I've been wanting to do this animation for years.

This is originally a scene from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, that I reedited with animations and rescored with James Horner's brilliant soundtrack titled "Genesys Destroyed" from the complete score of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

I always felt that, given that The Undiscovered Country was the final journey of the Enterprise, her final departure from Spacedock into adventure was a bit "lowkey". The Enterprise has always been a character for herself, and giving her some moments to shine in her departure to her final voyage would have been great.

Around 2010 I did the cover of the Ships of the Line 2011 calendar ( https://memorybeta.fandom.com/wiki/S... ), which I later turned into a tiny little animation (    • Star Trek  Ships of the Line Calenda...   ). Somewhere around the same time I came across the complete soundtrack for The Search for Spock, and when I heard the track "Genesys Destroyed", I immediately had the vision for this animation in mind.

When I sat down to do a quick edit, the score and the live action scenes fit like a glove.

1521 hours of rendering 16854 frames later, we're finally here.

Modeling, Texturing, Animation, Lighting & Rendering all done in Newtek LightWave 3D

Multipass Compositing done in Adobe After Effects

Reediting, sound editing and sound effects in Adobe Premiere and Adobe Audition

Thanks (in no particular order) to Alain Rivard, IRML, Matt Christou, Alexander Klemm, David Metlesits, Kevin Riley and everyone I forgot to mention for their help, support and their sharing of fantastic 3d models that I could put inside my Spacedock model.

Long story short: enjoy!

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