Worf shows Riker a holographic-klingon fight simulation.
Video: Where silence has lease
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
2011-04-11
Star Trek: TNG - The child
The Enterprise takes a sample of a dangerous virus on board. Jordi La Forge develops a special container for a safe transport.
Video: The child
There is also a german version of this entry on holographie.eu.
2011-04-05
Star Trek: TNG - We'll always have Paris
The Enterprise is on its journey to planet Sarona VII. After a time warp causes a déjà vu, the Enterprise receives a distress signal from scientific outpost Dr. Paul Manheims on Vandor IV. The Enterprise rescues the scientist and his wife Janice. She is an early love of Picard, who he has left her waiting in vain on a date. For Picard suffers under this incomplete love affair, he meets a holographic projection of Janice in the holodeck. After this attempt of a psychologic therapy fails, he make an appointment with real Janice in the holodeck, to complete the split of the relationship.
2011-03-30
Star Trek: TNG - Skin of evil
Trying to rescue Counselor Troi, who has an accident on planet Vagra II, Tasha Yar gets killed by a black matter. At the end of the episode the crew of the Enterprise gathers in the holodeck for a funeral ceremony, in which she says farewell to each of the crew members.
Video: Skin of evil
The holodeck distinguishes between projections of living and dead humans. Tasha Yar‘s projection does not appear as a familia image. Her transparent image reminds more of the appearance of a ghost. For the projection is a recorded message, it stays mysterious, how Tasha knows the position of each person she is talking to.
There is also a german version of this entry on holographie.eu.
2011-03-28
Star Trek: TNG - The arsenal of freedom
The Enterprise flies to planet Minos, searching for lost USS Drake. Arriving the planet, that is popular for its arms trade, the crew is being welcomed by a commercial for weapons. Beamed onto the planet, Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher meet a holographic projection of an arms dealer.
Video: The arsenal of freedom
There is also a german version of this entry on holographie.eu
2011-03-20
Star Trek: TNG - 11001001
To fix the malfunction of the computer from episode The big goodbye, the Enterprise enters Starbasis 74, where two Binars come on board for maintenance work on the central computer. The Binars belong to a race, that lives in complete dependency of computers. They appear just in pairs and communicate in binary language among each others. While the rest of the crew is on shore leave, Riker and Captain Picard enter the holodeck, where they meet attractive Minuet. Jean-Luc Picard and William Riker are delighted by intuition and interaction of generated Minuet. But as it later turns out, she is being programmed by the Binars, to distract Picard and Riker from them hijacking the Enterprise:
Video: 11001001
There is also a german version of this entry on holographie.eu.
2011-03-15
Star Trek: TNG - The big goodbye
The Federation wants to establish diplomatic relations to insect Jarada. Picard trys to learn their complicated language to welcome them. He enters the holodeck and immerses into a simulated world of fictive charatcer Dixon Hill to relaxe from exertions caused by his lessons and to advance the learning process by a non-pathologic separation of consciousness.
Captain Picard gives a late explanation of the mechanics and the application of the holodeck.
Video: The big goodbye
It is remarkable, that the lipstick in Picard‘s face, that is caused by the kiss of a holographic projection, is still visible after he has left the holodeck.
Captain Picard gives an enthusiastic reports his grew about the exact replica of the real world in the holodeck:
Video: The big goodbye
On his second visit Picard is accompanied by Data, historian Whalen and Dr. Crusher. A scan by jaradian space ship causes a malfunction of the holodeck:
Video: The big goodbye
The malfunction among others deactivates the security protocol, which protects visitors of the holodeck from deadly injuries. At first Picard, Data, Crusher and Whalen do not recognize the danger. After La Forge and Wesley are able to open the holodeck, gangster Cyrus Redblock and his body guard decide to rob the Enterprise. But trying to leave the holodeck, the get dematerialised:
Video: The big goodbye
There is also a german version of this entry on holographie.eu.
2011-03-13
Star Trek: TNG - Haven
Deanna Trois mother Lwaxana introduces young man named Wyatt to her daughther, whom she should marry. When meeting her, Wyatt is disappointed, because she is not the woman that appeared in his dreams. Suddenly a terellian vessel appears with a woman on board looking exactly like the woman in his dreams. Deanna is with pleasure willing to resign from the approaching marriage, to make sure she can stay on board of the Enterprise.
William Riker relaxes with a holographic harp play:
Video: Haven
Harp music seems to be a popular way of diversion on the Enterprise. Even Spock plays the vulcan harp in episode Charlie X on Star Trek: The Original Series. Harp music also appears in later episodes and movies of the Star Trek series.
Riker is disappointed, that Deanna Troi, to whom he has a close relationship, is going to leave the Enterprise after her marriage. He backs down to the holodeck. Deanna Troi follows him for a talk:
Video: Haven
The holodeck becomes a place of drawback, sancturary, and debate.
In this snippet the exit stays visible to the visitor as part of the Enterprise. Snippets to come will also show holodecks, in which the exit becomes invisible, and thus the visitor having no more hint of his residence in a simulated and reconstructed surrounding.
2011-03-08
Star Trek: TNG - The last outpost
While the Enterprise chases a Ferengi vessel, who have stolen a T9 energy converter, both space ships get trapped by an energy field in the oribit of an unknown planet, which is an outpost of T‘Kon Empire. The passing vessels have woken up the automatic ard of the planet.
This snippet shows one of just a fistful other applications of holography in the Star Trek series other than the holodeck.
Video: The last outpost
There is also a german version of this entry on holographie.eu.
2011-03-06
Star Trek: TNG - Code of honour
In episode Code of honour of Star Trek: The Next Generation season one an epidemic occurs on planet Styris IV. The Enterprise gets the order flying to planet Ligon II to bargain with sovereignLutan about preciousvaccine, which is only available on his planet. Lutan is that much impressed by Tasha Yar‘s beauty and strength, that he hijacks her.
Tasha Yar shows sovereign Lutan an Aikido fight simulation in the holodeck.
Tasha Yar gives a short explanation about the mechanics of the holodeck, that is been missing at the first use of the holodeck in episode Encounter at Farpoint.
This episode introduces the black-yellow pattern on the walls of the holodeck. This is the appearance of the holodeck, that occurs, when it is not in operation or, as seen in the snippet, the walls are not needed for the projection. The telephone-like programming of the holodeck is quiet unusual and does not appear in any other episode in this way.
2011-03-04
The illustrated man
The science-fiction movie The illustrated man from 1969 is based on same-titled novel by Ray Bradbury from 1951. The movie contains three of the novel‘s short stories. One of them is The veldt, which forestalls the idea of generating a virtual world in a room already two, resp. four centuries before the holodeck is used in Star Trek.
Circus worker Carl‘s (Rod Steiger) body is covered all over with illustrations, looking like tattoos on first sight, but beginning to move and giving an observer a glimpse into his own future when being viewed for too long. Searching for the woman illustrating him, Carl meets tramp Willie, who gets nightmarish illusions observing the illustrated body.
In his first vision a family lives in a highly engineered house with a children‘s room transforming the children‘s phantasies into a real world. When their parents one day enter their children‘s room they find themselfs in the middle of an african wilderness surrounded by a herd of hungry lions. They ask a psychiatrist for advice, who takes a look around in the room. After the parents threaten their children locking the room, the children allure them into the room, where the parents get eaten by the lions.
Ray Bradbury is also the author of novel Fahrenheit 451, that is published in 1953 and made into a movie in 1966.
Video: The illustrated man
There is also a german version of this entry on holographie.eu
2010-09-05
The man who fell to earth
Sci-Fi movie The man who fell to earth (1976) offers one more example of very early use of holography in cinema.
David Bowie as Thomas Jermone Newton is a humanoid extraterrestrial falling down to earth to find water for his dry desert planet. On earth he starts high tech company World Enterprise to build a spaceship bringing him back to his home planet.
His wife on far distant planet receives a video onto an holographic display of her husband.
The man who fell to earth (1976)
This snippet reveals in an unprepossessing way one main feature of holography - the parallax view. While Thomas Jermone Newton is just shown his own back in the commercial he is watching on TV, his wife is able to see his front on her holographic display.
2010-08-01
The man who fell to earth
In the same year as Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard play holo chess in Futureworld, another movie comes to the cinemas using a hologram: The man who fell to earth.
In the Sci-Fi movie from 1976, which is based on same-titled novel by Walter Tevis from 1963 and directed by Nicolas Roeg, David Bowie plays main character Thomas Jerome Newton. Newton is a humanoid alien from outer space falling down to earth to find water for his dried out planet. He founds hi-tech billion company World Enterprise to build a spaceship taking him back home again.
Right in the middle of the movie is a short shot showing his wife on far distant home planet forestalling the idea of holographic television. She holds a holographic screen to watch his husband on earth.
The man who fell to earth (1976)
Therewith The man who fell to earth is also one of the earliest movies, in which holography appears.
The above shown scene does not just show a hologram. Subliminal the scene demonstrates one of the main characteristics of holography, the parallax view. The alien wife can see the front of red-head Newton in the TV commercial, that stays hidden to the observer sitting in front of the TV watching it.
While in Futureworld the chess game is not recognizable as holographic chess and needs later explanation, the holographic display in The man who fell to earth is clearly visible as a hologram, as it is in use.
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