Re: [OT] Nimoy at SDCC: "It was logical!"

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:04:39 +0000 (GMT), Matt Ion
<soundy106@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Josh Hill wrote:

I think you'd be safe with an Enterprise that looked like the original
done on a higher budget and with modern effects. Eliminate some of the
obvious archaisms, like the clicking of the computer or the mechanical
gauges in the sick bay.

And on that note... another annoyance to me (especially have just
watched a TNG episode) is the constant background "engine" rumble. Not
only does it not make sense for non-mechanical engines to make such a
sound (sounds more like a four-engine jetliner), but you'd think in an
ultra-advanced starship like that, they'd have come up with slightly
better sound deadening that didn't leave ambient engine noise at a level
that makes conversation difficult almost anywhere on the ship. Can you
imagine the long-term hearing damage caused by a constant low-frequency
rumble at that level???

Funny -- the TOS noise always reminded me of the gear sound in the old
trains on the IND, the ones with the rattan seats. Which seems rather
unwarplike and a clinker among the otherwise excellent and IMO
unsurpassed until Star Wars SFX of TOS.

OTOH, it's better than the wheezing of the TARDIS! And who knows what
a warp engine would sound like, anyway? I'm guessing that they chose
it for dramatic purposes -- something familiar enough to be of clear
provenance and give the audience a sense of straining engines. Like
the "whoosh" -- nothing sillier than hearing the whoosh of a ship
passing in a vacuum, but according to Rodenberry, the opening credits
didn't work without it, and Drama Trumps All.

--
Josh

"Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is
good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."
-- Samuel Johnson

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