I really wish CBS hadn't sent a cease and decist to that one YouTube channel who was building an entire Ent-D in Unreal. It showed all of Main Shuttle Bay through corridors, a couple lounges including 2-Forward all the way up to the bridge.
Dont tell anyone I told ypu about this...
Not with Trek, but I'm a former stagehand and I've done amateur stagework. Spent a lotta time building and maintaining sets and props. I've been there.
You're backstage, you've got how everything should look memorized, it's all set up, and for a moment, while it's just you and that dry run, you forget yourself. You're a part of the show.
Eventually you step back, remember it's all fake. You notice the little flaws, notice the floor isn't just right under your feet. You were tired, trying to get something done. A lapse.
I genuinely believe in the magic of the stage. Not in the sense of a spell, but of the ritual. No matter if it's on a screen, or in person, if you do it right, we let go. For a moment, we forget our world and step into another.
Wil Wheton talks about times outside of filming on TNG where he would flip the set power switch on in Engineering and just soak it all in.
I want that for me
Never too late to get into production, it's a tough, fast paced environment but it does have its perks
If you're good at what you do, it's not hard at all. Doesn't even feel like work. The one thing it takes from you is time. Long long days, time away from family. It's wonderful but it's a doozy of a price you pay
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You have fallen through reality into the Trekrooms.
where it's nothing but the stink of 80s carpet, the madness of red alert and endless backround noise of EPS manifolds at maximum hum-buzz
So heaven?
I've experience it a few times in VR. For a few fleeting seconds, my world is the world being projected onto my eyes. It rarely lasts long, but it is mind bending.
Had it happen a few times in VR. A few times your just really in to it or intoxicated. The strongest was when I fell a sleep with the headset on and woke up and just accepted the entire environment for a solid minute.
There's been some moments where I stood there quietly in VR where im just staring at the world not fully confident of I was in reality or in Half Life Alyx. It's a real out of body experience..
I've literally sat down in city centers surrounded by buildings. It's an amazing feeling.
I have felt vertigo in high places in regular 3D games like Minecraft. I have to sit for VR Ghost Busters
I can't imagine how immersed I'll be in more immersive VR
Yes I’ve been there, very relatable, but my experience was getting “beamed up” at Star Trek The Experience at the LVH in Las Vegas back in 2006. I’ll never forget the feeling of suddenly being on the bridge.
Just left the same comment. It was surreal for the few moments you were on the bridge.
The other thing I remember vividly is the poor guy who ran up to one of the actors who was in full Klingon costume. The guy belted out some phrase in Klingon you know he had been rehearsing for weeks and stood there, proud and expectant. The actor glared down at him and in forceful English said, "I do not speak that dialect, human."
I've never seen someone's dreams be shattered so visibly and thoroughly in so short a time.
I wish I could experience that. I wish our sci-fi fairytales of space travel were happening now. Alas, I must simply exist in a life lived better than a king of old, living longer than our ancestors, with food untasted by the billions before us, and all while I fly around in space within Eve Online while watching Star Trek. Life is great, but it's so easy to want it to be just that much better.
Star Trek: Bridge Crew gets you surprisingly close.
Not sure how popular it is nowadays.
I bet someone experienced that on The Expanse, their sets were WILDLY complex. The Roci was a permanent fixture that rotated for maneuvers. Pretty cool. Nothing like a Trek set though I'd bet.
I had the opportunity many years ago visit the Star Trek TNG experience in Vegas. There was a point where they rush you through the bridge of NCC-1701D. I had that same feeling in that moment.
Which was the point of the experience, of course, and I know if I had stayed for more than a quick walk across the deck the sensation would have fallen apart. But in that moment I was in the place I had seen so many times before. It felt familiar and registered as the same.
I like the way the OP in the picture wants to start a horror kind of discussion and it immediately turns wholesome and heartwarming.
Dude just got hit with Conceptual Embodiment
God thats so fucking cool, I'm deeply envious
I have a theory; if this individual was in Ops, then a corridor, their brain may have said - hang on, I was just in Ops, then I left ...and no one was left in Ops. I've left Ops unmanned! This is a dangerous situation for the station!
...and if that's going on somewhere in the mind, whilst one is also running late (merging those worries), at the same time as passing through the middle of a set piece - then yeah your brain is going to have a confused questioning of what reality is being occupied, what concern is to be followed given the circumstances at hand.
...either that or tachyons were involved.
Enterprise hallways have such a 70ies feel.
This is almost the exact experience I had playing Elite Dangerous in VR one time. I had my HOTAS mounted to the arms of my office chair so the whole setup could swivel. One day I was sitting in orbit over a planet researching a route or something. Ship sounds going in the headphones, comms coming in every now and then, then out of nowhere for just a brief moment I was in space flying that ship. I wish so badly that I could extend that feeling.
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I don’t think people understand that O’Brien represents the interests of his labor union and not the Democratic Party.
Going to the RNC and speaking at the convention was a shot across the bow to Democrats reminding them they need to pay attention to labor interests and not be taken for granted. Up until Biden no president in the last 40 years has done much for labor. Which is why Hilary lost in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
O’Briens speech was on point and focused on labor interests. It was a tacit reminder that Republicans won in 2016 because of Trumps populist appeal in those states and lost in 2020 because they did not have it. Trump has spent the last 4 years trying to appeal to labor on anti immigrantion, social issues, and racist dog whistles without giving them any economic promises.
I had a similar experience on the Star Trek Encounter in Las Vegas. They did an amazing job with the bridge of the Enterprise D!
I was genuinely sad when it shut down.
He’s describing liminal space. It has nothing to do with being tricked into thinking you’re on a space station. It’s about being somewhere our brain knows should have lots of people, but you’re alone.
I’ve walked through train stations late at night and had those moments before. A gaping maw of a walkway meant for rush hour pedestrian traffic… completely empty and silent.
Edit: ??? I guess liminal space is really upsetting for some people.
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