TOS USS Enterprise fires all weapons

[justinok67]

Who the HELL is at Tactical?

[coyran]

@justinok67 I think Chekov had some crystal meth for lunch. They're on a diplomatic mission in reality.

[justinok67]

@coyran XD

[Idazmi7]

@coyran Actually, in TOS it was a defensive patrol.

[rkmugen]

@justinok67 Don't blame the tactical officer... blame the cheap toggle switches!

[justinok67]

@rkmugen They need LCARS

[jebes909090]

Ok sir, your power bill comes to $52 865 921.87 . Will that be cash or charge.

[Idazmi7]

@jebes909090

Kirk: There's no money here in the future, and this is MY ship. Give the bill to the special effects director.

[Sunburn2007]

Sound effects are newb sound effects from the new movie. Fail.

[Idazmi7]

@Sunburn2007 No they aren't from the new movie.

[Shadowboost]

FIRE EVERYTHING

[lst1195]

WOW!

[Gurren777]

After all shots are fired kirk in a space suit exits the Enterprise's top air lock to throw a single grenade.

[thomas007]

And boom goes the dynamite.

[MrMontyBurnsDog]

@thomas007 Oh,thats nasty ^.^

[F14ace]

This is why you don't piss off Captain Kirk...

[Idazmi7]

Can I use this clip??

[uzimodem]

kewl

[hammerman6842]

Someone just got fucked up.

[jagdevsg]

in which episode do you see these outer phasers being fired??

[Idazmi7]

@jagdevsg None, but they are referenced in "Balance of Terror".

[jagdevsg]

@Idazmi7 awesome levels of star trek nerd-dom. i love it!

[CaptHawkeye]

I just always got a kick out of the torpedoes magically appearing under the saucer when they fire.

[Gunh3d1]

Looks great!

And without the handcam-shake of the last movie,you can even see it ;),

[SugaredBacon117]

pretty epic

[ti994apc]

I liked when the fired phasers and torpedo's like this a lot better!! The last Star Trek movie phaser fire was too starwars looking and I did not like it at all. However, the animation on this video is fantastic and seems better than the original. Keep up the good work! Thanks.

[HarakMolova]

Despite his lack of tact... Carnage is right. The majority of times the phasers were blue.

Photon torpedoes are yellow... but I havent watched enough TOS to remember the colour of the torpedoes. You may be right.

But still... good animation.

[Idazmi7]

@HarakMolova Torpedoes appear mostly blue, and occasionally red or white in TOS. The red ones look like Magic Marker, the white ones sparkle, the blue ones kick butt: they sparkle and GLOW in 1966's low budget Star Trek!

[HarakMolova]

@Idazmi7

TOS was the "low budget Star Trek".

[Idazmi7]

@HarakMolova I know, I just don't like retronyms that much.

[logicalMeta]

That was friggin beautiful!!

(applause)

[dtstrain]

TOS had some blue and red phaser examples so it was unclear. However, the remastered is blue phasers. Enterprise also showed a Constitution Class that had blue phasers, so that settles it - blue. One can either accept that TOS red was simply an error to be ignored, or treksplantion could be that it's possible to temporarily alter the stock frequency, as seen in TNG's Best of Both Worlds.

[sybercat6]

Where are the torpedo launchers on the old Constitution class? They are easy to see on the Refit, but I didn't even know the original enterprise had them.

[MasterJediKyleKatarn]

@sybercat6 They are in the saucer right above the phaser ring that surrounds the planetary sensor on the bottom of the saucer.

[martok2112]

Nice! Well done!

[F14ace]

Someone's getting an ass kicking!

[Gorandius1256]

Let us not also forget that most people still had Black and White Television sets when this show first aired, so I doubt color was that big of a deal when the show was being produced. To the average viewer, it was just a stream of white light coming from a grey starship on a black background.

[turbowombat]

Why are torpedoes firing from the main sensor module?

[Frylockns86]

@turbowombat

The TOS Enterprise visFX had the main weapons all firing from the same spot on the ship. It's something I wish would have been fixed in the remastered TOS, but never was. Poor placement, I agree.

[LegionDCX]

@turbowombat Supposedly the torpedo ports were just fore of the sensor module. A TrekBBS user and graphic artist named Jason "Vektor" Lee actually created a model of a slightly "remastered" TOS Enterprise where those are visible, even.

[Idazmi7]

@turbowombat Torpedoes usually fire from there. Also, it was originally the Ventral Astrogation pod.

[boydni]

Hello there chap! I was perhaps wondering if you had that bloody good video of the Battle of Organia? Could you possibly put it up if it is not too much trouble?

[KJOSCOT]

Nice animation! I just loved the effects. Made me want to watch some TOS episodes. Good Job!! Doesn't matter if the sound effects were off, the rest of it rules!

[huntek99]

good job - who cares that it isnt 100% accurate or the right colour !! Rock on.

[lonstar70]

The sound effects for the phasers are wrong for TOS era. Just sayin. Otherwise, cool stuff.

[Antikerlab22892]

The Phaser is depending on the strength sometimes blue and sometimes red



[KJOSCOT]

Also, as mentioned earlier, The effects used in the stock footage for "The Balance Of Terror," for their "phaser-firing" were later used to demonstrate the Enterprise's other weapon type: Photon Torpedoes. They changed those effects in the second, and third seasons when the aforementioned closeup shots improved. Before that, none of the effects people were really settled on how the weapons actually should look like. Despite NBC's budget restrictions, the effects people did a damn good job IMHO.

[CrusaderK]

Actually, if you look at the original tech manual published in the 70's, there were 6 phaser banks - 3 on the top of the saucer and 3 on the underside. This is actually shown finally in TWOK, but the phasers firing from the left and right is technically accurate.

[Zgamer618]

FIRE EVERYTHING!!!

[photonicus]

Kirk era was a time of high tension with the Klingon Empire.They were probably constantly upgrading and tweaking their phasers,hence the different colors.

(OUTSIDE the story line,yeah either continuity errors or the producers didn't think

it was a big deal at the time)

[NovaScotiaNewfie]

I remember seeing phaser firing from the torpedo launcher in one episode of TNG not sure what episode it was

[Xonx68]

@NovaScotiaNewfie I think that was "Dharmok", if you mean the one where the phaser beam was coming out of the neck of the saucer section.

[KJOSCOT]

@NovaScotiaNewfie Another continuity error. Nobody said, not even the technical manual, that phaser beams would discharge from the torpedo tubes. It was one of their fewer errors made. Another one was an incorrect placement of a "Bussard energy discharge" coming from one of the saucer's phaser array, instead of the glowing red ramscoops on the front ends of the nacelle pods. Lol.

[NovaScotiaNewfie]

It has too many phaser arrays the one off to the left and right, did not exist in the show.

[LocutusOfSmilebeez]

Phaser is blue while torpedoes is red, you switch them all.(TOS Enterprise)

[sfludd]

Love the sound effects.

[K1productions]

The difference between red and blue phasers is simply a continuity error in TOS, since they weren't quite so concerned about the visual effects, considering their shoestring budget. Some episodes even show the phasers firing from the wrong place (they've done this in TNG too, twice). One can attempt to retcon justify the differences all they want, but the bottom line is, they were all continuity errors that were not corrected until the remastered version a few years ago.

[RobertMfromLI]

@K1productions I thought some of them were due to color change for a couple FX shots (like firing at a planet) where the blue phasers would be more difficult to see... and then those shots were reused as "stock footage" in a couple other episodes.

[K1productions]

@RobertMfromLI lol, nah, they didn't pay that close attention back then. And now that I think about it, I believe the ships phasers (on a stun setting, mind you) firing on a planet were green - "A Piece of the Action"

Bottom line, to anyone who wants to argue canon or continuity with regards to TOS special effects... please don't.

[RobertMfromLI]

@K1productions Yes, green in piece of the action... though I do beg to differ about the varying differences ALL simply being continuity errors due to their shoestring budget. Not all of them were (most, yes, but not all)... and in this, I would guess I do know a thing or two. Heck, I suspect my team could even dig up some of the original notes on the VFX, sets, scripts, and a buncha other things...

Best,

Rob from the Star Trek Phase 2 Team

[K1productions]

@RobertMfromLI not saying they all are or arent. I just don't like when people have to argue Red vs. Blue ( vs. Green), citing specific episodes as concrete evidence, but then completely ignoring others. They make it very hard to feel pride in awesome fan-made content, like this video clip (I happen to really like it)

[RobertMfromLI]

@K1productions Agreed. I always wondered what magic they could have accomplished with a real budget and less reused scenes. There are STILL some TOS VFX scenes that I far prefer to the remastered scenes. The cinematography of some of them (angles, motions, etc) just led to something really great in some of the scenes, Like some of the early shots of the Enterprise entering orbit. Pretty impressive stuff considering the model didnt move and they had to fly a massive camera around it.

[KJOSCOT]

@K1productions I second that one. The special effects continuity issues of the original show had no basis of the colour changes on their phaser plasma. As rotoscoping technology improved, they were able to get some better close up shots, and whimsically changed the plasmas blue, instead of the original red-orange. The episode "Corbomite Maneuver" was the first episode to demonstrate the ship's phaser beams, and they were red. I thought that effect was the better one IMHO. The blues were cool too

[Idazmi7]

@K1productions Good point, but the ramastered version features the Enterprise wobbling, then not wobbling, then wobbling again in the episode that features the Enterprise traveling too close to a black star and being propelled back in time. I think it was called "Return to Yesterday".

I never warmed up to the idea of a wobbily Enterprise.

[don312000]

@K1productions I know the one TNG error was in Darmok...when was the other? I caan't place it off the top of my head. Or are you thinking of the energy beams in Encounter At Farpoint, where Picard ordered them to run energy thru the phasers and it came out near the captains yacht instead?

[carnage2681]

This fukkin Phasers has to be Blue !!!!!

[startrekking3]

No, it hasn't. In the episode "Arena" the phaser beams are red.

[CaptainPositron]

@startrekking3

Phasers were rather interchangeable in the show. In one episode the phasers where an ugly pulse that behaved like a depth charge.

In Enterprise they showed the constitution class Defiant having blue phasers.

[thespecialneedsgroup]

@CaptainPositron In "Balance of Terror," the phasers did look, sound, and behave like photon torpedos. I always assumed that the production staff didn't know what they wanted Enterprise's phaser weapons to do to do that early in the series. Dialogue in that episode also claims that a visual phaser lock is far superior to targeting weapons with sensors, which I always felt made no sense at all.

[Revkor]

@startrekking3 generally they're blue, the red was a blooper

[omega311888]

@startrekking3 i guess they forgot to change the bulbs :P

[bovb902]

@startrekking3 am i correct? Blue=To Weaken shields Red=to destroy Hull

[Firefly6290]

@carnage2681

I never did get why they were blue in TOS, orange in TNG, DS9 and Voyager and Red in ENT and ST09.

[all13Doctors]

@carnage2681 Depends on the setting. TOS has shown red phasers before TWOK... An interestog point of discussion might be... has ANY Federation Starhship EVER fired phasers on maximum? think about it. I do not recall seeing the Enterprise phasers vaporise a target in a nice blue glow :)

[MrHoppers002]

starfleet ships fire phasers on 50% strength. normally.

[Pyradonis]

@all13Doctors

I think when the Original Enterprise destroyed Apollo's temple in "Who Mourns For Adonais", the effect came near to that. The building was disintegrated, although it took a while.^^

[luigi90900]

@carnage2681 different powers have different colors

[bladude12345]

@carnage2681 Depends on the frequency of the beam, just like light it can take on any number of colours, depending on the wavelength and/or particle density.

[dixievfd55]

@carnage2681 There actually was not a set color that the phasers had to be.

[thefinalfrontier1701]

@carnage2681 Somebody obviously hasn't seen Arena.

[FekLeyrTarg]

@carnage2681

In the non-remastered Version of TOS, the phasers, are blue, red and yellow. In TOS-Remastered, they're blue only.

[Idazmi7]

@FekLeyrTarg Red, blue, yellow, and PURPLE.

[kleinmartenFun]

@carnage2681 and aloso at "Planet Killer" firing at the doomstay mashine

[Lee78072]

@carnage2681 fukking yes