By Chris Snellgrove | Published
Star Trek: Voyager It had many special effects, but possibly none was more impression than when the ship landed on a planet in the premiere episode of season 2 “The 37s”. This was the first time for the franchise, giving life to one of Gene Roddenberry ideas that had previously consulted too expensive to show on the screen. However, this effect was almost a disappointment thanks to the production problems behind the scene, including landing struts designed improperly and a CGI model that was too small.
This particular Traveler Special effect was one that the team had to dream with a long time … for example, the graphic designer of Michael Okuda franchises previously recommended the executive producer Rick Berman that this should be able to get a way to distinguish it from what came before. Consequently, Rick Sternbach had developed several possible ship designs that would accommodate a landing capacity, and ensured that the finished design presented small chops in the Mean lower helmet for the domestic landing equipment. However, only after designing those struts, the producers realized that the “legs” of the ship seemed too thin to support their body.
Voyager’s taking that landed on a planet in “the 37” was destined to be this great special effect, and the producers were understood that the spectators would be disappointed if it seemed that the ship always jumped on leg day. In the great tradition of television, they decided to solve this problem in postproduction … In this case, placing rock outcrops and other strategically land characteristics around Voyager as it landed. Return and see the episode, and you will see how the darkened public’s vision of those landing touches is effective.
However, that was not the only problem with TravelerIt turns out that the digital artists of the show had made the ship’s CGI model too small. This annoying visual effects supervisor Ronald B. Moore (should not be confused with the Trek writer and Battlestar Galactica Restart the Ronald D. Moore showrunner), who was disappointed by the landing effect because “the voyager scale on the floor was incorrect.” However, Heyn does not feel that the public would necessarily notice “because there is nothing to really relate it; people are in the foreground, the ship is in the background, and we kept it that way.”
For Star Trek fans for a long time, this Traveler The moment was more than another special effect … It was also the realization of a dream of decades that was with a good roddenberry. The creator of the franchise had originally dreamed that the company regularly lands on planets in The original series, But soon he realized how expensive the ship would land somewhere new every week. This is how the conveyor was born, since it allowed Captain Kirk and his former team quickly visit a new place and then return to the ship through a much cheaper special effect “Beam Me Up”.
TravelerThe producers reached the same conclusion that Roddenberry did, so the show was mainly attached to the special effect of the conveyor instead of constantly having the ship’s land. However, it landed several more times after “the 37”, the producers were already much easier to give life to this ambitious effect on their subsequent attempts. They did it despite the CGI model for the bee of the ship too small, which could show that this size really in the 24th century. We would like to recommend that to Captain Janeway about his morning coffee cup sizes, thought, unless you want me to kill you faster than he killed Tenix!
