No, I’m not dead yet. No, the “Doomsday” project isn’t dead yet either, although it’s definitely in a coma at the moment. After spending 10-12 hours a day in front of a computer terminal I’ve found that yeah, it’s surprisingly difficult to work up the enthusiasm to sit in front of a monitor for another 3-5 hours when I get home! But don’t worry… eventually the bug will bite again and I’ll squeeze another act or so out.
Meanwhile, a teaser for 2012!
Yeah baby, yeah! Star Trek 2012!
This image hit the ‘net over the weekend, and there’s some debate over whether it’s official, but who cares?! It’s a great shot of the new Enterprise, which is not an easy thing to do given her, um, challenging proportions.
#1 by Fargin Bastiges at November 25th, 2010
It is a nice picture, but I’m still not comfortable with those noticeably uncircumcised nacelles.
#2 by Jeyl at November 28th, 2010
It’s still ok. I don’t like how the camera is placed far in the back and zoomed in. It makes the secondary hull and nacelles look tiny in comparison to the saucer section.
There’s just no excitement.
#3 by Patrick Lynch at November 28th, 2010
The horrendous shape of the secondary hull combined with the warp engine pylons going straight into the shuttle bay is too much for me. They took a once graceful ship and turned it into an out of proportion mess. I’ve tried to like this version of the Enterprise and I just can’t do it.
#4 by Bill Lutz at November 30th, 2010
Its the most horrendous representation of the Enterprise ever. Its an insult and its shows the people who created this…shape…are not familiar with STAR TREK at all. However, you can tell they were STAR WARS fans…
#5 by Metryq at December 2nd, 2010
To put the above in clinical terms: “Yuck.”
#6 by Rich at August 16th, 2011
Love your work.
I’m a bit a Trekkie myself.
I happen to do audio restoration and re-mastering. If you’re having problems with your Star Trek Episode audio, I should be able to fix it for you – for free. Just export your finished Youtube segment audio and send it to me via one of those large file uploading services. Give me the login info. and downloading instructions.
When you get it back, shut off the audio track for your video (on your editing program) and add another empty track below it and put the fixed version in that track.
#7 by Scott Gammans at August 16th, 2011
Thanks… but it’s not really a technical issue that is keeping me from working on this… more of a lack of time and frankly, weariness. I’m an enterprise software architect by day and it’s hard to spend 10+ hours a day at work in front of a bank of computer monitors, only to come home… and sit in front of another bank of monitors!
I have to admit I have been getting “the itch” again lately, but it’s not to the point where I am ready to scratch it. Not just yet.
Thanks for stopping by!
#8 by Krik T. Semaj at February 26th, 2012
I don’t mind the redesign of the exterior so much… but the bridge just looks, well too darn big proportionally speaking… and the fact you can tell that all of engineering (and apparently the large communications areas) were clearly filmed inside a brewery (and what is with the spiral light shining on the holding tanks?!?) I found a tad bit insulting if not extremely low tech compared to just about everything else in the movie… but I digress..
So… its been 6 months since you’ve replied to a post and 15 months since your last post of anything… My question is this (and we all have day jobs/spouses et al too so…) to put it bluntly…
Will J.J. Abrams finish the next installment before you post anything new?
#9 by Scott Gammans at February 26th, 2012
JJ will probably beat me to the finish line.
I won’t say that this project is dead, but I can’t say that it is on life-support either–that would imply that it might be resurrected at any moment. A more Trek-ian analogy would be that this project is in stasis for an indefinite period of time.
Right now, I am on an extended assignment overseas for my employer, and I am only home one week out of four. This will probably continue until 2014, and I don’t really see me dragging my fleet of eight computers with me every time I head to Europe.
On the other hand, there has lately been a significant uptick in the number of people who have been subscribing to my videos on YouTube. I’m only human, and I have to admit that the extra attention that I’ve gotten lately is flattering… it would be nice to be able to give everyone **something** new to look at. So, I won’t commit to anything right now, but I will say that something is in the works.
Thanks for writing!
#10 by Krik T. Semaj at February 29th, 2012
No chance of you accessing/utilizing your network through virtual (VM/VLAN) methods?
At the very least could you re-post the “April Fools” day link for the time being?
Yeah… we are demanding… and what consumer/fan isn’t? But between your necessitated delays and JJ pushing to next year I think everyone who wants to see something are probably concerned about the latency in both environments killing what enthusiasm is left.
#11 by Krik T. Semaj at May 24th, 2012
Well he finished principal photography now in post production…
http://trekmovie.com/2012/05/08/star-trek-sequel-wraps-production/