CGI and Special Effects Revive Roddenberry Star Trek

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An Academy award winning Special Effects technology from OTOY is reviving Roddenbery Star Trek. They are working with the Roddenberry estate. OTOY Inc. is the definitive cloud graphics company, pioneering technology that is redefining content creation and delivery for media and entertainment organizations around the world. OTOY’s Academy Award®-winning technology is used by leading visual effects studios, artists, animators, designers, architects, and engineers, providing unprecedented creative freedom, new levels of realism, and new economics in content creation and distribution powered by the cloud.

Here is the imaging of the recovery of the Enterprise D saucer section and a 2-minute follow-up to Star Trek Generations.

9 thoughts on “CGI and Special Effects Revive Roddenberry Star Trek”

  1. This is great. I was very dissapointed when I saw the “Brave New Worlds” Enterprise bridge looked little like the same ship’s bridge on the original series. I would have preferred an identical bridge, and uniforms.

    BTW Where is Scottie on BNW? We’ve heard his voice, but he seems to be locked up in the engineering deck. Are Scots too white for today’s woke Hollywood?

  2. I rode the Mission to the Moon ride with Gene Roddenberry at the Huntsville Space Center in the late 70s when I was still a kid. The museum director let him in line right in front of me. Truth to tell, he was getting a little heavier in the face by then and it was really amusing to see what a couple gravities did to his cheeks. The ride itself was just a spinning drum thing, like at carnivals, but inside a building with a pretty primitive screen show on the floor and ceiling in the center.

    The museum director also drove the Big Bird around the park a bit in a ‘real’ moon buggy built by NASA for training. When they parked it behind the cafeteria and went inside, the kid I was with insisted we walk down and look at it more closely. I was nervous as hell as it was an employee only area so he tried to make up for it by being more brazen. He reached in and seized an upright handle in the center and pushed it down. The buggy instantly, without a sound (electric), LEAPED forward at high speed towards a solid concrete retaining wall just a few feet away.

    He was so surprised he couldn’t even let go before the buggy’s forward motion pulled the handle, still in his hand, back up and it stopped, instantly, inches away from disaster. We boogied the hell out of there, with no one ever the wiser. Ah, simpler times.

    I guess moon buggies didn’t need ignition keys in those days because, if you parked it on the Moon and walked away, no one was going to mess with it. Where as, in the movie Ad Astra (silly movie), people on the Moon were actively trying to steal Brad Pitt’s moon buggy, even though they already had their own.

  3. Except for a few of the Pike epsiodes, Discovery was pretty bad.

    Picard season 3 was stellar, really, really surprising after seasons 1 and 2.

    The new Star Trek is Strange New Worlds and, so far, it’s pretty stellar.

    I also enjoy Lower Decks, some don’t seem to care for it, but that’s an individual taste thing, not a quality issue.

  4. Star trek has always been “woke”. Always. Picard season 1 and 2 were bad because they were poorly written. Season 3 is actually really good. None of it has anything to do with the progressive social commentary trek has ALWAYS been based on.

    • Discovery and Picard had problems with bad writing. Michelle Yeoh’s performance and character(s) were good. I have not watched most of the shows. I have watched clips from youtube. I did watch the first few shows of Discovery. The version 3.0 Klingons were terrible. The writing and the characterization of the crew, the Federation, Star Fleet, Romulans etc… was messed up and did not make for interesting stories. The old stories had the crew doing some versions of made up problem solving and using established in show technology with particular benefits and limitations. The new shows just changed things to move the plot as desired by lazy writers. Dr. Who has arbitrary unlimited and limited capabilities. But there is usually consistency over a set of shows and a few seasons. When rules are broken, it is to get to big story payoffs. Voyager was at the limit of how much bad writing (dud episodes) vs decent episodes that I could take. Voyager the limit on how much bad characterization and character arcs. Voyager was actually past the limit for many seasons, but it was given the TNG two season grace period to get it together. Voyager dud episodes also tended to be entertaining enough and tolerable. DS9 had quality all the way through. In the new shows, if any character and alien race can do anything for any reason and with limited or no setup then why try to claim it is stories and characters in the Trek Universe.

    • Picard Season 3 is so radically different than the other seasons one wonders how the same people were responsible for the same three seasons. That said Season 3 is really entertaining and great fun. As someone said Star Trek has always been woke utopian nonsense to some degree but it was fun to watch… good to see that spirit in season 3. although its grittier in Picard but I like that

  6. I am tired of science fiction because we are living in science fiction. Chat GPT answers like Star Trek’s computers. (And mr. Spock’s tablet is too thick.)

    • would be awesome, if CGI simulations, created from real physics data, showing launch pad and engine power effects simulations on take off and landing and looking at monitoring displays within a story plot, including scenes with changing perspectives focused on rocket and surroundings (?)

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