USS Voyager (Star Trek): Difference between revisions

An important shuttlecraft in many episodes, and operated from the USS ''Voyager'', was a spacecraft called the ''Delta Flyer''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbYf2l7gczUC&q=Delta+Flyer+extreme+risk&pg=PT2365|title=The Star Trek Encyclopedia|last1=Okuda|first1=Michael|last2=Okuda|first2=Denise|last3=Mirek|first3=Debbie|date=2011-05-17|publisher=[[Simon and& Schuster]]|isbn=9781451646887|language=en}}</ref> The ''Delta Flyer'' was introduced in the Season 5 episode "[[Extreme Risk (Star Trek: Voyager)|Extreme Risk]]", and was designed and constructed by the crew in the context of the show.<ref name=":1"/> The design of the fictional spacecraft by the production staff and how it was presented in special effects has been written about in books about the franchise.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DvUftgEACAAJ&q=%22Delta+Flyer%22+sternbach|title=U.S.S. Voyager and Beyond|last1=Robinson|first1=Ben|last2=Reily|first2=Marcus|date=2019-01-02|publisher=Eaglemoss Publications Limited|isbn=9781858755328|language=en}}</ref> The Delta Flyer was designed by illustrator [[Rick Sternbach|Rich Sternbach]], and exterior views were rendered by computer graphics by [[Foundation Imaging]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sternbach|first=Rick|title=Designing the Delta Flyer OCTOBER 2000 ISSUE 18 STAR TREK: THE MAGAZINE|url=http://fsd.trekships.org/art/deltaflyer.html}}</ref>

In late October 1994, the USS Voyager model was delivered to Image G, who did the [[motion control photography]] video work with the model for the special effects shots for the upcoming launch of the ''Star Trek: Voyager'' television show.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last=Poe|first=Stephen Edward|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiJTlrdSkpAC&dq=%22Image+G%22+motion+control&pg=PA325|title=A Vision of the Future|date=April 1998|publisher=[[Simon and& Schuster]]|isbn=978-0-671-53481-3|language=en}}</ref> Image G also did the motion control photography for the Caretaker Array, as well as for the Maquis and Kazon vessels.<ref name=":4" />

The main sets for the interior of the spacecraft were located at Stage 8 and Stage 9 at [[Paramount Studios]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiJTlrdSkpAC&q=Caretaker+Star%3ATrek+Voyager+Upn|title=A Vision of the Future|last=Poe|first=Stephen Edward|date=April 1998|publisher=[[Simon and& Schuster]]|isbn=9780671534813}} (Section The Stages Page 73-)</ref>

One of the more complex sets for the spacecraft was the bridge of ''Voyager''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiJTlrdSkpAC&q=Caretaker+Star%3ATrek+Voyager+Upn|title=A Vision of the Future|last=Poe|first=Stephen Edward|date=1998|publisher=[[Simon and& Schuster]]|isbn=9780671534813}} (Section The Lot on page 35)</ref> The bridge of ''Voyager'' had 11 different monitors of three different sizes, that had custom graphics displayed depending on what was being shot for each scene.<ref name=":0"/> For a scene with the "red alert" setting, the appropriate video graphics would have to be displayed on cue.<ref name=":0"/> These graphics were created a by a team of people, with a need for both static and video graphics.<ref name=":0"/> Depending on the episode, custom graphics or video sequences would have to be made by a creative team.<ref name=":0"/> The videos were recorded to videocassette to be played at the right time, such as when an actor (e.g. ''Voyager'' crew) was looking at a monitor.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiJTlrdSkpAC&q=Caretaker+Star%3ATrek+Voyager+Upn|title=A Vision of the Future|last=Poe|first=Stephen Edward|date=April 1998|publisher=[[Simon and& Schuster]]|isbn=9780671534813}}</ref>