Star Trek -- Phase II Enterprise

Some CG animated shots of the never-aired "Phase II" U.S.S. Enterprise.

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Film & Animation

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• Trek
• Enterprise
• Animation
• 3D
• CG
• Lightwave
• starfleet

[phillyvegas]

You guys are REALLY trying to pass this off as "official" never-before-seen "lost" footage from the proposed new Star Trek series?? REALLY??

Folks this is pretty neat, homemade CGI video but it's definitely NOT part of the original artwork, format or "footage" of the original Phase II project! They didn't HAVE CGI of this quality back then!

[Avindair]

@phillyvegas: This was never intended to be taken as being from the 1977-78 era. It was something we knocked together in a couple of weeks a few years back using LightWave3D.

That being said, we were the first people to animate this particular model of the "Enterprise. Thus the video.

[sbergman27]

For years, my favorite was the ST:TMP/ST:TWOK version. They dropped a lot of detail for /A. However, I've really come to appreciate the newer CGI renditions of the original TOS Enterprise. The 2009 Enterprise was right out of "Happy Days". Can't you just imagine pulling into the local Astro-Sonic drive-in with it, right after a wash and wax, as the girl with the rocket boots flies out to take your order?

[LightenUpMcGraw]

@MrPaladino -Truth is after Star Wars they could have farted a movie of Star Trek with the originals and it would have made cash.The movie still sucked, I'm with you, I loved the Kahn flick,now that was what it should be an adventure.They wrote the crew as friends again and there were light moment like on the series that were fun.All that was missing on the first one, someone missed the boat on it and the reboot was really needed. Remember the grey unisuit uni's from TMP?Uggg. It was a fun movie

[MrPaladino]

The key here is that Spock completes the Freudian Trio. Without him, there is no TOS. Paramount was concerned about Nimoy's lack of interest in doing Phase II. When Spock died in TWOK, the studio got death threats. When KIRK died in Generations, fans merely whined about HOW he died. Not that he was dead. That says something about the prospects of a Star Trek without Spock.

[MrPaladino]

@LightenUpMcGraw Ok, I looked it up, and you're right. I was recalling something that Wil Wheaton posted to his blog that threw me off. ht tp://imgur. com/CzHBr <-- (the short version). I find it really hard to believe that a TV show WITHOUT Spock would somehow be better than a movie WITH him. The studio execs agreed. TMP was what Star Trek fans needed: the right combo of image, nostalgia and emotion to re-launch a franchise. Then they made it up to us with TWOK. Almost nobody can dispute that.

[LightenUpMcGraw]

@MrPaladino-No offense but you are confused men don't wear bouffant hairdos its a womens do, look it up and see for yourself.As for our"argument"we aren't really saying anything cause no one will ever know.You seem pissed dissed TNG but its not yours so who cares what I think about that gem really.If you love it god bless glad your please, I just sometimes with the what could have been dream, no harm there either.But your wrong on the do dood,get back to me and give me my propers on the subject.

[LightenUpMcGraw]

@MrPaladino - So you say Riker had a bouffant? Anotherwords his hairdo looked like Lady Bird Johnsons? Or was his more like style icon and former First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? I must have missed the Riker bouffant episode was he in uniform or a dress? Men don't wear bouffant hairdo's dude, at least none that I know, not even Riker. Gosh I hope I haven't been too much of a Pompadour.

[MrPaladino]

@LightenUpMcGraw Since Motion Picture is a redraft of "In Thine Image", the pilot of Phase II written by Alan Dean Foster, I'd say that it could absolutely have been worse. A bouffant is the hair slicked back. Nobody on TOS wore one. Everyone parted their hair. Except maybe Scotty in Season 3. the girls wore BEEHIVES, sir. So the only person "off planet" is you.

[LightenUpMcGraw]

@MrPaladino Phase2 couldn't have been worse then the dreadful motion picture it ended up becoming.I mean that movie was a real dog,at least the series would have had continuing adventures and the same look and uni's from the original.As far as TNG being boring..give me Shatner as Kirk and BAM! different show.The original characters/actors are why it all continues to this day,I think underestimating the impact they would have had is selling them short.As for beehive I guess you've been off planet

[MrPaladino]

@LightenUpMcGraw Maybe not, but it certainly would have been diminished if Phase II had gone forward without some serious tweaking. All 13 of the episodes planned got made in some fashion as TNG episodes, and they were the worst episodes. As for your snide remarks against TNG, I respond: THERE'S your "Phase II". Gene even said it was basically the same show with new characters. So if it "sucked" so bad (in your opinion), so would Phase II. Also, Riker had a bouffant. You mean "beehive".

[Roadracer987654321]

@MrPaladino The Enterprise we saw in Star Trek the Motion :Picture took the " Look ' of the Original Enterprise Further and improved upon it. To this Day it is still Great.

It gave the Enterprise what it should have had in the First Place,thicker Struts, better proportions, Thrusters,Navigational Defelctor better Mounted in the Hull, etc that Lights Up.. she should have just been given an Aft Set of Torpedo Launchers at the Bottom rear of the Secondary Hull...... T'is All

[Roadracer987654321]

@MrPaladino It was a Dennis Bailey that Red did the Enterprise for the Motion Picture ? I saw that Film at 11:10 Am on Opening Day in 1979. Little did I know as a kid I was witnessing Sci-Fi History taking Flight Once Again.

at the Time i didn't know who Horatio Hornblower was or what the HMS Indefatigable was or the HMS Victory. or even the Bonhomme Richard of the Continental Navy.

I was watching the Now Admiral Hornblower going aboard the HMS Victory Once again.T'was Film History