing capacity, and he made sure that the finished design included small dishes on the lower shell intended to house the landing equipment. It was only after having conceived these legs of force, however, that the producers realized that the “legs” of the ship seemed far too thin to support his body.
The photo of Voyager landing on a planet in “The 37’s” was supposed to be this great special effect, and the producers naturally feared that viewers were disappointed if the ship was still jumping on the legs. In the great tradition of television, they decided to solve this problem in post-production … In this case, by placing rock outcrops and other characteristics on the ground strategically around traveling when she landed. Go back and look at the episode, and you will see how they actually obscured the public point of view of these teenagers of landing.
However, it was not the only problem with TravelerSpecial fancy effect… It turns out that the digital artists of the show accidentally rendered the CGI model of the ship too tiny. This annoyed visual effect supervisor Ronald B. Moore (not to be confused with Trek Writer and Battlestar Galactica Restarting the Ronald D. Moore showrunner), which was disappointed with the landing effect because “the field of travel on the ground was incorrect”. However, he did not think that the public would necessarily notice “because there is nothing to link; People are in the foreground, the ship in the background, and we kept it a bit like this. ”
For a long time Star Trek fans, this Traveler The moment was more than another special effect … It was also the realization of a dream of several decades that started with Gene Roddenberry. The creator of franchise had originally dreamed that the company regularly lands on the planets in The original series, But he quickly realized how expensive it would be for the ship to land somewhere every week. This is how the carrier was born, because it allowed Captain Kirk And his old crew to quickly visit a new place, then return to the ship via a much cheaper special effect.
TravelerThe producers have come to the same conclusion that Roddenberry made, which is why the show mainly stuck to the special effect of the carrier rather than having the ship constantly. Nevertheless, he landed several times after “the 37”, and the producers had much easier to give life to this ambitious effect on their subsequent attempts. They did it despite the CGI model for the too small ship, which probably proves that the size does not really matter in the 24th century. We do not recommend that you tell Captain Janeway of his sizes of morning coffee cup, however, unless you want her to kill you faster than she killed Tuvix!
