I will be returning to Trek Radio this weekend on Saturday at 11am PST for what is sure to be another wacky interview. If you have any questions for me, you can mail them to zach@startrekradio.com or call in live and raise hell during the interview on 347-321-8955. If you have Skype, you can add “hailing.frequency”. Be sure to tune in at www.trekradio.net
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I was actually wondering just the other day if you’d make another appearance on Trek Radio. I even still have the last two saved.
I wonder which long time friend of yours will call in this time? Seems to be the pattern!
Looking forward to it!
Au
Fun times and hilarity await!
Oh my! Once again into the fold! Oh yeah!
PS. Being a life-long Conan fan, that pic of you always wakes me smile. What is good in life, Drexler?
Fun time, bud! Enjoyed the listen! Very entertaining! Now dance, monkey-boy, dance!
peace & bananas | deg
Hi Doug,
Is here anything you can tell us about your involvement with the Next Gen HD project? Just curious how things are going with the project. I’m updating to an HD television and blue ray player just because of the care and respect for the original model work going into this project.
Hey Doug,
Have just played through your interview on trekradio and just wanted to say that I was thoroughly entertained for an unbelieveable two and a half hours!!! I was laughing out loud when you were trying to avoid talking about the hypothetical project that you may or may not have been invited to participate in (although I am ravenous for some insider chit-chat regarding said hypothetical project!).
I look forward to your next chat! (<11 months).
And I've said this before: The prospect of tuning into a broadcast in which Team Okuda, Rick Sternbach, Andy Probert, Dan Curry, Herman Zimmerman, John Eaves and yourself all talking Trek designs would totally blow my mind! This has to be made to happen somehow!!
Hey Doug,
With so many people who have worked on Star Trek getting together for a piece of work called Battlestar Galactica: “Blood and Chrome”, how are you all putting up with the networks non-committal to air the show? I am not certain or your and your teammates thoughts on this, but I find the silence from NBC/Universal/SyFy irritating if not depressing. I realize as part of an attempt to launch a Sci-Fi space series you probably cannot say a thing.
I have been anticipating this “Pilot” for months, and the refusal of SyFy to mention anything about online or anywhere disappointing. At this point one begins to feel, after understanding the show is “wrapped” if SyFy has given up. Is this because someone at SyFy thinks that if BSG “reminagined” could not merit even a best drama series nomination, attempting to air another Space Drama is not worth it?
I mean Frak, Mr. Eick’s and Mr. Moore’s BSG is pretty well known in Science Fiction circles as the best show in decades in the gendre. I don’t know how Hollywood works, but “Blood and Chorme” is just a pilot!! Air if for crying out loud. Let the viewers decide if they tune in, if they want more give them a series. If you are not happy with the ratings…you need not commit to more money for a series.
Too many talented people have worked on this project for the Network to be so indecisive. A Budget Issue, Something wrong with the Pilot? Be frank for goodness sakes. Just make up your Frakkin’ minds.
Sorry Doug to rant on this on your boards. And if not appropriate feel free to delete. Frustration can settle in on Sci Fi Fans…I cannot imagine how it is for the people who put the works together when the silent treatment is given to them. (speculative on the latter)
Brian Cebula
Orange,CA
Hey Doug,
Aware you are pretty busy right now, but just have a query. I’m currently creating a new comparison chart of the Entterprieses (including the new ‘F’ from STO), I also want to include the Ent-J in a small window with the Ent-D for comparison. I did an article about it a while ago:-
http://www.suricatafx.com/?p=521
Could you let me know if the side view I did is about correct if possable? I’m pretty sure I might have the nacelles slightly to high, but it’s hard to tell with the way the pylons are on the Ent-J!
Thanks in advance, keep up the great work!
Tim ‘Suricata’ Davies
I should probably know this, by why are the trefoils upside-down?
It’s a chair from Gre’Thor (Klingon Hell), the logo is upside down there.
Hi Doug,
A point of concern for many of us over at Treknation.com regarding the cropping done to Sins of the Father on the Bluray sampler.
CBS seems to have mistakenly cropped the viewable area far smaller than the original VHS, DVD releases for this episode.
This thread shows some examples where what we see on Bluray is outlined in red…vs….the original episode.
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=5768819&postcount=2805
Encounter at Farpoint and The Inner Light are both fine, and in fact give us a tiny bit more of the original image.
We were hoping you could make CBS aware of this in hopes that they will be careful not to let this happen again and also fix the episode for the season 3 set release.
Oh, and maybe they could also fix the quotation marks around the episode titles to match the originals.
hehe
Thanks Doug.
Tim
The sampler disc is pretty good, much better than TOS-R, but it needs a _bit_ more effort to recreate rather than create, in accordance with the stated “windshield-cleaning” principle. If the team can’t resist fixing the energy beam from the captain’s yacht, which is fairly easy to rationalize, why not fix the various sizes of the one bird of prey design, by slightly redesigning shots so the size relationship isn’t obvious? Or alternatively, take every opportunity to replace them with Vor’cha-class vessels (when it doesn’t conflict with sets and okudagrams), since that’s what the original VFX team would’ve likely used if the model had been available. Instead, I would prefer to see every scaling error and every blooper just as it was, to the ability of the VFX artist to reproduce for HD any shots which aren’t available in that resolution (and I know this isn’t easy).