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Rick Sternbach
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 Posted: Mar 06, 2008 8:58:52 pm |
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Congrats, Carolyn, on the Trek consulting gig. While the command structure at Paramount has changed radically from the time I was on staff, I must say that I found that the producers and writers were generally good listeners when it came to injecting a healthy dose of real science into the series and films. Putting aside the oft-ridiculed joke of "technobabble," we did manage to get across about 85% of the science and 24th century technology that we offered in memos and sketches, particularly on TNG, and I think the audiences only gained from the experience. If anything sounded wrong, it wasn't my fault. 
Here's hoping the new Trek film will be a fun romp with some great space imagery.
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CarolynPorco
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| Posted: Mar 08, 2008 11:47:42 pm |
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Rick,
Happy to make your acquaintance and learn of your experiences with the Star Trek franchise. My experience, as I've said elsewhere, so far has been that the crew seems very sincere in wanting to get things `right'. And yes, I hope very much it will be a visual delight backed with some cold hard facts.
Thanks for dropping by. And if you'd care to comment on other threads in this Forum, like the intersection of science and the public, please do so. And invite your friends also. I'd love to hear what folks have to say about this matter. |
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Rick Sternbach
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2008 5:43:31 am |
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Good to hear they want to get it looking real, but don't be surprised if maybe some of the correct science goes out the window for the sake of drama. That's just the nature of the biz. As one of our visual effects producers on TNG said, "This ain't NOVA, y'know." True enough, and I ought to know, having worked on COSMOS and a lot of astronomical art before that. But we did manage to show Trek audiences exploding stars, merging gas giants, asteroids, and nebulae of varying levels of plausibility, and they loved it. Like ad writers changing "quick" to "kwik," we had to know how to do it right before we began fiddling with it.
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CarolynPorco
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2008 2:36:34 pm |
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Yes, I'm fully prepared for such `departures'. As I've said elsewhere, just to put a depiction of an outer solar system object on a screen, you have to violate reality in some way...like the illumination level or the color. So, it can never be exact. |
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Rick Sternbach
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2008 4:15:39 pm |
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True enough. Even on COSMOS we had to balance visual reality with images the audience would understand and enjoy, and we continue to do that with 99.99% of painted or CG astronomical art. Fortunately the powers that be on Trek trusted us to conjure up celestial objects and guide the FX crews as to how they would look and behave, and I suspect it'll be the same for you on the new movie as the FX work goes forward. We couldn't get too deeply into the tech of how we knew what we knew; it would have made their brains bleed. Looking back on the films and TV series of "modern Trek" in the last 20 years, and especially the FX advances in the last ten years, I'd have to say that the CG modelers and animators rendered most planetary stuff and energetic events pretty well.
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