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Taldrenites => Starfleet Command Models => Topic started by: Rat Boy on November 02, 2006, 11:30:54 pm
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From Star Trek.com (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/features/bst/article/28135.html)
Click on the gallery and scroll through the images until you find it. It's an interesting take, at least.
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Another discussion thread on the topic is located here (http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163371276.0.html). For those interested in my comments on the model used (*shrug*), it's located in that thread (or just click here (http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163371276.msg1122761938.html#msg1122761938)... I wanted to do something else than just quote myself).
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Definitely needs to be built for the games ;D
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I wanted to revive this thread now that the remastered version of "The Trouble with Tribbles" [TOS] (http://trekmovie.com/2006/11/05/the-trouble-with-tribbles-screenshots-debut-new-cgi-enterprise-model/) has now aired. What are your thoughts on the new graphics (and the new CG Enterprise model)? And what do you think "Mirror, Mirror" [TOS] would bring (what the actual I.S.S. Enterprise would look like, what your general impressions might be, etc.)?
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Is it just me, or does it look like an untextured low poly mesh to anyone else too?
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Well, the Gorn ship was barely viewed on-screen, so why the need of textures?
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Well then, maybe now everyone will stop giving me grief about making my Gorns grey. ;D
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True, FW. I just think that it's really cheesy for them to have done it this way in the 1st place. They still could've done a proper model. What's the point of after 40 years finally showing a canon Gorn and not doing it up right. :-\
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I don't believe it was meant to be seen in full detail (I think it keeps in line with the story), thus no need for textures (and grey seems to be a TOS look with things getting more colorful afterwards). You could reason we still don't know what the Gorn design is (canonically-speaking) in TOS remastered because it wasn't seen in full on-screen, and the one seen at Startrek.com is something unofficial. But it's not something with vertical engines and dinner plates.
I was also happy but semi-dissapointed that the I.S.S. Enterprise has a more gunmetal grey look without too much decals and has a more 2nd Pilot look. To go into it more, I'm happy it's not decal-happy and race-car-look-happy as ENT's mirror NX-01, but it would've been nice to see the I.S.S. Enterprise look a little more menacing than simply have a dark-grey 2nd pilot look, and it would've been nice to see the globe and dagger replace the Starfleet boomerang in decals.
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If they even did more than they did, then the purists would be infuriated.
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I thought "purist" in the case of TOS meant even keeping the effects used in the 1960s, so wouldn't they complain about how "fake-looking" this or that was anyhow? Or am I not using a broad-enough definition?
In any case, nobody can please everyone.