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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kmart: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MrNeutron: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sargon: [qb] Conformal shields are first established in TAS. [/qb][/QUOTE]One of the storyboards for TMP shows the Refit Enterprise having a bubble shield when being hit by a V'ger energy bolt (The Art of Star Trek, p. 191). While the angle in question wasn't used, the bubble can be inferred by the way the V'ger energy bolt is seen clawing against something in front of the ship rather than crackling over the surface as happened on the Klingon ships. [/qb][/QUOTE]Well, one hit on the Klingons uses a very similar angle to the bolt hitting enterprise (looking straight back instead of straight ahead though), which made me think it hit the shield, then went right through it onto the hull (that's where the surface action happened, after that earlier shot.) So I figured shields were in place on both. As for your storyboard mention, there is more in support of that which almost made it into the film. If you look at the longer trailer for TMP that is on the DVD (which is actually a shortened version of a 15 minute Paramount promo film that a friend of mine owned in the early 80s), you can see a fragment of an unused effect that further confirms this. Dykstra had a lot of trouble getting the asteroid explosion to work with all the other aspects (see CINEFEX #2), but he had a great zero gee explosion of the rock going. It was comped with a rotoscope effect of the debris dissolving against the shields SURROUNDING the ship, as seen looking straight ahead, but the shield zap looked bad, so Wise went with the incomplete effect (using a lesser explosion and NO shield effect) seen in the theatrical version instead. As I recall, about two minutes into the trailer, you see this better looking asteroid explosion debris hitting SOMETHING like an invisible shield. It is very brief though. As for shields in TUC, I go with what Bill George told me in '91: as far as we [ILM] are concerned, you've never seen shields or shield hits in the previous Trek features, so we aren't going to start showing them now just because they do it on Next Generation. TNG has a different warp effect too, and is a different entity from the original cast shows. I mentioned to him that in TREK II & III that shields conveniently happened to be down any time shots were exchanged, so there was no basis for seeing shield fx in those pictures (or in V, for that matter.) He changed the subject a little bit, noting that ILM has a saying 'continuity is for wussies.' I've interviewed him a few times over the years, and George doesn't usually take that kind of tone or 'tude, so I guess it must be a sore spot. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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