{"id":49593,"date":"2023-07-24T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49593"},"modified":"2023-07-24T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:03:10","slug":"turn-on-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/24\/turn-on-the-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn on the lights!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1203,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mastodon.online\\\/@kmartino\\\/110769849609176562&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250718163134\\\/https:\\\/\\\/mastodon.online\\\/@kmartino\\\/110769849609176562&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 08:00:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 20:40:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 23:03:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 23:03:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This YouTube video shows how impressive of a job the <em>Strange New Worlds<\/em>\/<em>Lower Decks<\/em> crossover did with reworking the opening credits in the Lower Decks style.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Strange New Worlds Animated Opening Credits Comparison\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/evEv8mqoslI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But part of what stands out to me is how well this highlights how woefully under-lit the live-action Enterprise is. There&#8217;s a ton of detail in the animated version that I&#8217;m sure is drawn directly from the live-action version (especially since, really, they&#8217;re <em>both<\/em> animated versions, just in different styles), and it&#8217;s gorgeous!<\/p>\n<p>I understand that it&#8217;s a stylistic choice on the new shows (<em>Discovery<\/em> and <em>Picard<\/em> also did this a lot) to go for more &#8220;natural&#8221;\/&#8221;realistic&#8221; lighting on their ships, and a ship traveling through deep space isn&#8217;t likely to have a convenient light source nearby to make it all pretty and shiny.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2014 spoiler alert \u2014\u00a0<em>none of this is real<\/em>! (I know, I know, I struggle with this as well.) I&#8217;m entirely okay with adding &#8220;we can actually see the ships even when they&#8217;re in space&#8221; to the same base-level suspension of disbelief necessary for enjoying visual science fiction in general.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@kmartino\/110769849609176562\">@kamartino@mastodon.online for pointing me<\/a> to this video from Douglas Trumbull where he discusses directing the space dock sequence in <em>The Motion Picture<\/em>. At four minutes in, he specifically notes that they wanted to create a lighting design so that the Enterprise appeared to light itself, so even when the Enterprise was out in deep space, it would still be visible.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DOUGLAS TRUMBULL - Lighting the Enterprise | Star Trek\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HHjLsvEOeS0?start=235&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently my default suspension of disbelief includes being able to see in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[3857,3841,3617,4127,4097,4104],"class_list":["post-49593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-dis","tag-lds","tag-pic","tag-snw","tag-star-trek","tag-tmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}