Next Generation Bridge Panorama
Posted on May 17, 2017 by Mark Farinas

Star Trek: The Next Generation has a lot in common with Star Trek: The Motion Picture, including characters, tone, and design. It only makes sense that Picard does a similar scan of the bridge when he first walks on to it in Encounter at Farpoint that Kirk does in TMP. This was an easier panorama stitch than the TMP bridge, mostly because PhotoShop was able to at least automerge the two screenshots on the left hand side. The other two needed to be hand placed. The pan is faster than the one in TMP, so there is some obvious motion blur that can’t be helped. There was also the problem of the camera lowering during the pan, making me skew the whole left side upward, and some content-aware fill needed to be placed in empty areas.

Can you think of any other panning shots that would make great panoramas? Let me know. Click the image to see it at full, 1080px height.

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7 Responses to Next Generation Bridge Panorama

  1. Moeskido says:
    May 18, 2017 at 9:03 am

    Thanks to Trekcore’s relentless screencap work, I’ve put together a few panos of my own. Not nearly as wide as the two you’ve posted, or necessarily as clean, but still fun.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/45eymprr2fzgko0/mopanos.zip?dl=0

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    • Mark Farinas says:
      May 18, 2017 at 10:24 am

      I like the engineering one where you see the obvious stunt doubles three times.

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      • Moeskido says:
        May 18, 2017 at 11:04 am

        Reason enough to do it!

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  2. Emperor Norton I says:
    May 17, 2017 at 10:39 pm

    What is Data doing with his hands?

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    • fluffy says:
      May 18, 2017 at 11:31 pm

      He’s an android, and listening to his favorite kind of music…

      Metal.

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    • Mark Farinas says:
      May 20, 2017 at 4:37 pm

      It’s an affectation he had early in the series. He’d wiggle, or “calibrate”, his fingers like a pianist before beginning a job. It’s just a cute, roboty something.

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      • Moeskido says:
        May 20, 2017 at 5:02 pm

        Never noticed it. I need to look for that now.

        I do a sort of tennis-serve follow-through when I hit “return” or “enter” on the keyboard after typing a bunch of text. My wife calls it a flourish.

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