Huh. This has a fair few views. Okay so a few things - 1. Yes, Yes, I know Discovery's Spore Drive ain't warp drive, but it looks cool, so it's there. 2. TOS and TAS didn't have any warp 'effects' - they just said they were at warp. So there's no warp effects to include. Hence it's absent. 3. This video is of all the EFFECTS, not every single warp jump. If you're complaining because I missed a warp jump, it's not because I'm not aware of it - it's because the effect wasn't unique enough to be considered different (to me, at least. And yes, I know I missed the warp effect from the end of TWOK. Sorry :( ) And here's my main channel. Cause this video went viral. And I want clout. ruclips.net/user/Jay244
@@stopgeorge I mean, it's a really annoying concept, but you have to separate that from the execution of the VFX. It looks incredible. Especially the mycelial lines left over right as the ship jumps.
@@samcarpenter_ Sorry, the VFX takes me out of it every time. It's just over the top silly. It looks like something Mel Brooks would come up with. You know, "Spaceballs". Or, this cae, "Space Spores".
I love the Into Darkness effect so much. To be fair, the trail it leaves behind doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, but it still looks fantastic. Also the way the ship distorts as the engines engages, the whirring up, then the *BOOM* as it’s gone, plus the way it lines up with the absolutely excellent theme. Tingles every time
Even though reviews of Beyond and the Kelvin timelines are mixed, to be fair, that Warp bubble and seeing the Enterprise got build looked really cool. 4:12
@@biketrailing4277 The reason people have an issue with this line of thinking is 'cause it chooses to be absolute. There's a lot more nuance with the Kelvin timeline movies. There's a lot that they did good, and it's those good parts that people fell in love with. To decry it in its entirety over its faults just feels disingenuous. It's fair to hate them, but to pretend they're absolute trash is insane. I have many issues with all three movies, and yet I liked them for what they did well.
I'm kind of a fan of the minimalist TNG/VOY/DS9 warp effect but I don't hate any of them and TMP does hold a special place because it's the first time we ever saw a warp effect in Star Trek.
Yeah when I saw that movie at it's release in '79 I was nine years old. They were definitely trying to jazz up the special effects due to star wars and it's many re releases. I was already a SW junkie and while I did watch trek on TV, this was the first time I was wow'd.
Not only that. It's the first time the threat of having a foreign object enter your warp-trajectory is asserted. After so many years there's another series that did the same, showing the relativistic distortions that would provoke, but I can't remember which one...
One thing I love of the TNG-era warp effect is the sound of the loud white flash, as if it was the light speed equivalent of breaking the sound barrier. Subsequent shows may have more complicated or flashier effects, but I'd be happy if a loud warp flash came back (the newer examples sometimes have a warp flash, but the sound of the flash is too muted!). The first time I saw 2009 Trek, I was awed by the warp jump, but I really wanted the jump to end with the flash and sound. Notably, the TNG-style warp flash sound effect *is* used, but as the sound of the Enterprise violently getting knocked out of warp/subspace by the Vengeance in Into Darkness.
Agreed. Michael Giacchino is an exceptional composer, and his main theme from the Kelvin movies has the right combination of epic scope and tension perfect for the series. And he also did the Prodigy theme is equally great and has a fantastic sense of wonder about it, appropriate for a series about a bunch of kids learning about the universe.
I'll tell you what did it for me. Spoilers ahead.... The end of Discovery season 1. Hearing the Theme when the Enterprise comes into view and then the rerecorded Original Theme during the credits was just fantastic!!!
Personally I like the 2009 jump best. It makes the ship really look like it is "jumping" to warp. On the other hand I miss the flare at the end TNG style.
I mean its kinda just a shift towards Star Wars hyperspace style. I would assume thats why they ended out going back on themselves and adding the trails and stuff back. Star Wars ones have that 'Thump' style
I miss how the warp engines on the old Enterprise only lit up when the ship went to warp speed. They used to also show the impulse engine shutting down. And the big dish in front glowed bright blue from dull gold, it was neat to see that the ship sort of came alive and in her element...But the -D's engines always seem to be on, they flair up when the ship 'stretches out' to warp. Maybe if they stayed brighter..?
Star Trek (2009) has the best warp speed effect in my opinion. When a ship goes to warp, it must immediately disappear from the outside observer's view. Star Trek (2009) nailed this situation best.
Seriously love Beyond's effect, it most sells the idea that you aren't actually traveling through space normally just really fast but actually a, well, warped version of it.
I was really impressed by the 2009 version when I saw it. Like shooting a gun with a flash of light. Still the best in my opinion to depict the near instant effect of warp speed. Also the warp bubble was very cool in the 2016 version. It’s like a gravity wake effect.
I always look for the sounds. The pine trilogy had some of the best thump sounds as the ship jumps into warp. And Discovery has by far the most unique, and my personal favourite of the glitchy squeezy jump noises when it uses its spore drive.
@@MsLenepigen Agreed, i actually watch them with my studio headphones as the stereo audio mix is amazing. Like you can hear where each sound is coming from, closest i have heard to a true binaural mix in a AAA movie.
Yeah, screw that guy. "Here's a few member berries after I spent the entire season shitting on the character and series you loved." Despite their best efforts, I am NOT excited for Season 3 of Star Trek: Patrick Stewart.
@@Yaapo This. Lower Decks is the Trekkest of Trek to come out in recent memory... Where every other Trek show seems to be trying their own thing, and there's not really any cohesion, Lower Decks is full-on post-TNG / DS9 continuation, with all the references to every Trek you ever loved, and the added bonus of things that you can do with an animated series that you'd NEVER get away with in a live-action Trek show. I mean, c'mon, the first episode starting with a drunk Mariner swinging a Bat'leth at Boimler, that was gold! And Riker coming in on the Titan to save the day to the TNG theme... pure 😘👌
Just rewatched TOS movies and I still am impressed with how well the effects hold up from that Warp jump in TMP to the Excelsior and Enterprise pelting the Bird of Prey with torpedoes a master study in practical effects
i think voyager is the only ship in starfleet that has nacelles that move before going into warp...she was one ship to many have underestimated and she wis one ship that gone where no one has gone before
@@dawn1berlitz all Intrepid class ships doing that(pre-32th century). There where two experimental warp engines at the TNG/VOY/DS9 era. The one the Intrepid-class have is the tricyclic input manifold warp engine, with variable geometry nacelles. The other is the MK12 6th-phase matter/anti matter warp engine wich used the Sovereign-class(Enterprise-E). Overall the Sovereign type gone into mass production, because its simplicity(no moving nacelles). Still the Voyager is the most beautyful ship in the Trek lore, because her moving nacelles.
@@talos86 to many people underestimated Voyager while she is a small ship she packs one hell of a punch and she was able to come back from the delta quadrant with her crew and logs to tell the tale of her adventures
@@dawn1berlitz yep, she is a relative small ship, but she can punch hard. The 2 episode of the Year of hell proved enough of her durability. Just equip her with the mark12 phaser strips and she can compete with the Enterprise-E. If we count in the transphasic torpedo and the ablative shield generators(more efficient than the Defiants and the 1701-Es ablative shielding), then the Voyager have the upper hand.
Well that makes sense since warp compresses and decompresses space. One would expect the ripples to produce vibrations in atomic bonds as the space between the atoms increases and decreases with the change in spacetime.
I have no idea what traveling faster than light would look like (if one could actually observe it!), but...I think the wake effect with spacetime compression up front in Beyond seems to be most "realistic". 4:11 - 4:15.
To an observer, there would be a huge burst of blue Cherenkov radiation. We can actually observe objects travelling faster than light at the moment: the speed of light in a dense medium such as water is lower than the speed of light in a vacuum, therefore when a charged particle travelling at the speed of light enters water, it is now travelling faster than the speed of light for that medium. The radiation that results is very much like the sonic boom heard when a plane travelling faster than the speed of sound passes overhead.
@@rebel2809Not exactly. We’d still be moving toward a light source, but it might not necessarily be in the visible range. All light our eyes run into would be blue shifted, due to the Doppler effect. Of course, continual blue shifting until it reaches ionizing radiation (invisible) could happen, but at that point the ship would be atomized without any kind of shielding. I’d imagine because of that, the view would be perpetually a giant blue glow. Like the Star Wars visual, except much less defined.
The bubble isn't actually all that far off from what an outside observer would see, though it would really just be one bubble and not a wake. Another strange effect I've never seen done in cinema is that things will appear tinted blue when looking forward and red while looking backwards.
There was one in Star Trek: Picard season 1 where La Sirena was at warp that you missed and I've never seen before. It was like a tunnel where the ship looked static on a wide background. I don't have the ability to go look for it, but I was hoping someone else noticed that it was a unique effect.
@@Jay244 Thanks! I forgot to write that I did enjoy the video. Imagining what warp drive would look and feel like is one of my favourite things about Star Trek.
It was the effect maybe in Nepenthe where La Sirena was on their way to pick up Picard and Soji and the Romulan in the Snake Head fighter was chasing them. Or maybe it was the Borg Cube in the Transwarp conduit when Seven was coming to help.
TMP is the first, definitive and best warp drive sequence. It had never been attempted in movie history and was done with optical effects. No one could have imagined how cool it was until Doug Trumbull pulled it off. If you saw this at the cinema in 1979, it was impossible for your jaw not to drop 🎙
I like that as of this moment (just before Picard S3 releases), it's come full circle - the first warp effect is the original Enterprise in TMP, and the last is the original Enterprise in SNW. And I love the refit Conny from the movies, and the SNW is super pretty too. Continuity be damned!
I tend to agree, although those aren't stars going by. Always confused the hell out of me, because even at warp 9.9, most of the stars would appear to be almost static due to the sheer distance between shit out there. Which is probably why they "updated" the effect to a more modern understanding of how light would appear when moving faster than it.
@@Yaapo not stars. Those are particles of interstellar dust interacting with the warp field, becoming charged with hawking radiation, and being deflected by the deflector. Without that you'd have highly charged particles ripping the hull to shreds.
@@Yaapo I mean, not mindless. Consistent within the Trek understanding and explanation of 24th century physics. Basically the deflector and warp field are causing specks of dust to luminesce as they are caught within the edge of the warp field and then fall behind the ship as it passes.
I think you forgot the that started it all. I refer to 1996's "First Contact" in which we see Zefram Cochrane make the first warp jump. That was one of the coolest effects I've ever seen in a Star Trek movie. 🖖
Nice to see this many in the same place...honestly, the only things I'd really want to add would be two from TNG. One, the messed up warp jumps from "Where No One Has Gone Before". Two, the one time we saw it from the Ten-Forward windows, and there seemed to be a lot more going on that the viewscreen cameras filter out.
Okay, not fair! If you’re gonna include a spore drive jump from Discovery, you gotta include a quantum slipstream and Borg transwarp jump from Voyager, and a Xindi vortex jump from Enterprise.
The Original Series and Animated Series didn't have a warp effect. The stars just went by fairly fast in some of the external shots. TMP was the first time we had a warp speed effect on screen. Which is kind of weird when you think about it. A good chunk of what we think of as Star Trek tropes were founded in TMP and popularized in TNG. (Just saw the 1976 title. Looks like someone missed a key on the old numpad.)
My favourite ever warp effect is in Nemesis when they escape from the Scimitar. Just the hard left bank, and the piercing light as they vanish beyond the horizon.
I had no idea there were so many spin-offs. I watched them all from the original until about midway through Voyager. Saw some of the early movies. But then life happened and I went in other directions. Caught the JJ Abrams movies. I hope all the newer series inspire people as much as the early works did.
Don't sleep on Lower Decks. An animated Star Trek comedy may not sound like it has much potential, but it's got the heart of TNG and a real love for Trek.
Star Trek Picard Season III was amazing. Strange New Worlds is legendary, Prodigy is pretty good at being inspiring, Lower Decks is brilliantly funny and got the heart of Star Trek right; but Star Trek Discovery was a fucking dumpster fire.
Honestly I've never seen star trek in my life before, but I stumbled by accident upon these videos and it's surprisingly enough Enterprise and Prodigy that have sold me on watching the whole franchise. It's mesmerizing, to be honest.
The one of Discovery doing its spinny thing - isn't that the Black Alert Spore Drive, rather than warp ? I still can't make out whether that spinning is supposed to be what the ship -really- does,or whether it's supposed to be representative of travelling outside of 3d space. There were no warp effects in TOS. At all. I'd never noticed that before !
I agree. The Discovery scene isn't warp. The Spore Drive is a kind of jump drive and thus a new thing in the Star Trek universe. It's definitely not Warp. It's not even transwarp.
TOS had enough trouble keeping the cardboardium sets together long enough to shoot a scene, they weren't going to be able to make any sort of a convincing warp effect on that budget...
TBF I think Beyond has the most realistic Warp effect in any form of Film or Series in the Star Trek Universe like ever. That's why they called it Warp because it Warp and Fold the Spacetime continuum to achieve faster-than-light speeds.
I love the warp effect in The Voyage Home because it gives me a sense of the ships flying through the universe like pond skimmers darting across a pond. The only other sequence that really captures that well for me is the last Discovery warp effect.
TNG/DS9/VOY/TNG movies warp effect wins, and it has the best effect while within warp when looking out the windows--none of that Star Wars style hyperspace nonsense we got with the JJ movies and recent Picard, just stars visually and simply gliding on by.
I think the Enterprise E got did a little dirty. Those warp speed effects were barely anything. It also didn’t get very much screen time in general. It was a badass ship, but we just didn’t see much of iy
4:01 is a direct copy of my *1974 Pinto* wagon in action. But I don’t mind as I’ve put spinner rims on since, outclassing all the warps shown in this clip. 😅😅😅😅😅
I’m a big fan of the way TNG & Generations shows the ship folding space time before disappearing (1:17). Seems the most accurate. The bubble from Beyond looks dope though.
Did you ever stop to consider how, I guess anticlimactic these effects would be if there wasn't any sound, since in space there wouldn't be any sound. Forgive me for being a party pooper. I love them anyway.
2009's jump to warp is the sexiest for me. Just conveys enormous acceleration. All previous warp jumps imply that the acceleration to warp 9 would take hours
1:44 This is actually a shot of the very first fully CGI Enterprise in Star Trek history. This CGI model was later converted to Lightwave 3D format and used in later seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Discovery is like the Ghostbusters 3 Movie. It should be ignored from all other shows for how much fiction took from the science. From the stupid shroom drive to the high school art project floaty nacelles. The whole premise a guy can scream and destroy the galaxy just about made me blind from how hard I rolled my eyes.
I have had the same question and the only answer I've found is that it's all about mass distribution. Since you don't need nacelles when you're not into warp, having the nacelles detached makes it easier on impulse engines and thrusters.
No warp effect will ever be as amazing to me as Wrath of Khan. And really just the effect in the original films. Love it and sound. Twas the 80s. Looks like Prodigy takes a cue from them. ✨
Huh. This has a fair few views.
Okay so a few things -
1. Yes, Yes, I know Discovery's Spore Drive ain't warp drive, but it looks cool, so it's there.
2. TOS and TAS didn't have any warp 'effects' - they just said they were at warp. So there's no warp effects to include. Hence it's absent.
3. This video is of all the EFFECTS, not every single warp jump. If you're complaining because I missed a warp jump, it's not because I'm not aware of it - it's because the effect wasn't unique enough to be considered different (to me, at least. And yes, I know I missed the warp effect from the end of TWOK. Sorry :( )
And here's my main channel. Cause this video went viral. And I want clout. ruclips.net/user/Jay244
I like Quantum Slipstream.
1. I completely disagree. Discovery's Spore Drive is as janky as hell. Worst ST show ever.
I really enjoyed your video and I appreciate and acknowledge your great job!! Thank you.🥰
@@stopgeorge I mean, it's a really annoying concept, but you have to separate that from the execution of the VFX. It looks incredible. Especially the mycelial lines left over right as the ship jumps.
@@samcarpenter_ Sorry, the VFX takes me out of it every time. It's just over the top silly. It looks like something Mel Brooks would come up with. You know, "Spaceballs". Or, this cae, "Space Spores".
Gotta give Beyond its props for showing us a warp bubble from the outside.
That was a very cool scene
I'm pretty sure that Enterprise technically did it first...
Prob the only good thing about movie lol.
@@GabrielusPrime big, if true.
@@mk17173n no.
One thing I think we can all agree about the Pine movies; the instant _thwump_ shot to warp speeds is awesome.
It reminded me of the BSG jump to light speed using the FTL Drive.
As long as you don't leave the parking break on...
@@dyonisisista1603 You mean the External Inertial Dampener?
Yeah it is, I’ve always loved how the ships are just GONE
Actually, I find it incredibly annoying.
I love the Into Darkness effect so much. To be fair, the trail it leaves behind doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, but it still looks fantastic. Also the way the ship distorts as the engines engages, the whirring up, then the *BOOM* as it’s gone, plus the way it lines up with the absolutely excellent theme. Tingles every time
Even though reviews of Beyond and the Kelvin timelines are mixed, to be fair, that Warp bubble and seeing the Enterprise got build looked really cool. 4:12
Let me guess: it's because it's "too action packed" and "not enough philosophical talk"?
I like strange new worlds music. Like alien 👽 kind of music.
@@heintz256 Because there was no logic or consistency to the Kelvin timeline. Kirk went from cadet to captain in a day for starters.
@@biketrailing4277 The reason people have an issue with this line of thinking is 'cause it chooses to be absolute. There's a lot more nuance with the Kelvin timeline movies. There's a lot that they did good, and it's those good parts that people fell in love with. To decry it in its entirety over its faults just feels disingenuous. It's fair to hate them, but to pretend they're absolute trash is insane. I have many issues with all three movies, and yet I liked them for what they did well.
@@writershard5065 Same, still my favorite set of films.
I'm kind of a fan of the minimalist TNG/VOY/DS9 warp effect but I don't hate any of them and TMP does hold a special place because it's the first time we ever saw a warp effect in Star Trek.
Me too
Yeah when I saw that movie at it's release in '79 I was nine years old. They were definitely trying to jazz up the special effects due to star wars and it's many re releases. I was already a SW junkie and while I did watch trek on TV, this was the first time I was wow'd.
Not only that. It's the first time the threat of having a foreign object enter your warp-trajectory is asserted. After so many years there's another series that did the same, showing the relativistic distortions that would provoke, but I can't remember which one...
The Warp Effects in Star Trek The Motion Picture was Eye Candy,just dazzling.
One thing I love of the TNG-era warp effect is the sound of the loud white flash, as if it was the light speed equivalent of breaking the sound barrier. Subsequent shows may have more complicated or flashier effects, but I'd be happy if a loud warp flash came back (the newer examples sometimes have a warp flash, but the sound of the flash is too muted!).
The first time I saw 2009 Trek, I was awed by the warp jump, but I really wanted the jump to end with the flash and sound. Notably, the TNG-style warp flash sound effect *is* used, but as the sound of the Enterprise violently getting knocked out of warp/subspace by the Vengeance in Into Darkness.
JJ Abrams' Star Trek's theme always got me goosebumps, especially watching the Enterprise warp jump like this 3:46
Agreed. Michael Giacchino is an exceptional composer, and his main theme from the Kelvin movies has the right combination of epic scope and tension perfect for the series.
And he also did the Prodigy theme is equally great and has a fantastic sense of wonder about it, appropriate for a series about a bunch of kids learning about the universe.
Always!
I'll tell you what did it for me. Spoilers ahead....
The end of Discovery season 1. Hearing the Theme when the Enterprise comes into view and then the rerecorded Original Theme during the credits was just fantastic!!!
My 2nd fav!
I suppose that any generation has its preferred theme. For my tastes, Giacchino's theme is no match for Horner and Goldsmith ones.
Personally I like the 2009 jump best. It makes the ship really look like it is "jumping" to warp. On the other hand I miss the flare at the end TNG style.
2009's warp jumps just hit hard. Nero's giant ship coming out of warp just behind Spock's little one had my jaw dropped the first time.
love those earrape warps!
I mean its kinda just a shift towards Star Wars hyperspace style. I would assume thats why they ended out going back on themselves and adding the trails and stuff back.
Star Wars ones have that 'Thump' style
I love how consistent The D's warp effect was for its entire run.
Probably because they used the same couple shots for all seven seasons because model work and compositing was mucho expensive .
I like to imagine the different effects are from differences in the warp drives
@@philollenbergThey used for the D the very same effect in the movie Generations, with more money at their disposal, and also in Picard.
@@andreabindolini7452because the d's warp effect is so iconic
I miss how the warp engines on the old Enterprise only lit up when the ship went to warp speed. They used to also show the impulse engine shutting down. And the big dish in front glowed bright blue from dull gold, it was neat to see that the ship sort of came alive and in her element...But the -D's engines always seem to be on, they flair up when the ship 'stretches out' to warp. Maybe if they stayed brighter..?
Star Trek (2009) has the best warp speed effect in my opinion. When a ship goes to warp, it must immediately disappear from the outside observer's view. Star Trek (2009) nailed this situation best.
I especially like the sonic boom effect. The warp coil whine is great too, but there's just something great about a loud "POP" then the ship is gone.
Yeah, 2009 certainly feels the most "powerful" and fastest.
Easily the best, yeah. When I first saw it in the cinema, I grinned from ear to ear. Puts all the other warps to shame.
i watched this video expressly for the purposes of re-watching that exact sequence :P that sonic boom-like sound effect with no trails 👌
@@comradecid Ditto! That's all I wanted to see! 😀
Seriously love Beyond's effect, it most sells the idea that you aren't actually traveling through space normally just really fast but actually a, well, warped version of it.
The refit Constitution-class is a thing of beauty, and its warp speed entry effect from TMP is pure elegance.
I don't care for the Kelvin Enterprise but that warp jump is a thing of beauty!
Such great sound design too. Feels like a slow windback- then boom. As if space couldn't hold it still and had to let go.
It's a small thing but I love that as warp tech evolves the ship entering the "flash" gets faster and faster.
And stretchier. I have always loved the stretch since the first time I saw it in TNG.
I quite like the light cone on the Protostar's warp, really sells "Yes, we're pushing/exceeding the light barrier". Beyond's is also incredibly cool.
Heck they were exceeding the warp barrier, by a lot.
It’s amazing that, as iconic as warp speed is to the Star Trek franchise, it was never even seen in TOS, not until TMP.
TMP = The Motion Picture
I think they were going for the effect that Warp Speed was nothing special; no different from ordering “ahead standard” on a seagoing ship.
Yeah TOS had a loud humming noise effect for the warp speed sequence.
Budgetary concerns.
I was really impressed by the 2009 version when I saw it. Like shooting a gun with a flash of light. Still the best in my opinion to depict the near instant effect of warp speed. Also the warp bubble was very cool in the 2016 version. It’s like a gravity wake effect.
Everyone here talking about how cool the effects are but I think we have to complement the man for staying up til 1am to make this beauty 😂🙌🏼
I always look for the sounds. The pine trilogy had some of the best thump sounds as the ship jumps into warp. And Discovery has by far the most unique, and my personal favourite of the glitchy squeezy jump noises when it uses its spore drive.
The JJ Abram movies are really something else. The sounds are absolutely amazing.
@@MsLenepigen Agreed, i actually watch them with my studio headphones as the stereo audio mix is amazing. Like you can hear where each sound is coming from, closest i have heard to a true binaural mix in a AAA movie.
I love that in the star trek picard clip, jean luc kinda looked at the camera, and made a face as to say: this is for you fans out there
And Raffi is completely tired of it
Yeah, screw that guy. "Here's a few member berries after I spent the entire season shitting on the character and series you loved." Despite their best efforts, I am NOT excited for Season 3 of Star Trek: Patrick Stewart.
@@thewiirocks Me neither; but I am excited for Strange New Worlds Season 2.
@@seanstravels2011 I'm excited for Star Trek Lower decks lol
@@Yaapo This. Lower Decks is the Trekkest of Trek to come out in recent memory...
Where every other Trek show seems to be trying their own thing, and there's not really any cohesion, Lower Decks is full-on post-TNG / DS9 continuation, with all the references to every Trek you ever loved, and the added bonus of things that you can do with an animated series that you'd NEVER get away with in a live-action Trek show.
I mean, c'mon, the first episode starting with a drunk Mariner swinging a Bat'leth at Boimler, that was gold!
And Riker coming in on the Titan to save the day to the TNG theme... pure 😘👌
I am so glad they bringing back the warp flash at the end of the jump. It’s such a small detail but I just love it
The opening with Star Trek: The Motion Picture's beautiful scene, and iconic musical score is still the best of all-time!
I couldn’t agree with you more!!! So beautiful & Dazzling Effect!
Just rewatched TOS movies and I still am impressed with how well the effects hold up from that Warp jump in TMP to the Excelsior and Enterprise pelting the Bird of Prey with torpedoes a master study in practical effects
Gods, that slick Voyager rolling warp has always been one of my favourite trek moments
i think voyager is the only ship in starfleet that has nacelles that move before going into warp...she was one ship to many have underestimated and she wis one ship that gone where no one has gone before
@@dawn1berlitz all Intrepid class ships doing that(pre-32th century). There where two experimental warp engines at the TNG/VOY/DS9 era. The one the Intrepid-class have is the tricyclic input manifold warp engine, with variable geometry nacelles. The other is the MK12 6th-phase matter/anti matter warp engine wich used the Sovereign-class(Enterprise-E). Overall the Sovereign type gone into mass production, because its simplicity(no moving nacelles). Still the Voyager is the most beautyful ship in the Trek lore, because her moving nacelles.
@@talos86 to many people underestimated Voyager while she is a small ship she packs one hell of a punch and she was able to come back from the delta quadrant with her crew and logs to tell the tale of her adventures
@@dawn1berlitz yep, she is a relative small ship, but she can punch hard. The 2 episode of the Year of hell proved enough of her durability. Just equip her with the mark12 phaser strips and she can compete with the Enterprise-E. If we count in the transphasic torpedo and the ablative shield generators(more efficient than the Defiants and the 1701-Es ablative shielding), then the Voyager have the upper hand.
@@talos86 cant forget though her warpcore is a thing of beauty
In space no one can hear you scream. But they can definitely hear you go to warp.
Well that makes sense since warp compresses and decompresses space. One would expect the ripples to produce vibrations in atomic bonds as the space between the atoms increases and decreases with the change in spacetime.
I have no idea what traveling faster than light would look like (if one could actually observe it!), but...I think the wake effect with spacetime compression up front in Beyond seems to be most "realistic". 4:11 - 4:15.
it would probably be completely black since light wouldnt be keeping up
To an observer, there would be a huge burst of blue Cherenkov radiation. We can actually observe objects travelling faster than light at the moment: the speed of light in a dense medium such as water is lower than the speed of light in a vacuum, therefore when a charged particle travelling at the speed of light enters water, it is now travelling faster than the speed of light for that medium. The radiation that results is very much like the sonic boom heard when a plane travelling faster than the speed of sound passes overhead.
@@rebel2809Not exactly. We’d still be moving toward a light source, but it might not necessarily be in the visible range. All light our eyes run into would be blue shifted, due to the Doppler effect. Of course, continual blue shifting until it reaches ionizing radiation (invisible) could happen, but at that point the ship would be atomized without any kind of shielding. I’d imagine because of that, the view would be perpetually a giant blue glow. Like the Star Wars visual, except much less defined.
@@nbartlett6538 warp drives usually are using alcubierre principle in which case they actually don’t have relativistic speed
The bubble isn't actually all that far off from what an outside observer would see, though it would really just be one bubble and not a wake. Another strange effect I've never seen done in cinema is that things will appear tinted blue when looking forward and red while looking backwards.
There was one in Star Trek: Picard season 1 where La Sirena was at warp that you missed and I've never seen before. It was like a tunnel where the ship looked static on a wide background. I don't have the ability to go look for it, but I was hoping someone else noticed that it was a unique effect.
I'm aware of the effect - but struggled to find it when making this video. Will search for it and add it on if I have the time :)
@@Jay244 Thanks! I forgot to write that I did enjoy the video. Imagining what warp drive would look and feel like is one of my favourite things about Star Trek.
It was the effect maybe in Nepenthe where La Sirena was on their way to pick up Picard and Soji and the Romulan in the Snake Head fighter was chasing them. Or maybe it was the Borg Cube in the Transwarp conduit when Seven was coming to help.
Since I was a kid and I saw st movie 1 I FELL IN LOVE with the effect of going to warp speed
Jay thank you for compiling this for us Trekkies. Peace, live long, and prosper!
TMP is the first, definitive and best warp drive sequence. It had never been attempted in movie history and was done with optical effects. No one could have imagined how cool it was until Doug Trumbull pulled it off. If you saw this at the cinema in 1979, it was impossible for your jaw not to drop 🎙
I saw it in the theater and it was amazing!
Agreed, it's still an incredible effect. Love the TMP warp jump! The best in my opinion.
I did. ❤️
ngl I somewhat disagree. Star Wars did it a year earlier, and arguably better.
I love how it slingshots into warp drive.
The sound effect made from JJ Abraham's movies on the warping, kinda like thumping, base-like sound is the best, in my opinion.
Star Trek XI (2009) - fleet Leaving space dock - PUNCH IT. Get chills watching it each time. Excellent. Incredible on the big screen
TMP is still my favorite warp sequence
This literally brought a tear to my eyes
Brilliant. Interesting to see how much CGI had developed over the years. LLaP!
2:44 Star Trek warp is the best
I just love how this vid starts with the NCC1701, and finishes with the NCC1701! 😃
I love that the little flash as it fully enters warp has been kept ever since 1979, excluding the Kelvin timeline movies
that crunchy warp bass boost in the JJprise was very...well...crunchy.
This was a genuinely enjoyable video. I'm really surprised that the very early effects are soooo cool compared to the later ones.
I like that as of this moment (just before Picard S3 releases), it's come full circle - the first warp effect is the original Enterprise in TMP, and the last is the original Enterprise in SNW. And I love the refit Conny from the movies, and the SNW is super pretty too. Continuity be damned!
2009 is an absolute winner here
You missed the Enterprise warping out of the Mutara Nebula right before the Genesis device exploded.
The 2009 warp just does it for me... Remember getting unnecessarily hype at the theatre when I first saw it
I kinda miss seeing the stars go by when a ship is at warp, instead of the pink/blue/yellow hyperdrive style portal.
I tend to agree, although those aren't stars going by. Always confused the hell out of me, because even at warp 9.9, most of the stars would appear to be almost static due to the sheer distance between shit out there. Which is probably why they "updated" the effect to a more modern understanding of how light would appear when moving faster than it.
@@Mazra42 Were those not stars? Do you know what they were?
@@Yaapo not stars. Those are particles of interstellar dust interacting with the warp field, becoming charged with hawking radiation, and being deflected by the deflector. Without that you'd have highly charged particles ripping the hull to shreds.
@@SpookyZalost Mindless technobabble that any normal human wouldn't understand.
And I understand everything you said.
@@Yaapo I mean, not mindless. Consistent within the Trek understanding and explanation of 24th century physics. Basically the deflector and warp field are causing specks of dust to luminesce as they are caught within the edge of the warp field and then fall behind the ship as it passes.
I think you forgot the that started it all. I refer to 1996's "First Contact" in which we see Zefram Cochrane make the first warp jump. That was one of the coolest effects I've ever seen in a Star Trek movie. 🖖
I especially like the version from 2009 movie 03:08 and the Prodigy one at 07:22 for conveying the sense of speed.
5:52 my favorite! Simple, great sound, and ode to past Enterprise warps.
Don't include that crap
How could you skip the "did we leave the parking brake on" comment :(
Nice to see this many in the same place...honestly, the only things I'd really want to add would be two from TNG. One, the messed up warp jumps from "Where No One Has Gone Before". Two, the one time we saw it from the Ten-Forward windows, and there seemed to be a lot more going on that the viewscreen cameras filter out.
The warp bubble effect from Beyond (4:12) is probably my favorite.
Nice work. Quite enjoyable for someone who had watched almost all of em too, starting with the initial broadcast of TOS.
Okay, not fair! If you’re gonna include a spore drive jump from Discovery, you gotta include a quantum slipstream and Borg transwarp jump from Voyager, and a Xindi vortex jump from Enterprise.
I FORGOT ABOUT THEM OK IM SOWRY (they are very very cool)
🖖😎👍You do mean 1979 to 2022 , Any ways very well nicely done and very well executed indeed👌.
The Original Series and Animated Series didn't have a warp effect. The stars just went by fairly fast in some of the external shots. TMP was the first time we had a warp speed effect on screen. Which is kind of weird when you think about it. A good chunk of what we think of as Star Trek tropes were founded in TMP and popularized in TNG.
(Just saw the 1976 title. Looks like someone missed a key on the old numpad.)
My favourite ever warp effect is in Nemesis when they escape from the Scimitar. Just the hard left bank, and the piercing light as they vanish beyond the horizon.
Thank you for putting these together. Very interesting to see them all.
I had no idea there were so many spin-offs. I watched them all from the original until about midway through Voyager. Saw some of the early movies. But then life happened and I went in other directions. Caught the JJ Abrams movies. I hope all the newer series inspire people as much as the early works did.
Don't sleep on Lower Decks. An animated Star Trek comedy may not sound like it has much potential, but it's got the heart of TNG and a real love for Trek.
Yeah CBS has been going big on having new releases almost every week of the year
Narrator: They didn't
I mean a couple of them are decent, but it's overall been.. disappointing compared to TOS and TNG
Star Trek Picard Season III was amazing. Strange New Worlds is legendary, Prodigy is pretty good at being inspiring, Lower Decks is brilliantly funny and got the heart of Star Trek right; but Star Trek Discovery was a fucking dumpster fire.
Honestly I've never seen star trek in my life before, but I stumbled by accident upon these videos and it's surprisingly enough Enterprise and Prodigy that have sold me on watching the whole franchise.
It's mesmerizing, to be honest.
The one of Discovery doing its spinny thing - isn't that the Black Alert Spore Drive, rather than warp ?
I still can't make out whether that spinning is supposed to be what the ship -really- does,or whether it's supposed to be representative of travelling outside of 3d space.
There were no warp effects in TOS. At all. I'd never noticed that before !
I agree. The Discovery scene isn't warp. The Spore Drive is a kind of jump drive and thus a new thing in the Star Trek universe. It's definitely not Warp. It's not even transwarp.
It's not warp but it looks cool. read the description.
TOS had enough trouble keeping the cardboardium sets together long enough to shoot a scene, they weren't going to be able to make any sort of a convincing warp effect on that budget...
it's funny how the entire ship spinning as a "special effect" kind of went out with Forbidden Planet... and now it's cool again
That 2009 star trek warp scene it's the best especially hearing that in theaters for the first time.
Is it me or does Warp Speed seem a lot more terrifying in the Abrams version?
It packed more of a punch, and you feel a heavyweight suddenly going beyond the speed of light.
TBF I think Beyond has the most realistic Warp effect in any form of Film or Series in the Star Trek Universe like ever.
That's why they called it Warp because it Warp and Fold the Spacetime continuum to achieve faster-than-light speeds.
I like how the E just rockets into warp. No flash or brief distension.
According to scientists,the warp jump effect of Star Trek: Beyond is most accurate representation of Warp jump in theory
While not dramatic, I always loved how easily and effortlessly the Enterprise-E went to warp. Particularly in Nemesis.
I love the warp effect in The Voyage Home because it gives me a sense of the ships flying through the universe like pond skimmers darting across a pond. The only other sequence that really captures that well for me is the last Discovery warp effect.
I love the 2009 one. Clean and simple with just a "puff" sound effect. I really love it.
TNG/DS9/VOY/TNG movies warp effect wins, and it has the best effect while within warp when looking out the windows--none of that Star Wars style hyperspace nonsense we got with the JJ movies and recent Picard, just stars visually and simply gliding on by.
本動画は資料的価値があって、とても素晴らしい動画です！
で。
私は大昔のトレッキーなので、一番好きなワープシーンは「ロバート･ワイズ」監督の映画一作目の「ロバート･エイブル」がやった、スリットを残して向こうに消えていき消失点で大爆発の効果音がなるヤツ、です！！！
Very cool. Loved seeing all the warp jumps. Awesome.
3:98 Damn, that literally gave me chills. And I don't get chills from that.
I think the Enterprise E got did a little dirty. Those warp speed effects were barely anything. It also didn’t get very much screen time in general. It was a badass ship, but we just didn’t see much of iy
No contest. Star Trek the Motion Picture
I still think Voyager has the best warp field intensity sound effect.
That sequence here when they get hit and go to warp while still recoiling from the impact is awesome
@@mattscarf I totally agree.. I remember watching it over and over, back in the 90s when Scorpion was released.
The warp bubble in beyond does a good job in visually explaining why later in the timeline they say that warp is damaging subspace imo
1:58 might be the coolest warp jump in the whole franchise
Yep, the creator of this vid really knew what they were doing to pick that one to represent Voyager.
The SLIDE, but yea, it was cool.
4:01 is a direct copy of my *1974 Pinto* wagon in action. But I don’t mind as I’ve put spinner rims on since, outclassing all the warps shown in this clip. 😅😅😅😅😅
Excellent and very inspirational work. Thanks
when the warp drive will be real some crazy and very rich man will 100% built enterprise irl
Alcubierre Warp
It's already a theory
I’m a big fan of the way TNG & Generations shows the ship folding space time before disappearing (1:17). Seems the most accurate. The bubble from Beyond looks dope though.
Wow, so many cool warp effects! I have a special place in my heart for First Contact, but they are all great.
Loved every bit of it 👍.
Nicely done, young man. Thank you!! 👏👏
一番最初の映画の「スタートレック」のワープのシーンは良かった。あのワープした後の「ガーン!」という音が迫力があって良かった。
Did you ever stop to consider how, I guess anticlimactic these effects would be if there wasn't any sound, since in space there wouldn't be any sound. Forgive me for being a party pooper. I love them anyway.
2009's jump to warp is the sexiest for me. Just conveys enormous acceleration.
All previous warp jumps imply that the acceleration to warp 9 would take hours
7:36 Holy Fuck that’s cool.
Wow, havn´t realized that the Excelsior II class is canon now :) That makes me happy today.
"Gimme warp in the factor of five, six, seven, eight..."
"Ohhhhh, the Jazz..."
🤣😂🤣😂☠
1:44 This is actually a shot of the very first fully CGI Enterprise in Star Trek history. This CGI model was later converted to Lightwave 3D format and used in later seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
from 1979 until 2022, we are still ended up with warp speed. Interesting that we can hear sound of the Enterprise moving in space.
As of today there is a pretty good new one to add to your list😉
Nice of you to include the fan-made movies by JJ. Abrams .
love the old school jumps, but the protostar jump is just powerful.
Kelvin films have the best effects for sure. Into Darkness, though a droll film, has the best in this compliation for sure. Those strings are so cool
Still haven't figured out how detaching Discovery's warp nascell improved maneuverability.
Discovery is like the Ghostbusters 3 Movie. It should be ignored from all other shows for how much fiction took from the science. From the stupid shroom drive to the high school art project floaty nacelles. The whole premise a guy can scream and destroy the galaxy just about made me blind from how hard I rolled my eyes.
I have had the same question and the only answer I've found is that it's all about mass distribution. Since you don't need nacelles when you're not into warp, having the nacelles detached makes it easier on impulse engines and thrusters.
Kelvin timeline the best
What strikes me most, is the warp sounds
The absolute best of them all is the Star Trek (2009) movie.
Into Darkness Had The Best Warp Speed Effects, IMO. Add in the USS Vengeance chasing down the Enterprise at warp speed was epic.
No warp effect will ever be as amazing to me as Wrath of Khan. And really just the effect in the original films. Love it and sound. Twas the 80s. Looks like Prodigy takes a cue from them. ✨
God I feel old. I've seen every one of these as they came out, starting wit hthe motion picture.