Quite exceptional: You too will be assimilated! Your technological distinctiveness will be preserved within our own. Resistance, however slight shall be met with the understanding that you forfeit your personal Harem! (Your skill is useless if it is lost...we intend that you reproduce...Massively!) :-)
Nice, but I could never understand why the last 2 Klingons did not warp out of there? Are they stupid? I know in the movie they shot back, but still you would think at least the last one would be smart enough to get out of there, right?
Very well done CGI! Wow. Some very nice reinterpretations, also.
I always found it interesting that people don't realize... This entire sequence is at warp. V'ger is moving at warp towards Earth. The Klingons are trying to fight this thing whilst at warp.
Really fantastic work. I appreciated that you elaborated on certain things, such as how the 2nd cruiser was 'patterned for data storage' and you overcame the limitations of some of the original shot designs. The 3 torpedoes should have disappeared in sequence though, because it's not clear why the cruisers turn and run otherwise. Also I never understood why the very first shot of the film shows the V'ger energy field that way, when the rest of the sequence shows it as a cloud structure.
The production quality is good. The Vger's motion can be made out at the very end. That's somthing that was never made clear in the original movie. The only and I mean only thing you didn't do correctly was that you should helped the perspective by making distant parts of the Vger cloud a touch fuzzy and the closer portions sharp. Its what the human eye expects. Otherwise its ready to deliver to the film editors for the final cut of the movie.
Yes I tend to ignore depth of field unless it's very easy to do, like for the ships in these scenes when one is obviously further away, but not the cloud as that would have made this even more painstaking!
@VideoSpaceFX You can't ignore those things though ;) It all just looks a little too sterile without it. The models are great, but the lack of any eye trickery (Film grain, jitter, less than perfect flight paths) were a distraction more than anything.
Another great video though the motion picture was terribly made when it was rushed to be shown in theaters I think the images and music made it bearable to watch. I must admit the attention grabber of the first few minutes till leaving drydock was kind of cool after that the movie falls flat which is a shame cause it could have been better, but that is just an opinion. If you compare the two star trek 5 was better but had awful effects.
Personally I much prefer TMP to TFF, even though it was a rushed job it has so many great scenes such as this one, and there is a depth to it. V'ger is a wonderous entity compared to to "God", so powerful, yet so simplistic. The ending makes you think that V'ger-Decker-Ilia are still out there, exploring beyond logic. Haven't watched TFF for years, it has a bad story, bad effects and lots of errors like using TNG sets unchanged etc. The soundtrack is great though!
I didn't leave them out because I would have had to rip them from the DVD and add them to my created footage. I didn't do that for copyright reasons and because I wanted to include new shots not just copy directly from the movie.
Yes ur video remake of that scene from the original first movie looks awesome, wish u cud hav got the footage of the Klingon crew in there tho, other than that really nice job.
Best Klingon music ever!!, funny how someone with a home computer can turn out visual FX of such quality and if you had edited in the internal shots of the Klingon ships it would be hard to tell the original from this.
Only thing I would have altered is have a little more variation in the ships' formation and manoeuvre timing, e.g. when climbing at 2.13. Even though it's not implausible that the ships might be manoeuvring in near-perfect formation by using linked systems, something about it just feels wrong to the human brain.
The whole scene is at high warp @ 8 something. The Klingons are unfortunatly approaching it from in front hence the blue color of the cloud. They have to get out of its way to escape. So they have to pull away from somthing moving at warp 8 AND pass 2 AU to either side. Thats why they got vger-ized.
I pitied the poor Klingon's in this scene. I simply don't understand why they didn't just warp out when they realized their torpedo shots were useless. Oh well its just a movie. :-)
How many week or should I say months to make it looks great as basic model looks better than some of the shots in the 1979 relese only wish the S/FX team had more money and time.
At the point they fire the torpedoes the klingons realize that they are about to become dead bugs on Vger's windshield. To keep from being crushed out of existance they have to turn around and stay ahead of Vger as they also pull to the side out of its way. The Klingons might have just passed straight through the cloud but there would have been a high probability of their ships having a high warp head on with Vger.
Nice vid and well done. I always thought that this scene in ST TMP should had made the attack more like how fighters would have made an attack run - combat spread and formation, diving attack and scatter once V'ger returned fire. Just one man's opinion.
I find it amazing that a ship of this size the Klingon's are portrayed as stupid enough to wanna try it on and arrogantly thinking yeah we only need 3 lol!
Gotta love the Klingons. A humongous giganto-ship the size of millions of planets is inbound, so we'll send out three small 400 foot battlecruisers and attack it.
@redgaridose the size of the V'Ger vessel itself is never fully explained. However, in the original theatrical version, the cloud is over 82 AUs in diameter, which is shortened down to 2 AU's for the Director's Edition. Why they changed this, I don't fully know. Personally, I find the idea of the fully-formed cloud being the size of a frakking solar system is considerably more menacing.
One can assume though, the V'Ger vessel is not larger than a few miles or so, as to stay in Earth orbit.
You managed to get the scale of the cloud across clearly in a way that wasn't achieved so successfully in the movie. The destruction of the 1st cruiser is an excellent addition and really adds to the drama of the scene. An outstanding effort.
@Teletran35 They were already at warp speed. VGER was moving at warp speed, so the battle cruisers had to be moving at close to the same speed or it would have just flashed by them.
@starsiegeplayer Really?? Does it look like they were at Warp? Hell at warp you cannot turn around like they did..They weren't at warp speed..Look at the video they were just cruising
@Teletran35 Yes, the cloud was moving at warp speed in the movie, so were the Klingons. Enterprise was also moving at warp speed when she intercepted the cloud.
1:00 Love the underside shot of the three booms entering the frame.
1:53 Love the higher frequency of the second torpedo leaving the frame toward us. More realistic (if only sound could really travel in space).
3:42 You include the second aft torpedo firing. Awesome.
My only constructive feedback would be to add weathering to the cruisers (especially the area around the torpedo launcher) and the three photons probably should vanish one by one around 2:10.
@jmp678 Actually they were already at warp speed. Recall that V'jer was travelling at high warp to reach Earth. They were probably inside V'jer's warp bubble and couldn't decelerate to disengage, hence their attempt to run for open space. Or it's just because the plot required them not to escape. :)
My jaw just dropped !Extremely well done! :) I like how you also accounted for the first Klingon K't'inga getting zapped. This was most impressive! :)
I've seen several attempts at recreating this iconic scene from "Star Trek: The Motionless Picture" and this is by far my favorite. Kudos for doing your own thing with many of the camera angles... I think my two favorite bits were the energy ball POV hitting the first cruiser, and the torpedo getting "swallowed" by the last energy ball. Very cool. :)
I've always thought of V'ger's weapon as some kind of transporter device. It "beams up" an object and turns it into a digital data stream, much like a normal transporter would, but instead of making the object rematerialize somewhere else, V'ger stores the object in its memory... permanently.
The most interesting description of it I read on Star Trek Memory Alpha's V'Ger page, and I quote...
"The plasma energy weapon which the vessel used to defend itself not only had extreme destructive force, but also functioned as an unusual data-gathering system; as V'Ger destroyed a vessel, it gathered an enormous amount of information, and created what appeared to be a holographic record of it. In essence, V'Ger didn't so much destroy a target as "remember" it to death."
Lol, I didn't delete them because I would have had to rip them from the DVD and add them to my created footage. I didn't do that for copyright reasons.
@VideoSpaceFX on small things like this with little edits they wont block this coz this shows u being creative in making this. take user thegreatlink with the domimon war many edits to make it fun and nothing deleted under copyright coz it's being creative :-)
@VideoSpaceFX ignore the critics man, if it's not one thing it's another. you will never make them feel good about your work. u did an amazing job, good stuff man.
I don't agree that you needed to have the torpedoes vanish. The torpedoes might have traveled a great distance before dissipating. V'ger probably never did any counter to them as being millions of miles off target, factoring in how small V'ger was compared to it's cloud. It was 2 AU's (or 82 if you count the original) across, and they were on the boundary. It would be like hitting an invisible BB 35 miles away with another BB.
The cloud jammed detecting them as they continued away.
I agree with "Tracknights", in that the torpedo barrage should of disappeared as in the movie. It is that sequence that makes you, (and the Klingons), go, "Oh oh."
Are you going to try to do the sequence where the Enterprise attempts to enter the cloud? I can only imagine how that would be. "Cool" would be an understatement.
I think the truck-pan shot around the perimeter of the cloud just in front of the ships really conveyed how much deep doo-doo the Klingons had stepped into.
I have to wonder how long it will be when someone takes all these wonderful effects shots I see here on YouTube and knits them together with the original movie to make a full feature. Ever since I saw 405 The Movie back in 2001, I never cease to be amazed by the creativity and ingenuity of people like yourself.
I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. This scene creates more atmosphere than the entire 2009 Star Trek attempt. Thanks for the upload, it looks great.
Astounding job with this! The only complaint I have is that you should have shown the first torpedo barrage disappearing, but considering what you did, that's relatively minor!
Yes well actually in the film when they disappear on the Klingon viewscreen I was thinking that was perhaps them going out of range of the sensors rather than being neutralised or something, because the cloud was so large.
I don't agree here. The klingons clearly reacted with consternation when the lights on their radar screens winked out. Regardless, the torpedoes being neutralised or unexpectedly disappearing is simply more dramatic as it adds to the sense of menace in the scene. Its also more believable from a technical perspective - cruise missiles were able to be tracked and controlled for far longer than a few seconds even in the 60s, I think 23rd century technology will be able to top this.
Don't get upset now. Its a brilliant peice of animation nevertheless. Its just that I thought the radar screen (and the three ominous synthesiser chords to boot) made it abundantly clear that the missiles disappeared and this was a real shock to the klingons.
here's my question - how come in the film, we only see 2 of the ships get zapped? What happened to the other one? Was it destroyed before the scene switched back? I mean, in the video feed the ships are being rocked by attacks and stuff...
I didn't really care of the movie after the Enterprise left space dock the movie went down hill from there in keeping my interest; the attention grabber in my opinion is the best part of the movie maybe they'll do a remake of the motion picture after all the timeline has been changed in the newest movie version I just hope they don't get all philosophical if they do like the motion picture and star trek 5 did to make it suck.
@blameist I think you missed the entire point of the movie.....as opposed to more juvenile 'popcorn flicks' of the day like Star Wars, The Motion Picture was supposed to be a level or two higher--on the same plane as "2001: A Space Odyssey".......
Thanks, I like the Director's Edition more than the original, but some of the new effects for it looked bad for what you expect from a Hollywood movie, I remember being disappointed.
Best scene in the whole of the TMP movie, although I think the recent director's cut of it is actually pretty darn enjoyable. Only the costumes seem bad.
FANTASTIC!! i just adore that battle music; with the Klingons boldly but arrogantly approaching the alien craft to engage in battle, and then being destroyed, when they are trying to escape after quickly realizing how ineffectual their own weapons were ! Bliss!
My only problem with this is, after the Klingon ship fires its torpedoes, they are supposed to disappear as they enter the cloud perimeter, as if they were neutralized, explaining why the Klingons suddenly decide to run
@VideoSpaceFX maybe you can do something with the one on our website trekmeshes. There is a reliant model on there. Just needs some more textures i think.
@nsbwastaken Elements of the sound come from the PAL DVD version of TMP, and when they convert 24fps films into PAL, which is 25fps, they just play it faster (104.17% speed actually), so the pitch will be slightly higher in the sound. It's something you notice when you buy soundtracks, you think that doesn't sound right if you're used to watching PAL movies. To me the soundtrack version is too low pitch because I am used to it from the DVD.
I would argue that this plays better without the intercuts of the Epsilon IX scene.
Pimsleurable 15 hours ago
Quite exceptional: You too will be assimilated! Your technological distinctiveness will be preserved within our own. Resistance, however slight shall be met with the understanding that you forfeit your personal Harem! (Your skill is useless if it is lost...we intend that you reproduce...Massively!) :-)
ferroxian 20 hours ago
Khemorex Klinzhai!
Pimsleurable 1 day ago in playlist Liked videos
How many people worked on it?
its really good!
NonstopRam 1 week ago
AMAZING!!!
eurandi 1 week ago
Adorei está melhora mais do trecho do filme e algumas cenas especiais em alta definição!
Meus parabéns......
rakeshoryuken1 1 week ago
Nice, but I could never understand why the last 2 Klingons did not warp out of there? Are they stupid? I know in the movie they shot back, but still you would think at least the last one would be smart enough to get out of there, right?
bananaramamark 1 week ago
@bananaramamark This entire fight was done at warp, what do you think that last guy was trying to do?
BFGfreak 4 days ago
This is incredible. Even more terrifying than the original!
Ambarenya13 1 week ago
Very well done CGI! Wow. Some very nice reinterpretations, also.
I always found it interesting that people don't realize... This entire sequence is at warp. V'ger is moving at warp towards Earth. The Klingons are trying to fight this thing whilst at warp.
OpenMawProductions 2 weeks ago
this scene scared the crap out of me when i was 5/6 years old.
TheKemTV 3 weeks ago
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TheKemTV 3 weeks ago
Which is more applicable for this clip: 'we come in peace and shoot to kill', or 'don't shoot it, you'll just make it angry'.
181stTIE 3 weeks ago 3
@181stTIE "WE ARE KLINGONS!!"
kb7rky 1 week ago
Really fantastic work. I appreciated that you elaborated on certain things, such as how the 2nd cruiser was 'patterned for data storage' and you overcame the limitations of some of the original shot designs. The 3 torpedoes should have disappeared in sequence though, because it's not clear why the cruisers turn and run otherwise. Also I never understood why the very first shot of the film shows the V'ger energy field that way, when the rest of the sequence shows it as a cloud structure.
Numinous20111 3 weeks ago
As always... that is a AWSOME job!!! :)
But... I did find a small error. But correct me if I'm wrong
2:00 - 2:13 In TMP the Klingon torpedoes vanished, one after another, without a trace.
Techrat3D 3 weeks ago
question? now are these ships Battle Cruisers or Bird of Pray's??? anyone???? ty
JourneyRocks81 3 weeks ago
@JourneyRocks81
K'Tinga class battle cruisers
VideoSpaceFX 3 weeks ago
@VideoSpaceFX thank you
JourneyRocks81 3 weeks ago
Looks amazing. You know I always wondered why the Klingons just didn't go to warp.
TheTrueObelus 4 weeks ago
@TheTrueObelus I think in the film they were supposed to be fighting at warp speed.
RedOnyxProductions 3 weeks ago
@TheTrueObelus They were at warp.
OpenMawProductions 2 weeks ago
The production quality is good. The Vger's motion can be made out at the very end. That's somthing that was never made clear in the original movie. The only and I mean only thing you didn't do correctly was that you should helped the perspective by making distant parts of the Vger cloud a touch fuzzy and the closer portions sharp. Its what the human eye expects. Otherwise its ready to deliver to the film editors for the final cut of the movie.
blindandwatching 1 month ago
@blindandwatching
Yes I tend to ignore depth of field unless it's very easy to do, like for the ships in these scenes when one is obviously further away, but not the cloud as that would have made this even more painstaking!
VideoSpaceFX 1 month ago
@VideoSpaceFX You can't ignore those things though ;) It all just looks a little too sterile without it. The models are great, but the lack of any eye trickery (Film grain, jitter, less than perfect flight paths) were a distraction more than anything.
FadedSparkx86 4 weeks ago
Another great video though the motion picture was terribly made when it was rushed to be shown in theaters I think the images and music made it bearable to watch. I must admit the attention grabber of the first few minutes till leaving drydock was kind of cool after that the movie falls flat which is a shame cause it could have been better, but that is just an opinion. If you compare the two star trek 5 was better but had awful effects.
RAYMOND96195 1 month ago
@RAYMOND96195
Personally I much prefer TMP to TFF, even though it was a rushed job it has so many great scenes such as this one, and there is a depth to it. V'ger is a wonderous entity compared to to "God", so powerful, yet so simplistic. The ending makes you think that V'ger-Decker-Ilia are still out there, exploring beyond logic. Haven't watched TFF for years, it has a bad story, bad effects and lots of errors like using TNG sets unchanged etc. The soundtrack is great though!
VideoSpaceFX 1 month ago
Stunning. Simply stunning.
senatus 1 month ago
Beautiful!!!
nxreliant1864 1 month ago
Impressive... But why leave out the characters and the dialogue?
timeoftroubles 1 month ago
@timeoftroubles
I didn't leave them out because I would have had to rip them from the DVD and add them to my created footage. I didn't do that for copyright reasons and because I wanted to include new shots not just copy directly from the movie.
VideoSpaceFX 1 month ago 2
@VideoSpaceFX Very impressive, all the same. Cheers!
timeoftroubles 1 month ago
Just randomly came across this. Excellent work, sir!
pdex2165 1 month ago
Oh man this is a brilliant jobbie - great post
trevortrevortsr2 1 month ago
Yes ur video remake of that scene from the original first movie looks awesome, wish u cud hav got the footage of the Klingon crew in there tho, other than that really nice job.
RaikenXion 1 month ago
Can anyone say Cascading Sub-Atomic Annihilation?
darrenholcomb42 1 month ago
Best Klingon music ever!!, funny how someone with a home computer can turn out visual FX of such quality and if you had edited in the internal shots of the Klingon ships it would be hard to tell the original from this.
luvspud1 1 month ago
Wow. This is excellent. How did you do this? Thanks for preserving the music!
43nostromo 1 month ago
Nice.
Only thing I would have altered is have a little more variation in the ships' formation and manoeuvre timing, e.g. when climbing at 2.13. Even though it's not implausible that the ships might be manoeuvring in near-perfect formation by using linked systems, something about it just feels wrong to the human brain.
KaitainCPS 1 month ago
Amazing piece of work. I really liked the detail on the ship exteriors.
Saracen11 1 month ago
The whole scene is at high warp @ 8 something. The Klingons are unfortunatly approaching it from in front hence the blue color of the cloud. They have to get out of its way to escape. So they have to pull away from somthing moving at warp 8 AND pass 2 AU to either side. Thats why they got vger-ized.
blindandwatching 1 month ago
well done. =0)
taffysaur 1 month ago
4 Klingons were data stored by V'Ger...
kb7rky 1 month ago
I pitied the poor Klingon's in this scene. I simply don't understand why they didn't just warp out when they realized their torpedo shots were useless. Oh well its just a movie. :-)
summer20105707 1 month ago
@summer20105707 Think Star Trek III: "WE ARE KLINGONS!"
:D
kb7rky 1 month ago
That was AWESOME! I loved the camera angle you have where the Klingons are being...whatever that plasma energy thing does.
msudreaming 2 months ago
@VideoSpaceFX
How many week or should I say months to make it looks great as basic model looks better than some of the shots in the 1979 relese only wish the S/FX team had more money and time.
EmpireLS56KW 2 months ago
The Wrath of V’ger! V’ger is pissed now!
What gave the Klingons just curse to attack V’ger or did V’ger carbon pattern one of their home bases and so the defended their region of space.
EmpireLS56KW 2 months ago
@EmpireLS56KW They probably attacked simply since it entered their space
MrPsychic8472 2 months ago
@MrPsychic8472 Yeah that makes sense Klingons are aggressive.
EmpireLS56KW 2 months ago
2:13 Evasive!!!! LOL Nice smooth moves on the images, it looks very good.
EmpireLS56KW 2 months ago
4 ended up getting carbon patterned by V’ger!
EmpireLS56KW 2 months ago
At the point they fire the torpedoes the klingons realize that they are about to become dead bugs on Vger's windshield. To keep from being crushed out of existance they have to turn around and stay ahead of Vger as they also pull to the side out of its way. The Klingons might have just passed straight through the cloud but there would have been a high probability of their ships having a high warp head on with Vger.
blindandwatching 2 months ago
Nice vid and well done. I always thought that this scene in ST TMP should had made the attack more like how fighters would have made an attack run - combat spread and formation, diving attack and scatter once V'ger returned fire. Just one man's opinion.
jtschau 2 months ago
im sar
shafta99 2 months ago
I find it amazing that a ship of this size the Klingon's are portrayed as stupid enough to wanna try it on and arrogantly thinking yeah we only need 3 lol!
2490debrick 2 months ago
Amazing vid guys! I had to watch it at 360p ' cause my PC would have taken a day, or more to download the HD version, but it still looked incredible.
And I've always loved the music for this scene. Too cool!
tkn41 3 months ago
This is my favorite vid from you mate, nice!
pspboy7 3 months ago
Gotta love the Klingons. A humongous giganto-ship the size of millions of planets is inbound, so we'll send out three small 400 foot battlecruisers and attack it.
Like Jack Russels in space!
Bloodgod40 3 months ago
You could not compose a better score for this scene.Just perfect......
fredfungalspore 3 months ago
soo how big is v`ger actually???
redgaridose 4 months ago
@redgaridose
At this point in the movie over 2 AUs in diameter, although the cloud apparently dissipated while approaching Earth.
VideoSpaceFX 4 months ago
@VideoSpaceFX it was 82 AUs thats why the guy was so surprised
Warrhawk09 2 months ago
@Warrhawk09
Well the Director's Edition has 2 AUs while the original had 82 AUs. 2 AUs is nearly 200 million miles so either way it's massive.
VideoSpaceFX 2 months ago
@redgaridose The cloud is 2 AU, or 298 million kilometers (give or take a couple thousand km) and the ship is stated to be 70 kilometers long.
BFGfreak 3 months ago
@BFGfreak 98 km long actually
vonfrank42 3 months ago
@redgaridose the size of the V'Ger vessel itself is never fully explained. However, in the original theatrical version, the cloud is over 82 AUs in diameter, which is shortened down to 2 AU's for the Director's Edition. Why they changed this, I don't fully know. Personally, I find the idea of the fully-formed cloud being the size of a frakking solar system is considerably more menacing.
One can assume though, the V'Ger vessel is not larger than a few miles or so, as to stay in Earth orbit.
K1productions 3 months ago
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ifartalot07 2 months ago
@redgaridose Yeah, they should have had the original actor re-record his line to "over an AU in diamter".
msudreaming 2 months ago
@redgaridose V'ger is God's dick.
theknightswhosayfrak 1 month ago
Better than the original scene...nice use of the low frequencies on ship fly by.
March6371 4 months ago
You managed to get the scale of the cloud across clearly in a way that wasn't achieved so successfully in the movie. The destruction of the 1st cruiser is an excellent addition and really adds to the drama of the scene. An outstanding effort.
davidkinnen 4 months ago
This is Excellent !!
TheSlugstoppa 4 months ago
blur unlike most yall im still the tecnical old foggy and love the klingon interaction seans!
ANNRKEE666 4 months ago
This is alot better than the original
chandrandev9 4 months ago
This is well done. I like that you used different angles and motion.
starsiegeplayer 4 months ago
I could never understand why the last Battle cruiser didn't make the jump to warp speed
Teletran35 4 months ago
@Teletran35 They were already at warp speed. VGER was moving at warp speed, so the battle cruisers had to be moving at close to the same speed or it would have just flashed by them.
starsiegeplayer 4 months ago
@starsiegeplayer Really?? Does it look like they were at Warp? Hell at warp you cannot turn around like they did..They weren't at warp speed..Look at the video they were just cruising
Teletran35 4 months ago
@Teletran35 Yes, the cloud was moving at warp speed in the movie, so were the Klingons. Enterprise was also moving at warp speed when she intercepted the cloud.
You can definitely turn around in warp speed.
starsiegeplayer 4 months ago
1:00 Love the underside shot of the three booms entering the frame.
1:53 Love the higher frequency of the second torpedo leaving the frame toward us. More realistic (if only sound could really travel in space).
3:42 You include the second aft torpedo firing. Awesome.
My only constructive feedback would be to add weathering to the cruisers (especially the area around the torpedo launcher) and the three photons probably should vanish one by one around 2:10.
skyblazer7 4 months ago
@jmp678 Actually they were already at warp speed. Recall that V'jer was travelling at high warp to reach Earth. They were probably inside V'jer's warp bubble and couldn't decelerate to disengage, hence their attempt to run for open space. Or it's just because the plot required them not to escape. :)
skyblazer7 4 months ago
Wow that was sweet!
Teletran35 4 months ago
Very impressive Martok!! Looks a lot better in CGI without the matte lines!
tjhaywood100 4 months ago
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This was very well done bro great job i can't wait to see more recerations ;)
iceskater1983 5 months ago
That was awesome!
skyblazer7 5 months ago
Klingons have no shields to protect themselves like the Enterprise.
USSVoyager5 5 months ago
omg! thanks fr this video. lol this is by far, the best of ur st videos, i'ed seen yet.
Ticonderoga444 5 months ago
This out does the scene from the movie.
blindandwatching 5 months ago
My jaw just dropped !Extremely well done! :) I like how you also accounted for the first Klingon K't'inga getting zapped. This was most impressive! :)
martok2112 5 months ago
I've seen several attempts at recreating this iconic scene from "Star Trek: The Motionless Picture" and this is by far my favorite. Kudos for doing your own thing with many of the camera angles... I think my two favorite bits were the energy ball POV hitting the first cruiser, and the torpedo getting "swallowed" by the last energy ball. Very cool. :)
PrfMoriarty 5 months ago
I've always thought of V'ger's weapon as some kind of transporter device. It "beams up" an object and turns it into a digital data stream, much like a normal transporter would, but instead of making the object rematerialize somewhere else, V'ger stores the object in its memory... permanently.
Great video, by the way.
Felamine 5 months ago
@Felamine
The most interesting description of it I read on Star Trek Memory Alpha's V'Ger page, and I quote...
"The plasma energy weapon which the vessel used to defend itself not only had extreme destructive force, but also functioned as an unusual data-gathering system; as V'Ger destroyed a vessel, it gathered an enormous amount of information, and created what appeared to be a holographic record of it. In essence, V'Ger didn't so much destroy a target as "remember" it to death."
TheJediCharles 5 months ago
Good work. You deleted the crew shots, why was that?
TruthWatch 5 months ago
@TruthWatch
Lol, I didn't delete them because I would have had to rip them from the DVD and add them to my created footage. I didn't do that for copyright reasons.
VideoSpaceFX 5 months ago 4
@VideoSpaceFX on small things like this with little edits they wont block this coz this shows u being creative in making this. take user thegreatlink with the domimon war many edits to make it fun and nothing deleted under copyright coz it's being creative :-)
bryanwolfie 4 months ago
@VideoSpaceFX ignore the critics man, if it's not one thing it's another. you will never make them feel good about your work. u did an amazing job, good stuff man.
ODOMAN123 3 months ago 7
you guys did a great job. i saw this in the theaters when i was 11 and the first scene with the klingon ships was my fave.
shafta99 6 months ago
Fine work.
I don't agree that you needed to have the torpedoes vanish. The torpedoes might have traveled a great distance before dissipating. V'ger probably never did any counter to them as being millions of miles off target, factoring in how small V'ger was compared to it's cloud. It was 2 AU's (or 82 if you count the original) across, and they were on the boundary. It would be like hitting an invisible BB 35 miles away with another BB.
The cloud jammed detecting them as they continued away.
TheJediCharles 6 months ago
I agree with "Tracknights", in that the torpedo barrage should of disappeared as in the movie. It is that sequence that makes you, (and the Klingons), go, "Oh oh."
ocwindwolf 6 months ago
PERFECT!
sgtmyers88 6 months ago
My god that music.... They don't have film scores like this anymore!
plastique45 6 months ago
why didnt klingon jump in to warpdrive?
antenov 6 months ago
@antenov i forgot that klingons is a honor race that they are not chickens
antenov 6 months ago
@antenov they did !
whitemanstand72 5 months ago
Awsome!!!! That was really good.
Are you going to try to do the sequence where the Enterprise attempts to enter the cloud? I can only imagine how that would be. "Cool" would be an understatement.
Best Star Trek CGI I've seen yet on You Tube!!!!
Again, AWSOME WORK!!!!!
sspiega 6 months ago
Excellent video! This will be a great inspiration for m future artworks!
lcaracol 6 months ago
nice sound editing!! the more i see this the more i appreciate it!!
shafta99 6 months ago
the first half of this movie is awesome, the second well kind of boring but stunning visually!
shafta99 6 months ago
this kicks ass
TheGreentree77 7 months ago
the best scene and was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
shafta99 7 months ago
This is f................. awesome !! GREAT !
dudo101 7 months ago
This was the best scene in the movie, and one of the best of any Trek movie, I think.
jfrank12 7 months ago
better than the original movie!
vanvideo9 7 months ago
magnificent !!!
cirian75 7 months ago
I think the truck-pan shot around the perimeter of the cloud just in front of the ships really conveyed how much deep doo-doo the Klingons had stepped into.
I have to wonder how long it will be when someone takes all these wonderful effects shots I see here on YouTube and knits them together with the original movie to make a full feature. Ever since I saw 405 The Movie back in 2001, I never cease to be amazed by the creativity and ingenuity of people like yourself.
IRJustman 7 months ago
Amazing job!
holzroller 7 months ago
I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. This scene creates more atmosphere than the entire 2009 Star Trek attempt. Thanks for the upload, it looks great.
crazy88boss 7 months ago
dude that was well im lost for words :) 10/10 !!!!!!!
songokusatsu 7 months ago
Astounding job with this! The only complaint I have is that you should have shown the first torpedo barrage disappearing, but considering what you did, that's relatively minor!
tracknights 7 months ago
@tracknights
Yes well actually in the film when they disappear on the Klingon viewscreen I was thinking that was perhaps them going out of range of the sensors rather than being neutralised or something, because the cloud was so large.
VideoSpaceFX 7 months ago 3
@VideoSpaceFX
I don't agree here. The klingons clearly reacted with consternation when the lights on their radar screens winked out. Regardless, the torpedoes being neutralised or unexpectedly disappearing is simply more dramatic as it adds to the sense of menace in the scene. Its also more believable from a technical perspective - cruise missiles were able to be tracked and controlled for far longer than a few seconds even in the 60s, I think 23rd century technology will be able to top this.
TheMrCJist 3 months ago
@TheMrCJist
Ok fine they disappeared just after the view cut away. Happy?
VideoSpaceFX 3 months ago
@VideoSpaceFX
Don't get upset now. Its a brilliant peice of animation nevertheless. Its just that I thought the radar screen (and the three ominous synthesiser chords to boot) made it abundantly clear that the missiles disappeared and this was a real shock to the klingons.
TheMrCJist 3 months ago
here's my question - how come in the film, we only see 2 of the ships get zapped? What happened to the other one? Was it destroyed before the scene switched back? I mean, in the video feed the ships are being rocked by attacks and stuff...
and the K'T'Inga was always my favorite
sahandaman 8 months ago
I didn't really care of the movie after the Enterprise left space dock the movie went down hill from there in keeping my interest; the attention grabber in my opinion is the best part of the movie maybe they'll do a remake of the motion picture after all the timeline has been changed in the newest movie version I just hope they don't get all philosophical if they do like the motion picture and star trek 5 did to make it suck.
blameist 8 months ago
@blameist
I have to disagree with you. I hope they NEVER try and fail to remake TMP! I like the movie, especially with the edits in the Director's Edition.
VideoSpaceFX 8 months ago 2
@blameist I think you missed the entire point of the movie.....as opposed to more juvenile 'popcorn flicks' of the day like Star Wars, The Motion Picture was supposed to be a level or two higher--on the same plane as "2001: A Space Odyssey".......
Huskerz007 7 months ago
marvelous work, the music makes intense
wolfstev76 8 months ago
great job!
jodecideion 8 months ago
Much better than the original. They should have hired you for the Director's Edition.
finalfrontier1701 8 months ago
@finalfrontier1701
Thanks, I like the Director's Edition more than the original, but some of the new effects for it looked bad for what you expect from a Hollywood movie, I remember being disappointed.
VideoSpaceFX 8 months ago
Best scene in the whole of the TMP movie, although I think the recent director's cut of it is actually pretty darn enjoyable. Only the costumes seem bad.
Ace theme by Goldsmith.
KaitainCPS 9 months ago
V'GER MUST NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM
ODOMAN123 9 months ago
the klingon ships are at warp. they just isnt fast enough to escape in time.
mcfuson37 9 months ago
Awesome!
Mines not as good as yours, though, yours has more vibrant color on the V'ger cloud.
CJCA915 9 months ago
FANTASTIC!! i just adore that battle music; with the Klingons boldly but arrogantly approaching the alien craft to engage in battle, and then being destroyed, when they are trying to escape after quickly realizing how ineffectual their own weapons were ! Bliss!
4JINKO 9 months ago
My only problem with this is, after the Klingon ship fires its torpedoes, they are supposed to disappear as they enter the cloud perimeter, as if they were neutralized, explaining why the Klingons suddenly decide to run
K1productions 9 months ago
That was ammmmazzzziinggg!!!!!
Iams001 10 months ago
Beautiful!
Poor/Damn klingons! :D (sometimes i cant decide it :D )
iiiangelsiii 10 months ago
1:05 haSta!
1:27 wI'cha!
1:34 cha yIghuS!
1:45 baH!
2:12 juntaH!
God I'm such a dork. lol
tfcdomprice 10 months ago 6
Totally awesome!!!
I've always said if I could do that stuff on a PC, I'd never leave the house! Great work!
hawke5150 10 months ago
@hawke5150 Lol, sometimes when i'm in the mood I wish I could!
VideoSpaceFX 10 months ago
OH! do the enterprise vs v'ger next!
crimsonninja6995 10 months ago
@crimsonninja6995 That's the plan!
VideoSpaceFX 10 months ago
@VideoSpaceFX I got a special request. Do the episode "The Doomsday Machine" from TOS. That would be awesome!!!
rocklord2020 9 months ago in playlist Star Trek Tributes
Can you re-cut this into a new of TMP? :D
Had to comment again,brilliant work mate !!!
captjami 10 months ago
@captjami Thanks. The only problem with that is the copyright issue with using footage from the film.
VideoSpaceFX 10 months ago
@VideoSpaceFX
No worries,what a bummer !!Beautiful work again Mate !!
captjami 10 months ago
Best recreation EVER!!! Love the Torp effects and the perspective from the cloud watching the last KTinga trying to get away. AWESOME
archangel72367 10 months ago
Wow, seeing this, I'd love to see what you'd do with the Battle of the Mutara Nebula!
ltflak 10 months ago
@ltflak Thanks. That would be nice but I don't have a decent Reliant model, only a very poor Bridge Commander model.
VideoSpaceFX 10 months ago
@VideoSpaceFX maybe you can do something with the one on our website trekmeshes. There is a reliant model on there. Just needs some more textures i think.
sticky170 10 months ago
@sticky170 I'm afraid that model would require too much work to make it look anyway decent :(
VideoSpaceFX 10 months ago
@VideoSpaceFX
Dave Metlesits has recently release a model on one of his DeviantArt profiles:
CaptMajest 10 months ago
@CaptMajest Yes, I cannot find a download anywhere?
VideoSpaceFX 10 months ago
@VideoSpaceFX
Look up metlesitsfleetyards at deviantart.
Youtube doesn't allow one to post links in comments.
CaptMajest 10 months ago
@CaptMajest
Ok got them, thanks a million!
VideoSpaceFX 10 months ago
@VideoSpaceFX
You're welcome
CaptMajest 10 months ago
Simply Amazing, way better then the original
cybercopco 10 months ago
holy shit!!!
that looks awesome
the movie is nothing if you saw that scene here
kahabschvergesse 10 months ago
Even better than the original!
nitrofanone 10 months ago
Breathtaking detail!
Lancenova 10 months ago
Why is the pitch off?
nsbwastaken 10 months ago
@nsbwastaken Elements of the sound come from the PAL DVD version of TMP, and when they convert 24fps films into PAL, which is 25fps, they just play it faster (104.17% speed actually), so the pitch will be slightly higher in the sound. It's something you notice when you buy soundtracks, you think that doesn't sound right if you're used to watching PAL movies. To me the soundtrack version is too low pitch because I am used to it from the DVD.
VideoSpaceFX 10 months ago
nice work man,loved it.
phillip1054 10 months ago
fucking awesome!!!!! love it!!!!! keep them coming!!!!!!
NCC63549 10 months ago
FREAKING COOLLLLLL !!!!!!
captjami 10 months ago
The best reconstruction I saw so far.
vjeko1701 10 months ago
omg .. drool much... 5/5 this was great
TheNinjari 10 months ago
K'Tinga class is so cool
Austindude3954 10 months ago 9
@Austindude3954
Fully admit! It's actually hard to believe that it's a 1960's design! Utmost respect for Andrew Probert!!
topasyout 5 months ago