Flare Sci-fi Forums
Flare Sci-Fi Forums Post New Topic  Post A Reply
my profile | directory login | search | faq | forum home

  next oldest topic   next newest topic
» Flare Sci-Fi Forums » Sci-Fi » General Sci-Fi » Most ships on screen at one time? (Page 1)

  This topic comprises 3 pages: 1  2  3   
Author Topic: Most ships on screen at one time?
Kosh
Perpetual Member
Member # 167

 - posted      Profile for Kosh     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
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?



--------------------
Sparky::
Think!
Question Authority, Authoritatively.
“Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.”
EMSparks


Shalamar:
To save face, keep lower half shut.


Registered: Jun 1999  |  IP: Logged
capped
I WAS IN THE FUTURE, IT WAS TOO LATE TO RSVP
Member # 709

 - posted      Profile for capped     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
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...
Registered: Sep 2001  |  IP: Logged
Kosh
Perpetual Member
Member # 167

 - posted      Profile for Kosh     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
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.

[Cool]

--------------------
Sparky::
Think!
Question Authority, Authoritatively.
“Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.”
EMSparks


Shalamar:
To save face, keep lower half shut.


Registered: Jun 1999  |  IP: Logged
Mucus
Senior Member
Member # 24

 - posted      Profile for Mucus     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
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"

JMSnews

Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
MinutiaeMan
Living the Geeky Dream
Member # 444

 - posted      Profile for MinutiaeMan     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
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.

--------------------
“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov
Star Trek Minutiae | Memory Alpha

Registered: Nov 2000  |  IP: Logged
Kosh
Perpetual Member
Member # 167

 - posted      Profile for Kosh     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
According to what I'm seeing at Slipstream, Babylon-5 has the record, with 200 Vorlon ships in one scene in "The Gathering".

--------------------
Sparky::
Think!
Question Authority, Authoritatively.
“Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.”
EMSparks


Shalamar:
To save face, keep lower half shut.


Registered: Jun 1999  |  IP: Logged
Fabrux
Epic Member
Member # 71

 - posted      Profile for Fabrux     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
Depending on size restrictions, I think there were more than 200 ships in the Battle of the Line sequence in "In the Beginning".

--------------------
I haul cardboard and cardboard accessories

Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
AndrewR
Resident Nut-cache
Member # 44

 - posted      Profile for AndrewR     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
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.

--------------------
"Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." - Jim Halpert. (The Office)

I'm LIZZING! - Liz Lemon (30 Rock)

Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
Kosh
Perpetual Member
Member # 167

 - posted      Profile for Kosh     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
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.

--------------------
Sparky::
Think!
Question Authority, Authoritatively.
“Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.”
EMSparks


Shalamar:
To save face, keep lower half shut.


Registered: Jun 1999  |  IP: Logged
AndrewR
Resident Nut-cache
Member # 44

 - posted      Profile for AndrewR     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
Didn't JMS say something about "Shadowdancing" also make a record?

I must say that is a beautiful looking episode.

--------------------
"Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." - Jim Halpert. (The Office)

I'm LIZZING! - Liz Lemon (30 Rock)

Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
Michael Dracon
aka: NightWing or Altair
Member # 4

 - posted      Profile for Michael Dracon     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
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.

--------------------
"And they had other stuff (...) like pictures of the Vulcan woman on Enterprise."
"OOOOhhh! Uhm, I mean: Nerds!"

- Willow and Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
TSN
I'm... from Earth.
Member # 31

 - posted      Profile for TSN     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
This seems to be getting less and less related to Trek...
Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
PsyLiam
Hungry for you
Member # 73

 - posted      Profile for PsyLiam     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by AndrewR:
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',

Because obviously when they filmed all the Star Destroyers in RotJ they built a new model for each and every one. And each and everyone of those TIE Fighters was a different model too.

--------------------
Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.

Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
Lee
I'm a spy now. Spies are cool.
Member # 393

 - posted      Profile for Lee     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
Coming up in Part Two: an obsessive Trekkie, infuriated to the point of apoplexy at the thought of B5 out-doing Trek at anything, publishes his 20,000 word frame-by-frame analysis of any DS9 episode with lots of ships in. Stay tuned!

--------------------
Never mind the Phlox - Here's the Phase Pistols

Registered: Jul 2000  |  IP: Logged
AndrewR
Resident Nut-cache
Member # 44

 - posted      Profile for AndrewR     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by PsyLiam:
quote:
Originally posted by AndrewR:
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',

Because obviously when they filmed all the Star Destroyers in RotJ they built a new model for each and every one. And each and everyone of those TIE Fighters was a different model too.
You know what I mean... *sigh* [Wink]

Models still look more REALISTIC though. (Starship models, not fashion models) [Wink]

Andrew

--------------------
"Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica." - Jim Halpert. (The Office)

I'm LIZZING! - Liz Lemon (30 Rock)

Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged
  This topic comprises 3 pages: 1  2  3   

Quick Reply
Message:

HTML is enabled.
UBB Code™ is enabled.

Instant Graemlins
   


Post New Topic  Post A Reply Close Topic   Feature Topic   Move Topic   Delete Topic next oldest topic   next newest topic
 - Printer-friendly view of this topic
Hop To:


© 1999-2024 Charles Capps

Powered by UBB.classic™ 6.7.3