...specifically the episode "Psirens" where Starbug flies through a spaceship graveyard, when I noticed something: One of the models was a wrecked Vor'cha! (I could also make out the Narcissus escape pod from Alien, and what looked like an Eagle from Space:1999)
This got me thinking: What other TV shows or movies featured a cameo of a Star Trek ship model? I can think of a few:
-You can quickly see a wrecked version of the TMP-Enterprise as it flies across the screen in the movie "Heavy Metal" (yes, I know it's animated, but it's still interesting)
-In the movie "Zapped," Scott Baio uses his powers to make a kit-bashed model fly across the room. The model is of the Millenium Falcon turned backwards, with Connie nacelles & pylons attached to the top "rear" of the ship (thereby making the MF the "saucer section" of the model. (Yeah, this one technically doesn't count 'cause it's also SW, but hey, I hought it was cool)
Any other instances come to mind?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
The Simpsons episode where Bart turns into a Nerd and Martin Prince helps him escape from bullies by going into the 'refuge of the damned'.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Isn't the Enterprise suppossed to be in amoungst all the background traffic on Coruscant during Episode 1? I've never seen it though (because, y'know, I'd have to watch the film again. And I'm not doing that.)
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Actually, I thought it was the Discovery from 2001. Weren't they notified?
Mark
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
No, their AE-35 subspace-antenna gyro-control unit was malfunctioning.
Posted by machf (Member # 1233) on :
Not a movie or TV show, but I remember some old Legion of Superheroes comic (I think) in which they showed a dump where, among other things, were a Constitution-class starship and what looked like the Jupiter II...
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
OK, so shows which aren't Trek featuring Trek starships? Does Enterprise having a Constitution-class starship appear in one double-episode count? 8)
Posted by Home Decor and Gardening (Member # 239) on :
No, because Enterprise is Star Trek.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Humour!
[No, I didn't spell it wrong. It's funnier this way because Lee is British, you small-minded fools.]
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Surely this thread only makes sense if we're talking about the use of actual physical models from Star Trek, right? I guess? I don't know, because otherwise, I mean, you can see glimpses of Star Trek stuff all over.
Anyway, there's a model of the original Enterprise in the control room at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Posted by Home Decor and Gardening (Member # 239) on :
shit i dont get jokes
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I was watching Trippin the Rift and in one episode there's a scene with the tos enterprise in a wreck and a drunk Mr. Spock being interviewed.
In The Simpsons the family was watching a Star Trek Christmas Special and the connie was featured.
Family Guy featured an episode of Star Trek with the connie (the one where Shatner is run over by Meg).
In a Saturday Night Live skit, there was kid playing with a spaceship that was pretty much a Playmates Ent-D with a Kenner Millenium Falcon strapped to it.
While this is not a show, when I was a wee lad the Hayden Planeterium in New York had what a appeared to be a severly battle damaged Miranda-class(Saratoga?) next to a piece of a Borg Cube. Boy I used to love looking at that ship but when the planeterium was renovated the model was apparently taken out. BASTARDS!!!
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Maybe it WAS some of the physical models from "Emissary" - I watched a special effects show showcasing Emissary - and Rob Legato blew up like three Saratogas to get the right effect.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Well were the Saratoga models small? This model was roughly the size of the Playmates Enterprise-D toy but it did indeed seem to be a production model since it was highly detailed. One thing to note is that it did not appear to have those weird rods on the sides like the Saratoga and I think it had a rollbar. Could it have been the Reliant?
Posted by machf (Member # 1233) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Maybe it WAS some of the physical models from "Emissary" - I watched a special effects show showcasing Emissary - and Rob Legato blew up like three Saratogas to get the right effect.
I think I remember that show... didn't they also show how the DS9 model was built?
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
There's a horrible-looking film I saw in the video store called something like "Mutants on the Bounty" and the "ship" is the upside-down command pod from the Romulan Warbird in the three-model "Adversary" set from AMT, connected directly to the aft vertical dorsal thingie from the same model, with some other, familiar-looking bits tossed in.
--Jonah
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
OK, here's the rules:
1. The use of said Star trek model has to be an actual use of the thing as a space ship in whatever TV show/movie it's featured in. (i.e. no use as desktop displays or toys)
2. It doesn't count if the model actually represents what it's suppposed to represent (i.e. the Enterprise shown in Futurama was in fact the Enterprise)
3. No parodies (i.e. the SNL skit where the Ent-D was stuck on the end of a much larger "Love Boat" model in when Patrick Steward guest-hosted)
So Peregrinus' entry is a good example of what I'm looking for. To add to that, I was in Best Buy the other day, and noticed the cover of some T&A flick taking place in the future. The cover showed such large-breasted B-movie actresses like Julie Strain in futuristic getups. Anyway, their ship was Chakotay's Maquis raider. (At least that was the picture on the cover; I didn't bother to buy the thing & watch to see if it was in the movie b/c I didn't want to know that bad).
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
Not physical models, but several CGI models from Voyager(Baxial, Steth's ship, Kes' Ship and a few others) were used as "extras" in space scenes in Firefly. That seems to happen quite often nowadays in sci-fi shows, presumeably because the same CGI artists are working on them all. The Firefly CG model appeared in the Battlestar Gallactica mini-series.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Are you sure about that? Zoic, the effects company for Firefly, has never done any work for Star Trek, at least according to their webpage. Not to mention that space scenes in Firefly tended to be rather empty.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Whoops. I was wrong about the movie/model combo. "Mutant on the Bounty" (summary here) featured this fugly kitbash of a Y-Wing.
The movie I was thinking of was a horrid little piece of poopie called "Spacejacked". As you can (painfully) see, the ship consists of the two elements I mentioned before, the lower fin is a wing from the Klingon Bird-of-Prey from the same model set, and the upper extension abaft the command pod is the Ferengi Marauder.
--Jonah
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Isn't the Enterprise suppossed to be in amoungst all the background traffic on Coruscant during Episode 1? I've never seen it though (because, y'know, I'd have to watch the film again. And I'm not doing that.)
It's Andy Probert's Enterprise study model (the horrid thing with the cardboard cone nacelles) that flies back and forth outside Amidalia's window. The flying police car from Blade Runner is there as well.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Wow. Those Mutant on the Bounty people made the Y-wing look even more like a penis.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
With it's Federation Bold registry no less. The makers of "Spacejacked" should be beaten with an oar.
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Are you sure about that? Zoic, the effects company for Firefly, has never done any work for Star Trek, at least according to their webpage. Not to mention that space scenes in Firefly tended to be rather empty.
I don't know for sure how the ships appeared in different series. The idea that artists who worked on more than one sci-fi series may have slipped models from one into another to fill up the screen is just a theory of mine. What I am certain about is that it did somehow happen.
The Baxial, Kes's ship and Steth's ship all visited Niska's station in Firefly, as well as a couple of other ships that look vaguely familiar.
BTW, I found that Julie Strain movie I was talking about earlier. It's called "Baberellas," and here's the cover showing the Maquis raider, among...uh, other things...