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- From: thogek@cco.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Kiefer)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
- Subject: Re: Exocomps, and quality of special effects
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 20:40:14 GMT
- Organization: Nope, just me.
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- In article <By6LMB.Gts@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jal41820@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Smiley) writes:
- >I've read just about every article so far on "The Quality of Life" here,
- >and once too many times I've noted someone complaining about the special
- >effects regarding the movement of the exocomps. The main comment about
- >it is that the special effects for the movement of the exocomps looks
- >awful.
- >
- >I'd just like to point out something about that. Did anyone stop to think
- >that it may have appeared like that intentionally? And for good reason?
- >Think for a moment.
-
- Just hadda point out -- you're asking a bit much of most r.a.s.c'ers,
- here. :-I
-
- > How many humans do you know of that move with perfect
- >smoothness? I don't think I know of anyone that just appears to "glide"
- >across the floor. For that matter, I don't know of any creature presented
- >in ST that just glides, either. The exocomps potentially had a quality of
- >being alive, and I think the movements given to them were an attempt to
- >show this. Unlike Nomad in "The Changling" (from TOS; someone made a
- >reference to it's movement quality), the exocomps were not simply
- >highly sofisticated machines, and I think what everyone is considering
- >poor effects is actually an attempt to demonstrate this, and one which I
- >thought worked very well.
-
- Good point. I had thought of this, and one other thought: maybe the
- anti-grav units (or whatever allows the levitation) on those little
- guys weren't perfect. (What?! Not perfect?! How unrealistic!!)
- The exocomps were fairly small units, and loaded with lots of other
- circuitry and devices (neural net, command pathways, micro-replicator,
- communications, sensors and sensor logs, and who-knows-what-else).
- Maybe the Doctor didn't have room to stuff a super-duper-perfect
- anti-grav unit in there, or maybe she just didn't have one.
-
- Maybe maybe maybe maybe...
-
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