No matter which ship...the Enterprise E, the Enterprise A, or the original Enterprise....that Jerry Goldsmith Star Trek theme makes it all...good in the feels.
We lost a little piece of the soul of Trek when Jerry passed on. His theme became almost as synonymous with Trek as the original series theme. And the man had so much respect for Alexander courage he asked him to compose the usage of the original theme in TMP.
When I saw the Enterprise -E for the first time in Star Trek:First Contact,I was floored.They took the best of the Constitution class refit and the Galaxy class to make one beautiful ship that's kicks butt and explore at same time!
I too remember seeing this silvery sleek beauty glide onto the cinema screen back in '96 to be met by muted collective gasps from the crowd. Still a stunner to this day.
I saw this at a National Park theater at Zion in southern Utah when it was released. I got emotional seeing the amazing E because all of us original trekkies knew this was the last time. I took my friend who had never seen any Trek content but knew of the Legendary Enterprise…when this scene popped up I felt like a proud papa telling my buddy that’s the baddest/most special ship across the stars.
We never got enough of the E. Sovereign Class is one of my all time favorites, not to mention the best name for a class - she really is sovereign! I like to think of her as the next Excelsior Class: They'll make A LOT of them, and refit them and keep them around for 100 years. There will be huge numbers of Starfleet personnel who will have only ever served on Sovereign Class ships throughout their whole careers.
Not necessarily. Starfleet flagships tend to be bleeding edge and massive which I presume would make them prohibitively expensive in terms of resources which would explain why the flagship class of the fleet in any given era never has that many of its line produced vs other classes. Only one that seems to break that rule of thumb is the excelsior class which went on to become the most produced ship of the fleet even outnumbering Miranda Class by near 100 ships. As for the E, yes sadly due to budget and CGI being relatively new from the 90's onwards, we only ever got to see the enterprise E take its gloves off once in ST Nemesis and sadly it wasn't a great film. I mean.... space vampires.... in star trek... seriously.... 🤷♂ 🤷♂ That aside, the battle sequences were epically well done, we finally got to see the E do what it was meant to do, move like a bird, fight like a daemon.
@@Nine-Signs I think the excelsior was huge in her day and then got to be considered a relatively smaller ship when the ambassador, nebula, etc came out. Almost everything after the excelsior is as big or bigger with just a few exceptions. The sovereign actually isn't all that big, she certainly bigger than an old excelsior but she's quite small compared to a galaxy or a nebula and I think we have reason to believe that nebula's were relatively well produced because they are so very large and flexible and adaptable. I think over the course of 100 years it's quite possible that we will see a great many sovereigns as well as variants outfitted for specific mission profiles.
There's no reason Nemesis couldn't have been much better. The bones of the story are sound, they just have to remember that while Star Trek contains action, it's not about action. Dune buggies are not better than transporters!
Awesome, Chris! As an homage to TNG original opening, you should have had a person walking across the back-of-the-bridge conference room windows at the 0:11 mark. 😉
@@ChrissonatorOFL it's great I think the one issue is the lighting it gives the enterprise a almost matte hull design and it illuminate the entire ship
It would have done better with a better Director, but otherwise the story was solid, and excellent actors altogether. Tom Hardy and Ron Perlman were great together.
I used to agree, but the Enterprise D has edged ahead in my book. I love the Sovereign, but it's a little *too* flat and sleek. It doesn't project the same feel of imposing majesty that the Galaxy class does.
Nice shot. The Sovereign is the red-headed step-child of the Hero Ships. The glassiest Glass Cannon. To me, it never felt like Home. “We barely knew her,” Picard says in FC - except he could be speaking for the audience. It was disrespected in S3 of Picard, in several ways. It wasn’t at the fleet museum (not saying it deserved to be), then it was dismissed in a throwaway line of dialogue from Worf - though he did “prefer the weapons” on it. 😒
When I first saw the Enterprise E in First Contact, I thought the hull had a brown shade to it to match the interior of the ship. As the movies went on, the hull had a grayish tone. I have to ask, am I just seeing it wrong?
The last time in star trek that a star ship meant anything was this movie and the Enterprise-E. After this era ends and the JJ/Kurtzman era begins, ships become just meaningless throw away plot devices. The Ent E was dripping in art deco styling, and I loved it truly. Now everything looks like a cross between Ikea and a dentists workplace.
@@ChrissonatorOFL Well... that was worth the effort eh. 🤷♂ By meaningless I am referring to the fact they literally stop making any logical sense, for the prior 50 years they had made logical progressive sense but no longer post 2009. JJ's constitution enterprise is as big as a bloody ambassador class vessel and that jack ass pile of crap "vengeance" class is the size of a Romulan warbird and terribly designed. All throw away starships. "meh", wont change that but you are entitled to your opinion as I am to mine.
Your work is excellent. I never liked how much ‘darker’ the Enterprise E looked after First Contact. In Insurrection, I had noticed the paneling on the hull looked greyer, muddier somehow… by the time of Nemesis, I really didn’t like the colour of the ship. It felt like the colour an ‘enemy ship’ should be, darker and edgier, not representative of the clean, bright, enlightened aesthetic of the how Federation was represented in TNG, DS9 and VOY. I mean, the Defiant was a little grey but would be lit so you could see it. It looked clean. To this day, I still can’t work out if they just lit the Enterprise E darkly in Insurrection and Nemesis or when they created new CG models they decided to recolor the panels. First Contact to my understanding was a mix of a lot of model and some CG model shots. I fell in love with the Enterprise E in First Contact, I felt like it was the most beautiful ship I had seen. Why is it movie makers want to make everything dark and dystopian? They miss the point entirely on why some fans want to watch something like Star Trek, optimism and hope for a better future and escapism. The SecretHideout productions take the dark-lighting to an extreme, I can never see their ship designs as everything is so dimly lit. I know space is dark in reality, but this is a television show, supposedly trying to tell a story…
The Nemesis Enterprise E definitely had some repaints and it some design changes so that the ship had armaments at the rear as well, in First Contact, the Enterprise E only had forward facing weapons and couldn't really defend herself from an attack from behind.
Well, First Contact was mostly a miniature... only a couple shots from First Contact are CG... about the only ones are the shot of the Enterprise jumping to warp, when the Enterprise exits the temporal rift. The CGI in Nemesis greatly outdoes the CGI in First Contact. Also, this video isn't from the movie itself, it's my own animation based on the shot from the movie, which is dated even for me at this point, I could definitely do a crazy quality version now :)
Andrew Mitchell I did do a second go at this though, and it's far more accurate in motion: th-cam.com/video/06ei-RHBrq0/w-d-xo.html Still no window reflections though. xD This second video was done using a high quality model though.
@@jrfury2659 Y Not 🤷♂️ there not Glass of any kind, but it would be interesting with the tech like Bridge view screen, to use Camera or Optical Sensors to View outside
@@mrandrossguy9871 it's called translucent aluminium or translucent concrete, look it up, that's how the ship stayed strong. Plus we can make translucent aluminium now, technology catching up with science fiction.
I recently revisited it here: th-cam.com/video/GV1RYL8-xTs/w-d-xo.html Unfortunately, Paramount kept trying to claim it as their own, so I had to do the PiP approach, sadly.
No matter which ship...the Enterprise E, the Enterprise A, or the original Enterprise....that Jerry Goldsmith Star Trek theme makes it all...good in the feels.
I couldn’t agree more. You can have a preference, but I get shivers every time I hear it.
I agree 110%
Mad respect for All generations of the Enterprise NCC-1701...but for me, the E will always hold a special place.
Doing it in the Enterprise J might make the shot last longer than the music though
We lost a little piece of the soul of Trek when Jerry passed on. His theme became almost as synonymous with Trek as the original series theme. And the man had so much respect for Alexander courage he asked him to compose the usage of the original theme in TMP.
When I saw the Enterprise -E for the first time in Star Trek:First Contact,I was floored.They took the best of the Constitution class refit and the Galaxy class to make one beautiful ship that's kicks butt and explore at same time!
Lee Jordan we have John Eaves to thank for the final design of the Enterprise-E.
I remember seeing it in the theater and there was a collective (no pun intended) “ oh wow” from the audience
This ship and nemesis is what got me into star trek in the first place
I too remember seeing this silvery sleek beauty glide onto the cinema screen back in '96 to be met by muted collective gasps from the crowd. Still a stunner to this day.
And the franchise in its modern form has treated it with total contempt.
she's a beauty
treat her like a lady & she'll always bring you home 🌌
Say what you will about “Nemesis,” but THIS scene with THIS music never fails to give me goosebumps.
The one dislike is obviously from CBS who don't like fan projects anymore.
Pretty much :/
Did they ever?
@@jankjason yeah
“Oh, it's beautiful!” - Director Orson Krennic
He woulda been doing naughty things inside the Scimitar.
What a beautiful ship!
She's so beautiful.
Your comment is 7 years old by now...holy..that clip is 9 years old
WHY DO THE SHIPS IN BOTH NEW REAL STAR TREK SHOWS LOOK SO TERRIBLE THAN!?
Didn't think I could actually fall in love all over again with the Enterprise E- but I just did 😂🥰🫠
Well done!!
I saw this at a National Park theater at Zion in southern Utah when it was released. I got emotional seeing the amazing E because all of us original trekkies knew this was the last time.
I took my friend who had never seen any Trek content but knew of the Legendary Enterprise…when this scene popped up I felt like a proud papa telling my buddy that’s the baddest/most special ship across the stars.
She’s the baddest
The sovereign Class really has that starfleet elegance ship design but with a massive "fuck around and find out aura"
I loved this movie. Especially how they use TNG/TMP theme throughout the film...good trek times
Been my favorite since I was 12 in 96
We never got enough of the E.
Sovereign Class is one of my all time favorites, not to mention the best name for a class - she really is sovereign!
I like to think of her as the next Excelsior Class: They'll make A LOT of them, and refit them and keep them around for 100 years. There will be huge numbers of Starfleet personnel who will have only ever served on Sovereign Class ships throughout their whole careers.
Not necessarily. Starfleet flagships tend to be bleeding edge and massive which I presume would make them prohibitively expensive in terms of resources which would explain why the flagship class of the fleet in any given era never has that many of its line produced vs other classes. Only one that seems to break that rule of thumb is the excelsior class which went on to become the most produced ship of the fleet even outnumbering Miranda Class by near 100 ships.
As for the E, yes sadly due to budget and CGI being relatively new from the 90's onwards, we only ever got to see the enterprise E take its gloves off once in ST Nemesis and sadly it wasn't a great film. I mean.... space vampires.... in star trek... seriously.... 🤷♂ 🤷♂
That aside, the battle sequences were epically well done, we finally got to see the E do what it was meant to do, move like a bird, fight like a daemon.
@@Nine-Signs I think the excelsior was huge in her day and then got to be considered a relatively smaller ship when the ambassador, nebula, etc came out. Almost everything after the excelsior is as big or bigger with just a few exceptions. The sovereign actually isn't all that big, she certainly bigger than an old excelsior but she's quite small compared to a galaxy or a nebula and I think we have reason to believe that nebula's were relatively well produced because they are so very large and flexible and adaptable. I think over the course of 100 years it's quite possible that we will see a great many sovereigns as well as variants outfitted for specific mission profiles.
Notice how they used this song when showing the USS Titan just before all of the TNG crew were reunited?
What a beautiful ship. Amazing work. That theme is incredible. I miss this era of Star Trek.
One of my favorite moments from Nemesis. Thank you for recreating it!
Thanks. :D
I did do a much higher resolution version here:
th-cam.com/video/BytAgdCIAdM/w-d-xo.html
Nemesis had it's moments. This short scene was among them.
There's no reason Nemesis couldn't have been much better. The bones of the story are sound, they just have to remember that while Star Trek contains action, it's not about action. Dune buggies are not better than transporters!
Awesome, Chris! As an homage to TNG original opening, you should have had a person walking across the back-of-the-bridge conference room windows at the 0:11 mark. 😉
Love that movie star trek nemesis its always a great trekkie moments
Yea, it's a good movie, short of a few parts, but here's a newer attempt at this shot I did:
th-cam.com/video/BytAgdCIAdM/w-d-xo.html
@@ChrissonatorOFL it's great I think the one issue is the lighting it gives the enterprise a almost matte hull design and it illuminate the entire ship
It would have done better with a better Director, but otherwise the story was solid, and excellent actors altogether. Tom Hardy and Ron Perlman were great together.
If the ship appears in the new Picard series, this is a good way to reintroduce it.
Lets not talk about that
Bideo Sama what, Picard or the Enterprise E?
@@danivarius both of them.
She is a beauty, isn’t she. Brings a tear to my eye🥲
Favorite vessel in favorite franchise. Well done!
This is better than Nemesis. I found Nemesis' CG effects hazy or ill defined with needless light blooms, likely to mask unfinished/rushed work. Bravo.
idk, I thought the CG in Nemesis wasn't too bad.
The Enterprise E will always be my favorite
Idk who made the Sovereign Class but Thank you
I used to agree, but the Enterprise D has edged ahead in my book. I love the Sovereign, but it's a little *too* flat and sleek. It doesn't project the same feel of imposing majesty that the Galaxy class does.
Incredible, is the only word that I can think of to say.
It’s brilliant ! Brilliant recreation no differences with the original
so it seems we bump into each other on random videos again old friend
@@beepthemeep12 oh yeah!!! ^^ that’s awesome !!
Nice shot. The Sovereign is the red-headed step-child of the Hero Ships. The glassiest Glass Cannon. To me, it never felt like Home. “We barely knew her,” Picard says in FC - except he could be speaking for the audience. It was disrespected in S3 of Picard, in several ways. It wasn’t at the fleet museum (not saying it deserved to be), then it was dismissed in a throwaway line of dialogue from Worf - though he did “prefer the weapons” on it. 😒
Nemesis honestly had the cleanest CGI out of the TNG movies.
You have the gift!!
Stunning
When I first saw the Enterprise E in First Contact, I thought the hull had a brown shade to it to match the interior of the ship. As the movies went on, the hull had a grayish tone.
I have to ask, am I just seeing it wrong?
Wish the movie was as good as this Enterprise .😁
That is beautiful
The last time in star trek that a star ship meant anything was this movie and the Enterprise-E. After this era ends and the JJ/Kurtzman era begins, ships become just meaningless throw away plot devices. The Ent E was dripping in art deco styling, and I loved it truly. Now everything looks like a cross between Ikea and a dentists workplace.
@@Nine-Signs meh
@@ChrissonatorOFL Well... that was worth the effort eh. 🤷♂
By meaningless I am referring to the fact they literally stop making any logical sense, for the prior 50 years they had made logical progressive sense but no longer post 2009. JJ's constitution enterprise is as big as a bloody ambassador class vessel and that jack ass pile of crap "vengeance" class is the size of a Romulan warbird and terribly designed.
All throw away starships. "meh", wont change that but you are entitled to your opinion as I am to mine.
I really hope we make real starships like this, I'm praying there is a reason we have to have port nacelles. 😂
So awesome!!
Gorgeous
please link the music
Holy crap, this looks great! One problem though, the clip is much too short
Great video.
Fantastic looking wessel…
This is very, very good.
Your work is excellent. I never liked how much ‘darker’ the Enterprise E looked after First Contact. In Insurrection, I had noticed the paneling on the hull looked greyer, muddier somehow… by the time of Nemesis, I really didn’t like the colour of the ship. It felt like the colour an ‘enemy ship’ should be, darker and edgier, not representative of the clean, bright, enlightened aesthetic of the how Federation was represented in TNG, DS9 and VOY. I mean, the Defiant was a little grey but would be lit so you could see it. It looked clean. To this day, I still can’t work out if they just lit the Enterprise E darkly in Insurrection and Nemesis or when they created new CG models they decided to recolor the panels. First Contact to my understanding was a mix of a lot of model and some CG model shots. I fell in love with the Enterprise E in First Contact, I felt like it was the most beautiful ship I had seen. Why is it movie makers want to make everything dark and dystopian? They miss the point entirely on why some fans want to watch something like Star Trek, optimism and hope for a better future and escapism. The SecretHideout productions take the dark-lighting to an extreme, I can never see their ship designs as everything is so dimly lit. I know space is dark in reality, but this is a television show, supposedly trying to tell a story…
The Nemesis Enterprise E definitely had some repaints and it some design changes so that the ship had armaments at the rear as well, in First Contact, the Enterprise E only had forward facing weapons and couldn't really defend herself from an attack from behind.
As always! Very beautiful. Great job! I'd sign up for your CGI class as well haha!
Funny how much the CGI model aged while the first contact model still looks awesome
Well, First Contact was mostly a miniature... only a couple shots from First Contact are CG... about the only ones are the shot of the Enterprise jumping to warp, when the Enterprise exits the temporal rift.
The CGI in Nemesis greatly outdoes the CGI in First Contact.
Also, this video isn't from the movie itself, it's my own animation based on the shot from the movie, which is dated even for me at this point, I could definitely do a crazy quality version now :)
Simply goregous.
You rendered the Impulse Engine... In the original Shoot it was just a texture....
Very impressive
looks great!
Nice recreation of the enterprise e
What song on the soundtrack is this on. I can't find it.
Not sure, I used the actual movie audio for this render.
Good job
The visual effects and film score and cinematography were the only good things about "Nemesis."
The USS Enterprise NCC 1701-E Always Takes Center Stage
Nice
How I miss the Enterprise E
from I quick peek when I'm totally fked it's awsommmme apart from there's no reflections on the Windows
Yea, it didn't dawn on me, lol.
It's still awsommmme tho. Right angle and timing. Spot on m8
Andrew Mitchell Thanks.
No problem. How did you match everything
Andrew Mitchell I did do a second go at this though, and it's far more accurate in motion:
th-cam.com/video/06ei-RHBrq0/w-d-xo.html
Still no window reflections though. xD This second video was done using a high quality model though.
Needs to be redone at 24 fps.
Here is a newer version I did:
th-cam.com/video/BytAgdCIAdM/w-d-xo.html
Has anyone noticed how all the escape pods are so easily noticed...or is it just me??
They've always been noticeable, at least on all the classes after the Enterprise B.
The exterior finish should be in white. Not starwars grey.
You have seen the Enterprise E from Nemesis, right?
Good, but now I want higher resolution :)
only 720p?! come on man....
This video is 11 years old 💁
@@ChrissonatorOFL so you're saying the program didn't have the capability to render higher than 720p?!
No, I'm saying my computer didn't have the power to render at 1080P
I wish this has lense flares.
This isn't JJ Trek. lolz
Chris Cunningham maybe it will look cool.
No.... JJ Abrams admits that he toned down heavily on the usage of lense flares... They can ruin perfect shots like this....
Uss Picard!!! but it must be a Ship what it is a Mirrow!!!!Powerfuel but so much Quality!!!!
Still the best Ship in the Star Trek Universe.....checkmate Odyssey class.
Why does a war ship need all those windows?
🤦♂️ Umm... it's not a warship! Have you ever even seen Star Trek?!
@@Locutus494 it was created for the DOMINION WAR or BORG INVASION !
@@jrfury2659
Y Not 🤷♂️ there not Glass of any kind, but it would be interesting with the tech like Bridge view screen, to use Camera or Optical Sensors to View outside
@@mrandrossguy9871 it's called translucent aluminium or translucent concrete, look it up, that's how the ship stayed strong. Plus we can make translucent aluminium now, technology catching up with science fiction.
Ilike star trek this design model star trek nemesis
The only complaint I have is the frame rate. Looks too soap opera for me.
I might've still been working at 30 fps at this time, this was 10+ years ago.
I recently revisited it here: th-cam.com/video/GV1RYL8-xTs/w-d-xo.html
Unfortunately, Paramount kept trying to claim it as their own, so I had to do the PiP approach, sadly.
Where did you find this music? As far as I know, it's not on the soundtrack.
Nah, its ripped from the film... The sound effects are still in this clip...
Here’s a version of it:
th-cam.com/video/RwzZewHi4r4/w-d-xo.html
The best Enterprise yet. Beautiful ship. Too bad they went CGI with it in its final movie.
I mean, it was all CGI in Insurrection and many shots in First Contact were CGI.
@@ChrissonatorOFL Any CGI used is too bad.
I JUST CAME
Jack Gaul Alrighty then. lol
God it's so ugly. Not the ship - the ship is gorgeous - but the rendering. Berman went cheap.
It's an old animation I did years ago 🤷
that's it? 4 whole seconds?
Make it better. And longer 😉
Can you not count? It’s 25 seconds lol
The Enterprise sure did get progressively ugly after 1701-A was decommissioned 😡