Star Trek Phase II VFX Reel for FedCon 2014
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- Here's a Star Trek Phase II VFX Reel by Tobias Richter and The Light Works for some of the effects sequences in "The Holiest Thing" and "Bread and Savagery"!
You get beautiful views of the Phase II Enterprise, as well as get a glimpse behind the scenes at how Tobias and TLW's "work in progress" as Tobias and the gang switch from "animatics" to fully rendered scenes! You also get a glimpse of how some of the amazing greenscreen compositing is done.
And of course, you get LOTS of Enterprise eye candy!!! - Zábava
53 years later and NCC 1701 still gives me shivers. The design of the Enterprise was inspired, she’s so beautiful.
I'm 54 and I love Star Trek !!! NCC 1701 Enterprise is the greatest ship in all history!! Too Bad NASA and the government can't make a real spacecraft like that.
@@captainarcher2 actually they plan on making one and it might be starting in the next 50 or so years
It made no sense, design wise. But i'm 60 now and the USS Enterprise will always stop me in my tracks to look at it
Love it. Really does look and feel like a Phase II version of the Enterprise. Rivals the movies era version, which is high praise indeed!
This phase 2 design is a beautiful blend of TOS/motion picture Enterprise. Fantastic visuals.👍
This is beautiful. It's great to see the Enterprise that almost was in action.
More than half of that magnificent work by Tobias Richter and Pony Horton ... for "Bread and Savagery" and for "Torment of Destiny" will never even see the light of day now. Grrrrrrrrrrr!!! Thanks loads, Alec Peters! Thanks loads, CBS!
This needs its own series.
Well, we do have ten episodes online. ;-)
Website?
Now THIS is what a "prequel" should look like !!
I can hear the CBS/Paramount execs in meetings, "TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE WITH A BOX OF SCR...Opps!" I mean They did this on donations and worked for free how the hell are we going to sell product if they keep making it better than we do? Edit:(On a side note I would like to say while the new Trek is a bit of a let down, Anson Mount is a damn fine actor and in any Trek does make a great Captain Pike)
CBS is run by imbeciles who hire hack writers.
CBS is full of sjw bullshit. We already had captain Janeway who is one of the best captains in star trek history.
@@saadqureshi7127 What's your point? That there's a limit on captains who aren't male and ST has reached it?
Paramount/CBS: They did this on donations and worked for free how the hell are we going to sell product if they keep making it better than we do?
Lawyers: Wheres my beer . . . .
Personal note, Paramount/CBS are clueless about fanaddicts (sp). They need to embrace their fans other than alienating.
When you only care about profit, and not the product that is what happens. S2 of Discovery was a bit of a repair job for S1 and I totally agree on Anson Mount and his acting chops. He made a perfect Captain Pike. Too bad S3 of Discovery did not follow the mold of S2. So much 31st Century potential wasted on agenda based scripts. Holding out hope for Strange New Worlds to save the day.
I love the Phase II design or as I like to call her the " Semi-Refit USS Enterprise "
We are blessed to have New Voyages episodes as well as the Star Trek: Continues franchise
to continue the voyages of the USS Enterprise. I am not sure if there is a friendly ( or perhaps not so friendly )
rivalry between the two production companies but you are both doing so much better to keep Gene Roddenberry's
dream alive than the JJ pretenders have ever done.
Thanks
it was a friendly rivalry (now, sadly gone by since the Axanar-triggered studio crackdown). The New Voyages captain did a cameo in an STC ep.
what's "New Voyages"? Are they making another ST movie or show?
I was proudly part of that NV crew. How many get say they served aboard the original Starship Enterprise?
I agree CBS needs to lay off let them working trying to shut everyone down
@@Markperry123 2/3 of CBS=BS
Love it!!! You guys are doing a great job! The refitted nacelles and pylons make a great transition into the films. The use of old pahse 2 scripts is good so far. Really enjoyed "Kitumba." Would love to see "To attain the all" and "The war to end all wars." Keep it up. I'll be donating.
The explosion of the enterprise and warpeffect was nice !
wow that warp animation was beautiful
That moment when a Demo Reel looks better and more faithful than a full-blown production show *cough* Discovery *cough*.
Say what you like, but I'm in love with this.design. it's.the connection between TOS.& TMP. It mean star fleet tried. to cut corners.at first or try out a semi refit. or new. warp engines.
Stop it. Say what you will about the writing, but the effects were pretty good in discovery. Looks were not the problem. The writing was, something that is a problem in holywood period, not just Trek.
@@joelaton1062 season 2 was actually really good
@@joelaton1062 The execution was fine, it's the design and direction I have issues with. They turned Star Trek into Star Wars. I feel this demo is more faithful to how TOS and TMP were shot, how the camera moved, how the battles played out, how the effects looked, etc.
And don't get me started on the awful sound effects in Discovery and Picard. Just...awful.
@@mbogucki1 I'm of the opinion that there's a lot to be loved about Discovery. Especially the updated Constitution class and TOS uniforms. The sound design is also pretty great. It's a wonderful fusion of the old 1960s era stuff and modern 21st century stuff. You can even occasionally hear original bridge sound effects on the bridge of Discovery. I feel like most fans are just angry because it's a bit different.
I REALLY like this ship. Such a great mix between TOS and TMP. Kudos!
This REALLY needs to be pitched to Paramount...the Star Trek fans a re screamming for a series that picks up right after TOS. The Enterprise is looking superb. My hats off to you gentlemen...lock phasers and fire!
+bigbaddaddy11 Too bad it never happened. Stark Trek: Phase II got scrapped by Paramount right before Star Wars came out in 1977. With the exception of the British series Space: 1999, most television networks in the 1970's assumed that space adventure shows were no longer in demand and were too expensive to produce.
Oh man... in the name of all that is holy, SOMEONE PLEASE revive Star Trek! These subversives and saboteurs have taken ENOUGH from us already!
Congrats to your ship design team. They continue to impress with their new ship designs. Loved the Klingon Dreadnaught in Kitumba, and this new ship looks better than I first thought. Keep up the great work, the episodes just keep getting better.
If it wasn't for the phase 2., there would not have been a TMP Enterprise. The TMP is just phase 2. re-engineered.
I hate that I'm 6 years late seeing this, but I'm so happy I found it!
Still outstanding, five years later.
I thinking my favorite feature of your enterprise model is how 'chalky' it feels. so a lovely texture thats not too reflective. just wonderfully pleasant to look at.
I think what really sells it is you got the speed right out the gate. Nice and slow, graceful movements
Breath taking!
Bravo. An absolutely stunning ship and video. My one gripe is that I need more, a lot more. Thanks guys, keep it coming for us old guys who found a safe haven in Star Trek.
I must say for a limited budget you do a outstanding job
Such great work! I almost wish that we could have had this one for TMP-ST3 and the TMP model for 4-6!
Dang that is some spectacular work y'all did!
It's amazing work that you guys do on a small budget. I think the greatest compliment I can think of is that I consider TMP now as a sequel to Phase II and not just TOS. Looking forward to the new Episodes. Make it so...
Well these effects are just as good as the effects in Enterprise. Wells done gents!
I enjoy this series and want to say thanks for the time and work that went into making them.
Just totaly AWSOME and THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love seeing the old girl in action. The refit look amazing
I think the Phase II design here is my second favorite design after 1701-A, but it is a close second!
I agree with you 100%, nothing beats the 1701-A design, it's considered "Legendary" by ship design enthusiast.
Do you mean 1701-A, or simply the refit (movie) Enterprise?
This is also my favourite Enterprise design, probably because I grew up with it. More mature design than TOS version.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, "Leaving Drydock": The OFFICIAL Theme of Star Trek, Period.
I believe this musical piece is called "The Enterprise"... Comes from ST:TMP scene where Scotty gives Admiral Kirk a flyby of the Enterprise in space dock. At any rate, I agree... Jerry Goldsmith's music from ST:TMP is one of my favorite themes ever. Decades later and I still catch myself whistling it.
Breathtaking.
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely done indeed 👌.
Very nice! Awesome looking production! I love that ship!
Wow! That would have been wonderful if it had made it to the small screen! All the what ifs and might have beens. If only CBS/Paramount would listen to the fans...if only...
Beautiful work, truly.
I've always loved the flash of light when they go to warp..
Just like a sonic boom when you break the sound barrier, a flash of light for breaking the speed of light
Such a beautiful and marvelous video.
As much as I love Strange New Worlds, this looks so much better than their weird gunmetal redesign.
Back when Star Trek was Star Trek!
@Karl M No one is a fan of Abrams' movies, only the ones he rips off.
Outstanding! Excellent--job well done!
Can't wait! It looks fantastic.
Fascinating.
Would love to see more. :)
Live long and prosper.
Bloody brilliant... as always.
this looks absolutely fantastic
Very nice, you guys have come a long way!
Very Nice VFX! Looking forward!!
I really enjoyed the Brian Goss episodes. James and the team really put a lot of effort into the productions.
This looks fantastic, nice to see Phase II.
This is actually fantastic. Getting me excited about Trek again.
Beautiful. The old girl looks amazing!
even at 480p these graphics are stunning
Followed ST for decades ... from TOS. TAS, ..movies ...TNG, V, E, novels (and even those great LP stories on Peter Pan Records) ... and gotta say that the new fan-created stuff (PII, and Continued) are as good as the best "classic" stuff.
This is quite encouraging as the fan stuff is just getting off the ground. Let's hope this new fan-created material at least MAINTAINS the quality demonstrated thus far.
I've always loved the classic Enterprise, but my favorite is and shall be the TMP refit version of 1701. But damn, the Phase II version is really growing on me! She has a great blend of what I loved about both designs! A pity we never got to see Phase II as a television series, but, things happened as they did for a reason I suppose! I am looking forward to seeing what the New Voyages folks have in store for us!
Great music for some Enterprise worship.
They were one of the first... so i'd really love to see them release their completed episodes in the same way Continues did. Just a couple more episodes, come on!
Beautiful! Wanna see more!
looks amazing
damn impressive!
well done!
I will say this again, she is one sexy ship. Thank you Tobias!
Good to see the Light Works guys still doing this awesome work. :)
That is fantastic and I love those nacelles.
It’s amazing how they re-designed the enterprise and the changes they made and some respect reversed shuffle risotto subtle and yet the changes they made were so great I mean pushing back the nurse selves in the way that they mount to the ship swiping them back the way they did they redesigned the sauce the section very very gently it turns out that the sausage section is actually larger on the end of put on the refit enterprise that was on the original not a lot bigger just a little bigger
Great work!
Someones been upping their game....awesome work
BEAUTIFUL
pod secure, pressure equalize.
Thank you Mr. Scott.
Aye sirr. (Scottish accent)
Different from anything I've seen, including the alien ship's design👍 Excellent graphics👍
A deviation from my "space audio" outreach . . .
Yes, I grew up with the original Star Trek, and I'm happy to see that fan videos are taking up and, in may ways, far surpassing their 1960's inspiration. (Oh, and if the Phase II folks need any plasma wave audio for sound effects . . . I know a guy. ;-) )
Awesome. And I was at TrekTrax and I remember the Ferengi!!!
a good series for this I think would have been using the Excalibur, Hood, Lexington and Potemkin from the episode Ultimate Computer as test beds for this refit since all of those ships would need repairs in one way or another, especially the Excalibur. They could then use all 4 ships serving in different episodes with intersecting arcs to give the series some depth with out over using one ship over another. Series would end after say 5 years which would give Starfleet engineers information they would use on the second major refit of the Constitution class which would be done on the Enterprise and a few of the remaining Constitution class ships that hadn't had a major refit yet. An extremely de-aged, de-weighted Shatner could be brought in to bring the Enterprise into space dock where her refit would begin.
Being Ex Navy and Merchant Marine I know the Admiral's inquiry after that incident would have been terrible even if Kirk/Enterprise was not at fault.
Someone please do a fan made feature with this. This reminds me of Star Trek how it used to be. A feature could be set just before Star Trek The Motion Picture. Really nice job you have done, outstanding
Nicely done.
I know its the Phase II design, but, look at the lightning, the details, omg!
And Discovery Fanboys trying to tell us, "Cant update the outdated 60s look!", yea, sure.
As if the masterminds behind Discovery know anything about Star Trek at all.
Proper. That was proper.
awesome work.
I can't figure out who did what in this video, but you did yourselves proud .
great work!
very nicely done this one, the people involved in the phase 2 project never fail to impress. And I really do like the nacell design on this version of the constitution refit, it suits the over all look of the ship much better than the movie versions.
I love this design, I think it is a more believable refit of the TOS Enterprise. THough I love TMP Enterprise refit, it looks like an entirely different ship. This PII design is a better and believable refit as it maintains hull elements of the original. If they were going to make that many changes then I would think building from scratch would have been more reasonable.
Great video!
I agree completly. ST:TMP Enterprise is nice, but it is cannot be the same ship. Imagine how much more emotional the end of ST3 would have been if the ship in the video had been the one destroyed. You would have really felt more of a loss because in the mind of the movie goer it would have been the TOS Enterprise.
Sure it can. look at the USS Midway. she looks nothing like she did in 1945
You know it occurs to me that with the way that CGI can be added to existing films, there is no reason that Star Trek I - III cannot have the Phase II Enterprise inserted in place of the TMP Enterprise. Of course this would only happen if there was a movement in the Star Trek fan base that would make it financially profitable for the studio to do. As far as the original timeline goes having the PII ship in TMP, TWoC, and finally it being destroyed in at the end of TSfS would make perfect since. At the end of TVH Kirk and crew would get the entirely new "Enterprise A" (TMP Enterprise).
Doug C, no, it really can't. The Midway got an angled flight deck added after WWII, which changes its appearance quite a bit, but the rest of the ship is still the same. If you look at an overlay of the original series Enterprise, and the refit Enterprise, you will observe that the dimensions are different enough that you can't really fit the old ship inside the contours of the refitted one. The only part of the ship that COULD be the same is some of the framework of the primary hull. EVERYTHING else would have to be new.
In other words - what we see in this video is original Enterprise, but with engines/pylons that are a sort of halfway step between those of the series and those of S:TMP.
I'm wondering - would it make sense for a final series refit of JUST the engine nacelles and pylons in the final year of the 5-year mission to those of TMP: E. - making that final step to the engine style of the motion picture?
And then the extensive total refit of the Enterprise from the series to the movie after the 5-year mission actually could consist of *total replacement* of the secondary hull - but keeping the existing primary (but making changes) and also keeping the engines/pylons from the (theoretical) final engine refit that I mention above.
That way it's handled in stages - but mostly keeping to the idea that - though most of the original parts are now gone/changed, it technically IS still the same ship.
What do you think?
that last fly by
This is a great rendering. Although I still prefer the cylindrical engines & un-swept support pylons what you have done here is a nice compromise, very nice work.
can't wait to see these eps. A mysterious new enemy...and a run in with the Ferengi?!
Beautiful work almost looks piratical some shots or most looks like model work great stuff.
Interesting blend of the both the both the Enterprise A & B.
I watched all the episodes and they were all excellent and were excellently done!!! And besides they did two episodes based on the Guardian of Forever and called the planet Gateway!!!!!!
So Capt. Picard had no idea that almost 100 yrs.ago Capt.Kirk delt with the Ferengi, and in the 22nd century Capt. Archer did the same?. Those memory Alpha records keepers have some " splaining" to do!!!.
Well done!
The planet scenes have me excited. Love Phase II, but it's been lacking in the 'explore strange new worlds' aspect of Star Trek. It's mostly been a bottle show with redressed ship sets. Granted, I know there's no budget to build planet sets every episode, but Kitumba was so well done with the off-set filming that it has me craving more!
Keep up the good work! Looking forward to future episodes, and thanks for keeping Gene's vision alive.
and then.... they decided to make Star Trek: The Motion Picture instead of Phase II (and the rave reviews that movie had... or not), only because of Star Wars and the thunder it made in '77. i read a biography that William Shatner had a voice about making the movie rather than the next series. i would have loved to see what they could have done with Phase II, in less than a decade before ST TNG came out in the 80's.
They did a number of sci fi TV series for a short time after Star Wars but none of them lasted past 2 seasons!
You know why they didn't last and create the impact Star Trek did? They weren't thought out well enough, the scripts were rushed, and they had issues aggravated by demands for better special effects (at least half as good as Star Wars; arguably the effects in the Galactica pilot/1978 were as good as Star Wars) and getting episodes out on schedule and on-budget. They had the same problems that dogged the original Star Trek a decade earlier BUT no Gene Roddenberry, no Gene L Coon, no Robert Justman, no Herb Sohl. A few of these shows have their fans and are cult favorites but their fanbase is nowhere near as big as Star Trek's because they weren't as thoughtful and they didn't hit TV at the right time.
Star Trek Phase II had mediocre scripts. The changes they were making were not enough and it would have looked 1960s Star Trek with a mild paint job which was NOT enough after Star Wars. Sorry -- that's reality.
The only way you could match Star Wars and establish a revamped aesthetic for Star Trek that moved beyond the 1960s series was a motion picture with a bigger budget. A TV series was not going to cut it. Heck, in 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey pretty much destroyed any myth that the original Star Trek was state of the art/cutting edge! It had far better sets AND generally more convincing special effects than the Star Trek TV series!
The best thing that you can say about Star Trek's sets were that in retrospect is that they were clever within the confines of its budget and TV limitations. The basic designs were thought out well enough that they scaled up well for the movies and sequel TV series; the basic "rightness" was always there -- they just needed more time and budget to get beyond a plywood look!
They adapted a few of the episodes for Phase II into TNG Season 2 during the writer's strike but they weren't very good episodes.
I think they had to go the motion picture route to produce a higher visual level. Were the scripts in the movies as good as the original series? Arguably no, at least half the films were pretty good and even the "bad" installments were truer Star Trek than what's being produced now.
Just continuing onward from the 1960s with the same basic look, same costumes, with no visual upgrades ON TOP OF the obvious script problems Phase II (and later STTMP) had would not have helped the matter. Nobody disagrees that STTMP was a beautiful-looking even if it had a very flawed script.
@@AvengerII yep, i agree. with ST TMP the most they had going for it was the special effects. ST Wrath of Kahn was over the top with plot as well as sp-ef, and arguably the best of the Trek movies.
@@AvengerII oh, forgot. regarding 1968 2001 Space Odyssey set designs and effects? go even further back to 1956 Forbidden Planet was insane with the special effects for its time. even by today's CG standardized effects, this one was just amazing, 21 years before SW ever came out. I remember the first time I saw Forbidden Planet on TV when i was 7 years old, really too young to understand what was going on, but that ID monster scared the hell out of me. gave me nightmares for years!
I am sorry but phase 2 would have killed star trek.
Really like the phase 2 Enterprise
I'm really impressed on what the fx-team of Phase II has done so far. Excellent work.
SPOILER:
I'm a bit sceptical about the Ferengi having contact with a Federation ship in the 23rd century. I'm also a little bit sceptical about their appearance in ENT, although you could maintain continuity a bit by saying that the Ferengi haven't identified themselves as such in ENT. I'm interested to see how you guys and gals will handle it this time.
But I'm also wondering a bit why the Orions weren't used instead.
Maybe Ferengi that made early contact never reported it in. and likewise with Capt.Archer.
WHO knows about Ferengi they don't report to us "hew mons" as they call us!!!! Or the. DS9 episode "Little Green Men"!!!!!
Looking good.
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Based Upon “Star Trek” Created by Gene Roddenberry
Original Designs by Matt Jefferies
VFX Supervisor/Additional Designs: Tobias Richter
VFX Created by The Light Works
©️2014 CBS/Viacom Studios, Cawley Entertainment, Roddenberry Productions & The Light Works
Not quite, but close.
@@RobertMaurowhat did I mess up?
The Phase II design is pretty nice. I like to think of it as a test-bed, a refit of a Bonhomme Richard class with Block I Warp nacelles (Block II is what we see on the TMP Enterprise), modified torpedo launchers that were further refined for TMP Enterprise, etc, etc.....
AWESOME!!
Beautifully done (though personally always felt the new engines look small by comparison to the original) but amazing work as usual by Tobias and his Light Works :)
If I'm not mistaken, was this musical piece from the sequence where Kirk is being shuttled to the Enterprise in The Motion Picture?
yes that correct
The title is "Leaving Drydock"
Actually it's called "The Enterprise".
Very good! Do you think It's possible the guy that did this is a Trekkie?
It's also the precursor to the next gen theme
Awesome!
Good teaser, love the Phase II variant. But one thing, the Ferengi were not known until the 24th Century, and even then, nobody knew anything about them until they were encountered by the crew of the Enterprise D. That was something mentioned both in Encounter at Farpoint and in the episode 'The Last Outpost', where the Enterprise D crew finally met up with the Ferengi.
Magnifique !