A favourite episode, and another I wish had had a follow-up. It was left without confirmation, but I think most believe Gomtuu and its new pilot lived and went off to explore the universe together.
@@davidjakiela9553 the Cyclon ships didn't really count. Their more giant Mecha, versus "Living Vessel". Which is the more impressive and astounding concept.
I completely agree. A living ship and Tam Elbrun was a great character. His friendship with Data since what he said he couldn't hear beforehand was just excellently written.
That's not exactly true. The first primitive CGI effects were just starting to come around by the end of star trek's lifetime. It only a few short years later we would have some of the great animated cg shows like reboot and Beast wars. And the effects like the phasers Transporter graphics and photon torpedo's were CGI effects.The problem was at that time little more than light effects could be done because detailed drawings could not yet be properly animated and rendered. And also remember that rotoscope animation was a thing Before Star Trek's time
Melting a wax model was definitely the quicker and cheaper option for this shot, but this episode is from 1990. Terminator 2, with its famous morphing effect, came out in 1991. Even if we stick to Star Trek TV shows, Odo was morphing on Deep Space 9 in 1993.
@@Shadowkey392 For its time what they did was amazing. Did it age well? Not really. But the technology behind it was impressive. Today it looks cringe. But then again I grew up with that stuff so I might have a little bit of a bias
Yeah that's what this reminded me of when it first aired. And then the same thing when Farscape first aired, their ship was much larger but very similar
You think the Romulan Maintnance Engineer (the janitor of the ship) preferred to be home and see his three Romulan children (one with a cold) and wife rather being killed by Tin Man?
You know it's really too bad the star trek was an episode of the week style series. There were so many great plots throughout the show and only a couple of them were ever brought up again in the cannon in the show. What happened with 10 men should have been one of them. Sadly not every show can be like Babylon 5 where every episode leads into the next and they all link together
@@ColumbiaB If I don't catch it right away. I won't see it again until after I've posted it. Because the text entry space only has enough view screen for a sentence. I'm also one of those people cursed with gigantic thumbs and so when I try to hit the little tiny buttons on my phone's touchscreen., I am the hit in the ones near it as well. Trying to back the cursor up to words is a nightmare Unlike a computer I don't have the 4 way buttons And have to touch in between the text exactly where I want to put the cursor which makes it insanely hard to get it in the right spot. And so I try as much as possible to stop every sentence and make sure that it is correct. But when I get animated about a topic I miss things
@@HighmageDerin - Some touch-screen interfaces have a feature where you can press your thumb on the screen, and it displays a lozenge-shaped pop-up, showing where in the text the cursor would be placed. You can keep your thumb on the screen, and move it around to move the cursor; when the cursor is at the right spot, you lift your thumb, and the cursor drops there. (I don’t know if all touch-screen devices have that feature, or something like it.)
