Just imagine the sheer amount of energy released from that blast. If Picard hadn't ordered those shields, Enterprise would have probably been destroyed as well.
When the Yamato exploded a piece of it hit the Enterprise just after the shields went up. You see the piece hurtling toward the Enterprise and then the ship rocks violently.
@@excrono not to mention they used Wesley to punctuate that there was 1000 people on that ship, a good chunk would have been children and families, not just crew.
I was too young to understand the gravity of what happened to the _Yamato_ and her crew. Now, knowing that her crew and their families perished, it gives me chills knowing the sheer lost of life that happened in that moment.
Obsessed with the warp jump failure at 4:59! Seeing them not only struggle but the nacelles go completely cold for a fraction of a second is an amazing kind of detail!Such a cool POV! Incredible work all around! 🖖😊
Awww, but such a shame. I know JTVFX is sticking to the canon history. But for USS Yamato to be destroyed by accident is embarrassing and demeaning. Yamato should have been destroyed fighting a Romulan ship in battle.
@@Halpin2006 agreed, but that's part of the allure of this story. The doomed Yamato. Especially so early in to TNG. Seeing another galaxy class cough out and eventually die...evokes USS Odyssey DS9 vibes
@@Seanlivingstone1984 the Galaxy Class was considered the Icon of the 24th Century Federation, so seeing a Galaxy Class get destroyed was completely demoralizing in that era. It would be like losing the USS John F. Kennedy.
I like how the shuttle bay is depicted. I found it weird that the shuttlebays on the back of the ship's neck had vertical doors even the neck is sloped. Nice job fixing that problem.
One thing that could have been cool is if right before Picard said “Donald, come in!” You switched to the yamato bridge showing maybe a view of their view screen from maybe just behind the helm and ops stations so that you came see the consoles but not the people and show the lights flickering and Picard on screen through staticky image and a broken audio saying those words right before a flash of an explosion and then show it the same after that.
That's the most detailed take of the Yamato's hull disintegration I've ever seen! I always had this horrific image of someone just watching the hull burn away right before their eyes before their remains are adrift in space...that is if they weren't microwaved away at the same time as it disintegrated. It was always the image of a horrified crewmember literally seeing the bulkhead melt away before their very eyes that stuck with me...
The radiant heat from something like that would kill instantly. It's boiling away duranium, which is orders of magnitude stronger than our hardest steel today. If it's that hot, you're already long gone by the time you'd see anything.
25 year pro VFX artist here, and lifelong Star Trek ubernerd... really well done! I always was gutted by the destruction of the Yamato. So many lives lost. You did a really nice job of putting the Yamato's story together in a visual way.
My only nitpick to the scene (and only a nitpick) is I'd like to have seen the shuttles blown out into space as well. How long as it been for Star Trek where a "minor" nitpick like that has been the big issue with a scene?
But why open the bay doors BEFORE the crew were on board? Unless there was a system failure affecting the bay doors, too? "Close shuttle bay doors" "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave...." 😱
@@danielhenderson8316 Even the smallest shuttles mass way too much to be blown out by a few seconds of rushing air. A Cat 5 hurricane's winds alone might blow someone off their feet, but won't move a car, and that's with *sustained* winds. The volume of air in the shuttlebay is only enough to pressurize it to 1 atmosphere, and that'll rapidly thin out after the initial "explosive" event.
@@Neil070 Also power and force fields fail all the time, everything should have double air locks lol. The force fields should be for added protection, not the only protection.
Amazing work and a fitting tribute to the Enterprise's lost sister. It's a sad fact that Starfleet lost so many Galaxy-class starships in so short a time. Yamato (2365), Odyssey (2370), and ultimately Enterprise herself (2371). All fine ships that went before their time. 😔
Indeed! Real life parallels say with the Olympic Class liners. I.e. the Titanic, and Britanic had grissly ends. Only the Olympic got to have a full career.
I feel for Troi in this scene. It wasn't just a trained crew she would've sensed dying but also the terror of the families aboard Yamato. The children.
@@OriginalMergatroid If the Federation really is socialist, it would make perfect sense. Socialists traditionally thought collectively rather than about the individual, and only the socialist elite matter. If you're going to lose a ship, this way you dispose of all the unnecessary dependents at the same time.
@@DrCruel That's a fucked up view of it, but accurate to our time and how socialism/communism works. I think the intent was more of a Federation that had been at peace for long enough that it forgot that space was dangerous. The Borg, loss of several Galaxy class ships, etc all reminded them that space was no place to bring your family. Hence why in DS9 and later, no families on starships any longer. It was a disastrous experiment.
Wow! This is something truly special. Contagion has always been one of my favourite episodes and it's really cool you've been able to build this prelude to it. I love all the little touches like the flickering lights/deflector on on the Yamato and the "false start" warp. You even gave the LCARS captions a more Season 2 look to them. Absolutely outstanding! This deserves to be an official "extra" for when people are about to watch the episode.
Fantastic. The use of Varley’s logs alongside the footage of the Yamato was brilliant. I also liked how the secondary hull impulse engine disengaged before Yamato went to warp. Awesome 👏
And the dialogue on the Romulan bridge here is from the later episode Face of the Enemy. They made use of the fact that the same actress portrayed both Romulan commanders of the Hakona and Khazara.
That added prelude made my heart racing near the end, knowing that they were about to blow. My heart goes out to the Yamato even more with this recreation using just the Captain's Log.
You keep this upload schedule up, we're going to get spoiled. 😊 It's the little touches like the Yamato needing more than one try to get to Warp that really makes the render shine.
One of my favorite episodes from the Next Generation this is probably one of the best Recreations I've ever seen what's cool about it is is we get to see the events leading up to the loss of the ship that are not shown in the episode. Once again very good work very impressive
Same here. The only thing I was less keen on in the episode was Varley not putting two and two together when the ship started having massive malfunctions after the scan.
@@thegreenmanofnorwich Varley didn't have time, it was crisis after crisis once the probe scan occurred. That's the point. The Yamato fell apart all at once, the D only had a chance because the virus spread from one specific part of the ship and slowly unravelled.
@@count23all yes I know. I think the line was that the Iconian program "impacted all of the Yamato's systems simultaneously". And yes, Varley was dealing with crisis after crisis. But he still suggested that the malfunctions were a design flaw and said that he was at a loss to explain what was happening. That a vast and sudden slew of malfunctions started immediately after being scanned would have suggested a connection more plausibly than a design flaw.
Amazing work to see the tragic background of the USS Yamato as a sister ship to the Enterprise with good visual effects and the way how the Yamato's fate was the same to her WW2 name counterpart.
I absolutely loved this! Always like seeing other Galaxy class starships. Everything was excellent even noticed the voice clips from Star Trek Bridge Commander
This is great work. I can't say I've ever seen a Galaxy Class starship exit warp like that but it's amazing how you managed to recreate the horror of the whole thing. Yamato never had a chance. 😥
"Yamato never had a chance" Picard: "Let's beam your people out of there" Yamato Captain: "No, no, that would be premature. In fact it sounds like one of those cornball Worf suggestions I keep hearing about.."
The Impulse Engine going offline before warp speed (A JJ-Verse thing that he started when the Kelvin Enterprise entered warp) did at the first glance seem out of place in TNG, however, after watching this several times -- and in this particular story, 'Contagion' seemed to be not just fitting--but the last time the Yamato went to warp after it was scanned by the Iconian Probe, followed by the 'double-pulse' warp jump was a brilliant stroke of continuity that should be recognized for what it is. It wasn't just an Enterprise-D clone going to warp, this was the Yamato (suffering the visible effects of the probe's transmission) and trying one final time to get assistance by jumping to warp... Swear man, I can't wait to see what you have in store for your work on the BOBW/Wolf 359. Well done. Now - this episode can't be watched right unless you I watch the backstory--and then pick it up at the beginning of Contagion... Thanks for that... (Bonus: you added the spectacular piece with the Romulans a'la Face of the Enemy--Nice touch!)
As a STO fan I always loved this episode, the Yamato crew had no idea of the threat they awakened or how their final voyage would effect the course of Star Trek history or at least the canon of Star Trek Online
Absolutely fantastic! Contagion is one of my favorite TNG episodes ever and you did an excellent job with the narrative and the effect work. I love the extra starship debris you added. You can see the nacelle flying off after the explosion. Stellar job! Edit: Oh I just noticed the first officer’s name was Steve Gerber, the writer of Contagion. Nice touch.
Lots of TV shows list members of the production crew as characters in episodes of the show Another example of this was NCIS, in one episode that I remembered watching they'd had a gunnery sergeant who's last name was Nutt, who was named after a production supervisor on that particular episode
That little pause by Stewart followed by the sigh when he orders shields up is so perfectly acted. The immediate processing of the magnitude of whats happened
Oh boy you have excelled yourself with this one JT. Its flawless and really well thought out to tie in the Yamato log entries to the VFX you have created.
Jason, you did, as always, an astonishing job. I love Galaxy - class Enterprise as it was my first Enterprise I ever seen and from the TNG my love to Star Trek began ( I love also a Constitution-refit Enterprise, just 0,0000000001% less than NCC1701-D). I want to thank you for your long and hard work, thanks to this me and all Trekkies can feel nothing but enjoy of seeing our beloved starships recreated to smallest details. Sending regards from Poland.
Great video especially on the interpretation of the explosion. We see the antimatter explode then the Warp Core go up resulting in the loss of the Stardrive section. Yep there went a Nacelle to the side but what always got me was the Saucer section entirely detaching intact after the Warp Core went up but then the hull simply melting away resulting in nothing but a lifeless hulk...
I had a dream a few years ago of being able to fill in the gaps of great episodes with small short trek shorts. Seems all great trekies think alike! Only wish we could have seen more of Thalmus ( Varley ) in Command even for a few frames on a Galaxy Class ship.
I remember watching that original scene. It gave me flashbacks to shuttle Challenger's breakup with the saucer breaking up standing in for the shuttle as it emerged from the fireball and was ripped apart by aerodynamic stresses. I would be curious to know if that was the inspiration.
It baffles me how Starfleet even thought unexplored space was safe for families. I remember my jaw dropping the first time I saw the Yamato explode years ago. 👁👄👁 - 1000 people vaporized.
This feels ridiculously authentic! The only thing that put me off was the text to speech, but that can be certainly overlooked for how it feels like I’m watching new clips from TNG!
Man - This takes me back to when this episode first came out. This is one of my top 10 Episodes of Star Trek of all time, so filling in the gaps, makes the episode even better. Nicely done. (Swear - your attention to the details...is amazing.)
Blown away by this, the story telling, the visual effects, the intertwining of the episode scenes. Really is terrific work, I can’t wait till Wolf 359, should be epic!
This was brilliant. Love the special effects, especially when the Yamato tragically blows up. If CBS & Paramount decide to make a Special Edition set for TNG with updated special effects in conjunction with the practical effects, as they did with TOS, they should hire you.
The thing that I love the most is how the exact shots were faithfully re-created. Even with the remaster, some elements were lost. I feel like your recreations were more faithful to the original.
Contagion is one of my favourite TNG episodes. I love how the logs that are viewed by Picard during the actual episode are used here to see stuff from the Yamato’s point of view.
Okay, I will admit--one of my guilty pleasures is watching one of your videos (or as you call them 'Recreations'). However, tonight I was about to re-watch Contagion for the first time in a while. But I couldn't do so, unless I watched this first. If this isn't a compliment to how great you made this--I am not sure how else to explain it. You filled in backstory that would have been MORE THAN Welcome in the original episode. Once again, my friend - Well Done! It just wouldn't be "right" without watching it BEFORE the actual episode, now. 😀 - and one more thing - to see it from the Taris' (The Haakona's) point of view... Let alone the D'Deridex's warp jump... LOVED IT ALL!
Seriously.....I ADORE your work. Trek may have fallen into dystopian failure but Classic Trek lives though your work and I will never be able to thank you enough, THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Absolutely perfect. Honestly, you should be employed to work on a newer visual update for ALL the TNG era shows. I'm particularly excited to see your Wolf 359 video(s) - I've been waiting for a decent production of that for years and years. Finally found a person I have faith to complete it - and to the quality it deserves. Finally, I have to compliment again the faithfulness to the aesthetic - your work is astonishing.
This solution to this episode(contagion) is actually hilarious. It was probably a really novel and inventive solution at the time, but nowadays it is literally the first thing you try with any computer problem. It took Data almost dying for the CHIEF ENGINEER to go, "Hey, maybe we should try turning it off and on again."
Those first two seasons of TNG went so much harder with some of their visceral effects. You never see a ship explosion like this later on in TNG or beyond. Reminds me of the season1 episode "Conspiracy", which also had insane effects, but this time of the body-horror variety. But if anything could be said to depict a kind of body-horror, but on a starship, the Yamato's "skin" burning and peeling off definitely qualifies.
Please know you work is truly appreciated. I may not be a fan of current Star Trek but I LOVE your dedication to Classic Trek and I adore you for it Thank you more then you will ever know...Thank you.
Very good video - really brings back ST:TNG good memories. When the USS Yamato exploded, I felt just Troi did - all those lives on board, unexpectedly ripped from existence! Completely evocative. 👏🏾🎞
Very nice, and seamless work. It really felt like I was watching a delete scene. When I first watched the episode I was absolutely shocked by the scene.
Awesome work! And great tribute to I think one of the best tng episodes. I always felt tng season 1,2 had some amazing one-off episodes like this one with the iconians. Always wish they had expanded on some of them in later seasons into bigger plots which would have been epic.
Great job on the visual effects of the Yomato. You should have had shown the cat and mouse chase between the Yomato and the Romulan Warbird. Man this was gut wrenching to see the Yomato destroyed like that when this episode first aired. Even Wesley had a hard time dealing with the fact that almost a 1,000 people died. I too would have reacted like him.
Another nugget about this one that I love was the Encounter with the Warbird and the Yamato pulling away like the Enterprise had in the Episode "Face of the Enemy", adding the warp jump of the Warbird was also a nice touch and--the accidental tie in with the same sounding Commander Taris & Toreth from Contagion and FOTE , that was NICE!!😁 And I think in all of TNG, I've not seen a Warbird jump to warp speed before. That was nice as well.
The first time I watched this video, I didn't realize it was all CGI until the Romulan Warbird came into view. You really outdid yourself making this look like it came straight out of the show.
Fun fact. In the continuity of Star Trek Online, because of time travel shenanigans involving a Krenim timeship and hilarious incompetence, the Yamato was saved from it's fate and this is never undone. But they never acknowledge this. Which is just plain weird.
I remember the horror of seeing that ship explode and disintegrate, when I was little. Now at 43 years of age, it’s just as powerful, and made more so, with your fantastic work! Thanks! 🖖😀
That scene when the Yamato's saucer was burning up was freaky. Seeing the skin of the ship slowly burn off was quite the visual.
It was visceral in TNG and it was traumatizing for everyone watching this video (and on the Enterprise bridge).
Just imagine the sheer amount of energy released from that blast. If Picard hadn't ordered those shields, Enterprise would have probably been destroyed as well.
When the Yamato exploded a piece of it hit the Enterprise just after the shields went up. You see the piece hurtling toward the Enterprise and then the ship rocks violently.
@@scotthayes4135
It was a small piece of the ship. Imagine the damage if the remnant of the Yamato's saucer struck the Enterprise.
@@excrono not to mention they used Wesley to punctuate that there was 1000 people on that ship, a good chunk would have been children and families, not just crew.
34 years later and the scene of that Galaxy class exploding still gives me chills. What an era of star trek that was.
I was too young to understand the gravity of what happened to the _Yamato_ and her crew. Now, knowing that her crew and their families perished, it gives me chills knowing the sheer lost of life that happened in that moment.
Aye!
I saw the look on Wesley's face having to witness that. Over 1000 people just died horribly right in front of him
Has the same affect on me as well. Really is a chilling scene.
What you don't like the new star trek wars?
Obsessed with the warp jump failure at 4:59! Seeing them not only struggle but the nacelles go completely cold for a fraction of a second is an amazing kind of detail!Such a cool POV!
Incredible work all around! 🖖😊
Awww, but such a shame. I know JTVFX is sticking to the canon history. But for USS Yamato to be destroyed by accident is embarrassing and demeaning. Yamato should have been destroyed fighting a Romulan ship in battle.
@@Halpin2006 agreed, but that's part of the allure of this story. The doomed Yamato. Especially so early in to TNG. Seeing another galaxy class cough out and eventually die...evokes USS Odyssey DS9 vibes
@@Seanlivingstone1984 the Galaxy Class was considered the Icon of the 24th Century Federation, so seeing a Galaxy Class get destroyed was completely demoralizing in that era. It would be like losing the USS John F. Kennedy.
@@enterprisethesylveon5787 agreed!!
The horizontal warp burst of the Romulan ship was wonderful as well.
I like how the shuttle bay is depicted. I found it weird that the shuttlebays on the back of the ship's neck had vertical doors even the neck is sloped. Nice job fixing that problem.
probably the first time I've seen a D'deridex actually go to warp ... nice touch.
One thing that could have been cool is if right before Picard said “Donald, come in!” You switched to the yamato bridge showing maybe a view of their view screen from maybe just behind the helm and ops stations so that you came see the consoles but not the people and show the lights flickering and Picard on screen through staticky image and a broken audio saying those words right before a flash of an explosion and then show it the same after that.
That's the most detailed take of the Yamato's hull disintegration I've ever seen! I always had this horrific image of someone just watching the hull burn away right before their eyes before their remains are adrift in space...that is if they weren't microwaved away at the same time as it disintegrated. It was always the image of a horrified crewmember literally seeing the bulkhead melt away before their very eyes that stuck with me...
The radiant heat from something like that would kill instantly. It's boiling away duranium, which is orders of magnitude stronger than our hardest steel today. If it's that hot, you're already long gone by the time you'd see anything.
25 year pro VFX artist here, and lifelong Star Trek ubernerd... really well done! I always was gutted by the destruction of the Yamato. So many lives lost. You did a really nice job of putting the Yamato's story together in a visual way.
Love the LCARs touch on the scene intros
That shuttle bay sequence is fantastic!
My only nitpick to the scene (and only a nitpick) is I'd like to have seen the shuttles blown out into space as well. How long as it been for Star Trek where a "minor" nitpick like that has been the big issue with a scene?
But why open the bay doors BEFORE the crew were on board?
Unless there was a system failure affecting the bay doors, too?
"Close shuttle bay doors"
"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave...." 😱
@@danielhenderson8316 Even the smallest shuttles mass way too much to be blown out by a few seconds of rushing air. A Cat 5 hurricane's winds alone might blow someone off their feet, but won't move a car, and that's with *sustained* winds. The volume of air in the shuttlebay is only enough to pressurize it to 1 atmosphere, and that'll rapidly thin out after the initial "explosive" event.
@@Neil070 Also power and force fields fail all the time, everything should have double air locks lol. The force fields should be for added protection, not the only protection.
@@kommodore6691 The shuttlebays did have solid doors. They were just open at the time of the accident.
Amazing work and a fitting tribute to the Enterprise's lost sister. It's a sad fact that Starfleet lost so many Galaxy-class starships in so short a time. Yamato (2365), Odyssey (2370), and ultimately Enterprise herself (2371). All fine ships that went before their time. 😔
just like in tos.. star fleet lost lots of constitution class starship.. the flagship class for the era
The writers were not kind. Galaxy-class starships still my favorite. The lexus ls of star ships
maybe they should stop sending them into death traps!
Indeed! Real life parallels say with the Olympic Class liners. I.e. the Titanic, and Britanic had grissly ends. Only the Olympic got to have a full career.
They explained the galaxy class ships all had faulty or bad warp core ejection systems smh
I feel for Troi in this scene. It wasn't just a trained crew she would've sensed dying but also the terror of the families aboard Yamato. The children.
She would feel what Obi-Wan did… “a thousand voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
Putting children on starships was one of the dumbest things done in tng.
@@OriginalMergatroid THE dumbest thing.
@@OriginalMergatroid If the Federation really is socialist, it would make perfect sense. Socialists traditionally thought collectively rather than about the individual, and only the socialist elite matter. If you're going to lose a ship, this way you dispose of all the unnecessary dependents at the same time.
@@DrCruel That's a fucked up view of it, but accurate to our time and how socialism/communism works. I think the intent was more of a Federation that had been at peace for long enough that it forgot that space was dangerous. The Borg, loss of several Galaxy class ships, etc all reminded them that space was no place to bring your family. Hence why in DS9 and later, no families on starships any longer. It was a disastrous experiment.
This video serves as a prototype for Wolf 359 in as far as introducing explosions, hull disintegration and my new narrative technique.
Don’t know what typos you needed fixed, but I still approve
It’s fantastic work my friend, keep at it. There’s a real hunger for your work out there trust me.
What was the feedback?
What kind of "feedback?" Hopefully it wasn't negative. If it was, I'd like for them to do better.
Beautiful work sir.🙂
This was absolutely fantastic and really fleshed out this story, kudos to you sir I cannot wait for your next video and Wolf 359!!
Wow! This is something truly special. Contagion has always been one of my favourite episodes and it's really cool you've been able to build this prelude to it. I love all the little touches like the flickering lights/deflector on on the Yamato and the "false start" warp. You even gave the LCARS captions a more Season 2 look to them. Absolutely outstanding! This deserves to be an official "extra" for when people are about to watch the episode.
I'm impressed. You made the destruction of the Yamato even more tragic, by making her far more than just a re-use of the Galaxy Class model.
Fantastic. The use of Varley’s logs alongside the footage of the Yamato was brilliant. I also liked how the secondary hull impulse engine disengaged before Yamato went to warp. Awesome 👏
And the dialogue on the Romulan bridge here is from the later episode Face of the Enemy. They made use of the fact that the same actress portrayed both Romulan commanders of the Hakona and Khazara.
That added prelude made my heart racing near the end, knowing that they were about to blow.
My heart goes out to the Yamato even more with this recreation using just the Captain's Log.
You keep this upload schedule up, we're going to get spoiled. 😊
It's the little touches like the Yamato needing more than one try to get to Warp that really makes the render shine.
One of my favorite episodes from the Next Generation this is probably one of the best Recreations I've ever seen what's cool about it is is we get to see the events leading up to the loss of the ship that are not shown in the episode. Once again very good work very impressive
Same here. The only thing I was less keen on in the episode was Varley not putting two and two together when the ship started having massive malfunctions after the scan.
@@thegreenmanofnorwich Varley didn't have time, it was crisis after crisis once the probe scan occurred. That's the point. The Yamato fell apart all at once, the D only had a chance because the virus spread from one specific part of the ship and slowly unravelled.
@@thegreenmanofnorwich I felt the same way.
@@count23all yes I know. I think the line was that the Iconian program "impacted all of the Yamato's systems simultaneously". And yes, Varley was dealing with crisis after crisis. But he still suggested that the malfunctions were a design flaw and said that he was at a loss to explain what was happening. That a vast and sudden slew of malfunctions started immediately after being scanned would have suggested a connection more plausibly than a design flaw.
@@thegreenmanofnorwich Well because plot lol
A brief taste of the excitement, the fun, and the familiarity of back when I used to watch a new episode every week. Thank you!
Amazing work to see the tragic background of the USS Yamato as a sister ship to the Enterprise with good visual effects and the way how the Yamato's fate was the same to her WW2 name counterpart.
I absolutely loved this! Always like seeing other Galaxy class starships. Everything was excellent even noticed the voice clips from Star Trek Bridge Commander
So did I, had to check to make sure I wasn't making a mistake!
Yes! It was " Entering standard orbit."
This is great work. I can't say I've ever seen a Galaxy Class starship exit warp like that but it's amazing how you managed to recreate the horror of the whole thing. Yamato never had a chance. 😥
"Yamato never had a chance"
Picard: "Let's beam your people out of there"
Yamato Captain: "No, no, that would be premature. In fact it sounds like one of those cornball Worf suggestions I keep hearing about.."
@@heedmywarning2792 Beaming the crew off wouldn't have been feasable anyway, too many peopl, too litlte time.
@@Krahazik They deserved to die. As soon as portable devices began to malfunction they should have realized it was a virus.
@@Krahazik That was my thought at the time. Too little time regardless if the wrong decision was made.
The Impulse Engine going offline before warp speed (A JJ-Verse thing that he started when the Kelvin Enterprise entered warp) did at the first glance seem out of place in TNG, however, after watching this several times -- and in this particular story, 'Contagion' seemed to be not just fitting--but the last time the Yamato went to warp after it was scanned by the Iconian Probe, followed by the 'double-pulse' warp jump was a brilliant stroke of continuity that should be recognized for what it is. It wasn't just an Enterprise-D clone going to warp, this was the Yamato (suffering the visible effects of the probe's transmission) and trying one final time to get assistance by jumping to warp... Swear man, I can't wait to see what you have in store for your work on the BOBW/Wolf 359. Well done. Now - this episode can't be watched right unless you I watch the backstory--and then pick it up at the beginning of Contagion... Thanks for that... (Bonus: you added the spectacular piece with the Romulans a'la Face of the Enemy--Nice touch!)
It always made sense to me that the impulse drive would go dark before warp activated.
I love the added teal detail added to the Yamato’s viewer to match her horseshoe. Great work! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful! I was having a crummy morning and seeing you uploaded made it instantly better. Thank you for sharing!
This is easily some of your best work on YT. The recreation of the TNG stock shots are spot on, and the failed warp jump by the Yamato was fantastic.
As a STO fan I always loved this episode, the Yamato crew had no idea of the threat they awakened or how their final voyage would effect the course of Star Trek history or at least the canon of Star Trek Online
The interior explosions within the space frame of the saucer were excellent!
THIS IS SO GOOD!!!!!! Nice to see my model being used for awesome stuff like this!
Ooooo…. Your model you say? *in Anakin voice* And how might one acquire this power?
Absolutely fantastic! Contagion is one of my favorite TNG episodes ever and you did an excellent job with the narrative and the effect work. I love the extra starship debris you added. You can see the nacelle flying off after the explosion. Stellar job!
Edit: Oh I just noticed the first officer’s name was Steve Gerber, the writer of Contagion. Nice touch.
Lots of TV shows list members of the production crew as characters in episodes of the show
Another example of this was NCIS, in one episode that I remembered watching they'd had a gunnery sergeant who's last name was Nutt, who was named after a production supervisor on that particular episode
Jonathan Frakes was another one. He directed some Star Trek Picard episodes and starred in them. :)
That little pause by Stewart followed by the sigh when he orders shields up is so perfectly acted. The immediate processing of the magnitude of whats happened
You know, I don't think I've ever seen a romulan warbird go to warp, what a rare sight indeed, kudos
😢 3:21 was the beginning of the end for _USS Yamato_ and her crew. Excellent performance by Thalmus Rusala (Capt. Varley) and great video!
Oh boy you have excelled yourself with this one JT. Its flawless and really well thought out to tie in the Yamato log entries to the VFX you have created.
Really, I have no further words for the work you did other than; Amazing!
I remember being so shocked by this episode as a kid. Such a great episode and great sequence.
Excellent Job As Always It Is Very Fine Way To Explain The Events Leading Up To The Destruction Of The Yamato In One My Favorite Episodes Of TNG
Jason, you did, as always, an astonishing job. I love Galaxy - class Enterprise as it was my first Enterprise I ever seen and from the TNG my love to Star Trek began ( I love also a Constitution-refit Enterprise, just 0,0000000001% less than NCC1701-D).
I want to thank you for your long and hard work, thanks to this me and all Trekkies can feel nothing but enjoy of seeing our beloved starships recreated to smallest details. Sending regards from Poland.
Great video especially on the interpretation of the explosion. We see the antimatter explode then the Warp Core go up resulting in the loss of the Stardrive section. Yep there went a Nacelle to the side but what always got me was the Saucer section entirely detaching intact after the Warp Core went up but then the hull simply melting away resulting in nothing but a lifeless hulk...
I had a dream a few years ago of being able to fill in the gaps of great episodes with small short trek shorts. Seems all great trekies think alike! Only wish we could have seen more of Thalmus ( Varley ) in Command even for a few frames on a Galaxy Class ship.
Also, while visually your videos are always a treat, I also love and appreciate your use of music cues and sound effects.
I remember watching that original scene. It gave me flashbacks to shuttle Challenger's breakup with the saucer breaking up standing in for the shuttle as it emerged from the fireball and was ripped apart by aerodynamic stresses. I would be curious to know if that was the inspiration.
It baffles me how Starfleet even thought unexplored space was safe for families. I remember my jaw dropping the first time I saw the Yamato explode years ago. 👁👄👁 - 1000 people vaporized.
Very well done....my of my personal favourite episode from Season 2 as well 😀
Jean-Luc and Crusher's reactions to the Yamato's destruction were priceless.
This feels ridiculously authentic! The only thing that put me off was the text to speech, but that can be certainly overlooked for how it feels like I’m watching new clips from TNG!
Man - This takes me back to when this episode first came out. This is one of my top 10 Episodes of Star Trek of all time, so filling in the gaps, makes the episode even better. Nicely done. (Swear - your attention to the details...is amazing.)
Blown away by this, the story telling, the visual effects, the intertwining of the episode scenes. Really is terrific work, I can’t wait till Wolf 359, should be epic!
Tried to catch u out looking at the shuttle bay registry but u did it all ! Well done
This was brilliant. Love the special effects, especially when the Yamato tragically blows up. If CBS & Paramount decide to make a Special Edition set for TNG with updated special effects in conjunction with the practical effects, as they did with TOS, they should hire you.
The thing that I love the most is how the exact shots were faithfully re-created. Even with the remaster, some elements were lost. I feel like your recreations were more faithful to the original.
Wow, this Production has got my ATTENTION.
Well done ! !
Incredible work as always! 👏💯%
Contagion is one of my favourite TNG episodes. I love how the logs that are viewed by Picard during the actual episode are used here to see stuff from the Yamato’s point of view.
Okay, I will admit--one of my guilty pleasures is watching one of your videos (or as you call them 'Recreations'). However, tonight I was about to re-watch Contagion for the first time in a while. But I couldn't do so, unless I watched this first. If this isn't a compliment to how great you made this--I am not sure how else to explain it. You filled in backstory that would have been MORE THAN Welcome in the original episode. Once again, my friend - Well Done! It just wouldn't be "right" without watching it BEFORE the actual episode, now. 😀 - and one more thing - to see it from the Taris' (The Haakona's) point of view... Let alone the D'Deridex's warp jump... LOVED IT ALL!
This is great!!! One this is one of my favorite episodes of TNG.
after watching this you managed to capture the feel of the show this tributes, the camera angles on the ships the story behind it, its amazing 10/10
Seriously.....I ADORE your work. Trek may have fallen into dystopian failure but Classic Trek lives though your work and I will never be able to thank you enough, THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Unreal! Your model rendering is astounding!!
Absolutely AMAZING! Very well done! (This is one of my favourite episodes of ST:TNG.)
Absolutely brilliant work !! Good to see a Galaxy Class any time, thank you for sharing (:
Nicely done. You have a talent for not just those little technical details in fan films but good storytelling structure. That was enjoyable.
Absolutely perfect. Honestly, you should be employed to work on a newer visual update for ALL the TNG era shows. I'm particularly excited to see your Wolf 359 video(s) - I've been waiting for a decent production of that for years and years. Finally found a person I have faith to complete it - and to the quality it deserves. Finally, I have to compliment again the faithfulness to the aesthetic - your work is astonishing.
You better have checked back in to see the glory of his 359
YES! you kept the 80's synth noise when Data says "No life readings", its just so late 80's, I love it.
Dude, you are the best!!!! Always faithful to the original filming style!
Awesome. You given life and...well, death to a side character startship.
Brilliant attention to detail, even right down to the Yamato's correct registry on the front and sides of the ship
This solution to this episode(contagion) is actually hilarious. It was probably a really novel and inventive solution at the time, but nowadays it is literally the first thing you try with any computer problem. It took Data almost dying for the CHIEF ENGINEER to go, "Hey, maybe we should try turning it off and on again."
Those first two seasons of TNG went so much harder with some of their visceral effects. You never see a ship explosion like this later on in TNG or beyond. Reminds me of the season1 episode "Conspiracy", which also had insane effects, but this time of the body-horror variety. But if anything could be said to depict a kind of body-horror, but on a starship, the Yamato's "skin" burning and peeling off definitely qualifies.
This video really clearly put into perspective all the transpired events leading up to the USS Yamato's destruction. Those damn Iconian's.
Please know you work is truly appreciated. I may not be a fan of current Star Trek but I LOVE your dedication to Classic Trek and I adore you for it
Thank you more then you will ever know...Thank you.
You've created an excellent rendition of one of the best episodes of the early years of TNG. Your Wolf-359 build-up is genuinely exciting!
I have the USS Yamato 2003 model that arrived last week, such a beauty. Great work on the video.
Awesome to give such backstory to that episode!!!!!👍👍👍👍
Great work, as always.
Very good video - really brings back ST:TNG good memories. When the USS Yamato exploded, I felt just Troi did - all those lives on board, unexpectedly ripped from existence! Completely evocative. 👏🏾🎞
Incredible editing, voice work and animation!
Very nice, and seamless work. It really felt like I was watching a delete scene. When I first watched the episode I was absolutely shocked by the scene.
Going through your roster, these are absolutely incredible, as though the shots were actual production shots from the show
Niiicely done! Can't wait to see what else you got cookin up!
the saucer glowing red silently passing by is what makes this scene so haunting.
Explosions ripping the inside apart and the hull melting away. So horrifying.
And one more thing - the Shuttlebay and additional views of the Galaxy/Yamato were amazing!
Oh that whole shuttle bay 3 sequence was visually stunning… and utterly chilling. As soon as the forcefield started to flicker I knew what was coming.
Love the attention to detail on the Yamato model right down to her name and registries on the hull. Very nicely done.
The great job with overhead of Yamato showing the registry number and name on the front and at shuttle bay 1.
I recently got Star Trek TNG on Blu-Ray, and I actually watched this up through Captain Varley's last log entry before watching "Contagion." 😉
Fantastic. a really nice view from another perspective!
Holy cow. Brilliant execution of this! I wanted more! Great work 🎉
Awesome work! And great tribute to I think one of the best tng episodes. I always felt tng season 1,2 had some amazing one-off episodes like this one with the iconians. Always wish they had expanded on some of them in later seasons into bigger plots which would have been epic.
Great job on the visual effects of the Yomato. You should have had shown the cat and mouse chase between the Yomato and the Romulan Warbird.
Man this was gut wrenching to see the Yomato destroyed like that when this episode first aired. Even Wesley had a hard time dealing with the fact that almost a 1,000 people died. I too would have reacted like him.
Another nugget about this one that I love was the Encounter with the Warbird and the Yamato pulling away like the Enterprise had in the Episode "Face of the Enemy", adding the warp jump of the Warbird was also a nice touch and--the accidental tie in with the same sounding Commander Taris & Toreth from Contagion and FOTE , that was NICE!!😁 And I think in all of TNG, I've not seen a Warbird jump to warp speed before. That was nice as well.
If you're taking requests - I'm sure you'd do an amazing job with The Battle of Narendra III. 🙂 (Once again, thank you for doing this. I LOVE IT!!)
Unsure how I found the channel...but glad i did. Great work
Excellent video! Amazing job! This was a very underrated episode and was one of my favorites!
Great work! I enjoyed watching this!
your renders are amazing
The first time I watched this video, I didn't realize it was all CGI until the Romulan Warbird came into view. You really outdid yourself making this look like it came straight out of the show.
Fun fact. In the continuity of Star Trek Online, because of time travel shenanigans involving a Krenim timeship and hilarious incompetence, the Yamato was saved from it's fate and this is never undone. But they never acknowledge this. Which is just plain weird.
I remember the horror of seeing that ship explode and disintegrate, when I was little. Now at 43 years of age, it’s just as powerful, and made more so, with your fantastic work! Thanks! 🖖😀