"Dear Mom and Dad: Finally got time to write after getting stationed aboard the Enterprise E. We are headed out to the Briar Patch, an unexplored area of space in the Beta Quadrant. I'm working with the systems engineering team to get our long range sensor systems up and running at 100%. It's an amazing ship! Sovereign class, sleek, powerful. Not as luxurious as the Enterprise D, but , man, can she move. Daily life is a little more structured than on the Galaxy class, not so many creature comforts, but all that can be had on the holodeck anyway. I look forward to being able to come home to visit soon. Tell everyone I said hi! Gotta go, we're about to drop out of warp. "
Brilliant work Donny! Any plans to upscale/recreate the Systems Integrity CHK animation? This features a rotating Enterprise E with expandable sections showing the Computer Core, Pattern Buffer, Quantum Torpedoes, RCS Thrusters etc. 😎 I think Captain's Chair 1997 is the best resource for this...
Umm, you're telling me that was all rendered images!? I find it extremely difficult to believe that was not footage of an actual set....if this was rendered, you need to be at the front of the line for making video games and or movie graphics...WOW!!!!
now... i dont like most fan made stuff - it's "over the top", it's "stupid" and "rule of cool". This, however. This is beautiful. Since I've been on the internet (1995) there have been two "fan made" things about star trek I have actually liked. This is the second one. Excellent work.
Donny, I just found your channel and I don't have words to describe the the sense of awe and nostalgia this brings, I can only agree with everyone's comments - this is fantastic!!
I saw a video recently about the main set used for the corridors, sick bay, briefing room, personal quarters, and separately where the bridge was. Engineering was attached to the former set. But I'd like to see where the hangar bay set was done. I know of it from two episodes: "Journey to Babel" when Spock's parents arrive from Vulcan (they must not want to beam up) and "The Immunity Syndrome" when McCoy argues with Spock before he leaves on a dangerous mission. They have shuttlecraft in other episodes, either leaving, arriving or both, but I don't remember a corridor scene outside the hangar besides these two.
Harold Michelson has said that he wanted to give the viewers an impression that being in the transporter room was like “being inside a machine”. That might explain it.
Good job! And we barely got to know her :( I hope one day, she'll be back and we'll get to know her better. Maybe a TV series of Worf in the big chair?
This is amazing! Great work! This is also my favourite iteration of 1701 Enterprise's engine room simply because I liked the upper levels they introduced and the Dilithium converter chamber too.
I’m sorry….there can’t be a pattern buffer big enough for the genesis device. That transporter would be non stop buffering! The dilithium chamber floor had an interesting yin/yang shape. The dichotomy of Kirk and Spock.
On the actual set, they had a bathroom just to the left of the main screen/ viewer, which is why you never see that area in view, in any of the episodes, according to a former (US Navy) shipmate, back in 1986, who took a tour of the set.
A lot of cadets are afraid to go in the dilithium chamber, but there is a way to do it safely. Just remember, no matter what happens, you must avoid opening the unit and sticking your face DIRECTLY into the stream of oncoming radiation. That’s the secret.
