quote:Originally posted by Sol System: The USS Auschwitz? Jesus Christ.
And yet only one of those names I wrote was not a death camp.....
The Tian An Men, Redemption Part II, aired 1991, was named in honor of the slaughtered people at the square, so how would Nazi death camps be any different if being named after places where people were slaughtered?
The diffrence is that the Square was where a lot of people got slaughtered for standing up to an oppressive regeme. The concentration camps were... atrocities- not something you want to commemorate with a ship name. Best to leave some things alone- Trek tends to ignore all WWII German battleships as well- even though the German navy was not (directly) culpable in the horrors of the Nazi party.
Ship names should be about accomplishment or at least be inspirational- a lone protestor standing up to a tank or example. Besides, maybe Tian An Men square becomes the capital of a democratic China someday...
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: The new teaser will involve some recorded dialogue that will help describe the tone of the overall piece, and how the story will basically be "re-created" from audio clips and black box recordings from the battle, the starships, escape pod distres calls, etc. Ought to be a lot of fun.
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Ohhh I have an idea - bear with me here:
I picture a satellite in orbit of either Wolf359 or a planet around that star - picking up the battle in it's cameras/sensors. Maybe tiny things at first and then the satellite moves and zooms in on the fight. A silent witness to what occured there, a passive observer.
I picture the trad Federation display graphics and moving arrows etc up and down the screen. I'm picturing beeps etc similar to what you hear in some of the NASA probe footage - like the footage of the Huygen's probe into the atmosphere of Titan.
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: And the Excelsior is getting painted now.Mark
I'm sorry but you could do a little better with the paint job. The 'aztec' pattern is too... contrasting - be more subtle. Don't use such stark greys - something about it looks fake - maybe someway to change the 'texture' of the hull?
Also that yellowy-green around the bridge - gah! Looks hideous.
Other than that - looking good.
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It just seems a little dark to me, a lighter color for the hull, the pattern isn't bad, just make it the color that the hull is now. Maybe a touch more blue added to it.
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I am getting a host not resolved error for your site Mark.
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You still haven't fixed "...throughout the Star Treck franchise,..."
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quote:I picture a satellite in orbit of either Wolf359 or a planet around that star - picking up the battle in it's cameras/sensors. Maybe tiny things at first and then the satellite moves and zooms in on the fight. A silent witness to what occured there, a passive observer.
MIght be a good excuse to render one of those subspace communication relays...
You know, as you're doing a documentary on W359, why not make it like a History channel documentary- maybe set to commemorate the 10 (or 20!) year anniversary of the battle or something:
"It was fifteen years ago today that the universe changed as we knew it- a day that will live in infamy..."
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I spent a good chunk of today scripting the third scene - basically a montage of subspace messages and intercepted logs from people on ships headed to the battle, set against the background of space from the perspective of a trip through space to Wolf 359. Reads good on paper, anyway...
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