Proving The Roddenberry Vault can actually be a useful resource, I pulled this unused footage of the Enterprise doing what seems to be a 180º flyby. I made the stars the way they some of the effects companies did back in the day: I splatted paint with my thumb running off a brush onto paper and tinted some the resulting dots red and yellow. I then hand animated several layers of them to make a parallax effect as she passes by. I also pulled the ship in a little closer than she was in the footage just to make the pass a bit more dramatic. It’s not perfect, but it proves the shot could have been great had it been included in an episode (or ten).
Why didn’t they do this in the series (sigh)? Nicely done.
this is cool as hell
Well done!