Thanks very much to all the talented people that are preserving Star Trek for the present and future. The cultural significance of Star Trek is huge, it motivated a generation of technological advances, it changed our perception of what Humanity's future could be.
This is true, maybe I'm just not cultured enough, but what I've been watching and seeing is that almost every futuristic sci-fi movies about space and aliens are depicting how dangerous aliens are, and how we won't ever come to peace with them. Star Trek showed me that peace and unity amongst differences are always an option. And that is a very beautiful concept to me.
@levigerrardhades, Agreed. Star Trek was a vision about peaceful exploration, with frequent challenges and some confrontations and a peaceful resolution. All the other Star Treks and almost all other Space Science Fiction is, as you noticed, frequent confrontations and war to the death. Sort of John Wayne, where we are always right and the only good Indian, woops I mean Alien, is a dead Alien. Movies like “The Day The Earth Stood Still”, “This Island Earth” and “When Worlds Collide” have no equivalent in modern movies.
Horance Hann said; :“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” I know of no better application of this than what Gene Roddenberry gave all of us.
Steve Jobs, repeatedly referenced Star Trek during product releases and frankly, a number of Apple products strongly resemble Star Trek aesthetic and functionality.
"After all, these are the voyages of The Starship Enterprise, Its not the voyages of Capt. Kirk, its not the voyages of Mr. Spock, its The Enterprise". Its Her Show, She Is The Star, She is Always The Star.
I wish that the producers of these modern "Star Treks" had the same vision Gene had in those days. For me it's not there; with all the war and killing and darkness at is in the new shows. I think you're doing a great job in preserving that imagined future Hope and Prosperity.
A day? Hey, I'd be happy to move in, full time. This is the future I grew up wanting, and still want. It was beautifully designed and is how the future should look.
That, and by season three of TOS the ratings were in the toilet, and Gene Roddenberry pretty much checked out of production unless it was to squeeze a bit more money out of it for himself.
Wrong. It was cancelled because Gene Roddenberry chose to disassociate himself from the third season, and leave it in the hands of his associate producers, while he pursued other ventures, such as Lincoln Enterprises and development of other projects. Even after the massive letter-writing campaign by Bjo Trimble and others to ensure renewal at the end of the second season, when it faced cancellation.
Honestly I'm not sure to Star Trek:TOS was sustainable. There were many 14-hour days! They squeezed 90 minute episodes into 50-minute mini movies! (which means the writers were heavily taxed). In the third season it became clear the formula was visit a broken planet and fix it - not sustainable ...
@@dgillies5420 that was not unique for STAR TREK. That was the common on every hour-long dramatic television production in those days - some of them were direct time slot competition on the other networks - such as MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and MANNIX.
@@dgillies5420 a big genius behind it Gene Coon was burned out. He came in at the middle of the first season and left at the end of the second. Those were the BEST episodes. Then they brought in Fred Freiberger who slashed budgets and didn’t care.
Captain Robert April, Captain Jonathan Archer, Captain Christopher Pike, Captain James T Kirk, Captain Jean Luc-Picard Captain Benjamin Sisko,Captain Kathryn Janeway
Tobias Richter's work is amazing. Only reason I even liked the overall look of the jjprize was his attempts to model the reboot's version, when we only had trailers to go off of. (...and then the movie killed my interest because I didn't want Vuldaran destroyed by the Romulan Death Star, also the freaky scaling issues of the ships...) His "What if the enterprise was using the kelvin design theme" imho is much better...
well now we know why the fan team creating the Unreal Engine full scale TNG Ent-D were given a cease and desist order. I hope their work was incorporated into this project and not thrown away like trash. Given how Axanar was treated, I don't have much faith.
"The human race is improving." Is it though? Roddenberry desperately wanted the world to be something it's not. We are all driven by fear and the all mighty dollar sign. That's never going to change. That being said new Trek is still straight garbage.
Star Trek was about those things… I don’t know what this ‘progressive’ nonsense is about…? On ‘STD’🤔… there is a complete disrespect for all the values Gene Roddenberry held on high!
@Galileo7of9 74 million… I thought it was 101 million…? so proud am I to be amongst 101 million idiots … what a movement…? Hey…? Did you say ‘re-elect’…? he never coincided…? How dumb is that…? You don’t eat kale, sip champagne or nibble on oysters by any chance? Or are you one of the 18 million dead intellectuals who voted for a cognitive geriatric genius and a laughing gnome, either way, you got what you voted for!
Its really sad that modern Trek has none of the hope or optimism thaf Gene wanted for Star Trek. At best it is constant nostalgia and references to past adventures and character, and at worst it is dark nihilistic and bleak propaganda. I tried to watch it but just couldnt stand it. Even treated as a standalone scifi show it still has nothig of the core of Gene's beliefs in it. The longer things like that go on and get renewed, the more it outweighs the hopeful tales and the more chance there is of future generations thinking that Star Trek is simply pew pew and enotions in space.
He saw enough, he already hated what they were doing with it thirty years ago, he was constantly at odds with Nicholas Meyer over practically every detail of The Undiscovered Country, they chose to ignore most of his suggestions and he died shortly before the film premiered.
The deficiencies of season three can be attributed to budget cuts, Roddenberry's removing himself from the day by day production and NBC's indifference. Not fair to blame the writers who were put in a difficult situation.
Jonny Quest was similarly canceled way too soon and became the most profitable cartoon syndication property in history! Doing a big budget show and doing it right turns out to be a fantastic investment but the bean counters at the studios never understood that! Someone should do an original time travel episode of original Star Trek and go back to 1968 and change history and give Star Trek the budget it absolutely earned and deserved!
Incredible, Thank you all.
Thanks very much to all the talented people that are preserving Star Trek for the present and future. The cultural significance of Star Trek is huge, it motivated a generation of technological advances, it changed our perception of what Humanity's future could be.
Excited for the success of this digital Enterprise!
Thank you! It is very much a labor of love in honor of Gene's legacy.
@@julesurbach9521 Please let us know how to get involved and how to play in the digital space! Thank you for the honor of your response!
@@goldenpacificmedia the results of the archive will be posted to roddenberry.x.io as the Okudas and Rod et al. sign off on materials to be shared
@@julesurbach9521 So glad to see it come to fruition.
This is true, maybe I'm just not cultured enough, but what I've been watching and seeing is that almost every futuristic sci-fi movies about space and aliens are depicting how dangerous aliens are, and how we won't ever come to peace with them. Star Trek showed me that peace and unity amongst differences are always an option. And that is a very beautiful concept to me.
Not only that in - in all 78 episodes there was just one actual living visible character who died on the Enterprise it was a safe home in space!!
Although New Trek shows are mostly shit. "Strange New Worlds" looks like a course correction. But there is also "The Orville", which i enjoyed a lot.
@levigerrardhades, Agreed. Star Trek was a vision about peaceful exploration, with frequent challenges and some confrontations and a peaceful resolution. All the other Star Treks and almost all other Space Science Fiction is, as you noticed, frequent confrontations and war to the death. Sort of John Wayne, where we are always right and the only good Indian, woops I mean Alien, is a dead Alien. Movies like “The Day The Earth Stood Still”, “This Island Earth” and “When Worlds Collide” have no equivalent in modern movies.
If Denise Okuda says this project is "bonkers" good .... then it would have to be incredibly brilliant!
We Are Constantly Reminded, and Rightly So, That These Are The Voyages of The Starship Enterprise !
I guess Bad Robot missed that memo.
@@cuckoonut1208 TNG destroyed the ship multiple times, in movies.
This is the project that many of us have been hoping would happen eventually, glad to see it finally coming to fruition!
Same!
One way or another, Star Trek lives long and prospers. 🖖🏻
This is a dream come true . . . Hat's off to all involved!
Cannot wait to 'go into' this digital Enterprise!!!
Horance Hann said; :“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” I know of no better application of this than what Gene Roddenberry gave all of us.
@@roncaruso931 he gave us more than a TV show. He gave us a vision that you’re literally using right now to say that.
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Why do you care where people get their inspiration from?
Steve Jobs, repeatedly referenced Star Trek during product releases and frankly, a number of Apple products strongly resemble Star Trek aesthetic and functionality.
if you look at the title card in the PDF, you will see a letter between Roddenberry and Steve Jobs, also of course going in the archive!
And then JJ came along.
@@cuckoonut1208 destroying what was once a phenomenal series
"After all, these are the voyages of The Starship Enterprise, Its not the voyages of Capt. Kirk, its not the voyages of Mr. Spock, its The Enterprise".
Its Her Show, She Is The Star, She is Always The Star.
I wish that the producers of these modern "Star Treks" had the same vision Gene had in those days. For me it's not there; with all the war and killing and darkness at is in the new shows. I think you're doing a great job in preserving that imagined future Hope and Prosperity.
I could spend days on end touring a complete virtual Enterprise.
A day? Hey, I'd be happy to move in, full time. This is the future I grew up wanting, and still want. It was beautifully designed and is how the future should look.
I hope its not VR. I just want to use mouse, keyboard and a gigantic monitor.
Fascinating!
Star Trek wasn't a "little TV show". It was a big budget TV show. It was cancelled because, even though it had dedicated fans, it was very expensive.
That, and by season three of TOS the ratings were in the toilet, and Gene Roddenberry pretty much checked out of production unless it was to squeeze a bit more money out of it for himself.
Wrong. It was cancelled because Gene Roddenberry chose to disassociate himself from the third season, and leave it in the hands of his associate producers, while he pursued other ventures, such as Lincoln Enterprises and development of other projects. Even after the massive letter-writing campaign by Bjo Trimble and others to ensure renewal at the end of the second season, when it faced cancellation.
Honestly I'm not sure to Star Trek:TOS was sustainable. There were many 14-hour days! They squeezed 90 minute episodes into 50-minute mini movies! (which means the writers were heavily taxed). In the third season it became clear the formula was visit a broken planet and fix it - not sustainable ...
@@dgillies5420 that was not unique for STAR TREK. That was the common on every hour-long dramatic television production in those days - some of them were direct time slot competition on the other networks - such as MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and MANNIX.
@@dgillies5420 a big genius behind it Gene Coon was burned out. He came in at the middle of the first season and left at the end of the second. Those were the BEST episodes. Then they brought in Fred Freiberger who slashed budgets and didn’t care.
With all that passion, how in the world Discovery or Picard came to be?
The radar scope, the office chairs (like on a B-17). Lot of WW2 influence on that show.
I think,Star Trek had a good future!Maybe it wasn’t real,but,it provided a future that was comfortable!
Please put that virtual Enterprise on Steam, so I can run around it on my Index. Thanks.
Exactly and not BS VR nonsense.
So wait. How are we going to experience this? Will this be a game install we can interact real time on our PCs?
Captain Robert April, Captain Jonathan Archer, Captain Christopher Pike, Captain James T Kirk, Captain Jean Luc-Picard Captain Benjamin Sisko,Captain Kathryn Janeway
You skipped new Trek. But I understand why.
As soon as custom space ships become commercially available, there will be enterprises and millennium falcons for sale
I think so too
They'll be the Ford mustangs of the future, you'll see them everywhere.
These guys need to remake Star Trek V: The Final Frontier!
Tobias Richter's work is amazing. Only reason I even liked the overall look of the jjprize was his attempts to model the reboot's version, when we only had trailers to go off of. (...and then the movie killed my interest because I didn't want Vuldaran destroyed by the Romulan Death Star, also the freaky scaling issues of the ships...)
His "What if the enterprise was using the kelvin design theme" imho is much better...
That vision for a ship may happen for real...
The history of the future.
lemme know when there's a torrent
Cruel reality.
I don't understand what they mean by 1:1. This is all virtual so the models are not physical. As such, scale has no meaning.
Er - hello? Matt Jefferies? Hello? Hello?
for some reason my computer monitor seems to suddenly be all wet. it cant be tears in my eyes, can it?
well now we know why the fan team creating the Unreal Engine full scale TNG Ent-D were given a cease and desist order. I hope their work was incorporated into this project and not thrown away like trash. Given how Axanar was treated, I don't have much faith.
Good news! Stage 9 creator is hired for this show.
"The human race is improving." Is it though? Roddenberry desperately wanted the world to be something it's not. We are all driven by fear and the all mighty dollar sign. That's never going to change. That being said new Trek is still straight garbage.
Star Trek was about those things… I don’t know what this ‘progressive’ nonsense is about…? On ‘STD’🤔… there is a complete disrespect for all the values Gene Roddenberry held on high!
@Galileo7of9 74 million… I thought it was 101 million…? so proud am I to be amongst 101 million idiots … what a movement…? Hey…? Did you say ‘re-elect’…? he never coincided…? How dumb is that…? You don’t eat kale, sip champagne or nibble on oysters by any chance? Or are you one of the 18 million dead intellectuals who voted for a cognitive geriatric genius and a laughing gnome, either way, you got what you voted for!
Its really sad that modern Trek has none of the hope or optimism thaf Gene wanted for Star Trek. At best it is constant nostalgia and references to past adventures and character, and at worst it is dark nihilistic and bleak propaganda. I tried to watch it but just couldnt stand it. Even treated as a standalone scifi show it still has nothig of the core of Gene's beliefs in it. The longer things like that go on and get renewed, the more it outweighs the hopeful tales and the more chance there is of future generations thinking that Star Trek is simply pew pew and enotions in space.
Maybe don't mention the pyramids right off the bat, man. Built by an enslaved people. Yikes. Where is the hope in that? Gene... 💜
its good he didnt live long enough to see what they did to Star Trek.
Raped and bleeding.
He saw enough, he already hated what they were doing with it thirty years ago, he was constantly at odds with Nicholas Meyer over practically every detail of The Undiscovered Country, they chose to ignore most of his suggestions and he died shortly before the film premiered.
Season 3 writers gave up!
season 3 writers actually worked very hard and were responsible for some of the best episodes of the series.
The deficiencies of season three can be attributed to budget cuts, Roddenberry's removing himself from the day by day production and NBC's indifference. Not fair to blame the writers who were put in a difficult situation.
Jonny Quest was similarly canceled way too soon and became the most profitable cartoon syndication property in history! Doing a big budget show and doing it right turns out to be a fantastic investment but the bean counters at the studios never understood that! Someone should do an original time travel episode of original Star Trek and go back to 1968 and change history and give Star Trek the budget it absolutely earned and deserved!
Slave labor built the pyramids, lol. Not the greatest example.