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Captain Phil's Planet playlist for 12/05/2019
By captphil on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 12:23am
WUSB Pledgers Captain Phil is still willing to take pledges during his show. Any credit card pledge for $20 gets a CD thank you! My Co-Host for this event, legendary WUSB DJ, DJ Eve! Calling in at 3:10pm Daren R. Dochterman (http://www.betafive.com/BETAFIVECOM/index.html) who worked with director Robert Wise as Supervisor of Visual Effects for the Director’s Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Calling in at 3:50pm Susan Sackett (http://www.insidetrek.com/Welcome) production associate on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Assistant to the late Gene Roddenberry during the production of Star Trek The Motion Picture we'll talk about her time on set and the projects that eventually led to Star Trek becoming a Movie franchise. At 4:15 we'll be hearing from our favorite trekkers Cmdr Roy and Lt Cmdr MaryBeth of the Star Trek Set Tours (https://www.startrektour.com/) in Ticonderoga NY talk about their personal recollections of Star Trek The Motion picture Finally at 4:35 We'll hear from Michael Shilling of the Shore Leave convention talk about his time in Star Trek fandom and Star Trek The Motion Picture! Daren Ross Dochterman (http://www.betafive.com/BETAFIVECOM/index.html) (born 2 July 1967; age 52) is an American artist and illustrator for Hollywood films. He was a production illustrator on "Caretaker", the pilot episode for Star Trek: Voyager. Later, he was the visual effects supervisor involved in the making of the director's edition DVD of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Recommended for the position by producer David C. Fein, the director's edition project won them both a Video Premiere Award. Aside from his expertise, Fein had an additional reason to recommend him, as he said this of Dochterman, an avid Star Trek: The Original Series fan, "If there is anybody who was intimately involved with this as us from beginning to end it has to be Daren. He is truly the keeper of the flame for STAR TREK and helped play the role of the fan, as well as the artist and craftsman. We love his work; he is brilliant and I cannot say enough about him. This project would never have been the same without him." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 8, p. 25) In his turn, Dochterman recommended the visual effects company Foundation Imaging for the additional and supplementary CGI effects, and, upon approval, subsequently served as the primary liaison between production company Robert Wise Productions and the team of digital modelers at Foundation. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 8, p. 25) It actually was Dochterman who built and mapped the first version of the CGI refit-Constitution-class model for the project in his spare time, [1] but has conceded that he "(…) did my best to come up with a workable ship. I used my model in some rough composites as we were storyboarding it and it looked OK. But specifically for end shots it had to be much more detailed. So I handed that model over to the guys at Foundation Imaging." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 8, p. 55) Dochterman was featured in the "Redirecting The Future" documentary on the DVD, in which he, and his co-workers discuss the work they have done for the project. In addition, he and his co-workers were featured in an after-the-fact, separately produced audio commentary, released in 2007 as a podcast on StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website and which, at the time, could be downloaded(X) at the site. Besides the live-action Star Trek productions, Dochterman has been a prolific contributor to the popular Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar series published by Pocket Books, providing several CGI illustrations for their outings, much of which reproduced in their book derivatives. Among his contributions was included an original CGI Constitution-class model, he had constructed as a pitch for what eventually became the 2006 remastered Original Series. His pitch not only included the ship, but all the visual effects as seen in the original episode "The Doomsday Machine", which he single-handedly replaced with CGI versions. [2] His model was ultimately passed over in favor of that of CBS Digital. [3] On 27 September 2009, Daren Dochterman moderated a media event called the "Star Trek Designers Talk Trek History At Art Directors Guild Event", held at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, and in which production designers John Jefferies, Joseph R. Jennings, Herman F. Zimmerman, and Scott Chambliss were honored for their Star Trek contributions, discussing in depth their work on the franchise. [4] Outside the official Star Trek framework, Dochterman also designed the main title sequence for the popular fan-made internet series Star Trek: New Voyages, developed by and starring James Cawley. Additionally, Dochterman has constructed a CGI Phase II Constitution-class model for use in the fan production, premiering in the 2012 vignette "Going Boldly". [5] In 2015/16 Dochterman was again employed by the official franchise when he worked as a prop concept artist on Star Trek Beyond, reuniting him with Star Trek veteran John Eaves, with whom he had previously worked on several movie projects. Susan Sackett (http://www.insidetrek.com/Welcome) Susan Sackett (born 18 December 1943; age 75) was the production associate on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She also served as the personal executive assistant to Gene Roddenberry on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Sackett worked with Roddenberry for more than seventeen years, until his death in October 1991. She appeared in the Star Trek: The Motion Picture recreation deck scene as an Enterprise science division crewmember. There was also a close up of the balcony with reaction of the crew to the destruction of Epsilon IX station filmed, but later cut. Sackett was one of the four female extras who received special outfits because of their heights. She filmed her scenes on Monday 16 October 1978 and Tuesday 17 October 1978 at Paramount Stage 8. [1] Sackett also appeared as a science division ensign in the TNG first season episode "The Neutral Zone". In her scene Sackett wore Marina Sirtis' costume from "Encounter at Farpoint". Furthermore, she co-wrote two episodes for the series with writing partner Fred Bronson: "Ménage à Troi" and the story for "The Game". She also submitted articles and interviews with Roddenberry to Starlog magazine keeping readership appraised about the progress of the production of The Motion Picture, starting in issue 6, 1977. Sackett has noted on these reports, "Hard to believe they actually paid me to write this stuff! I think it was $300 per column, but I really don't remember, just that it wasn't a lot! Truth be told, it was really like trying to balance a ball on my nose for FOUR YEARS without dropping it! Finding things to write about and cheerlead for the "upcoming movie/TV series/whatever" month after month was a real challenge." Her name can be seen on the dedication plaque of the USS Enterprise-D throughout TNG. She is listed on the plaque as Admiral Susan Sackett. Commander Roy and Lt Commander MaryBeth Longsuffering friends of Captain Phil they've put up with his begging them to come on the air and talk Star Trek and Space 1999 with him only to be besieged with bizarre audio sound effects, aliens from the planet Triton and the occasional Landru appearance. These two dedicated Star Fleet officers and residents of Moonbase Alpha have remained professional and alert for the next weird thing that shambles towards them from the terrifying caves only found on Captain Phil's Planet! Michael Shilling (https://www.shore-leave.com/) Shore Leave is a fan-run Science Fiction media convention held every summer in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The convention features appearances by actors and writers from a broad variety of TV shows and movies ranging from current hits to classic favorites. |
