NO CGI! Every VFX shot of the Enterprise ever filmed!
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2023
- 🎬👋 Hi Trek Enthusiasts! It's Jim from TrekWorld, back with another deep dive into the incredible world of Star Trek! In today's video, we're exploring the transformative journey of the Star Trek original series, from its original 60s optical effects to the stunning remastered CGI versions. 📺🌟
🔍 In 2005, CBS made a groundbreaking decision to remaster the entire original series, elevating the visuals to 2K high-resolution glory. This meant new color balances, advanced image processing, and a complete overhaul of the old-fashioned optical effects with cutting-edge computer graphics. 🎨💻
🔎 But what about the originals? The classic Star Trek episodes, once available in 16mm colored film and viewed on early analog TVs, have slowly disappeared from streaming services. Fear not! We've got an elusive look at these rare versions, including the beloved 11-foot model shots and the non-CGI footage that defined an era. 📼🌌
🛸 Dive into the fascinating history of each shot - from the 'Riding to the Sunset' clip used across three seasons to the 'Breaking Orbit' perspective, which captivated audiences in the earliest episodes. We'll also unravel the mystery behind the unique 'reverse lettering' on the model's right-hand side - a topic of legend among early Trekkies. 🕵️♂️🚀
📚 Join us as we review the special effects shots, season by season, uncovering the changes and the stories behind each iconic scene. This is a journey through time, appreciating the evolution of one of the most iconic spaceships in TV history - the Starship Enterprise. 🌠🛰️
🎉 Whether you're a long-time fan or new to the Star Trek universe, this video is a must-watch for anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes magic that brought the Enterprise to life. So, grab your Blu-rays (or join us in the world of streaming), and let's embark on this stellar journey together! 🎞️🖖
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Wait... _Star Trek was in color?!!??!?!_ I'm laughing, as while we did have a color set in the den, as a kid I watched most of the episodes on a tiny 11 inch or so black and white TV with my dad, often outside. When my late wife and I decided to rewatch all of Trek starting early this year (she unexpectedly passed away shortly in, during TOS) she would often rant happily, "these are so GOOD!" We watched the original edits, not the enhanced. I finally was able to watch the new SNW's episodes that we didn't watch together early this month. I miss both Sarah and my dad and Trek was part of how we connected. Watching your videos is bittersweet. Thank you for making them.
You are more than welcome. I also have many family memories around Trek. Those memories are all I have left of them now.
When TOS first aired we didn't have a color TV. I remember my late father taking me to his uncle's who had one and we watched TOS on it. It was amazing!
I'm such an original Trekky I still have my personal VHS tapes taken off of network along with the initial VHS tapes I bought of the complete series sitting in a box deteriorating, some still in their original shrink wrap. As far as the original presentation of the ship, we all knew that each approach of the ship was incredibly important to the story line..... seeing it coming in from the left moving fast was the "to the rescue" scene. Seeing her at rest or circling a planet in high stable orbit was telling us that the entire episode dealt entirely with a crew story. Seeing her in a 'beauty roll' to her belly was not done successfully until next Generation when cameras had improved. 'Riding into the sunset' was done in combination with specific music letting us know while she was leaving, the story continued. I looked forward to seeing the Enterprise coming at us regardless of the story simply because it was so unusual. I've seen multiple interviews with the film crew, designers and directors at several Star Trek conventions explaining how various shots were filmed (but sadly those interviews were not recorded for posterity.) I know of no other TV series whose photography was nearly as important as that of the Enterprise to each episode. Nor of any fans who actually care as much about the canons of the show. Good job with this.
Whoa, that's some serious dedication, my friend! Keeping those VHS tapes in their original shrink wrap is like having a time capsule from the Star Trek era. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and found it interesting. Thanks for sharing your love for the show! Live long and prosper!
I’m glad the Blu-ray’s have both versions
Thanks - looking to buy TOS I've worn my VHS tapes out 🤣
Agree! I occasionally switch to the original to see the difference. I must admit I prefer the remasters overall, but just love they give you the choice on Blu-ray.
I love the original version
Same!
If you had a VCR in the 1970s, you had a lot of money!
@15:53, we can tell it's not the 3-footer, not just because of the obvious lights, but also because the bottom of the saucer is not flat, and instead you can see the tapered conical shape and rounded lower edges of the 11-foot model.
And I’m sad for the work of all those effects magicians. It deserves to be acknowledged
They made the Gorns eyes blink! Nothing is sacred.
This is quite a compendium of Enterprise clips - I have a new appreciation of the work involved! Great video! Thanks!
I'm glad I could give you a behind-the-scenes look at the Enterprise clips! It's a lot of work, but totally worth it. Thanks for watching!
I first saw Star Trek in the 70s on a black and white tv
Wow, this is a wonderful labor of love! Thank you so much for putting all of this together for us! Soooo many fond memories here, especially taping my own VHS copies off WZTV Fox 17, which aired back to back episodes.
Remastering the effects was considered necessary when it became apparent that the live action footage, thanks to Jerry Finnerman’s wonderful cinematography, could translate to modern high-definition viewing; while the visual effects, however ingenious for the time, with their matte lines and huge amounts of film grain, were never intended to be viewed in such demanding formats.
I’m not here to bash the CGI effects, and in fact there are quite a few that at least conceptually I can still appreciate. That said, it’s obvious that the majority of them haven’t aged well. At this point - assuming that Paramount would be willing to go back to the well one more time - with modern AI-driven compositing and up-res software it may very well be possible to do a substantial cleanup of the original footage without much resorting to CGI models at all, which may be the best way to honor the intent of the original artists, who routinely struggled with antiquated technology, tight budgets and impossible deadlines to bring us the TOS that we know.
At 25.52 you can clearly see that the wood block is missing on the port side of the secondary hull. At 26.55 of this video if you look at the pylon on the starboard side you can kind of see a little bit of the piping used to light up the nacelles. It's brief and only see it at the bottom of the pylon. At 29:42 you can also see the piping on the port side of the neck. Although if you didn't know about the piping you may know notice it. This is a very extensive list of all the shots. I sure this took a lot of time and research to put this together. Very informative to say the least. I find it amazing that they never shot the 11' for the third season. I always thought the 3rd season had better effects and the ship shots seamed clearer in it. I guess it's just all the optics used like in The Tholian Web and the asteroid shots used in a couple episodes. Oh a video on the asteroid might be interesting if you can find out anything about that.
Thanks for all the work you put in. It great seeing these shots again . For there time, many these were amazing that they did this on a tv budget. I hate they changed the special effects back in 2005. The series is a piece of history of the 1960s. It needs to be intact.
Agreed. One of my biggest concerns as a Star Trek fan is how so many things that were unique to those of us who've been fans since the 60-70s ("Gen 1") are slowly being lost as time goes on. Let's face it, 20-30 years from now, the most active Star Trek fans will not be our generation - so they probably won't have an incentive to make sure things like the original footage are preserved somewhere.
As much as the CGI effects look cool, I love the charm of the original models. Amazing job on making this video!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad you appreciate the charm of the original models. It's always great to hear positive feedback from viewers like you.
I remember when these effects shot”s were re-done.They wouldn’t of been able to do this back in the late ⏰ 1960”s!Of course,thing”s were different,then!The 1960”s effects were all they had!
Besides the lights, there's another way to tell the 134" model apart from the 33" one is that the Big E 's saucer has a conical understructure; the Little E 's understructure is a flattened dome. The bulge on the top of the saucer is similarly flattened on the Little E.
I loved the flyaway shot, always looked so much better than most of the ship shots from other sci fi shows.
During the first run of Star Trek in the '60's, the "Next Week" trailer at the end of an episode did not use the Enterprise with a "Next Voyage" title card. What happened was that you'd see a scene from the next episode at the start of the clip with "NEXT WEEK" and a voice over of Kirk talking about the episode. The only time I've seen the other version with "Voyage" on it was when Star Trek was made available in home video. Where the original coming episode trailers are, I don't know.
Wow....that was comprehensive! Well done!
Hey, thanks for the feedback! It means a lot to know that you found my video comprehensive and well done. I'll keep delivering more great content for you!
Before the nacelles were lit up, they seemed to have "antennas" coming out of them. That used to confuse me as kid. I'd see the nacelles in the opening credits and then they'd disappear in the episode shots. I can't believe I just spent almost 40 minutes looking at the Enterprise model. I must be a nerd...lol
Thanks!
Welcome to the club! 😀
That is the main sensor on the front of the engineering section. "Deflector dish" didn't become a thing until later. The tilted ENTERPRISE shot from "Balance of Terror" was showing the effect of the Romulan nuclear warhead, not the plasma torpedo/bolt.
I really hope that paramount will consider to remaster and rescan the entire TOS to 4k HDR dolby vision format in time for its 60th anniversary. It's possible. Also, since the series soundtrack was fully remastered, that can provide a dobly atmos channel.
I’m 21 and I totally love the remastered version. It’s the only one I watch. And I bought the box set. My note to the purists is this. Pure is nice, but remastered is better because it opened TOS to a whole new generation of people my age which we would not have given series a second look🎉🎉🎉
@ 28:10, the metal prop Enterprise was about 4 inches long. You can see this in shots of Sylvia holding the model up by the chain and of the Lucite-encased one next to the communicator hero prop. The Lucite prop also was on display for a while at the Smithsonian 1992-93 Star Trek Exhibition hanging from the hand of a female manikin and it is fairly substantial.
Plus, having a number of the Star Fleet Battles 3 inch 1/3788 scale starships, I can attest to what that looks like, and the Catpaw props are far larger!
I read that Richard Datin originally offered to light the model and it wouldn’t have cost too much more. But Roddenberry declined. It cost far much more to crack it open and keep adding lights.
Actually, the model was solid wood and weighed about 20 pounds or so. It would have been far easier for. Datin to build a second model than it would be to hollow out the first one.
WONDERFUL data! True Obsessive Compulsive (NOT a disorder) data.
Thank you for your superb research!!
Thank you for the kind words. -Jim
Wow quite the production Jim, well done. I'm sure this consumed a lot of your time.
Never seen so many different and intriguing shots of the TOS Enterprise in one sitting. She's certainly a beauty. Thank you Jim.
You are more that welcome Sam! Hopefully, I have a lot more stacked up that you will enjoy over the next couple months. -Jim
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and very informatively explained and executed in every detail way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the various different stages of upgrading of the ship and various footage and shots of filming the Enterprise 11ft. Model and 3ft. Model as well!.
The one thing I hate about the new remastered versions is the scale of the enterprise. The cgi model is too small. The great thing about the 11 foot shooting model is it’s sheer size. It looks so good on film.
The remastered shots just look like crummy dated video game shots now. I’m sure they could make it better now.
I’m old and love the fact that model is so big an beautifully built and by the 3rd season the filmed ship shots looked Amazing and I grew up appreciating it
Great vid! But the shot you identified as coming from The Ultimate Computer at 33:01 was actually from the episode All Our Yesterdays. You can see the sun going nova and taking out the planet. If it had been from the episode The Ultimate Computer, We would see the space station behind the Enterprise in the shot at 30:58 or the station in front of the Enterprise at 29:42. Just say’n….
In New York on chanel 11 wpix, Star Trek was sown in production order, the same order that was us in the first DVD set. There's even an insert in each DVD case of the episode list order.
Actually, when the ship was angled upward with the saucer, being turned up in balance of terror that was from a nuclear device, not from the plasma, Romulan weapon It was a way to severely damage the enterprise, but allow the Romulan ship to escape.
Superb!
I still have the original version of TOS both the b&w and remastered.
Very informative 👍🏾 but wasn't there a shot of the Enterprise in the episode tomorrow is yesterday( the breakaway from the sun scene)& reused in the episode Plato's step children with the ship wobbling back & fourth it seems like they actually moved the model instead of optically? 🤔
Excellent.
Wow. Thanks!
I would also enjoy a similar video about all the Galileo Shuttlecraft shots, the Klingon and Romulan ships, and various other ships shown from time to time. I know they re-used many of them (like the Botany Bay model in Ultimate Computer). There are far fewer of these shots, so separately they'd be a short video, but it you did a compilation it would be cool.
Wow - GREAT work !
Thanks !
Thank you for taking the time to watch and appreciate my work. Your support means everything to me!
There are a lot of people who today think the 1960s Star Trek has CGI that didn't come in til the late 1980's in early 1990s and they need to be kept informed about this everyday
You raise a good point, and I am pretty sure I've even seen evidence of this. Younger Star Trek fans have only seen the CGI versions, and to them it appears to have always been the case as there's no way that Star Trek TOS could have looked like that in the 1960s.
It's that kind of disconnect with older generations that I am trying to document for future fans.
I really appreciate your support and feedback! It means a lot to me. I'll make sure to keep bringing you more content like this in the future.
I was 6 when it first aired @@TREK-WORLD
Wow! Thank you!
You're welcome!
I’m wondering if there’s any effort (or hope in an effort) to finding some of those original background elements - planets, starfields, water tank footage, laser canon and phaser animations, glitter swirling in a glass, etc….. I mean they went thru a camera, so there had to be a negative in a can somewhere before it was printed then optically printed.
I have a few photos showing the planets that they used.
This is excellent work. Angles really are close to the original effects. The only "gripe" I''d say is that the Enterprise tended to get faster as it approached and would have a slower run as it flew past. Not really a gripe at all of course especially when you consider the level of work done. and it is WELL done.
Agreed. never actually though of digging into that before. But you are probably on to something. I can see where they would want to imply increasing speed upon approach; but the opposite upon away soley for dramatic purposes.
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Hey!
Weren't you at that one Creation convention back in 84'? Or was it the Wrath of Kahn premiere with Leonard Nimoy in Westwood? I know that voice!
The worst thing that ever happened was when they made all the special effects CGI instead of showing it the way it was produced. There was no need to upgrade anything other than the film quality. I want to see the show as at least a partial time capsule of the time it was made, and the special effect are of their time and should never have been replaced. But that's just me.
I remember watching this stuff on a black and white television 📺 in my bedroom! Boomer day's 👍
That first shot from the cage was the three foot model wasn’t it?
When I first caught MIRI one night on a local channel... I thought some local person was playing around with the CGI that it looked so bad. The CGI was horribly dated immediately in 2006 looked like THE LAST STARFIGHTER.
Got into ST circa 1996 and most TOS episodes were old VHS recordings from BBC2 in the 80s/90s.
These original effects trip a lot of memories for me. I don't despise the CGI and I appreciate the effort. But to see the original effects versions almost buried so you can't find them with ease bothered me.
Agreed. With the demise of physical media will result in the originals simply being forgotten about.
Original fx rule!
For some reason NETFLIX had TOS OBSESSION in the original. I could tell why TOS needed to be remastered...as in cleaning up the original effects NOT replacing with horrible cartoonish CGI
Since Mike and Denise Okuda were in charge of the special effects remaster, and definitely stuck to a very 1960s looking aesthetic, very much not Star Wars special edition, they weren’t replaced with cartoonish CGI.
I grew up with the old model shooting. I never saw the point of them remastering the show. Like what’s the big deal?
It looks bad on bigger screen TVs. NETFLIX had TOS OBSESSION in the original form and the FX shots were fuzzy. I was hoping they would just clean up the original effects not the cartoonish CGI
How come we never see the lighted round port window on the top of the saucer just above the 3 forward windows??..
So this is a great question. The 1" Plexiglas circle was added as an access panel to the bow lights during the conversion into the Production version. It's dimmer than the other 3 because of the saucer's construction. A wooden box beam runs down the centerline of the saucer & supports it. The 2 bow lightbulbs aren't directly under the access panel because of the box beam, and the dim light from below pretty much balanced the studio lights, making the frosted Plex look almost the same as the saucer's hull. As a result, the original effects couldn't show up on standard definition tvs.
How did they create planets?
With a physical ball , that was largely just lit with differently colored gels to simulate various planets.
So, no red nipple or rust around the engineering (secondary hull) section. So, where did the Smithsonian get the idea of doing those things to the restoration?
They are BOTH equally good. (How to solve VFX-ism)
I think most of the CGI looks cartoonish. sacrilege! You are wrong. Original effects mostly better.
Naahhh!!
The remastered FX versions have not aged well at all. The original FX have always looked better, there's just something more preferable about seeing the real physical models on screen. I own, and treasure those blurays.
The original FX hold up better over time. The CG FX look horribly outdated today.
You've touched on something there. I think that the original VFX were as state of the art as could be in the 1960s. Whereas the CGI was no where near state of the art in the remaster. Consider the CGI quality gap between the CGI in Jurassic park and the remasters. Not even in the same league.
Let's face it, the CGI effects, in their own way, look pretty rotten,too.
You can get the entire TOS series untouched on VHS. I grandpa had them and my cousins and I watched the hell out of them in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We watched a ton of TNG in the same manner as well.
State of the art? Not even then. And now A LOT of it looks like mediocre cartoon animation.
The original looks better. They ruined it.
I can't stand the CGI I get better graphics in space engine or Kerbal Space Program. Seriously it looks like they were rendered on the Nintendo 64.
N64 Graphics would've had more character
I hate the CGI...it looks like a cartoon.
Thank God The Blu-ray Version of the original Star Trek Series has both The Original Format Edition and The Remastered Edition as well too!! Own it and judge for yourself. Live Long and Prosper Trek World 🌎 and Happy Happy Early Thanksgiving to all of you and Thank you 🙏.🤗🌎🦃😊🥹💕💐💐