FUUUUCCCK! I missed the first 20 minutes of it! Anyone catch this yet? If so, can someone please screengrab whatever Gorn ship was made for this?!?
EDIT: After watching the remainder of the episode, I noticed something...odd. The scenes of Kirk on the Enterprise's viewscreen still have all the old bad "film lines" and blemishes, while the area around the viewscreen is free of them. I guess the original footage that was composited onto the viewscreen image was shitty and had all those blemishes, but I'm suprised that effort was not made to clean those up for this edition.
Everything else (that I saw) looked great though- the battle with the Gorn is still great fun in all it's rubber-suited glory.
[ October 21, 2006, 04:06 AM: Message edited by: Jason Abbadon ]
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Oooh! "A new freighter for �the Ultimate Computer�"
That whole article fills me with a sense of joy. It's a refreshing change from the Berman attitude that nothing is wrong with how the studio is making Star Trek, and instead the audience is screwy.
Seems the Gorn ship isn't shown(apart from being a blob), so that's a bit disappointing, but the Gorn himself blinks. So yay!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Beyond that the team are also going to start creating some ship models for brand new ships, for example a new Gorn ship for �Arena�, an Orion ship for �Journey to Babel� and a new freighter for �the Ultimate Computer�.
So...did they do one, or is it that thay'll go back and add it in later?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Due to irregular scheduling on the part of the TV station, I missed the first fifteen minutes, so I didn't even see a blob, much less a ship. I get the impression from the article, though, that it's something they have yet to create.
Having seen, again, the extreme patheticness of the Gorn captain in this episode, I've formulated a new theory. I suspect he has some sort of physical disability : the Gorn equivalent of MS or cerebral palsy, or something. It would explain a lot.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
So, Kirk beat the crap out of an alien cripple?
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
I thought the classic theory was that the planet was fairly cold and the poor lizard still had some tendency towards ecto- or poikilothermy in his genes...
An alternate explanation is that his dad was an ENT-type Gorn but his mom was a humanoid of some other ilk, perhaps a human; he's the worst of both worlds, and harbors deep hatred towards the world (in this case, Earth) for that.
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
I don't even want to know what kind of human would be attracted to a Gorn....
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
The two glimpses I had of the Gorn ship it seemed to have a look similar to a TIE interceptor from straight in front or back. Kind of a sphere with canted panels on the axis.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
I dunno, the CGI Gorn reminded me somewhat of the Scarrans. Maybe the Gorn that Kirk fought was a distant relative of Scorpius?
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
You've got to be kidding me.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Looks like the Romulan Bird of Prey, upside-down.
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
And it's about as clear as a sonogram. I certainly hope the other ships will be more impressive than this.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
With the new, less resource intensive Enterprise coming in, they should be able to pull off some better stuff in future episodes.
Posted by Starship Freak (Member # 293) on :
I would dearly like to see the other shot as well.
But I think the ship looks like the "space vampire" from "Enterprise", you know the one, the ship which drilled into the NX-01. There�s a shot of it from the start that looks similar to the Gorn ship, although the other ship look more like a doublerazoredged knife at some angles
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
At last! At long last!
Joey: "What are we supposed to be seeing here?" Chandler: "I dunno, but. . . I think it's about to attack the Enterprise." Phoebe: "You know, if you tilt your head to the left, and relax your eyes, it kinda looks like an old potato."
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It's a refreshing change from the Berman attitude that nothing is wrong with how the studio is making Star Trek, and instead the audience is screwy.