U.S.S. Enterprise, an on-screen reference

Welcome back to Tallguy's TOS Enterprise catalog where it's all Enterprise all the time!

Thanks for the comments everyone. I'll reply after the goodies.

Sorry I wasn't able to post yesterday. But today you get it ALLLLLLLL!

Here is the great grand-daddy of Enterprise shots. It is my intention to eventually edit this all together into a single shot.

Turn To Bridge (Metamorphosis - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield) [16] - A long turn that begins behind the ship and eventually ends foward above the saucer, focused on the bridge. This is a LONG shot that was used played both forwards and backwards. It was never played in it's entirety but broken into many shots. Used in the "next week's voyage" shot. First new shot of Season 2!

 

More season 2....

Bow (Metamorphosis) [1] - View from forward and above. Nice nacelle lights. Only used once!


Constellation Discover (The Doomsday Machine - The Ultimate Computer) [8] - AMT kit. The wrecked Constellation first seen on the bridge screen. Also used in exterior composites.


Constellation Wreck (The Doomsday Machine) [3] - AMT kit. Above shot of the Constellation.


Sec Hull (The Doomsday Machine - The Tholian Web) [6] - An above shot looking down through the nacelles (first used with the Constellation). The full shot tracks in past the saucer.


Con 3/4 (The Doomsday Machine) [1] - AMT kit. An above shot, seen with the Enterprise.


Profile (The Doomsday Machine - Journey to Babel) [10] - Side shot of the Enterprise. The element is moved optically through the frame, this is not a camera move. Too bad, really. This could have finally been the production equivalent of WMN Side.

 

Ah, the wee little Enterprises...

Little Ent (The Doomsday Machine) [8] - AMT kit? Little Enterprise first seen being abused by the Doomsday Machine. Not sure what model this is.


Little Con (The Doomsday Machine) [2] - AMT kit. Little Constellation flying left to right.


Little Con RL (The Doomsday Machine) [5] - Little Constellation flying right to left. Not flopped, this is a separate shot. You can see the asymetrical damage to the ship.


Con Aft (The Doomsday Machine) [4] - Aft view of the Constellation before she meets her noble end.


WNM Side RL (Mirror, Mirror) [1] - The pilot ship returns as the crew falls into the Mirror Universe. A previously unused shot of the pilot ship going right to left. They flipped the decals and everything, and this is the only time it is seen!


Station Approach (The Trouble With Tribbles - The Ultimate Computer) [2] - AMT kit. Aft view between the nacelles. Only ever used with K7 element. Check out the lighting cable on the connecting dorsal!


K7 Far (The Trouble With Tribbles) [5] - AMT kit. Ship orbits the far side of K7.


K7 Near (The Trouble With Tribbles) [4] - Ship orbits the near side of K7. Appears to be the 11 footer. Might be a still (no blinking).

 

Yep, this here is the good stuff...

Station Depart (The Trouble With Tribbles - The Tholian Web) [18] - Gorgeous shot off the bow. Became one of the "standards".


Phaser2 (Journey to Babel - Turnabout Intruder) [17] - A new "weapons" shot. The famous "The Making of Star Trek" shot.


Saucer Top (The Gamesters of Triskelion - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield) [4] - The camera travels in on the B/C Deck.

 

Have ye ever seen so much pretty all in the same place?

Aft (The Gamesters of Triskelion - All Our Yesterdays) [33] - Tail shot of the ship. Came to largely replace Over Nacelle.


Under Saucer (The Immunity Syndrome - The Lights of Zetar) [3] - A slow shot from under the saucer looking aft.

Whoosh Away (By Any Other Name - That Which Survives) [6] - The 3 foot model races away. Not the same as the shot from The Cage. Used in season two and three titles.

 

This unit must survive!

Approach2 (The Ultimate Computer - All Our Yesterdays) [33] - A new approach that shows off the nacelles better and approaches the camera slower. Used for the Federation Fleet formation shots. Introduced late but this shot became a standard in season three.


That wraps up season two! There are only two more shots to go! (Plus some surprise bonus material!)

And here are the episodes:

Season Two

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Opening Titles

• Whoosh
• Whoosh Away
• WNM Away planet
• WNM Side planet
• WNM Planet Towards
• Whoosh
• Whoosh flopped
• Whoosh
• Whoosh flopped

30 Catspaw [8]

• Planet Towards
• Planet Towards TITLE
• Planet Away
• Planet Away
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards
• Tilted Approach2 planet
• WNM Away END CREDITS

31 Metamorphosis [5]

• Approach
• Turn To Bridge 1st
• Bow 1st
• WNM Side planet
• Fly Away END CREDITS

32 Friday's Child [19]

• Over Nacelle planet
• Planet Towards
• Planet Towards TITLE
• Planet Away
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• Tilted Approach planet
• Approach
• Approach
• Turn To Bridge
• Turn To Bridge
• Turn To Bridge
• Fly Away
• Approach flopped
• Tilted Approach flopped
• Planet Away
• Planet Toward
• WNM Away END CREDITS

33 Who Mourns for Adonais? [13]

• Over Nacelle
• Sitting big hand TITLE
• Sitting big hand
• Sitting big hand
• Sitting big hand
• Sitting big hand
• Phaser Flying phaser down
• Phaser Flying phaser down
• Phaser Flying phaser down
• Phaser Flying phaser down
• Phaser Flying phaser down
• Tilted Approach planet
• WNM Away END CREDITS

34 Amok Time [9]

• Approach
• Tilted Approach2 TITLE
• WNM Away TITLE
• Over Nacelle
• Approach
• Planet Away
• WNM Side planet
• WNM Side planet
• Tilted Approach planet END CREDITS

35 The Doomsday Machine [49]

• Tilted Approach
• WNM Side
• Approach
• Constellation Discover screen 1st
• Constellation Discover screen
• Constellation Discover screen
• Over Nacelle / Constellation Discover
• Constellation Wreck TITLES 1st
• Over Nacelle / Constellation Discover
• Constellation Discover
• Constellation Wreck
• Sec Hull / Con 3/4 1st / 1st
• Profile 1st
• Over Nacelle breakaway flopped
• Tilted Approach2
• Fly Away
• Approach
• Constellation Wreck
• Profile
• Profile
• Over Nacelle doomsday
• Little Ent doomsday screen 1st
• Profile phasers
• Profile phasers
• Little Ent doomsday) screen
• Little Ent doomsday screen
• Little Ent doomsday
• Little Ent doomsday screen
• Little Con 1st
• Little Ent doomsday screen
• Little Ent doomsday screen
• Little Ent doomsday screen
• Little Con phasers
• Profile phasers
• Over Nacelle breakaway doomsday
• WNM Side
• Little Con RL 1st
• Tilted Approach2
• Tilted Approach
• Little Con RL
• Little Con RL
• Little Con RL
• Con Aft doomsday 1st
• Con Aft doomsday
• Little Con RL doomsday screen
• Con Aft doomsday
• Con Aft doomsday
• WNM Approach
• WNM Away END CREDITS

36 Wolf in the Fold [5]

• Planet Towards TITLE
• Planet Away
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• Planet Away END CREDITS

37 The Changeling [7]

• Approach
• Phaser Flying TITLE
• Phaser1 photon
• Sec Hull
• Approach
• Tilted Approach
• WNM Away END CREDITS

38 The Apple [10]

• Planet Away
• Planet Towards TITLE
• Planet Away
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards
• WNM Side planet
• Phaser Flying phaser down
• Phaser Flying phaser down
• Planet Away
• Fly Away END CREDITS

39 Mirror, Mirror [8]

• WNM Side
• WNM Side RL 1st
• Planet Towards TITLE
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• Tilted Approach planet

40 The Deadly Years [18]

• Planet Towards TITLE
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• WNM Side planet
• Tilted Approach2
• Sec Hull
• Phaser1 weapons strikes
• Profile
• Phaser1 weapons strikes
• Phaser Flying
• Phaser1 weapons strikes
• Over Nacelle breakaway flopped
• Whoosh slide
• WNM Away END CREDITS

41 I, Mudd [8]

• Tilted Approach2
• Over Nacelle breakaway
• Tilted Approach2 TITLE
• WNM Away TITLE
• WNM Side
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards
• WNM Away END CREDITS

42 The Trouble With Tribbles [15]

• Approach
• Approach TITLES
• Station Approach K7 TITLES 1st
• K7 Far 1st
• K7 Near 1st
• K7 Near
• K7 Far
• K7 Near
• K7 Far
• K7 Near
• K7 Far
• K7 Far still
• Station Depart K7 1st
• WNM Away END CREDITS

43 Bread and Circuses [6]

• Sec Hull
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• WNM Away END CREDITS

44 Journey to Babel [11]

• WNM Side planet
• Tilted Approach planet TITLES
• Profile
• Profile zoom
• Turn To Bridge
• Profile
• Phaser2 phasers blue 1st
• Phaser1 photon
• Sitting
• Phaser2 phasers pink
• Fly Away END CREDITS

45 A Private Little War [6]

• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• Station Depart
• Station Depart
• Planet Towards END CREDITS
• WNM Away END CREDITS

46 The Gamesters of Triskelion [11]

• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards
• WNM Side planet
• Tilted Approach planet
• Saucer Top 1st
• Station Depart
• Approach
• Planet Away
• Aft END CREDITS 1st

47 Obsession [10]

• Planet Towards TITLE
• Planet Away TITLE
• Planet Away
• Woosh
• Phaser2 phasers blue
• Phaser2 photon
• Fly Away
• Planet Away
• Tilted Approach planet
• Aft END CREDITS

48 The Immunity Syndrome [17]

• Station Depart
• Under Saucer 1st
• Station Depart
• Phaser2 dark
• Under Saucer dark
• Station Depart dark
• Planet Away amoeba
• Aft amoeba
• Planet Away amoeba
• Aft amoeba
• Aft amoeba
• Aft amoeba
• Planet Away amoeba
• Planet Away amoeba
• WNM Away amoeba
• Planet Away amoeba reverse
• Fly Away End Credits

49 A Piece of the Action [5]

• Over Nacelle planet
• Planet Towards
• Planet Towards
• Tilted Approach
• WNM Away END CREDITS

50 By Any Other Name [15]

• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• Planet Away
• Tilted Approach planet
• Whoosh slide
• Whoosh slide
• Whoosh slide
• WNM Barrier Away
• Cage Bridge barrier
• Cage Bridge barrier
• Barrier Out
• Whoosh Away galaxy 1st
• Whoosh Away galaxy
• Whoosh Away galaxy
• Aft breakaway galaxy END CREDITS

51 Return to Tomorrow [5]

• Station Depart
• Planet Towards TITLES
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• Planet Towards END CREDITS

52 Patterns of Force [6]

• Planet Away
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Station Depart TITLES
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards
• WNM Away END CREDITS

53 The Ultimate Computer [27]

• Station Approach K7
• Station Depart K7 TITLES
• Aft breakaway flopped
• Over Nacelle planet
• Planet Away
• Station Depart
• Aft breakaway
• WNM Side
• Tilted Approach flopped
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Fly Away
• Phaser 2 photons
• Phaser 2 zoom
• Approach2 formation 4 1st
• WNM Side
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Constellation Discover weapon hit
• Constellation Discover flopped
• WNM Side
• Approach2 formation 3
• Approach2 formation 3 screen
• Tilted Approach screen
• Tilted Approach2
• Fly Away END CREDITS

54 The Omega Glory [6]

• WNM Approach
• Planet Away screen
• Aft / Planet Away TITLE
• Aft / Planet Away
• Tilted Approach END CREDITS
• WNM Away End Credits

55 Assignment: Earth [8]

• Planet Towards
• Planet Towards TITLES
• Planet Away
• WNM Side planet
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards
• Planet Towards
• WNM Away END CREDITS

 

Ok, here's one of my sticking points. I CANNOT believe that the shot from The Enterprise Incident was filmed just for season three. As I say below, it looks really really close to Saucer Top. Does anyone have any magical way to confirm this? And kind of the same for the next shot, too. There's no doubt it's a whole new shot, but I suspect they discovered a shot they shot in season two but didn't use. Since out of all of the season three episodes there are only two new shots, even with FX heavy eps like Tholian Web and Elaan of Troyius, I am highly skeptical of the idea that they would have dragged the old girl out of storage just for them. Ideas?


Surrounded (The Enterprise Incident) [6] - Far away shot, used in the shot of being surrounded by Romulans. A still shot (nacelle lights don't move). I still think this is part of another shot, but I can't prove it... Yet. I have my suspicions that this is the unseen beginning of Saucer Top.


Lower Sensor (That Which Survives - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield) [2] - The last new shot of the series! A track in that ends with a close up of the lower sensor dome on the saucer. While not used until season three, I suspect it was filmed in season two. Never seen "clear". In That Which Survives it has a "shake" effect and in Let That Be Your Last Battlefield it has titles.


And the episodes:

Season Three


Opening Titles

• Whoosh
• Whoosh Away
• WNM Away planet
• WNM Side planet
• WNM Planet Towards
• Whoosh
• Whoosh flopped
• Whoosh
• Whoosh flopped

56 Spectre of the Gun [5]

• Approach2
• Planet Towards buoy
• Planet Towards
• Approach2 END CREDITS
• WNM Away Planet END CREDITS

57 Elaan of Troyius [17]

• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• Saucer Top
• Approach
• WNM Side
• Approach2
• Station Depart
• Turn To Bridge reverse
• Aft breakaway flopped
• Station Depart
• Station Depart
• Turn To Bridge reverse
• Phaser2 photons
• Approach
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• WNM Away END CREDITS

58 The Paradise Syndrome [13]

• Planet Towards TITLES
• Aft
• WNM Away asteroid
• Sec Hull
• WNM Away asteroid reverse
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• WNM Away asteroid reverse
• Aft asteroid reverse
• WNM Away END CREDITS

59 The Enterprise Incident [18]

• Approach2
• Aft breakaway
• Approach
• Surrounded D7s
• Surrounded D7s TITLES
• Phaser 2 TITLES
• Surrounded other D7s
• Surrounded D7s
• Phaser2 zoom
• Phaser2
• Surrounded other D7s
• Surrounded D7s
• Aft breakaway
• Whoosh
• WNM Side cloak
• WNM Side cloak
• Approach2 END CREDITS
• WNM Away END CREDITS

60 And the Children Shall Lead [9]

• Planet Away
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• WNM Away
• Approach2
• Approach2
• WNM Away
• Fly Away END CREDITS

61 Spock's Brain [8]

• Approach2
• Turn to Bridge
• Approach2
• Approach2
• WNM Away
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• Fly Away END CREDITS

62 Is There in Truth No Beauty? [21]

• Planet Away
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards TITLES
• Planet Away TITLES
• Tilted Approach planet
• Approach2
• Aft breakaway
• Cage Dish
• Whoosh slide
• Whoosh slide
• Cage Bridge barrier
• Station Depart outside galaxy
• Phaser2 outside galaxy
• Phaser2 outside galaxy
• Phaser2 outside galaxy
• WNM Away outside galaxy
• Cage Bridge barrier
• Barrier Out un-flopped
• Aft Planet
• Planet Towards END CREDITS
• WNM Away END CREDITS

63 The Empath [3]

• Planet Away
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards END CREDITS

64 The Tholian Web [30]

• Saucer Top
• Approach2 Defiant screen flopped
• Approach2 Defiant screen flopped
• Approach2 Defiant screen flopped
• Approach2 Defiant screen flopped
• Aft / Fly Away Defiant
• Aft / Fly Away Defiant
• Turn to Bridge Defiant flopped TITLES
• Turn to Bridge reverse / Fly Away Defiant
• Fly Away Defiant screen
• Fly Away Defiant screen
• Fly Away Defiant
• Fly Away Defiant screen
• Fly Away Defiant screen
• Fly Away Defiant screen
• Turn to Bridge reverse
• Aft
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Phaser 2 tholians
• Phaser 2 tholians
• Aft tholians
• Sec Hull tholians
• Station Depart tholians
• Station Depart tholians
• Station Depart web
• Slow Whoosh
• Phaser2
• Approach2
• WNM Away END CREDITS

65 For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky [12]

• Approach2
• Phaser 2 phasers blue
• Aft breakaway
• Approach2 TITLES
• WNM Away Yolanda TITLES
• Approach2 Yolanda
• Approach2 Yolanda
• Aft
• Approach2 Yolanda
• Approach2 Yolanda
• Approach2 Yolanda
• WNM Away END CREDITS

66 Day of the Dove [12]

• Planet Away
• Phaser2 phasers blue
• Aft breakaway flopped
• Whoosh
• Whoosh Away
• Whoosh
• Whoosh Away
• Whoosh slide
• Approach2
• WNM Away
• WNM Side entity
• WNM Away END CREDITS

67 Plato's Stepchildren [6]

• Approach2
• Planet Away
• Wobble
• Wobble
• Planet Towards
• WNM Away END CREDITS

68 Wink of an Eye [6]

• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards TITLES
• Planet Away
• Tilted Approach planet END CREDITS
• WNM Away END CREDITS

69 That Which Survives [11]

• WNM Side planet
• Lower Sensor 1st
• Wobble
• Turn to Bridge
• Whoosh
• Whoosh
• Whoosh Away
• Whoosh
• Whoosh flopped
• Cage Dish
• Turn to Bridge END CREDITS

70 Let That Be Your Last Battlefield [17]

• Saucer Top
• Lower Sensor TITLES
• Turn to Bridge reverse
• Turn to Bridge reverse
• Approach
• Turn to Bridge fast
• Fly Away
• Approach2
• Aft Planet
• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• WNM Away
• Approach2
• WNM Away
• WNM Away END CREDITS

71 Whom Gods Destroy [8]

• Aft Planet
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards
• Aft breakaway
• Phaser Flying phaser down
• Phaser Flying phaser down
• Tilted Approach planet
• WNM Away END CREDITS

72 Mark of Gideon [6]

• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• WNM Side planet
• Planet Towards
• Tilted Approach planet END CREDITS

73 The Lights of Zetar [12]

• Under Saucer
• Aft lights TITLES
• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• WNM Away
• Aft breakaway
• Phaser2 phaser
• Phaser2 phaser
• Aft lights
• WNM Side
• WNM Away END CREDITS

74 The Cloud Minders [7]

• Phaser2
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• Planet Towards
• WNM Side planet
• WNM Side planet
• WNM Away END CREDITS

75 The Way to Eden [4]

• Approach2 fast
• Aft breakaway
• Approach2 TITLES
• WNM Away END CREDITS

76 Requiem for Methuselah [7]

• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards TITLES
• Planet Towards vanish
• Planet Away reappear
• Planet Towards
• WNM Away END CREDITS

77 Savage Curtain [5]

• Planet Towards
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards
• Planet Towards departing
• WNM Away END CREDITS

78 All Our Yesterdays [5]

• Aft planet
• Planet Away
• Planet Towards TITLES
• Approach2 nova
• WNM Away END CREDITS

79 Turnabout Intruder [3]

• Planet Away
• Phaser2
• WNM Away END CREDITS

 

And that's it! That's ALL of the shots of the Enterprise from Star Trek. Ever.

Oh, there is ONE more thing...

GUNS!

It's kind of remarkable (to me) that they took so long to find their way for the "proper" phaser effect. And (IMHO) when they found to best photon torpedo effect they then went with something else.

Collection of Weapons Fire and FX:

Phasers:

The Corbomite Maneuver


Arena


Balance of Terror / Errand of Mercy


The Alternative Factor


Who Mourns for Adonais / The Apple / Whom Gods Destroy


The Doomsday Machine


Journey to Babel / Obsession / Patterns of Force / The Ultimate Computer / Paradise Syndrome / The Tholian Web / For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky / Day of the Dove / The Lights of Zetar


Journey to Babel

 

More guns! (The Changeling / Journey to Babel version of the torpedoes was the best, I think.)

Photon Torpedoes:

Arena


The Changeling / Journey to Babel



Obsession


The Ultimate Computer / Elaan of Troyius


Weapons Strikes:

Errand of Mercy / The Deadly Years / Journey to Babel


Thank you all, you've been a lovely audience. I'll be interested to hear if anyone comes up with any stunning new insights as a result of this. At some point I'll have this compiled into video. I just need to find the "definitive" version of each shot.

Coming Soon...

 

It's been interesting to see what a solid base they laid down with enough stock to get them through the first season, followed by "filling in the gaps" in season two. They also went for more dramatic shots in two, I think.

It has been a great relief to finish this tinged with the realization that I'll have to do it again when I get TOS on Blu Ray.

This project underlines a great challenge that the Remastered team faced. Should they just re-do these 62 shots and insert them as appropriate? Or should they take a more modern sensibility where a new episode gets a new shot. But really, how many ways can the Enterprise fly past the camera? (And now we know: Six. )

TrekMovie posted comparison video up on YouTube, I think. That's the sort of project that I'm interested enough to see someone else do, but not interested enough to do myself. (Same goes for the Galaxy Class, before someone asks.)

That's an interesting notion. I'll have to check it out.

I'm glad you like it. I have hopes for finding it a permanent home.

Thanks. Yes, this is the sort of nuts and bolts production knowledge I just don't have. I had to wonder, did it cost money to use a ready to go stock shot? I was curious because The Menagerie part II and Turnabout Intruder (two notoriously cash strapped eps) don't even use stock shots!

I did notice that a perfectly servicable tried and true shot like Tilted Approach would suddenly look pretty ragged for a few episodes, but then spring back better than ever.

A was walking past the Art Asylum Enterprise I have in the box the other day and mentally ticked off my names for all of the shots on the box. It's a sickness, I tell ya.

OH! It's not the permanent website I'm hoping for, but the whole deal can be found in these two documents here and here:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AfGjMA5KY3SOZGZuZnc4Yl85Z3R2M2NkZzU&hl=en
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AfGjMA5KY3SOZGZuZnc4Yl81aGJwbTk1Z2M&hl=en

 

The "Metamorphosis" Bow shot is a great one -- it's a shame it was only used once.

What might be nice to have is an index organized the other way around -- list each shot, then list every episode it appeared in (ideally with a context description or time stamp).

Glad you're doing TAS too. I think most of the Enterprise shots there, at least the ones where there's actually 3-D movement, are rotoscoped from TOS elements. And the stills are probably traced from or at least inspired by specific shots too. I hope you'll match the animated versions to their TOS counterparts.

 

FYI, I will be hosting this great reference material on my Trekplace web site later this year -- probably around June or July. I'm working full-time and attending MBA courses part-time, so I have even less of a life than usual right now.

Thanks again, Tallguy, for all your hard work!

 

That would be fun.

 

This entire thread is full of AwesomeSauce.

 

I think this might be the first ever Enterprise model, the 4 inch balsa and cardboard one that was whipped up right after Gene R. approved the design. Remember the story about how it was originally hung upside down by a string? Look at how vertical the saucer support pylon is, and the strange looking underside of the saucer, and all the other proportions and shapes are off. You can get a real good look at it by maximizing the last photo above.

 

I thought the tiny one was lost very early on, but maybe ... ?

The underside of the saucer looks wrong, yeah, but that could be due to bad lighting ... especially if that is just a still photo ship cutout (no perspective change in the scene I think, so that is likely.) The transparency and lack of perspective change on the planet-killer in most shots also suggests still-photo or slide work rather than motion picture filmed elements. If anything, the shots that leap out as different or odder-looking are the burned model kit-looking shots of the Constellation, which have got very unsteady movement. It'd be interesting to check to see who did the vfx for the ep ... doubt it was Anderson's company and would bet money it wasn't Dunn's.

 

According to the episode credits and the first edition of The Star Trek Compendium, the effects for "The Doomsday Machine" were by Cinema Research Corporation. They also did "Miri," "The Gamesters of Triskelion," "Is There in Truth No Beauty," "Wink of an Eye," and "The Cloud Minders" (and maybe a few others, since the STC doesn't list FX credits for every episode).

 

Hmm, not shows with new spaceship or much model stuff, just planetspheres. CinemaResearch was a really solid optical compositing place in the late 70s and much later, doing light object on light background matting for DreamQuest early on that was really really good for its time in BLUE THUNDER and others. There's a TREK-TOS-heavy CFQ from the mid or late 90s with a really extensive vfx article quoting from Datin and several of the surviving vfx guys, but I don't think DOOMSDAY is mentioned. I'll try to look for it this week though.

 

I think I have that CFQ.

 

It makes me think of the tiny metal one made for Catspaw.