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I doubt it was CGI, since it would be pointlessly expensive. More likely it was a matte painting, like the extremely obvious one in TMP.
And as to why they didn't use CGI to simulate long corridors...because they'd have had to have spent money on the CGI every single time they had a corridor scene. And that's silly.
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The first CGI corridors were seen in VOY "Fury", IIRC. Ironically, because it'd be too expensive to blow the physical sets up like that and then reconstruct them. ENT has used CGI corridors too, but not as extensions.
DS9 has goofed on occasion, using the painting that extends the Starfleet Jeffries tube to extend the DS9 tubes. TECHNICALLY you could say that Starfleet used their own design to replace chunks of stuff that had been blown up or otherwise needed replacing, but...
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Picard sat in front of a fairly obvious Jeffries Tube extension painting when he was playing the flute with Lt. Commander Daren (and later while playing with Commander Darren herself). They did pretty good with the perspective, but it was just slightly off.
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: DS9 used a blue screen and CGI/model - for DS9 as the hallways didn't bend as sharply - you could see they went on and on and on.
I'm re-reading this thread due to another old thread being dragged up - but was this really posted in 2004!?!?!?! I remember posting it like yesterday - and it scares me a little! Does it also mean that my sig file hasn't been changed since then?? Or does that just change depending on what your current file is? I don't think it does some how because I remember reading a post from 2000 I think and it was a different sig file.
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