Topic: OT: TOS remastered Gorn ship (Read 2360 times)

Rat Boy · « **on:** November 02, 2006, 11:30:54 pm »

From Star Trek.com

Click on the gallery and scroll through the images until you find it. It's an interesting take, at least.

Chris Johnson · « **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2006, 11:53:51 pm »

Another discussion thread on the topic is located here. For those interested in my comments on the model used (*shrug*), it's located in that thread (or just click here... I wanted to do something else than just quote myself).

ModelsPlease · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2006, 02:03:24 am »

Definitely needs to be built for the games

Chris Johnson · « **Reply #3 on:** November 05, 2006, 01:06:07 pm »

I wanted to revive this thread now that the remastered version of "The Trouble with Tribbles" [TOS] has now aired. What are your thoughts on the new graphics (and the new CG Enterprise model)? And what do you think "Mirror, Mirror" [TOS] would bring (what the actual I.S.S. Enterprise would look like, what your general impressions might be, etc.)?

Rod ONeal · « **Reply #4 on:** November 10, 2006, 08:11:36 pm »

Is it just me, or does it look like an untextured low poly mesh to anyone else too?

Chris Johnson · « **Reply #5 on:** November 12, 2006, 10:27:34 am »

Well, the Gorn ship was barely viewed on-screen, so why the need of textures?

Rod ONeal · « **Reply #6 on:** November 15, 2006, 02:43:03 am »

Well then, maybe now everyone will stop giving me grief about making my Gorns grey.

Rod ONeal · « **Reply #7 on:** November 15, 2006, 10:50:22 am »

True, FW. I just think that it's really cheesy for them to have done it this way in the 1st place. They still could've done a proper model. What's the point of after 40 years finally showing a canon Gorn and not doing it up right. $:-\$

Chris Johnson · « **Reply #8 on:** November 15, 2006, 03:14:27 pm »

I don't believe it was meant to be seen in full detail (I think it keeps in line with the story), thus no need for textures (and grey seems to be a TOS look with things getting more colorful afterwards). You could reason we still don't know what the Gorn design is (canonically-speaking) in TOS remastered because it wasn't seen in full on-screen, and the one seen at Startrek.com is something unofficial. But it's not something with vertical engines and dinner plates.

I was also happy but semi-dissapointed that the I.S.S. Enterprise has a more gunmetal grey look without too much decals and has a more 2nd Pilot look. To go into it more, I'm happy it's not decal-happy and race-car-look-happy as ENT's mirror NX-01, but it would've been nice to see the I.S.S. Enterprise look a little more menacing than simply have a dark-grey 2nd pilot look, and it would've been nice to see the globe and dagger replace the Starfleet boomerang in decals.

Rat Boy · « **Reply #9 on:** November 15, 2006, 03:45:43 pm »

If they even did more than they did, then the purists would be infuriated.

Chris Johnson · « **Reply #10 on:** November 15, 2006, 07:25:13 pm »

I thought "purist" in the case of TOS meant even keeping the effects used in the 1960s, so wouldn't they complain about how "fake-looking" this or that was anyhow? Or am I not using a broad-enough definition?

In any case, nobody can please everyone.

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