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Quite simply, because the moving camera is more easily mounted ABOVE an object and shooting DOWN over something, than being under something and shooting UP. More space efficitent that way too. You'll notice that many exterior shots of main Starships (E-D, Voyager, etc.) are seen from the underside from our perspective. This filming technique, called an inferior perspective, maeks the object look bigger (as we the audience are looking "up" at it, as we would a skyscraper from outside). And as we all know, all main starships have to look big.
quote:As for the new footage, I distinctly remember that bloke saying in the interview that he went to a bit of trouble making sure that he did infact use the right names, regs & designs instead of making up some of his own.
Almost correct. Rob Legato, VFX supervisor for "Emissary" was in charge of creating the Wolf 359 battle scene, which was eventually scrapped for the newer footage we all saw. For the unused footage however, he stated that he did make sure that all the wreckage at least had the names of the ships mentioned by Shelby in BoBW, namely the Kyushu, the Melbourne, and the Tolstoy. We now know, from both Okuda and from visual proof, that the original Nebula Melbourne and the original Kyushu were again used in this footage. The questionable ships though, are the Tolstoy and the Gage. As everyone knows, the was no original Tolstoy. Did Legato make a "new" Tolstoy for Emissary? There is no reference to the Tolstoy in the original Emissary script, however. It seems to have been replaced with the reference to a new ship, the Gage. Did Legato build this Gage ship as well? And if he did, would it's unknown design be accepted as the Apollo class ship?
-------------------- "A film made in 2008 isn't going to look like a TV series from 1966 if it wants to make any money. As long as the characters act the same way, and the spirit of the story remains the same then it's "real" Star Trek. Everything else is window dressing." -StCoop
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