NASA pilots Jack Nickel (in the jet with tail number 62) and Charles Justiz fly over for a bird’s eye view of two shuttles on the launch pad. Shuttle Atlantis is in the foreground and Endeavour can be seen in the distance on the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The two are flying T-38 jet trainer aircraft.
Image Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz
The NX-02 model, as built by Koji for a drydock scene in Enterprise.
We only saw the second NX class ship in four episodes (The Expanse, Affliction , Home, and Divergence). When we first clapped eyes on it, it was under construction. This intricate model was built by my dear friend Fred “Koji” Kuramura. It’s hard to believe that this kind of thought and detail goes in to a shot that lasts a matter of seconds on screen, and is produced on a television schedule. I’ll see if I can get Koji to drop in and answer some questions, he’s a busy guy at JPL in Pasadena, doing CG simulations for NASA (along with our other mad brother, Mike Stetson).
Koji also built the uncanny CG model of the ISS in the Enterprise title sequence. It’s positively amazing. Koji has promised to put together a presentation on that for the blog. Keep your eyes peeled! Continue reading ‘Starship Columbia NX-02 Construction Pictorial’
The BSG VFX department was right across the street from Ronald D Moore’s office at Universal. We let our feelings be known. Ron loved it.
NX sickbay workstations typify the sense of organization which defines a term coined by Ira Behr: “Starfleet Clean”.
The first thing you notice about the sickbay department on board the NX-01 is the overwhelming feeling that you really are in a high tech ER. So much so that it is actually uncomfortable, in a primal sort of way, to spend time in it. I think that’s as it should be.
The brushed aluminum consoles that line the top of the desk are highly reminescent of some of McCoy’s portable medical bio-comps. Overall, one can see what will evolve into the workstation lab on board 1701.
Mike just sent over the Jupiter Station graphic. It was designed by Voyager scenic artist, Wendy Drapanas
Amazing Rick’s Jupiter Station design for Voyager… a design which cleverly used decomissioned starship hulls. I asked Rick Sternbach for some background and memories of designing this outstandingly cool space station. As a kid who grew up on Bonnestell, and Freeman, Jupiter Station was the kind of thing that kept Rick awake at night as a kid. Here is master space artist Rick Sternbach with the low down -
Jupiter Station was one of those little treat assignments that came around only once in a great while on Star Trek. That’s not to say that the hundreds of other vehicles and props weren’t fun – this is Trek we’re talking about and it was 99.44% fun. Jupiter Station was particularly fun because it afforded a giddy chance to do things with the hardware that hadn’t been done before.
Continue reading ‘Rick Sternbach + Jupiter Station = Classic Starfleet’
Ok! I need your help!
Tell me what ships you are looking for, right here, right now, and ‘ol Doug will see what he can excavate. I’m down about five thousand feet, and there is no end in sight!
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Everyone loves a good TLT sandwich.
We once had a Targ on Next Generation. They dressed a pig in a Targ suit. It turned the mighty Enterprise bridge into a true poop deck. For Enterprise, the Targ entered the 21st century before entering the 22nd, when Lightwave ace John Teska built a better pig out of ones and zeros. True, It doesn’t taste as good as a pig, but then it doesn’t make big potty on the flight deck either. That’s progress!
(Below) Teska’s Targs as they appeared in the Enterprise episode Sleeping Dogs.
Targ frame grabs courtesy Jörg
This cover was for “Kobayashi Maru”, written by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangles. Part of the Enterprise series of novels continuing the voyages of the NX.
Here are a few of my favorite covers for Margaret Clark, Marco Palmieri, and Alan Dingman at Pocket Books. Continue reading ‘Trek Book Covers for Pocket’
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