Wallpaper: USS Kelvin, Starship

Federation Starship Hi Resolution Image and Wallpaper
USS Kelvin NCC-0514
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• This is my 2nd effort at rendering this incredible mesh by Tobias Richter.
  
• I played around with the lens flare for quite a while until it looked just right.
  
• Render time took approx 1 hour on a 2.8Ghz Pentium D 3.25GB Ram!
  

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USS Kelvin mesh by Tobias Richter - Composited and Rendered in Lightwave by ScienceFictionStuff.com

• This is my first attempt at rendering the amazing USS Kelvin Mesh by Tobias Richter from The Light Works.
• I tried to get some nice shadows on the hull from a very close angle, in retrospect I think the image is too close but I still like the angle.
• Please let me know what you think in the comments!
  

Wallpaper: Star Trek Space Battle

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USS Voyager, USS Cairo, USS Defiant, USS Esk
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• USS Voyager and USS Cairo are the first to open fire on a Suspected Romulan probe detected in the Terran System circa 2380:
• I rendered this image 4 times with one basic shot, one with more light on the runabout and 2 with a yellow light on the Excelsior and Voyager hull to make the phasers look more realistic ( My good mate Kendall pointed out that I have got the emitter wrong on the excelsior slightly wrong. I checked the blueprints and of course, he is right)
  
• The phasers were done in photoshop using a combination of Gaussian blur, ripple effect and noise.
• I also added noise to the overall image to make the hulls look a little more realistic.
  
• Voyager By Sarod / Excelsior by Eric Peterson / Danube by T.Slanitz / Defiant by Jonas Ljungberg Phasers, Phaser Lighting, Rendered and Composited by Muzzerino www.sciencefictionstuff.com
  

Wallpaper: Nebula Class Starship

2 Nebula Class Federation Starships
USS Edinburgh NCC-5255 and USS Auckland NCC-2366
orbiting Earth's Moon Circa 2381

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Nebula Class Federation Starship USS Sutherland
passes 'Dione' during refit testing circa 2378

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• I always loved the design of the Nebula Class Federation Starships and this mesh by Flat Eric is amazing. The only change I made was to the shape of the main deflectors central component. The mesh has a very round dish and I felt that the more rectangular one was more like the series. Please let me know what you think in the comments!
• The Nebula-class was a type of Federation starship that was in service in Starfleet during the latter half of the 24th century.
• Construction of the Nebula-class was spearheaded under the authority of the Yoyodyne Division, and ranged in construction dates from as early as 2363 to as late as 2367. Vessels including USS Phoenix and USS Sutherland where constructed at this time at both the 40 Eridani A Starfleet Construction Yards and later the San Francisco Fleet Yards orbiting Earth.
• The Nebula-class was equipped with multiple phaser banks, located at various points along both hulls, as well as multiple torpedo launchers. The Nebula-class had a maximum effective weapons range exceeding 300,000 kilometers.

Star Trek Wallpaper rendered in Lightwave 3d and Adobe Photoshop : Mesh by Flat Eric
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Wallpaper: Galor Class Cardassian Warship

After messing around in Lightwave and Photoshop, I decided to create some Star Trek Wallpapers. Please let me know what you think in the comments!

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Cardassian Galor Class Warship 'Gorand' on routine patrol along the Federation border

• Galor-class cruisers were the primary class of warship by the Cardassian Guard during the latter half of the 24th century.
• The arsenals of Galor-class warships vary, though typically they are armed with numerous phaser arrays. Although the Galor-class vessels were decidedly inferior to the Federation's Galaxy-class starships, they proved to be very effective against Miranda-class and other older Federation starships.

Star Trek Wallpaper rendered in Lightwave 3d and Adobe Photoshop
Additional Info by Memory-Alpha

Transformers 2 : Mini Review

Ok, I finally bit the bullet and went this last weekend to my local multiplex in Auckland to go and see the movie that knocked Star Trek off the No1 spot at the box office.

In a nutshell? 'Style over substance' that's it.

Don't get me wrong, its kinda what I expected anyway so I was not actually disappointed, but the film definitely lacked some important elements such as...

• Storyline
• Characters
• Narrative

What the movie did have was...

• Awesome CG
• Megan Fox ( Wallpaper here )

Also what I found interesting was that almost the entire 2nd half of the movie was just an advert for the might of the US Military.

Destroyers, Carriers, Bombers, Choppers, you name it, they are all here, but the fact that a movie like this could topple a movie like Star Trek at the box office says a hell of a lot more about the general cinema-going audience than the movies if you ask me.

2/5

Brannon Braga Speaks about Enterprise and the new Star Trek Movie

The topic of "The Are The Voyages", the controversial TNG tie-in finale of Enterprise, came up, and Braga again was very candid, saying:

• Braga: I will take full blame for that episode, for those that didn’t like it. In retrospect, it was a very cool idea, that in the end was a mistake. The concept was was to have Manny do a final two-part finale, but then have a final final episode send a valentine to all of Star Trek over the last eighteen years. We just thought it would be a cool concept to show the Next Generation’s crew looking back, though the holodeck, at Archer’s crew. It is a high concept, but I am not sure it came together.
• Read more @ Trek Movie >

WTF was Nero up to for 25 years?

Well, now we will know!

"STAR TREK: NERO" #1 (IDW Publishing): Remember how Romulan villain Nero (played by Eric Bana) was supposed to have been waiting 25 years to catch Spock after getting caught in that crazy time-bending portal? What was he doing all that time? Well, if that plot element from the recent "Star Trek" movie has been keeping you up at night, you can sleep safely knowing that IDW is kicking off a new series this week that chronicles Nero's off-camera machinations. Written by Mike Johnson and Tim Jones, with art and covers by David Messina, "Nero" follows in the footsteps of IDW's previous, well-received "Star Trek" titles that not only earned kudos from comics fans, but from the Trek faithful, too. It's as close to a sure thing as you get in the world of comics based on movie and television projects, so go ahead and grab a copy.

Read more @ Em Tee Vee

Star Trek 2 ( The New One )

Orci and Kurtzman speak!

"We had about a 15-minute to half-hour discussion with the whole gang and went off on our separate ways," "We're still in the re-reading and taking it all in phase before we actually sit down and start designing the film."

"We have to comb through everything and make sure that we leave no stone unturned because that was the approach that I think we were looking for on the first movie," states Kurtzman.

"And when you pitch an idea, sometimes someone will be like, 'Well, that's like that one episode,'" adds Orci. "Even in trying to stay away from it, you can crash back into it."

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Stargate Universe Trailer in HD (Long Version)

I have to say, it looks bloody good and I am delighted to see that Robert Carlisle retains his Scottish accent. Kudos to him!

Stargate Universe (abbreviated as SGU) is an upcoming military science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. Stargate Universe follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team on board the Ancient spaceship Destiny.

Transported to Destiny in a distant corner of the universe and unable to return to Earth, members of the team are forced to remain on the vessel and fend for themselves. The cast is Robert Carlyle as Dr. Nicholas Rush, Justin Louis as Colonel Everett Young, David Blue as Eli Wallace, Brian J. Smith as Lieutenant Matthew Scott, Jamil Walker Smith as Master Sergeant Ronald Greer, Alaina Huffman as Lieutenant Tamara Johansen, and Elyse Levesque as Chloe Armstrong.

Battlestar Galactica is programme of the year

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Long snubbed by the Emmys and Golden Globes, "Battlestar Galactica" got some love from the Television Critics Association during the weekend.

The final season of the Syfy cable channel's acclaimed drama was named program of the year by the group on Saturday.

HBO picked up more awards than any network -- three -- with "True Blood" named best new program, "Grey Gardens" winning achievement in movies, miniseries and specials, and "The Alzheimer's Project" taking achievement in news and information. Read more at Reuters>

Eugene Roddenberry and the legacy of 'Star Trek'

Eugene Wesley “Rod” Roddenberry, the only child of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry, recently took some time to talk to Hero Complex’s Linda Whitmore. He has a couple of irons in the fire. First, with the annual Star Trek Convention coming up this week at the Las Vegas Hilton, Rod plans a tribute to his mother, who died in December at age 76. Rod lives in the San Diego area and was at the recent Comic-Con International to promote his current project, the comic book series “Days Missing.” Along with his career in science fiction, he has collaborated with NASA, Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Kennedy Space Center to promote space exploration. He was frank, articulate, humble and undeniably logical when he talked to our resident "Trek" specialist, Linda Whitmore.

That’s not “Star Trek.” “Star Trek” was never science fiction. “Star Trek” was about people, humanity, characters. That was just thrown into the bubble of science fiction.

Read more @ the latimes.