Comments on: Eyecandy 16

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:48:07 +0000

TOS impulse engines were definitely blue IMO. I base this on three facts;

1; Early impulse engines were blue, as depicted in “Enterprise.”

2; Early publicity shots of the Refit Enterprise from “TMP” showed blue Impulse Engines, both with the original command module and the finished one. My “fanon” mind likes to think the engines were eventually revised and that the ship actually existed like that at one point in time. The refit looked better with blue engines too, I’m not sure who decided to change to red at the last moment but shame on them.

3; The TOS-E looks better with blue impulse engines. It just compliments the hull better.

By: dougdrexler

dougdrexler — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:48:37 +0000

Crimson, I’m curious. What makes you say that the Defiant is clearly the Pike era version?

By: RedWolf

RedWolf — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:34:34 +0000

@Paul F

The USS Defiant tech may or may not be distributed to the Terran Empire. Since the ISS Enterprise was clearly the Pike era version. Which could also suggest that the Terran Empire was behind technologically in some areas.

By: Paul F.

Paul F. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:25:57 +0000

That was a Reply to syd

By: Paul F.

Paul F. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:24:35 +0000

1. The Blue Impulse Vents, Since the Refit has Red ones too.

2. Aft Phaser banks were the refits E’s were (that area under the “shelf” of the

shuttle bay area is Hollow and there would be no place for phaser Equipment like on

the Refit.

3.Aft Firing Photon Torps at all on an Original Constitution, Since even the “up gunned” refit of the
E in the movies did not have Aft Torpedoes (And no I am not found of the NX’s aft torps ether
Sorry Doug)

4. The whole premise of the Episode! Since a captured Constitution would have giving
the mirror U’s Empire a 100 year tech advantage and make the I.S.S. Enterprise more
advanced in TOS “Mirror Mirror” when it was the same over-all tech as our Universe.

As far as I’m concerned the Defiant stayed lost in inter phase!

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“Scott’s Brain” » Blog Archive » Beautiful woman — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:38:36 +0000

[...] Doug Drexler and Daren Dochterman recently posted beauty shots of their excellent Enterprise models on their blogs, so while scenes from Act I are in the render farm hopper I thought I’d provide you guys an embiggened peek at the Gray Lady from what I felt were some of the more successful clips in the teaser. First up is my favorite of the “red planet of the week” shots from the opening credits… She *is* a beautiful lady… [...]

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By: Matt Wright

Matt Wright — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:37:30 +0000

Thorsten: the CBS Digital (CBS-D) Enteprise initally was rather flat looking and the nacelle caps were sort of lifeless, they missed that special Christmas lighting behind a frosted dome look. As you may already know CBS-D did the episodes out of order, so there are 8 episodes scattered throughout the first two seasons that have the early CG model. Take a look at Balance of Terror (the very 1st episode CBS-D ever did) versus The Corbomite Manuever (one of the later first season episodes they worked on).

Even with the revised model, the general objection most had to it was that CBS-D took a rather realistic approach to the lighting and general color of the Enterprise paintjob. They rendered it fairly close to how the model from 1969 looked under normal lighting (and then it was darkend a little bit more because of being in space), rather than the intense lighting and blue color spill that came from filming it for the optical effects shots infront of a blue-screen as was done in the ’60s.

By: Scott Gammans

Scott Gammans — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:22:56 +0000

Niiice. Would love to see some more shots of your Enterprise, Doug…

By: Thorsten Wieking

Thorsten Wieking — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:44:41 +0000

Great shot, especially since I’m currently watching the remastered episodes on DVD(out of curiosity – what’s wrong with the CGI-parts made bei CBS so that fans dislike them? And what was wrong with the Bussard Collectors in early episodes? Thanks)

Being somewhere in the middle of the second season, I found a new admiration for the original series and why it became so popular – especially in the states. Being somewhat spoilt with the partly cheesy german dubbing, it is quite enjoyable to hear serious dialoges. And yes, that Matt Jeffries design is a classic, no matter if it is the eleven or three foot model or just bits and bytes.

Cheers
Thorsten