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The Virtual World By Noah Kadner
Boldly Going Virtual - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
The many sequences of Star Trek: Strange
New Worlds that employ in-camera VFX
backgrounds are shot in an LED volume on
Pixomondo's stage in Toronto, Canada.
These Are the Voyages
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
is technically not the first Trek
project to embrace LED-volume
in-camera visual effects - that
achievement belongs to Season
4 of Star Trek: Discovery - but
the new Paramount Plus series
is the first in the franchise to be
designed entirely around them.
Strange New Worlds, the latest
series in the Gene Roddenberryspawned
sci-fi universe, serves
as a prequel, chronicling the adventures
of the crew aboard the
USS Enterprise before James T.
Kirk took command. A spinoff of
Discovery (AC July '21), Strange
New Worlds features the famous
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starship commanded by Captain
Christopher Pike (Anson Mount)
and crewed by familiar characters
such as Spock (Ethan Peck);
Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding);
and Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca
Romijn), aka Number One. The
first season was shot by cinematographers
Magdalena Górka,
ASC, PSC and Glen Keenan, CSC;
the latter's contributions included
shooting the show's pilot episode.
The Star Trek franchise
launched in 1966 - with what
is now known as Star Trek: The
Original Series (TOS) - and has
always been at the forefront of
visual effects. After TOS went
off the air in 1969, the story
continued through several theatrical
features and TV spinoffs.
Each successive show took advantage
of its era's cutting-edge
visual-effects techniques, such
as computer-aided motion control
and digital compositing (as used
on Star Trek: The Next Generation)
and leaning hard into CG
animation (beginning mid-series
on Deep Space Nine, and from
the very start with Voyager.)
So, it's only logical that Star
Trek and virtual production come
together now.
Górka, who shot five episodes
of Strange New Worlds, was
delighted to take on the project.
" I've always had a major interest
in science fiction, and to be able
to create new visuals for such
an iconic franchise was a huge
honor, " she says. " Solaris, Arrival,
and Ex Machina were all huge
inspirations.
" Before we started, we just
didn't know how the volume
would work in terms of lighting, "
she continues. " My friend Jose
Parra from FotoKem put me in
touch with Greig Fraser [ASC,
ACS], who [was instrumental in
developing] the volume for The
Mandalorian. Greig was very generous
with his time and relayed to
me that he wants this technique
to be successful, so he was
happy to share the knowledge.
PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE AND OPPOSITE BY MARNI GROSSMAN.
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT PLUS.

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