Shows how warp speed FX have evolved from ST:TMP to NuTrek.
why did they move away from the trailing effect of the nacelles? it was just starting to look great.
My faves were Wrath of Kahn/The search for Spock/The Voyage Home effects.
TNG was “ok.”
My brother and I like how the star field rotates in Star Wars when entering hyperspace.
Best I could find on short notice.
I guess B5’s jump effects weren’t bad. I can’t even remember Andromeda’s.
But, Farscape has the best effect hands down imho.
I wish I could find a better quality video to do it justice.
Farscape jump is indeed awesome. Even better than BSG jumps I think. Though BSG jumps are cool because missiles are flying at them.
It’s too bad BSG didn’t go a total nerdy route, to have a ship being hit at the same time it jumped, causing some kind of mal-function. If it was any other scifi show they would probably have done that.
Obviously, the streaks of light are an artifact of an inefficient and environmentally unsound, lower tech warp drive system. The original movies portrayed a primitive warp drive that did not take into account later discoveries about the detrimental effects warp travel can have on the structure of space time, see. By the time of the Next Generation movies, the engines have advanced to a point where they create less stress. We don’t see that, we just see a warp effect without as many waste products.
Like comparing a 1969 Charger against a modern Charger. When you put the hammer down on the original, there’s a roar of sound, a cloud of smoke from the engine, and another from the tires burning out. The 2010 Charger, however, has a catalytic converter, electronic ignition with a modern engine that produces more power with less waste, it’s quieter, and the traction control puts all the horsepower into acceleration instead of smoked rubber.
</nerd rationalization>
I loves me some Star Trek but my absolute favorite “jump” is Farscape. When Moya goes to Starburst it’s magic.
Second is Babylon 5’s jump gates and hyperspace.
Third is the Falcon and Hyperdrive.
I love when the Enterprise is at Warp and the stars fly by. It is so tranquil. My favorite Warp is in TMP. Perhaps because the first time I saw it was with the eyes and wonder of a child.
Cowboy Bebop has a nice ‘warp’ effect, especially when ships are coming out through a gate.
Link with timecode set for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9SjoAYJvvQ#t=280s
I don’t remember in which Trek series, when they are in warp, the stars outside the windows doesn’t just show up as white lines, but a line of spectrum colors. i am always impressed by that.
Guessing it’s because they didn’t do it on the TNG series, and they wanted the TNG movies to be consistent with the series. If they’d had the Phoenix and NX-1 Enterprise do it, then we could theorize changes in warp tech, but they didn’t.
in TNG they went with the tail section being pulled longer effect, which to me is still very cool. but in the last Enterprise E clip (the last clip) it looked like there wasn’t even that effect…
The trek one that always stuck out to me was Voyager’s warp mechanic. What was with the folding nacelles?
Found this on Memory Alpha:
They are called variable-geometry pylon. The goal of these pylons is to improve engine efficiency by optimizing field stress when the ship travels extended journeys at warp 8+ velocity.
According to the unpublished VOY Season 1 edition of the Star Trek: Voyager Technical Guide, by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda, it was suggested that because of the variable-geometry pylons, warp fields may no longer have a negative impact on habitable worlds as established in TNG: “Force of Nature”.