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Oh cool, thanks for the heads-up guys. Always a joy to hear Rick’s excellent and well-thought-out insights on stuff. Going to read now, thanks.
LLP,
deg
By the by, the way that interview was transcribed is not not not not the way I spoke in my telephone conversation with Will Stape. The editing really needed to be tightened up, typos fixed, etc., and made to flow as complete thoughts, not the stream-of-consciousness that looks on the page to be a lot of disconnected blurts.
There are a number of other, better edited interviews of mine on scifipulse, trekweb, and other places.
Ah, just finished, and good to know, Rick. Always a pleasure to hear your views, eh. I’ll look for those other interviews. Nice pic of you as well.
LLP,
deg
Good to know about the interview info, Rick – evidently, Will Stape doesn’t write very well because to say it’s meandering is an understatement. Great info, though, so I’m grateful for it. Always interested in reading what the insider pros have to say about Trek, past or present.
“J.J. Abram’s movie is more like a big popcorn flick, and that’s not the worst thing in the world, but it’s not my top ten.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Well, if any of you Trek tech niche-dwellers (aren’t we all?) want to read an older interview, here’s one from 2003:
http://scifipulse.net/?p=19
and another from EAS:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/sternbach-interview.htm
Ah, thanks Rick.
Read the EXS one long back, but the Pulse one is new to me, thanks.
LLP,
deg
I think you and Doug should do a detailed post on the Galor; with Gary Kerr looking in from time to time, I’m wondering if he has any blueprints or juicy info from Ed Miarecki on model construction. Also, if we could settle its intended size (1200 feet or 1600 feet?), that would be a bonus for me personally.
Boris, I have shots of the physical and CG Galor models. Anytime Rock feels like it!
yeah, good stuff.
when did it become “illegal” to have an opinion.?
oh yeah, when we became “dickheads”…lol
anyhow.
flip, darn click, jam….
stun!.. damn i only wanted to STUN him!….
binary thinking– not a good thing.
ask samuel T. cogsley.;)
We’ll get to the Galor at some point, you bet.
Nice interview. Terrible editing… A question starts at the bottom of a page and the answer is bumped to the top of another!? And he totally jumps topics, waaa? oh well. Still good to read about your work Rick.
Speaking of the Galor, was one of them destroyed/damaged in a motion control “accident?”
Chris as far as I’ve seen there was only one Galor filming model built by Ed Marecki, there were additional parts created by Tony Meininger’s crew for the Keldon class. The model was sold at the ‘06 Christies auction in pristine condition.
maybe it was a Kazon ship – I had heard that, whichever it was, it had been replaced . . . .
just curious
Excellent interview at Pulse, Rick.
I like this line the best and concur with it eleventy billion %, eh.
It works both ways, though; folks who are proficient in CGI must also understand what makes good art. You can be a great technician but have lousy composition and colour sense.
Thanks for the links and thoughts.
LLP,
deg
Thanks for all the links, Mike and Rick. I’ll be taking a look because, as mentioned before, it’s nice to hear how the folks involved in the actual production and industry see things.
Greetings,
My AC interview was a rush job – not at all in terms of my conversation with Rick – who was so generous with his time, but in final editing, or lack thereof in the end. The rough I submitted was accepted within 24 hours – and it was ROUGH. My editors published it without checking back with me for a final.
Much led to my writing for Star Trek: The Next Generation & Deep Space Nine, my love for science fiction such as The Twilight Zone & of course Star Trek – the original series. Another element in that equation was Rick’s work. I’d never want to put Rick in a ‘meandering’ light. I’m as big a ‘tech geek’ as they come, owning prop tricorders & the like myself. I bought his tech manual when it came out & all of his printed work.
As one of a select few freelancers with no agent representation, I wrote for both ST:TNG & DS9 and pitched often to DS9, Voyager & ‘The Dead Zone.’ Artists like Rick helped inspire, motivate me & realize my professional writing career.
Thanks.
Will Stape
Glad you checked in Will. I hear ya about rushing for deadlines, etc. Sucks about the editors publishing the draft as-is
Hey Will – still looking forward to yakking with you folks. A lot of times, I’ll prefer to do email Q&A if the material is simply going up online. I can type better answers and have a chance to think of things that fans might find interesting. Anyhow, no harm done. You should see some of the false starts I’ve done for the DVD interviews. I don’t work well in front of a camera.
Thanks, Rick! We’re so jazzed to have you on our show!
I’m glad I found this place – I’ll be checking in a lot!
-Best Will
I can act in front of cameras but I’ve never been good at being interviewed. (I tend to repeat the phrase, “stuff like that” a lot. Like you Rick, I prefer the email interview.
Tim – Lucky you. I end up starting to answer, get into something parenthetical, go off on a wild tangent, continue on with that for a few moments, and then say “Uh, what was the question?” If I try to relax and work it like I’m just kicking back talking, it comes off just plain silly. Need a middle ground.
I did a Babylon 5 podcast a few months ago. That wasn’t so bad. But my jokes were.
Well, you know what they say, Rick and Tim: Of all people surveyed, the number 1 thing that people feared was public speaking. Number 2 was death. That means that at a funeral, most of the people in the room would rather be in the coffin than giving the eulogy!
I’ve always enjoyed both of your interviews!
Mr. Stape, I just IMDB’d you (that should be a verb) and wanted to say that “Prophet Motive” is, if not our favorite, at least the most watched episode of DS9 in my family. I’d be curious to know the story behind it. (Quark’s rather large ears are burning.)