Star Trek TMP: My Take on the Wormhole Scene

DISCLAIMER: This video is NOT intended as copyright infringement. TMP clips are copyrighted to Paramount Pictures. I do not own Star Trek. If I did, I'd be swimming in millions, but that's beside the point.

I am still quite new to Adobe After Effects, but I'd thought I'd take a shot at remaking one of my favorite scenes from all of the Star Trek Movies: The Motion Picture Wormhole Scene.

Almost all of the effects were done my me in 3ds Max 9 and Adobe After Effects.

Enterprise Refit Model by Dennis Bailey

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[YesWeCantaloupe]

The original alarm sound was the best part. It made it scary.

[thedarkarcon4]

@YesWeCantaloupe I have to agree. The original alarm was better.

[TheCanseco1]

@YesWeCantaloupe I agree.

[YesWeCantaloupe]

@chrismc410 This /watch?v=ypy5hoYjlkk&feature=r­elated

[chrismc410]

@YesWeCantaloupe which original alarm? The one for this movie or the original TOS/TNG alarm sound?

[dwayne0t]

It always irked me that with no time left, they only fired 1 torpedo. What if it missed? Enterprise = fubar

[Idazmi7]

@siggie12 Torpedoes are equipped with small warp engines, allowing lightspeed travel. Also, if you are already moving, the projectile fired will move faster.

[siggie12]

This part always boggled my mind, you'd think any sort of projectile weapon would have been useless. I only averaged a C+ or so in high school Physics, so I can't claim to be an expert on the matter, but it would seem to me like the photon torpedo should have collapsed into the Enterprise before even exiting the launch bay at the speed they were traveling.

[thedarkarcon4]

@DorianMichaelsIII No worries. I think the main reason why they made it blue for this scene was because they didnt want the torpedo to be hard to identify, with the wormhile being red and all. I believe in the commentary of the movie they even went so far as to mention it was blue because it was in a "low-power" state, but Im not entirely sure on that.

[DorianMichaelsIII]

@thedarkarcon4 Aaah, you're right, you're right, sorry, sorry; I was just recalling that all photons seen launched by Enterprise-D in TNG were red, as well as all those fired by the Federation ships assaulting the Borg cube in First Contact (except Enterprise-E); this is not even mentioning all the torps fired by most of the Starfleet ships fighting against the Dominion in DS9, as well as by DS9 itself against Gowron's attack on the station, which were all red.