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Star Trek Goes to the Cinema: the box office, adjusted & illustrated
Which 'Star Trek' feature film did best at the box office? And what happens if we adjust for inflation? Warning: this video may contain dodgy mathematics.
Music: ‘Glimpsing Infinity’ by Asher Fulero (RUclips Music Library).
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The Mystique of the Titanic: what makes her story unique?
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Ships sink, at times with great loss of life, and yet the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic remains supreme in our minds. What is it that makes the Titanic and her sinking unique? Why do we remember her ahead of so many others? In this video, we attempt to answer this question. Music: ‘Interplanetary Alignment’, by NoMBe (RUclips Music Library); ‘Zodiac Structures’, by NoMBe (RUclips Music Library); ‘...
The Motion Picture Enterprise Set: trek set two
Просмотров 17 тыс.Месяц назад
Previously, we toured the 1960s production set of the original Enterprise. In this brief video, we shall tour the refit Enterprise set built for ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’. Music: ‘Digital Ambient for Meditation’, by Sergey Safikanov from Pixabay. Sound Effect: ‘Man Screaming’, by Archeos from FreeSound. #startrek #culture
The Starship That Got Away: which one survived Wolf 359?
Просмотров 45 тыс.Месяц назад
One of my favourite TNG scenes is in ‘The Best of Both Worlds, Part II’, when the Enterprise encounters the aftermath of Wolf 359. It is eerie to see the destruction, knowing we have missed the action. It is the calm after the storm, and wreckage sparks and the life signs are negative. Forty starships gathered at Wolf 359; thirty-nine were destroyed. One starship clearly survived. But, which on...
The Phantom Airship Mystery of 1897: what did the Americans see?
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In the last years of the 19th Century, the public looked to the skies in excited anticipation of powered flight. The dream of manned flight had teased humanity for centuries, and now it seemed the dream was on the cusp of becoming a reality. And so when the good people of California, of Nebraska, of Wisconsin and Kansas, Iowa and Illinois, gazed up into the night’s sky and saw a mysterious airs...
Inside the Discovery of 2001: a long, long voyage?
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In this video, we consider the internal layout of the Discovery of '2001: A Space Odyssey'. We also consider the psychological side of such a long space voyage. Music: 'Digital Ambient for Meditation', by Sergey Safikanov from Pixabay. Pixabay videos by Felix Mittermeier, Bakhtiyor Sayakulov, Matthias Groeneveld, Jarek Fethke, JEONGWOO KIM, and Andrea Spallanzani. Pixabay images by Anali Matheu...
The Original 1960s Enterprise Set: a tour of 'trek set one-b'
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Unhappy with the quality of my last video, I thought I would salvage a little dignity with this video. Here, we tour a re-creation of the stage set for the original series of 'Star Trek', circa 'Journey to Babel'. I call this 'Trek Set One-B'. I hope you enjoy it. Music: ‘Digital Ambient for Meditation’, by Sergey Safikanov from Pixabay. #culture #StarTrek
The Kirk's Quarters Question: why so small?
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In what you might well consider a very British angle on the subject, we consider the quarters of Captain James Kirk. He was the captain, an important man, so why was his cabin so small? In this video, we ponder over the significance of magnificence (told you it was a British angle), and also offer a suggestion for the best location for suitable captain's accommodation, using the idea of 'the gr...
Inside the Nautilus of Jules Verne: an internal arrangement for the famous sub
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In this video, we will look at an interpretation of the Nautilus's internal layout, based on the text of '20,000 Leagues under the Sea'. You may disagree with it, but it is only one possible interpretation and others maybe equally valid, or even better. Enjoy! Music: ‘Digital Ambient for Meditation, by Sergey Safikanov from Pixabay Music. Underwater video by Moshe Harosh from Pixabay & boat sai...
A Transverse Section of the Titanic: the lost amidships area
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Having looked at the aft grand staircase in a previous video, here we expand our rudimentary model down to the reciprcating engine-room and forward as far as the third funnel. This part of the RMS Titanic constitutes the 'lost' section of the ship - 'lost' as it is not a part of the bow or stern sections of the wreck. In this video, we tour the area. Music: 'No. 7 Alone with My Thoughts', by Es...
Mystery of the Tardis: a ghost in the (time) machine?
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Whose Tardis was it before the Doctor? A brief thought expressed in video form. Music: 'Boreal', by Asher Fulero (RUclips Music Library). #culture #DoctorWho
Dating The Motion Picture: a star trek observation
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A line from Will Decker in 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' has always been the spanner in the 'Star Trek' chronology works: 'more than three hundred years ago'. He is referring to Voyager Six. In this video, we will ponder at the dating of early Trek and its contradiction of the official (later) chronology. Music: 'Zodiac Structures', by NoMBe (RUclips Music Library).
A Slice of the Titanic: the aft grand staircase
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With its 112th anniversary falling on a Sunday and a Monday this year, the Titanic disaster needs to be marked, and so in this video, we will look at the neglected aft grand staircase. I say neglected as it is its grander forward counterpart that gets all the glory in the cinema and on the small screen, but here, we lift it out from the rest of the ship to have a closer look. Music: ‘Future Ren...
Captain Nemo's Viewscreen: the bridge of the Enterprise-D considered
Просмотров 13 тыс.5 месяцев назад
'Star Trek: The Next Generation' introduced us to a new Enterprise, and a new starship bridge design. It was comfortable, and had a big view-screen. Curiously, its appearance lends itself to the same analysis as applied to the Nautilus of Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'. In this video, we ponder the bridge of the Enterprise-D. Ship's wake video by Larry White of Pixabay. M...
Kubrick's Celestial Headstone: a note on the monolith of 2001
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In this video, we run a thought exploration on the subject of the monolith, focusing on an aspect of its symbolism. #culture #2001aspaceodyssey #scifi
The Symbolic Qualities of the Police Box: a thought exploration
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The Symbolic Qualities of the Police Box: a thought exploration
The Enterprise-D Size Question: was the TNG Enterprise too big?
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The Enterprise-D Size Question: was the TNG Enterprise too big?
The Enterprise-D & Her Sisters: which were the initial six Galaxys?
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The Enterprise-D & Her Sisters: which were the initial six Galaxys?
The Library of the Nautilus: can you fit 12,000 books inside?
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The Library of the Nautilus: can you fit 12,000 books inside?
The Nautilus of Jules Verne: starting a fire with a lentil
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The Nautilus of Jules Verne: starting a fire with a lentil
The Mystery of the Ambassadors: what happened to them?
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The Mystery of the Ambassadors: what happened to them?
Exploring the Secondary Hull of the Refit Enterprise: a 10,000 subscriber special
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Exploring the Secondary Hull of the Refit Enterprise: a 10,000 subscriber special
On Mazes & Labyrinths: Eco's library, Tolkien's mines
Просмотров 1 тыс.9 месяцев назад
On Mazes & Labyrinths: Eco's library, Tolkien's mines
The Repulse Correction: a star trek observation
Просмотров 4,8 тыс.9 месяцев назад
The Repulse Correction: a star trek observation
The Enterprise vs the Excelsior: which was the better design?
Просмотров 38 тыс.9 месяцев назад
The Enterprise vs the Excelsior: which was the better design?
Constellation Bridges Considered: Stargazer, Hathaway, & what might have been
Просмотров 13 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Constellation Bridges Considered: Stargazer, Hathaway, & what might have been
Doctor Who Ratings, Part 2: 2005-2022 & doctors' rating chart
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Doctor Who Ratings, Part 2: 2005-2022 & doctors' rating chart
Doctor Who Ratings, Part 1: 1963-1989 & 1996
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Doctor Who Ratings, Part 1: 1963-1989 & 1996
The Tardis Console of the 12th Doctor: whirligig of time
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The Tardis Console of the 12th Doctor: whirligig of time
The Riddle of the Hathaway: which was first?
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The Riddle of the Hathaway: which was first?

Комментарии

  • @DanielstrattonNZ
    @DanielstrattonNZ 2 часа назад

    It’s just yet another argument for upscaling the enterprise all together to make it all fit there could be more space between the inner and outer bulkhead of the bridge if it was upscaled. A possible explanation could be that we use the airlocks as scale… but the outer parts of the airlock are much larger than the internal parts

  • @KikoNYC
    @KikoNYC 5 часов назад

    Thank you sir! awesome job!

  • @thunderrobots1980s
    @thunderrobots1980s 5 часов назад

    its simple two turbo lifts one you have to leave and catch a connecting lift , and or your assumption that the core is in the way is flawed, as the lift could move around the core or the core moves out of the way

  • @bryanbryan2968
    @bryanbryan2968 7 часов назад

    The real reason was probably the aliens came back and spun it themselves just to mess with us.

  • @nadohawk
    @nadohawk 9 часов назад

    Or Hanson just rounded up.

  • @frankschalk7790
    @frankschalk7790 11 часов назад

    Cool video. Curious to use a ringing cathedral bell for each movie stage, but sure why not 😂

  • @chrisgardiner6771
    @chrisgardiner6771 16 часов назад

    I have the Technical Manual by Franz Joseph. Unfortunately I haven't got it to hand, as its in the bottom of a cupboard somewhere. It does indeed show a diagram of the engineering section being right by the impulse engines in the primary hull. However, this is just for the Tug, scout and destroyer types, that don't have a secondary hull. If you've got yours to hand, then check the index at the beginning of the engineering chapter, and I am certain it says something along the lines that a mark IX (heavy cruiser) has its engineering section located in the secondary hull.

  • @delboy3k1
    @delboy3k1 17 часов назад

    Do the production values include marketing ?

  • @short72hp1
    @short72hp1 18 часов назад

    Maybe the toilets are designed differently and ma not even flush like earth one do

  • @TheTimeProphet
    @TheTimeProphet 21 час назад

    You know the people who make Star Trek don't really care about this. They just have a script where a torpedo room is needed and they just make it. They don't really care how it fits in the ship at all.

  • @dareka9425
    @dareka9425 23 часа назад

    Intermix chamber. Torpedo launch room. Torpedo storage. Turbo lift shafts. In a video game that whole area is just a big giant glowing red weak point for the player to shoot at.

  • @Ralph_Cornell
    @Ralph_Cornell 23 часа назад

    When the on-board power was switched off, the centrifuge was still rotating. After reaching the desired rotation speed, the centrifuge was only driven to the extent that this value was maintained. After the on-board power was switched off, the friction losses of the axle bearings came into play. The rotational energy was transferred to the rest of the fuselage and caused it to rotate through precession.

  • @angellight495
    @angellight495 23 часа назад

    Having windows in the neck never made sense to me. It didn’t look big enough to hold more than turbo lift shafts, Jeffries tubes, & other mechanical equipment

  • @russellwilliams9437
    @russellwilliams9437 День назад

    The excelsior class was probably delivered in tranches like the euro fighter. And as new improvements and features comes on line with each new tranche entering server. Older ones were retrofitted with the new features. in each tranche several mission specific varents were made like 2 seat trainers, that had features not required of every ship

  • @Ama-hi5kn
    @Ama-hi5kn День назад

    I am no military expert, but going in with slow moving ships is kind of useless. Smaller fast moving craft are effective if you just have enough of them available. Motherships are just there sitting ducks.

  • @white-dragon4424
    @white-dragon4424 День назад

    They would've done better to have scaled down the shuttles, just like they did in Star Trek TMP, where they show the shuttles in the bay as being tiny by comparison.

  • @acerdan
    @acerdan День назад

    I don’t think it’s small. He’s not going to spend too much time in there. Plus that ship is small compared to the D.

  • @DeMan59
    @DeMan59 День назад

    Budget.

  • @The.Dude.Fantastic69
    @The.Dude.Fantastic69 День назад

    USS Righteous survived with the assistance from Q.

  • @patrickradcliffe3837
    @patrickradcliffe3837 2 дня назад

    3:19 it was determined that as Discovery passed through the flux tube between Jupiter and Io it was perturbing its orbit. 5:45 No, the centrifuge rides on magnetic bearings while near frictionless there is still drag to the rest of the ship which is countered with RCS corrections. 7:36 I believe in the novel Curnow talks about this and belives gyroscopic precession is why the ship is spinning end over end as the centrifuge spun down and transfered its momentum into the rest of the ship

  • @KGBuller-d8g
    @KGBuller-d8g 2 дня назад

    I’ll give you a hint. It was a movie.

  • @markholmes6771
    @markholmes6771 2 дня назад

    Seen TOS many times, never gave cabin size a second thought.dont think anyone cares If story is interesting size of cabin won't matter.

  • @gnimmel5432
    @gnimmel5432 2 дня назад

    The dorsal is only 16ft wide? The size of a child's bedroom?

  • @dcb_75
    @dcb_75 2 дня назад

    I do think your calculations are a little off as I looked at this years ago and Into Darkness didn't to that well, Trek 2009 was the top over TMP but not by much. But either way, it does show that the "JJ saved Trek" excuse isn't valid as these movies didn't make a ton more than some of the other films. If they were that successful, those 3 shouls be the top earners and it shouls be a huge gap. And people have to remember that until the later TNG movies, overseas was an afterthought and not properly tracked, they only cared about domestic box office. So they really don't know how much the earlier films made overseas which has been a huge part of films over the past 20 years.

  • @matthewcaughey8898
    @matthewcaughey8898 2 дня назад

    What’s worth mentioning is Discovery 1 was intended to be a 1 way mission all along. Getting to Jupiter was deemed so important that all other concerns were secondary. Even the crew of discovery 1 was supposed to bog back into hibernation and await rescue by tbe yet to be built discovery 2. Given how much more propellant burn the Jupiter encounter took everyone knew discovery was not coming back

  • @platinumtaterbug
    @platinumtaterbug 2 дня назад

    Do we know for sure the intermix chamber went all the way up? We see that in Star Trek VI that yes, it is vertical, but I don't think it showed how high it goes.

  • @michaelcalder8404
    @michaelcalder8404 2 дня назад

    Wow 😮

  • @Celtic_Thylacine
    @Celtic_Thylacine 2 дня назад

    Love your content but I have one suggestion, the background with the ships on it in gold needs to stay still. The erratic motion is not helpful. It makes the data harder to parse.

  • @DaveMiller2
    @DaveMiller2 2 дня назад

    Why do people waste time thinking about this. It takes about 3 seconds to realize that the lift could go horizontally as well as vertically, and there are lights on the panel that move in either a horizontal or vertical pattern while characters are in the lift indicating exactly that. And even without the horizontal movement, who cares. It doesn't detract from the story. This is a big nothingburger.

  • @jondrew55
    @jondrew55 2 дня назад

    The novel explained it. The transfer of angular momentum as the internal centrifuge finally slowed down. I don’t remember enough basic physics to remember if the ship’s spin was in the appropriate direction.

  • @Dirty_Hamble
    @Dirty_Hamble 2 дня назад

    A Night to Remember is a much superior film.

  • @perfectomprg
    @perfectomprg 2 дня назад

    It wasn’t really spinning, that was a special effect

  • @Daniel-Strain
    @Daniel-Strain 2 дня назад

    The population of the U.S. has grown 45% from the first to the latest films (from 222.6 M in 1978 to 323.1 M in 2016). The world population has grown 75% (from 4.29 B to 7.49 B). What we really need to see is this... What percentage of the U.S. population bought a ticket for each film? Take the U.S. adjusted gross, divided by the population at the time the film came out. Global would probably be misleading given the largest growth came in areas of the world that don't get to go to movies as much.

  • @Face2East
    @Face2East 2 дня назад

    I did like your clip, 'Beyonds' $246m budget just staggers when you think what the outcome was (how did that get approved!?). But it's great to see TMP get some props. And with the 4k UHD release you can see where the budget was spent. Sure it was mainly on hairdressing and eye-makeup for Shatner, but god it was worth every cent ! (Genuinely, I like your vid, well done)

    • @kevinking-k4p
      @kevinking-k4p День назад

      You should not use God's name in vain.

    • @Face2East
      @Face2East 33 минуты назад

      @@kevinking-k4p which god?

  • @CarlHardiman-jc7br
    @CarlHardiman-jc7br 3 дня назад

    Actually I prefer the Hathaway's bridge much better🤨🖖🏼👽!

  • @DDB-np1jp
    @DDB-np1jp 3 дня назад

    When we go down to detailing so much a sci fi space ship, it means it is time to let it go, and start doing something productive instead. It is just a movie... TV series, etc, etc, do not go into details. To start with, any ship from Star Trek, Star Wars, Battle star Galactica and many more sci fi movies and series were technically designed by much more advanced civilizations than what we currently have, if they were real somehow, we would have no clue how most of the technology works. The day we humans can design space ships like the ones from sci fi, it will be the day we have technology that will look like magic for us on the 21st century. So again, stop analyzing it all so much and let it be, enjoy the movies and let it be.

  • @aaronbrookins8694
    @aaronbrookins8694 3 дня назад

    Now do Star Wars. You did a great job!

  • @MrSnaztastic
    @MrSnaztastic 3 дня назад

    Either somehow the older films were put into a REALLY low number of cinemas internationally, or the numbers reporting is just BAD when you go that far back. Even with Star Trek being way less popular than Star Wars, I just can't fathom how every country in the world combined has fewer grosses than the USA for nearly every single entry in this franchise.

  • @andrewdiez8353
    @andrewdiez8353 3 дня назад

    I really don't get how Into Darkness made so much money. It was (and still is) a shit film. Nemesis was a better film compared to ID. The Final Frontier we all agree on, though I love its soundtrack more than the Bad Robot film scores. Just my opinion though.

  • @forresth.6690
    @forresth.6690 3 дня назад

    ¹ The $82M reported domestic box office for TMP is for the first three weeks only.

  • @kavinskysmith4094
    @kavinskysmith4094 3 дня назад

    Sfdebris when he covered star trek 6 covered this quite well when it comes to the finances, as the movies go on, so do the costs for the actors, so if a movie fails or doesnt do as well as they thought, just by definition because of the increased cost of the cast, the studio looses money, and depending on how bad that is, the next film gets a smaller budget because of it, which is what happened to 6 after 5 as their was supposed to be a bunch of scenes in addition to the change with Savak, that showed why the crew wanted to get back together for one last mission including Scotty pulling the bird of prey out of the harbor I might add and this is why their hasnt been another star trek movie since Beyond, the cast of actors want too much money for the risk of it not doing well, which just given how badly they've been written, is a very real concern also another thing is spill over of the props and costs behind them, for the first film everything was done from the ground up, and they had multiple production studios and special effects teams that bloated the budget and had to start from scratch, when you got to star trek 2, they had more to work with and that saved on costs considerably, but went further, even renting props instead of outright buying them at points and were basically doing a second reboot given the 2001 thing while unique in its own way, just wasnt like the best of the star trek series also international markets back then didnt exist, you had maybe the UK and Germany, the Chinease were completely shut off back then, and japan wasnt big into our culture and was heavily subset into its own same thing with aultralia, and I dont ever remember seeing a mention of the people doing the dubs in the credits for the original films, those always came after and dont forget russia, that didnt become a viable market until 1989 just like china, and generations was the first movie to actually have a website devoted to it would you believe so they had those then new markets opened up to them, and now sadly in an attempt to get the mighty dollar they value those markets more than the main one now, which is backfiring and hard on them also marketing, the marketing is about 45 to 50 million ontop of those budgets I think but you did do well with your final total thing, the common variable here is not seeing it for awhile as both the best films started over new and fresh and people wanted to give it a chance, but star trek under alex kurtzman has done away with any chance of any film beyond beyond getting green lit given how poor his performance is, and how much money he has wasted as a whole to say nothing about how poor his writing is, where under him the woman who gave spock his groove in the original series, is too stupid to work a redial button infront of her captain in private to get her point without mutinying in the first episode of discovery like the only episode of star trek they saw is the one where Kirk gets put in a womans body from TOS and they used that as the platform for the rest of the series which with how stupid they are, is entirely possible, and more than plausable, after all as spock said, when you remove the impossible, what remains no matter how implausable it may be, must be the truth and they are that stupid

  • @crimsonninja6995
    @crimsonninja6995 3 дня назад

    I see you hand animating those boxes bouncing on top of each other. Must have been painful to do them all haha

  • @andysummersthxcinemaandmyc7748
    @andysummersthxcinemaandmyc7748 3 дня назад

    jar jar star trek doesn't count those are abominations fakes get off here , those jar jar treks was utter rubbish , star trek the motion picture was wow , dolby stereo , those jar jar treks atmos was rubbish

  • @Fearless-1
    @Fearless-1 3 дня назад

    Little tidbit. In ST TMP, around 22 minutes in the movie, Kirk dismissively tells the ensign, "I think I can find my way around" just before entering a turbolift. Once inside the turbolift, Kirk sees on the back wall an animated map shematic of the ship's turbolift network (with a white dot showing his current position in the lower hull). The path depicted through the dorsal pylon is vertical, not diagonal step (appears, right through the vertical intermix chamber!). Amazing this somewhat obvious technical oversight made it through production all the way to final cut.

  • @rafale1981
    @rafale1981 3 дня назад

    You are one of the few people who will make me sit and watch statistical presentations outside of my work. Well done!

  • @geographicaloddity2
    @geographicaloddity2 3 дня назад

    It sounds like you've got Keith Emerson playing keyboards back there with the rain and thunder. So, on the whole, the Bad Reboot movies make more money. I don't want to live in that universe. 🤮

  • @darrensmith6999
    @darrensmith6999 3 дня назад

    One has to remember that when Star Trek The Motion Picture came out in 1979 it was an "Event" it had been anticipated for years. Rumors of TV shows one off specials and then finally a film WOW!! I was 15 at the time and when to see it twice that's all i could afford on my pocket money and i walked the 8 miles round trip to the cinema the second time. It was a bid deal back then.I loved it and still do and when the directors cut came out on DVD back in the early 2000s i was blown away.

  • @dtuk22
    @dtuk22 3 дня назад

    🤔 Basically the much criticized Bad Star Trek aka JJ trek genuinely faired way better than the majority of classic & next gen trek. That is out of this World.

  • @pyhead9916
    @pyhead9916 3 дня назад

    Wow...geeks are so stupid! Here is a question for you geeks - "Why is the entire Enterprise made out of canvas, styrafoam, plastic and cardboard?"

  • @pyhead9916
    @pyhead9916 3 дня назад

    It's not a design, it is a stage set!