As far as I know Lego only has Star Wars stuff, no Star Trek. But indeed, there is enough material to create almost anything, anything except the Klingon foreheads.
Well, yeah, I did have to paint the tunics for the Klingon warriors' and some of the Federation uniforms, since Lego doesn't make any in those exact colors. I was referring specifically to
lurDech when I said they were all standard parts.
This weekend I showed my children your other movies: What trouble with tribbles and P.S.A. And although it is just Lego my daughter was actually shocked that the chemvaH (in P.S.A) was killed and eaten, it is that realistic for children (4 and 6)! My son explained to her that it was a really mean animal so she did not have to feel sad about it!
Wow, it never occurred to me that children might see these and be upset!
The expression wovmoHwI' chu' - lights on is interesting linguistically: more literally it would be: lightmakers ready! I did not notice it the first time I studied your movie texts.
wovmoHwI' is a canon word (i.e. from Marc Okrand) for "lamp, light" , although not found in
The Klingon Dictionary; I think it's actually from a Hallmark Christmas ornament commercial.
chu' is clipped Klingon for
yIchu' "Activate (it)!"
One more question: is the blue Bird of Prey, Cold Revenge, made of Lego or is it rendered by computer graphics? My son wants to build it but I don't think we have the right parts.
The
bortaS bIr is computer-generated, as are the Enterprise and Station K-7, using first a program called MLCAD to build the ship and then POV-Ray to render it as a 3D model. MLCAD uses actual Lego parts for its building blocks, so you could build any of the models if you had enough parts of the right color.
The nice part about POV-Ray is that you can define lighting and camera position and move your models or the camera around, and POV-Ray handles all aspects of reflections, shadows and perspective.
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