Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

@socketwench - They're actually refilmed Franz Joseph blueprints from the 70s. Before TWOK they used the same blueprints, just on film!

If you REALLY want to get nerdy, the green damage control graphics on the bridge? That's the Phase II Enterprise on there.

@socketwench - I do know the effects work was done differently because ILM had full control.

TMP was done by Doug Trumbull and John Dykstra's Future General and Apogee. They controlled that look and went with the pearlescent paint job on the E. To film it, it had to be dark to avoid blue screen splash over.

TWOK used TMP footage, so ILM wasn't able to completely remove the pearlescent paint job for new shots, so, again, filmed pretty dark.

TSFS is all new footage, so ILM, which hated the pearlescent look, were able to refinish the model, removing the pearlescent paint job and film brightly. Too brightly if you ask me. The ships look flat because of that.

The rest of the bright look is all up to Nimoy's directing I'm guessing.

David Lynch was one of the few people who could accurately film a nightmare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j13ZuGgcqd0

A question for the writers and creators out there.

How do you write for your characters? Do you just know what they'd say? Or do the characters tell YOU what they'd say (and even make plot suggestions/changes?)

I do the latter, and during a convention where I explained the process of "telling a character who they are until they start telling ME who they are" another creator leaned in and whispered "your brain frightens me."

This is how bad it's getting here in the states: https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/refugee-advocates-want-canada-to-make-exemption-for-u-s-transgender-asylum-claims/article_b2cfc342-3a5a-57f7-b97b-7b908f55b7a4.html

A quote on my mind these days.

"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair.

"Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

So it seems that the newest Linux Mint uses the Ubuntu Noble software base and the one I was using before the reinstall used the Ubuntu Jammy base. After a reinstall using the Jammy software set my PCs are very happy again.

2025 is really kicking my butt.

I have an emergency dentist visit tomorrow as my tooth is falling apart. It's just a "Let's see what's happening" exam with one X-Ray. $117.

Just a look. Nothing more for now.

Thoughts Before Bed

"What's a warrior to do after he's lost the big one? Win a few of the little ones."

We had this argument was back in 2016 with Laura Ingraham doing the Ugly Salute. We had our debates, we had our arguments and in the ten years since, she was absolutely doing the Ugly Salute.

Musk's doing it now. No need to argue at this point. we had years of that with Ingraham. He's doing it now.

Current Mood:

@spottyfox@pounced-on.m

That Sidekick 3.

This feels very poignant right now.

We will prevail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmQkY0QBGXA

Happy Martin Luther King And Absolutely Nothing Else Day.

Three weeks of carbs.

Quote of the Day:

"The best thing about being a werewolf is that it's taught me a lot about time management."