If Anakin is to have any pre-fatherhood nightmares, perhaps they can manifest as this 1990's internet viral horror?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHSuyTrKwdg
Seriously, this spawn of hell still creeps me out. ;)
Will we finally learn where the bathrooms are located?
A lot of TOS items were simply tossed, (pun not intended) so it's a miracle the full size prop survived at all. The more recent photos show the restoration is coming along nicely.
This article about the Galileo's future home claims the restoration is already complete.
http://www.geekosystem.com/star-trek-shuttle-nasa-museum/
I wonder where the Galileo miniature shuttle is today? It was rescued, partially restored, and used in a TNG episode as set decor.
It would be so cool to own a authentic miniature, but how to take proper care of it? The larger Enterprise D model was showing some visible stress cracks when it was auctioned off. Even the SW models in Lucasfilm's care seem to be in rougher shape these days.
The pilot might have been too expensive to make without it then.
I recall B5 FX shots being used to promote the Amiga back then, so clearly the truth was being bent a tad. ;)
Many years ago, I used to chat online with someone who worked at Foundation when they did the TMP Director's Edition. They were loaned the original movie Enterprise miniature to study for the new shots. Even though the model had been stored in a crate, it was dusty and covered in insect droppings! The photos I was allowed to see of the big E in that state were a little sad.
I thought they looked pretty good in standard definition at the time. If not for the Amiga/Video Toaster platform used for the FX, the show might have been too expensive to make.
TNG never had battle scenes on the scale B5 had, and DS9 didn't attempt it until they had CGI.
If Lucasfilm has given their blessing, I imagine there are no legal worries.
I recall seeing a news report about a similar effort to dub a Disney film into a native American dialect a decade or so back.
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/star-wars-dubbed-navajo-language/story?id=19290042
At least they changed it for the Mirror universe episodes. ;)
I think you're getting there. Shouldn't you throw a certain Mr. Gunray into the mix? ;)
Nearly all the incidental music in modern televised Trek became awful under Berman's tenure. (One of the guys who wrote some of the best scores left TNG because of clashing with Berman over it.) Using that sub elevator muzak on Trials and Tribbleations was a big mistake.
Life's too short for such nonsense. I like both shows anyway.
Bingowings said:
Thirdspace was made in 1997 but held over for broadcast until 1998 so that it could sell straight to video. This is made uncomfortably obvious to Claudia Christian fans as she is in it even though she had made a rather messy departure from the show by 1998.
The Star Trek production team were infamous for poaching ideas, character names and technical staff from the B5 team.
DS9 does suspiciously resemble the original pitch for B5 which JMS delivered to Paramount first they turned him down because they weren't interested in doing a science fiction show set on a space station.
Not going to wade into that one. Let old blood feuds die. ;)
I will mention the SF film "Arena", which was made a few years before both shows. Claudia Christian, Marc Alaimo, and Armin Shimmerman all play characters eerily similar to their later respective B5 and DS9 roles. Did I mention the film is set on a space station?
Anyway, I came across this movie on TNT in the middle of the night back when B5 was still airing on the network. For a good half hour, my sleepy brain tried to make sense out of what seemed an impossible crossover between both shows. How the heck did I not hear about this?
Shout Factory is releasing it in a four pack with some other never before on DVD SF flicks next month.
Okay, I forgot the Horta. Sorry. But a recurring non humanoid species was simply beyond the budget of a tv show for a long time. Even an impressive totally alien design like the Tholian could only be shown briefly on the viewscreen. We didn't see one full figure until Enterprise.
A quick google reveals the episode in which Species 8472 first appears, Scorpion, aired a year before the B5 Thirdspace movie did.
In any case, it's the first major non humanoid species seen on televised live action Trek...
It all boils down to budget. DS9 more than made up for the lack of exotic aliens though. And CGI allowed Voyager to do the truly scary Species 8472.
In retrospect, I'm kind of glad we never saw the Andorians outside the holodeck and a background extra on Risa.
Looks more like the Great Gazoo!
TV's Frink said:
Great idea!
I have been working on my opening idea and wow is it taking forever. I'm committed to using the drums the whole way through, but I have to manually adjust each one to match the new song because I can't quite get it to line up otherwise.
Also had the idea to make it be a dream that Anakin is having, which at least explains why something so weird is in the movie. But then I'll have to do some kind of flashback or other device to loop back to the actual space battle and confrontation on the Invisible Hand.
You could probably use the shot of Hayden staring underwater in the bathtub from Awake somewhere. ;)
Saw the Futurama episode (from last season?) where Roberto apparently dies. "It burns!" would be great for when Grievous bursts into flame.
DominicCobb said:
I try to watch at least ANH every year, but even that rarely happens. Most of my viewing is of as of yet unseen films/tv shows (mostly just movies).
However, whenever, and I mean whenever, a SW film is on TV, I'm watching it.
Is Spike still running them into the ground? My cable company has been shuffling channels around, and it seems to have been dropped by them.
Best spambot name ever!
Get Malcolm McDowell and John Rys Davies on board, and we can have a Wing Commander reunion!
That's the most tasteful expression of fanboy disappointment I've ever seen! ;)
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Historical-Found-Footage/topic/15398/
Deja vu...
DuracellEnergizer said:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
I did like this movie, but only mildly; it just doesn't resonate with me the way it seems to for most other fans.
Anyway, I feel Montalban did a better job portraying Khan in "Space Seed".
Arguably, Khan has gone a little mad between Space Seed and TWOK. The planet you intended to rule over turning into a wasteland, and losing your wife to a parasitic brain eel will do that, even to a genetic superman. ;)
Spock dying was a huge deal in 1982, as there was uncertainty that Nimoy was coming back for another film. Some overreacted a tad. Starlog was even cracking jokes about fans contemplating suicide, and tongue in cheek speculation that Spock would rise on the third day in the sequel.
DuracellEnergizer said:
SilverWook said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
SilverWook said:
Warner's marketing MOS as a Christian allegory is a little weird, since Superman's creators Siegel and Shuster were Jewish.
Who cares about faithfulness to the original source material when you can just knock off the Reeve movie for the nth time?
Haven't seen MOS yet. I thought the whole point of this particular reboot was to get away from the other films?
I haven't seen it either (and won't), but the whole "Superman is Jesus" thing is pretty much an invention of the '78 film, so I can't really see the reboot aping it from any other source.
Maybe so, but I don't recall the studio marketing to church groups in '78. There's implying something, and then there's selling something.