I really love seeing the warp drives come on. The effect showing the activation of the spinning rotors was great. And the look of the impulse engines was fantastic.
Watching this when it's a little over six years old--still awesome. More Easter eggs than....well, something with a ton of Easter eggs lolz. Love the Space:1999 Eagle, among many, many others. "Ohhhhh, crap...." is classic.
I was wondering who else would recognize that from Space: 1999. A good show for its day - not believable - very good effects and plots. I liked the shape changing alien they brought in I believe in Season 2.
For many, many years, I have been saying, it would be really nice to see the Original Enterprise get filmed exactly like the movie Enterprise with the self-illumination and dramatic angles! Well, last night, RUclips gave me this video and I was absolutely blown away!! This was amazing! I can't believe this has been out for seven + years! I always thought the 1st Enterprise was the BEST Enterprise. The people who redid the TV show effects could learn a lot from this video. The angles were breathtaking! Great job, PonyHorton and kudos for also having some fun, too!!!!
OMG Tim Russ was in it! And that bit at the end with the lunar module on top of the captains table... great touch👍 especially when it took off! Nearly wet myself laughing! ‘Oh crap!!’ 😂😂😂
That little film was a very surprisingly well made film and a pleasant little surprise to stumble across and I LOVE the oh crap moment at the ends hehe.
Loved the easter eggs, especially from "Space 1999". This film has such a ..... "Fallout 4" feeling to it with the sign shapes and such. It looks like the film's quality gets better as it goes on.
Oh, there was WAY more. The "Eagle" from the first manned moon landing at the beginning, "The Captains Table" with wooden doors (at 0:29), the "Gunstar" from the movie The Last Starfighter (at 0:31), the big lamp from the Drydock from Star Trek 1&2 and the lower end of the spacedock (upside down) from Star Trek 3 (at 0:59) ... The list goes on ! I absolutely LOVE this video !
If someone had told me when I was young and watch TOS that I'd see this on something called the internet on something called RUclips using something called a personal computer, I'd have said something to them related to the funny farm. Now, I just sit back and smile. I love Roddenberry trek.
I was always thinking that can you imagine the look of a kids face from the '50s or 60s if they were able to travel to the present time to see shows like Star Trek the Next Generation and other shows like that and compare it to the old space shows of that time.
For a total (star)ship nerd like myself, this video was just heaven. (And you all obviously feel the same way). Thank you so much for all the love and respect, humor and attention to detail in this work. Bravo!
Very clever and brilliantly funny. I don't know how you got Tim Russ involved, but for him to call the Enterprise "The old girl" was pure comedy irony. I love it! :)
Sweet vignette.. Loved d Eagle..you gave d Enterprise something no one thought of..a Beauty Launch...loved d reflection of the Enterprise on the spacewalker's helmet..also his juxtaposition gave a sense of scale to the Ship.. Breathtaking...
This is a fun, good natured vid, that crams a lot easily into a very compact running time, celebrating Star TRek, human space exploration, science fiction in media (caught an Eagle, a GunStar and oops, was that a dig at JJTrek? I believe it was). In a world seemingly looking to embrace darkness and despair, this video gets Star Trek.
I don't care if it's 11 years old, still one of my favorite fan films. Dead sexy glamor shots (too good to be called beauty shots),The easter eggs are the decorative icing especially the Jar Jar-prise in the scrap yard, all with more personality than anything craped out by the big budgets at paramount to date.
Hell yeah! That's how good ol' Roddenberry always WANTED the Enterprise to look! Thanks to you, both he and Majel Barrett can rest in peace and we can al keep on Trekkin'! (Will there be other 'shorts' like this BTW?)
I must say very well made I wish that I had found this fan film sooner.. it's one of the best I've watched and I will enjoy watching again and sharing it with my friends
Wow this film was awesome on many levels. Great tribute to the Apollo landings and Space: 1999. Was that a JJ Enterprise I saw in the Pick your part space ship junkyard? haha Nice mention of ( Chelsey ) Bonestell the well know artist who painted so many incredible space scenes found in so many great scifi films. Haha Mr Scott had spotters to verify each warp engine had started up. Can you imagine what an enemy would think when it scans the exterior of the Enterprise and they see we use the leg of an enemy to make a lamp out of? Oh and NEVER press the flashing red indicator button that says ABORT.
I sometimes miss Moon Base Alpha. I remember going to see Gene Roddenberry when he went on tour and gave a monolog, like it was a concert. He always ended the talk by showing the original blooper reel. I loved how it ended, with a train engineer shoveling coal into the Enterprise's engine.
This has got to be one of the nicest video tribute mashups I've ever seen. If you are an SF or real space fan (or more than likely both) there is something for everybody. And this video sums up perfectly why I like building SF models in my spare time (so I can recreate scenes like this in my imagination).
Love the homages to Apollo, "Space: 1999", and Chesley Bonestall at the beginning. The images of the other Enterprises were nice but it's great to see the old girl in her glory -- no bloody -A, -B, -C, or -D! Great job incorporating voices and imagery of the REAL crew!
That is how the Enterprise looked in ST-TMP when she was finishing up in dry dock. Wouldn't that be something if they started each new series of Star Trek with the Starship as she was coming out of Space Dock, having a good long look? That was the best part of ST-TMP.
Been on YT for 10 years. How the hell did I not see this before now??? fantastic work. Fell in love as soon as the music started. Crazy about “El Dorado to the Moon” So now do I not only have to keep up with your work but follow up on everything Micheal Nesmith has been doing music wise. Good health, long life, and success to you. Keep up the fantastic work!!!
I'll bet a lot of the tunes on this will endure for 23rd century contemporaries to listen to.....just like the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. I love it.
No matter how advanced starships may become, nothing will ever replace a Constitution Class Starship - Except perhaps a refit. One thing they must never do though is ever get rid of the Captains chair from the Original Constitution Class, that is what makes it unique. Better than the Excelsior Class, Ambassador Class - Though it bore more of a resemblance to the Constitution Class - Galaxy Class and Sovereign Class. None can hold a candle to a Constitution Class.
haha You took the words right out of my mouth. I am a vet with diabetes and the VA authorizes me 2 pairs of shoes each year. Last Year when I went to the outsourced company, which also makes artificial legs for those who need them, to pick mine up I saw in their waiting room a genuine " Leg lamp ". Just like the one in Dr McCoy's quarters. I thought that was perfect place to find one.
Exceptional! Certainly one of the best short films I'VE ever seen👌 If only it could be made into a regular series🤔 Love the salute to "Space 1999" (0:59)❤️
You´ve shown one refit Constitution Class Starship greeting the Enterprise on her last voyage before Refit. I always suppose, that the Excalibur became the first Refit after her massive damage in the M5 Battle
I was thinking that the Refit connie was the USS Constitution NCC-1700 i mean it would make sense as the USS Constitution was the first Constitution class starship
@@Nichodo They were probably both pulled back to ESD for extensive upgrades. There's another (I think ST:Phase 2 - it was that or ST:New Voyages, I always get them mixed up) fan short around here that shows a "halfway mark" between the TOS Connie and the TMP Connie. I'm willing to wager that the 1700 got the "incremental" upgrades, and the _Excalibur_ was simply gone whole hog, since the SFCOE had a severely damaged Connie they could do whatever with (it was likely considered a write-off - moreso if you watch "Ghost Ship"). Depending on your acceptance of fan works and how you want to pick your multiple choice options, 1701 likely served a couple years in the "half refit" configuration before her full 2370's refit. This fan short would then fit between either "Season 4" and "Season 5" of TOS (had they happened), or between 5 and 6 (1 - ? being Original Config, 6+ being "Incremental Upgrade" config).
Well, it was pretty explicit* from the time of TMP (and since) that the Enterprise 1701 was the first such refit. Also, that the tech was so new in refit 1701 ("...engines __times more powerful than anything carried into space before") that there was no ship built that had been built to that spec from the keel up before refit 1701 was launched. So, no. Strictly speaking, there's no way a pre-refit 1701 should be seen flying past the later model. --- But... it's a fan project and labor of love, so we can just sit back and enjoy eye candy
Just a minute. This LEM's ascent stage was STILL there? What happened to its crew that they didn't use it to get back to the Command module? They dead, Jim?
I like how when the gantry is pulling away you can see a crease in the skin of the ship just like with navy ships today,..Just adds that touch of realism to the ol' girl :)
Beautiful work ! Classic set in a completely believable setting. Excellent music, and editing. I look for hole (like we all do) and could find none in either the editing of the story flow. I especially like the way you inject the characterizations back into the depiction. Thanks for some excellent work - I look forward to more !
And why weren’t you hired to bring The Big E to life on DISCO? I love the detail you brought to the impulse engines & the Bussard collectors. Beautiful!
This is both hilarious for all the little nods to sci-fi history threaded through it, and amazingly well animated. Seeing the Big E power up brings a lump to the throat!
I am quite impressed with how professionally made this is. I think you put some fan-made movies/episodes to shame. Not sure what kind of work you do, but this would be one for you if you needed another vocation.
Been a film maker and VFX artist my whole career, as well as a newspaper journalist. Started my VFX career at Van der Veer Photo Effects, one of the 5 houses that handled TOS. So glad to hear you liked it!
this was so good that halfway through I had to remind myself this was a fan made video. We star trek fans are putting out better content than the official stuff now, lol!
LOVE the sign for The Captain's Table below the Lunar Lander at the end! The Captain's table stories are some of the most, ah, "Star Trek" ones out there.
Just fantastic. Loved the JJprise in the junkheap on the Moon and the other little easter eggs! The computer generated effects are just so great. Loved all the other ships too
Man, the old spirit is here. The "main theme" is awesome, the CGI work, the sounds, dialogues... I love it!!! We need more of this, not JJprise. Greetings from Brazil :)
See, this is the line between the fan movie and the new Paramount crap : there is love at everything a fan does ! Just beautiful to see the Enterprise out of space dock, fantastic animation ! Shutting down fan productions, while making trash like STD is a huge mistake, and the whole franchise will be harmed. And by the way, JJprise dismantled on a moon junkyard... how appropriate !
@@bsharpmajorscale Let's say they had a masterpiece to serve as model for her... Anyway, Matt Jefferies did an excellent job, proving that perfect designs are forever !
A typical day, in space... yet so mundanely original. I absolutely love this. The song fits, like your favorite pair of jeans. A huge Thanks to the people who put this piece together. Very well done. More. Please.
Oh there is so much in there, was like the proverbial kid in a sweet shop, love it and as before left me laughing out loud, you are a real talent! Thank you!
Holy hell. That was brilliant!! Beautiful!! Seeing the original Enterprise so lovingly rendered with such precision and love. And the new lighting just gave her that extra pop she always needed. Almost made me cry. Thank you so much for the time and massive effort you and your team put into this. And thank you for the respect you paid to cannon. As a 50 year Star Trek fan, I am sickened by the direction Discovery has taken the franchise. This film gives me hope that fans like you might still somehow be able to inspire and influence CBS to restore Trek to the glory it once had. Please make more of these. It’s like water to a man in the desert. We fans all over the world need this!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!
Thanks so much! There was really no team, just myself creating the movie. Of course, I certainly had help from my friends who appear in Voice Over, such as James Cawley, Homer Hickam, Ralph Miller, Tim Russ, Ken Smith, and Randall Libero. Regarding DISCOVERY, we'll have to agree to disagree. I am a TREK fan since I first started watching in 1966 at age 8, and I first began my VFX career at Van der Veer Photo Effects in 1978 working under Hugh Wade, the man who created the actual sparkle effects from the Transporters in the 1960's, and I LOVE Discovery! TREK need not slavishly follow the canon we've seen so far to still be TREK. Give it a chance. It's worth it.
After reading the comments below nobody's mentioned the Faze 2 in dry dock you can tell by the front of the warp nacelle a little bit of the tos with the stm .
Very clever. This film is a basket overflowing with more pretty little Easter eggs than I've ever seen in one place before. You almost want to go through it frame by frame to pick them all out. I'm particularly fond of McCoy's "Major Award" and the takeoff strip having an Interstate 10 road sign painted on it.
My favorite one is the Hadley-Appenine National Forest. I grew up hiking in Angeles National Forest, and I loved doing that moment. The Apollo 15 mission may be my favorite. Hadley Rille, baby!
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The classic original Enterprise NCC-1701 is still, and always will be, the best - the true gold standard.
I agree. She is always my fist true love
TOS Enterprise was a classic, but TMP Enterprise cannot be matched.
Agree to disagree, TMP Enterprise will always have my heart.
@@LadyMaskPain actually i think she was my second love. I don't have my first so here i am.
I really love seeing the warp drives come on. The effect showing the activation of the spinning rotors was great. And the look of the impulse engines was fantastic.
Watching this when it's a little over six years old--still awesome. More Easter eggs than....well, something with a ton of Easter eggs lolz. Love the Space:1999 Eagle, among many, many others.
"Ohhhhh, crap...." is classic.
This is one of the most beautiful exhibitions of the original Enterprise ever executed.
Love the eagle one from space 1999, nice touch. 👍😁
LOVED that "Eagle"! Nice little tribute to Space: 1999! :)
I was wondering who else would recognize that from Space: 1999. A good show for its day - not believable - very good effects and plots. I liked the shape changing alien they brought in I believe in Season 2.
And the Gunstar from Last Starfighter. A Christmas story.
Anyone spot the Jupiter 2 ?
How about the J.J.prise in the scrap heap.
@@tarzan8575 Yep, that lamp was a MAJOR award!
Oh yeah! I love the shot of McCoy turning on the "leg lamp" from A Christmas Story at 3:33.
Why doesn't this video have 68,295,000 views?
For many, many years, I have been saying, it would be really nice to see the Original Enterprise get filmed exactly like the movie Enterprise with the self-illumination and dramatic angles! Well, last night, RUclips gave me this video and I was absolutely blown away!! This was amazing! I can't believe this has been out for seven + years! I always thought the 1st Enterprise was the BEST Enterprise. The people who redid the TV show effects could learn a lot from this video. The angles were breathtaking! Great job, PonyHorton and kudos for also having some fun, too!!!!
Thank you mucho!!!
2:59: I love that shot of her. For sheer elegance you can't beat the Constitution Class.
OMG Tim Russ was in it! And that bit at the end with the lunar module on top of the captains table... great touch👍 especially when it took off! Nearly wet myself laughing! ‘Oh crap!!’ 😂😂😂
You think that's cool? Look up "Homer Hickam".
@@et3inuyasha A literal NASA Engineer in Star Trek..
That little film was a very surprisingly well made film and a pleasant little surprise to stumble across and I LOVE the oh crap moment at the ends hehe.
Thank you! I had a lot of fun making it.
Your very welcome.
If that had been me, there'd be no "oh, crap!" I'd have went straight to the jugular and said, "Well, fuck!" Lol
Thank you so much !
@@leandar I only use real profanity where truly called-for out of respect to my viewers.
Umm.... I'm 7 years late, why have I never seen this before. It's beautiful!!!! I NEED THIS
Only just come across this now - what a great tribute, and not just to Star Trek!
Wonderful little film. Loved the homage to the Eagles and Moonbase Alpha, and to the Christmas Story.
Loved the easter eggs, especially from "Space 1999". This film has such a ..... "Fallout 4" feeling to it with the sign shapes and such. It looks like the film's quality gets better as it goes on.
Oh, there was WAY more. The "Eagle" from the first manned moon landing at the beginning, "The Captains Table" with wooden doors (at 0:29), the "Gunstar" from the movie The Last Starfighter (at 0:31), the big lamp from the Drydock from Star Trek 1&2 and the lower end of the spacedock (upside down) from Star Trek 3 (at 0:59) ...
The list goes on !
I absolutely LOVE this video !
So many easter eggs :-D
Loved the Gunstar at the start on the landing pad, and the Eagle from Space 1999.
A new perspective on the Original USS Enterprise
Well done !
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If someone had told me when I was young and watch TOS that I'd see this on something called the internet on something called RUclips using something called a personal computer, I'd have said something to them related to the funny farm. Now, I just sit back and smile. I love Roddenberry trek.
I was always thinking that can you imagine the look of a kids face from the '50s or 60s if they were able to travel to the present time to see shows like Star Trek the Next Generation and other shows like that and compare it to the old space shows of that time.
retiredatlast -
Roddenberry got to make “Next Generation” and see cellular phones shrink to communicator size (2G era).
For a total (star)ship nerd like myself, this video was just heaven. (And you all obviously feel the same way). Thank you so much for all the love and respect, humor and attention to detail in this work. Bravo!
Very clever and brilliantly funny. I don't know how you got Tim Russ involved, but for him to call the Enterprise "The old girl" was pure comedy irony. I love it! :)
Kirk was a real dick about using impulse out of spacedock\drydock! He was not at all liked by practically every dock master in the Alpha Quadrant!
@@spaceace1006 He wasn't the only one. Almost every mainline captain has done the one-quarter impulse power out the doors.
Sweet vignette.. Loved d Eagle..you gave d Enterprise something no one thought of..a Beauty Launch...loved d reflection of the Enterprise on the spacewalker's helmet..also his juxtaposition gave a sense of scale to the Ship.. Breathtaking...
Coolest enterprise scene leaving space dock.great work
This is a fun, good natured vid, that crams a lot easily into a very compact running time, celebrating Star TRek, human space exploration, science fiction in media (caught an Eagle, a GunStar and oops, was that a dig at JJTrek? I believe it was). In a world seemingly looking to embrace darkness and despair, this video gets Star Trek.
DUDE!!.....i am loving this.......more, please!!
I don't care if it's 11 years old, still one of my favorite fan films. Dead sexy glamor shots (too good to be called beauty shots),The easter eggs are the decorative icing especially the Jar Jar-prise in the scrap yard, all with more personality than anything craped out by the big budgets at paramount to date.
Absolutely brilliant! You made the old girl look glorious. I also love the ending....
Hell yeah! That's how good ol' Roddenberry always WANTED the Enterprise to look! Thanks to you, both he and Majel Barrett can rest in peace and we can al keep on Trekkin'! (Will there be other 'shorts' like this BTW?)
The pick your part yard in the beginning was hilarious.
I still have to come back and watch this from time to time. Still beautiful... Would love to see another film of her all lit up like that.
R.I.P. Michael Nesmith. Gonna miss his outlook on things and his music.
I must say very well made I wish that I had found this fan film sooner.. it's one of the best I've watched and I will enjoy watching again and sharing it with my friends
Now THAT was FUN ! I _LOVE_ seeing The TOS Enterprise ! And the easter eggs were a HOOT ! What a fine tribute to True-Trek and Culture ! ❤ !
Wow this film was awesome on many levels. Great tribute to the Apollo landings and Space: 1999.
Was that a JJ Enterprise I saw in the Pick your part space ship junkyard? haha
Nice mention of ( Chelsey ) Bonestell the well know artist who painted so many incredible space scenes found
in so many great scifi films.
Haha Mr Scott had spotters to verify each warp engine had started up.
Can you imagine what an enemy would think when it scans the exterior of the Enterprise and they see we use the
leg of an enemy to make a lamp out of?
Oh and NEVER press the flashing red indicator button that says ABORT.
I sometimes miss Moon Base Alpha.
I remember going to see Gene Roddenberry when he went on tour and gave a monolog, like it was a concert. He always ended the talk by showing the original blooper reel. I loved how it ended, with a train engineer shoveling coal into the Enterprise's engine.
See if it cycles off... Oh crap!
This is the funniest Star Trek Fan Film I've ever seen. Guess I'm 7 years too late. Oh well.
Great job!
Whatever you do, NEVER cycle the Abort switch.
This has got to be one of the nicest video tribute mashups I've ever seen. If you are an SF or real space fan (or more than likely both) there is something for everybody. And this video sums up perfectly why I like building SF models in my spare time (so I can recreate scenes like this in my imagination).
Love the homages to Apollo, "Space: 1999", and Chesley Bonestall at the beginning. The images of the other Enterprises were nice but it's great to see the old girl in her glory -- no bloody -A, -B, -C, or -D! Great job incorporating voices and imagery of the REAL crew!
The lady never looked so good. My favorite Enterprise..like a '57 Vette
That is how the Enterprise looked in ST-TMP when she was finishing up in dry dock. Wouldn't that be something if they started each new series of Star Trek with the Starship as she was coming out of Space Dock, having a good long look? That was the best part of ST-TMP.
'61. ;)
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Honestly one of the best looking tow enterprises I've seen .
The self illumination really makes it ...great work.
Hello, I absolutely loved this clip, very well done! Also, parts of it had me laughing my ass off!! "VERY WELL DONE"
Pulling out of space dock, you can see it is a better design than all the other versions in the background.
LIKE the 20th century Route 66 road trip nostalgia. "Burma Shave". great job guys !
My personal favorite old nod is the Hadley National Forest sign.
and space 1999 eagles too
@@ponyhorton4295 That resonated with me quite a bit too, as I love to back-pack.
That was very enjoyable. I love the details on Luna.
This is awesome! It looked like something right out of Gene's imagination!
I have heard people say that is really how Gene wanted her to look, with all the extra lights, but there was no budget to upgrade her.
Can't believe I've not seen this 'till now... great film.
This is totally awesome. Can't believe I just found it. Excellent work!
Me too.
Very, very enjoyable. Love the scale shots, especially the window scenes.
I really enjoyed that. From where I'm sitting, I could feel all the love that went into this. Thank you.
Thank YOU!
When the command is given to light the engines, you hear the tones for Station 51.
U.S.S Enterprise, 10-4, KMG-365...
Fantastic nostalgic atmosphere in this short film... I love this!
I really enjoyed this little film.. Love the ending! And McCoy with the leg lamp.. Priceless!
Been on YT for 10 years. How the hell did I not see this before now??? fantastic work. Fell in love as soon as the music started. Crazy about “El Dorado to the Moon” So now do I not only have to keep up with your work but follow up on everything Micheal Nesmith has been doing music wise.
Good health, long life, and success to you. Keep up the fantastic work!!!
Thank you so much!
Nesmith just keeps sailing Monkee-in' around.
I'll bet a lot of the tunes on this will endure for 23rd century contemporaries to listen to.....just like the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. I love it.
I LOVE IT!!! That is how she should look! I love all the self illumination. I always thought the original needed that.
No matter how advanced starships may become, nothing will ever replace a Constitution Class Starship - Except perhaps a refit. One thing they must never do though is ever get rid of the Captains chair from the Original Constitution Class, that is what makes it unique. Better than the Excelsior Class, Ambassador Class - Though it bore more of a resemblance to the Constitution Class - Galaxy Class and Sovereign Class. None can hold a candle to a Constitution Class.
Never ever push the little red button! 😀😁😂🤣✌🖖👍
McCoy with a leg lamp? lol
Well, it IS a Major Award!
haha You took the words right out of my mouth. I am a vet with diabetes and the VA authorizes me 2 pairs
of shoes each year. Last Year when I went to the outsourced company, which also makes artificial
legs for those who need them, to pick mine up I saw in their waiting room a genuine " Leg lamp ". Just like the one in Dr McCoy's quarters.
I thought that was perfect place to find one.
And a cat
Pony Horton It even says major award on the dock workers HUD, along with Fragile. He must be Italian. LOL
Hey, does Maurice Minnifield know the drydock is using his frequency?
I liked the original E with the refit lighting - Well done.
Very well done! Great models and effects! Good voice acting!
A delightful and entertaining film short. I've been watch Star Trek since it first aired and this short brought me a smile.
The Hadley Rille National Forest Trailhead sign killed me, I still giggle everytime I see it.
And I just caught the Station 51 tones! More surprises everytime you watch!
A lot of fun. I can totally see that actually happening. TOS didn't take itself too seriously.
Just another day on the job.
Also I can tell a lot of love went into this!
Thanks!
Exceptional! Certainly one of the best short films I'VE ever seen👌 If only it could be made into a regular series🤔 Love the salute to "Space 1999" (0:59)❤️
Just stumbled across this - absolutely great and hilarious!
You´ve shown one refit Constitution Class Starship greeting the Enterprise on her last voyage before Refit. I always suppose, that the Excalibur became the first Refit after her massive damage in the M5 Battle
I was thinking that the Refit connie was the USS Constitution NCC-1700 i mean it would make sense as the USS Constitution was the first Constitution class starship
@@Nichodo They were probably both pulled back to ESD for extensive upgrades. There's another (I think ST:Phase 2 - it was that or ST:New Voyages, I always get them mixed up) fan short around here that shows a "halfway mark" between the TOS Connie and the TMP Connie. I'm willing to wager that the 1700 got the "incremental" upgrades, and the _Excalibur_ was simply gone whole hog, since the SFCOE had a severely damaged Connie they could do whatever with (it was likely considered a write-off - moreso if you watch "Ghost Ship").
Depending on your acceptance of fan works and how you want to pick your multiple choice options, 1701 likely served a couple years in the "half refit" configuration before her full 2370's refit. This fan short would then fit between either "Season 4" and "Season 5" of TOS (had they happened), or between 5 and 6 (1 - ? being Original Config, 6+ being "Incremental Upgrade" config).
Well, it was pretty explicit* from the time of TMP (and since) that the Enterprise 1701 was the first such refit. Also, that the tech was so new in refit 1701 ("...engines __times more powerful than anything carried into space before") that there was no ship built that had been built to that spec from the keel up before refit 1701 was launched.
So, no. Strictly speaking, there's no way a pre-refit 1701 should be seen flying past the later model.
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But... it's a fan project and labor of love, so we can just sit back and enjoy eye candy
Loved it... Especially at the end when they launched the LEM's final stage...lol
Just a minute. This LEM's ascent stage was STILL there? What happened to its crew that they didn't use it to get back to the Command module? They dead, Jim?
I like how when the gantry is pulling away you can see a crease in the skin of the ship just like with navy ships today,..Just adds that touch of realism to the ol' girl :)
Beautiful work ! Classic set in a completely believable setting. Excellent music, and editing. I look for hole (like we all do) and could find none in either the editing of the story flow. I especially like the way you inject the characterizations back into the depiction. Thanks for some excellent work - I look forward to more !
This video deserves a major award!
And why weren’t you hired to bring The Big E to life on DISCO? I love the detail you brought to the impulse engines & the Bussard collectors. Beautiful!
I based the interiors of the Impulse Cathedrals directly on the old STAR FLEET TECH MANUAL.
1:09 Those nacelles... nice diss, and great attention to detail in general! Plenty of awesome things and references to look at!
I've watched this several times and am amazed by the number of Easter Eggs. Just WOW!
I do seriously hope you make more of these goofy, fun to watch videos, loved it so much I subbed.
The Easter eggs are fantastic; especially the Jar-Jar Abram’s enterprise in the scrapyard!😂
Excellent! Very well done. Funny & I totally dig the homage to Apollo & Space: 1999. ....And....A Christmas Story? Bravo.
Space:1999 Moon Base Alpha at Frame 0:57? Cool.
This is both hilarious for all the little nods to sci-fi history threaded through it, and amazingly well animated. Seeing the Big E power up brings a lump to the throat!
It's a sight that never gets old!
I am quite impressed with how professionally made this is. I think you put some fan-made movies/episodes to shame. Not sure what kind of work you do, but this would be one for you if you needed another vocation.
Been a film maker and VFX artist my whole career, as well as a newspaper journalist. Started my VFX career at Van der Veer Photo Effects, one of the 5 houses that handled TOS. So glad to hear you liked it!
this was so good that halfway through I had to remind myself this was a fan made video. We star trek fans are putting out better content than the official stuff now, lol!
LOVE the sign for The Captain's Table below the Lunar Lander at the end! The Captain's table stories are some of the most, ah, "Star Trek" ones out there.
THANK YOU!!!! Nobody seems to notice that. I love those books and have all of them.
I still enjoy pulling this up every now and then. A well done piece of work.
I am honored that you feel that way! Thanks!
Just fantastic. Loved the JJprise in the junkheap on the Moon and the other little easter eggs! The computer generated effects are just so great. Loved all the other ships too
If memory serves, the "Abort" and "Abort Stage" were two separate buttons in the LEM.
Shot 2:20. One of the coolest shots I have ever seen of the Big E. Well done. :)
Man, the old spirit is here. The "main theme" is awesome, the CGI work, the sounds, dialogues... I love it!!! We need more of this, not JJprise. Greetings from Brazil :)
Wow, I loved this. Hilarious, but very well done! Saw a few Easter eggs too. Great job with this!
See, this is the line between the fan movie and the new Paramount crap : there is love at everything a fan does !
Just beautiful to see the Enterprise out of space dock, fantastic animation !
Shutting down fan productions, while making trash like STD is a huge mistake, and the whole franchise will be harmed.
And by the way, JJprise dismantled on a moon junkyard... how appropriate !
I enjoyed putting the JJPrise on the scrap heap.
But I must say, I have a LOT of love for Star Trek Discovery.
Aw, but just because the movies weren't great, the ship was still cool looking...
@@bsharpmajorscale Let's say they had a masterpiece to serve as model for her...
Anyway, Matt Jefferies did an excellent job, proving that perfect designs are forever !
Ladies and Gentlemen, it's show time! This was gorgeous. That scene where an engine popped on? How is this not #CBS yet?
A typical day, in space... yet so mundanely original.
I absolutely love this. The song fits, like your favorite pair of jeans.
A huge Thanks to the people who put this piece together.
Very well done.
More. Please.
Has to be one of my favorite tongue in cheek fan movies. Especially the ending.
Oh there is so much in there, was like the proverbial kid in a sweet shop, love it and as before left me laughing out loud, you are a real talent! Thank you!
Thank YOU! So glad you got a laugh out of it. My work here is done!!!
Holy hell. That was brilliant!! Beautiful!! Seeing the original Enterprise so lovingly rendered with such precision and love. And the new lighting just gave her that extra pop she always needed. Almost made me cry. Thank you so much for the time and massive effort you and your team put into this. And thank you for the respect you paid to cannon. As a 50 year Star Trek fan, I am sickened by the direction Discovery has taken the franchise. This film gives me hope that fans like you might still somehow be able to inspire and influence CBS to restore Trek to the glory it once had. Please make more of these. It’s like water to a man in the desert. We fans all over the world need this!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!
Thanks so much! There was really no team, just myself creating the movie. Of course, I certainly had help from my friends who appear in Voice Over, such as James Cawley, Homer Hickam, Ralph Miller, Tim Russ, Ken Smith, and Randall Libero.
Regarding DISCOVERY, we'll have to agree to disagree. I am a TREK fan since I first started watching in 1966 at age 8, and I first began my VFX career at Van der Veer Photo Effects in 1978 working under Hugh Wade, the man who created the actual sparkle effects from the Transporters in the 1960's, and I LOVE Discovery! TREK need not slavishly follow the canon we've seen so far to still be TREK.
Give it a chance. It's worth it.
NX-01-D? A legecy never dies!
How am I only NOW seeing this?? Very beautiful!!
Funny... this was totally refreshing...
After reading the comments below nobody's mentioned the Faze 2 in dry dock you can tell by the front of the warp nacelle a little bit of the tos with the stm .
Love the moon base Alpha launchpad and the last starfighter in the background!!
I love the inclusion of the GunStar (Last Starfighter) at 0:38. lol
The NX-01D there at the end was nice to.
Very clever. This film is a basket overflowing with more pretty little Easter eggs than I've ever seen in one place before. You almost want to go through it frame by frame to pick them all out. I'm particularly fond of McCoy's "Major Award" and the takeoff strip having an Interstate 10 road sign painted on it.
My favorite one is the Hadley-Appenine National Forest. I grew up hiking in Angeles National Forest, and I loved doing that moment.
The Apollo 15 mission may be my favorite. Hadley Rille, baby!
Love the Space: 1999 references! And this was a great little film.