Comments on: Cardassian Shipyard Station

By: Beta Capricus

Beta Capricus — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:51:14 +0000

I’m a bit late to the game due internet problems, but I have a question if you’re still monitoring this topic; You call the enterprise version of the station a tellarite space station. Was that the intention of the writers? We never learned anything about it except that a Tellarite lived there, and since we know at least the vulcans had some contacts with cardassia during the era and I quite liked the idea that Enterprise had reached the border of Cardassian Space. After all, it’s not that much of a stretch that space stations could be continued to be used for 200 years.

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:19:04 +0000

Jorg – You deserve a hug or something! Or a handshake! Handshakes are good! A handshake with a grin!! – Hey, why not all three? A hug, a handshake and a big grin, but lets keep the physical contact down to less than 5 seconds, I don’t want to be spilling too much love! (what was that all about??)
No really, I don’t think I ever thank you enough for your submission of the screen grabs which up to now I admit I have probably been taking them for granted, but after seeing that you’ve provided us with screen-grabs from four separate episodes…
I appreciate that to zero in on what, where and when exactly all this stuff scores its screen time must cost you a fair amount of time and effort on your part. Because this model is a huge high detail effort I’d say that the screen captures on this one are as informative as Doug’s renders! – Cheers dude!!

By: Starship freak

Starship freak — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:15:30 +0000

In the shot of the Kelvas, named kelvas-repair-facility-tacking-into-the-wind-3.jpg you can barely see two shuttles in the bay prior to the larger shuttle´s entry. Any caps of those Jörg? any idea what they are Doug?

By: JNG

JNG — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:23:58 +0000

It is a Vulcan ship, but I don’t believe the station was intended to be Cardassian in that appearance.

By: Dambold

Dambold — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:10:10 +0000

Ha! Thanks. Seriously I love the detail put into all of you guys’ work, even if it wasn’t seen that close on screen!

By: seppun1

seppun1 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:34:04 +0000

I always liked the Space Docks and Space Stations. Don’t get me wrong. The starships were cool for combat and exploring, but what about the “world” that they exist in? What was the everyday Federation like? It’s why I thought DS9 was a really good show. It helped in filling in those blanks.

In the 7th Screen Cap, is that a Vulcan ship by the Cardassian Station?

By: ROThornhill

ROThornhill — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:12:58 +0000

Great to see this design up close. There’s a lot of detail in there – I’d love to see DS9 (and TNG) come out in high def sometime soon. Do you think the effects shots would need to be re-rendered or would the originals hold up in the new format? Would the model shots be ok? I know their are concerns as much of the TNG and DS9 effects were shot on video.

I’m curious how this with be tackled when the inevitable HD releases come out, especially for TNG. I’m guessing re-shooting with models is (sadly) prohibitively expensive, but even redoing effects for however many hundreds of hours these series in CG would certainly be no small challenge. Will we have to wait until scenes can be rendered in a few minutes?

By: Matt Boardman

Matt Boardman — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:57:02 +0000

Just finished watching the last bit of the 7th season of DS9 earlier this week and remember this one well! Great scene where Kira, Garak, Damar and Odo sneak on to the station to take over a Jem’Hadar fighter.

The stations made a great way to send Jadzia off to sto-vo-kor in true Klingon fashion in “Shadows and Symbols.”

All in all, Cardassian architecture at its best!

By: John Pearse

John Pearse — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:38:35 +0000

Can’t beat seeing a vast and complex shipyard… oh, unless you blow it up as well. With a supernova.

Klingons really don’t know have a word for “overkill”.

By: Sastrei

Sastrei — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:57:57 +0000

So this was a new model then purpose built for DS9? I always thought it was a recolored/retooled version of the Galaxy-class spacedock frame.

-Stefan-