This was posted at the Slipstreambbs. Got me to wondering the same thing. Anyone know?
quote: Hi everyone, I was curious and wanted to see if anyone had the information, Return of the Jedi set the record for most ships on screen in a sci-fi film according to what I heard so could someone confirm this and tell me how many ships it was and if possible provide a type breakdown?
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
did 'Parallels' or any of the Dominion War eps break this? Im sure some newer films might have trancended this record over RotJ by now...
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote: did 'Parallels' or any of the Dominion War eps break this?
That's what I'm thinking. I'll bet someone here knows for sure, I would even go as far as laying money that Frank knows.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
They better have...considering they already broke it in 1995. You can probably get more details by seraching for the ful title rather than just "rotj"
Were I to make a guess, there are several candidates for the first Trek ep with the most ships -- "Call to Arms" being the one that sticks in my mind. You could also consider "By Inferno's Light" (the Jem'Hadar fleet) and "Parallels." And certainly the edge-to-edge masses of starships in "Sacrifice of Angels" would have totally shattered any of those records.
Although I'd wager that some of the B5 eps had more ships overall in a few scenes, like Sheridan's fleet that took on the Shadows and Vorlons, or else the fleet that attacked Mars and Earth.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
According to what I'm seeing at Slipstream, Babylon-5 has the record, with 200 Vorlon ships in one scene in "The Gathering".
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Depending on size restrictions, I think there were more than 200 ships in the Battle of the Line sequence in "In the Beginning".
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Wasn't the question "on film" - I'm guessing - in a movie. And you have to hand it to RotJ - all of that was done by Motion Control Photograpy... and after reading things like the Making of DS9 book - and the number of PASSES they have to do for each shot - it is quite a feat - how many ships did they have at once during RotJ. Some of these shows like SoA and some of the B5 episodes of course use the computer imaging... point, click, copy. That is one thing I don't like seeing with the CGI - multiple ships, but they are all the same. They don't have their own hull 'defects', or like some of the pictures in the First Ships of the Line calendar, both ships have the same windows 'lit' and even the glow from the nacelles eminates EXACTLY the same.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I saw a link yesterday where JMS is remembering the record being set during "The Gathering".
I remember the shot from "In The Begining", and that may be so.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Didn't JMS say something about "Shadowdancing" also make a record?
I must say that is a beautiful looking episode.
Posted by NightWing (Member # 4) on :
The Beginning sure packed the screen full. It looked like every gap was filled. I don't think it gets any more dense than that.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
This seems to be getting less and less related to Trek...
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