Enterprise Rising
30-Sep-09 7:49 PM by Ken GagneFiled under Star Trek; 1 comment.
Remember the scene in Star Trek XI when the Enterprise hides within the atmosphere Saturn's largest moon, only to majestically emerge out of its cloudy skies like a breaching submarine?
Okay, so some artistic license was taken with those visuals, as astronomer Phil Plait (a self-professed Trekkie) describes — but it was still immensely cool. Now, Diamond Sky Productions, a "small company devoted … to the scientific, as well as artful, use of planetary imagery and computer graphics", has made available for download some extremely high-resolution images depicting that scene:
02-Oct-09 12:34 PM
Yeah, I had seen these not too long ago, and made that image my desktop! Live long and prosper…