SYNOPSIS

While on a routine assignment Captain Edwards and the crew of the USS Montana are called on an urgent mission. It seems that the outposts along the Neutral Zone have been attacked and the Klingons are responsible. Upon arrival and investigation the crew quickly discover the enemy is far deadlier than they could have possibly imagined and they will be lucky to escape with their lives!

CAST:

Captain Paul Edwards (Tim Renshaw), Commander Thomas Plummer (Brian Bonner),
Lt. Commander McGuire (Patrick McCray), Lt. Commander Kyle Wilson (Gabriel Diani),
Lt. Stephen Knight (Scott Martineck), Ensign Susan Palmer (Etta Devine), Lt. Numi Natukov (Tomoko “Cookie” Leonard), Commander Vellar ( Lawrence Montaigne), Captain Klein (Joe Klein), Romulan Sub-commander (Patrick McCray), Ships Computer Voice (Cheralyn Lambeth).

CREW:

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AUTHORS: Andy Tyrer & Sebastian Prooth

In 1995, a Soviet aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Over three hundred years later, Counselor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nightmare heralds a danger.
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DIRECTOR: Sebastian Prooth
SOUND DESIGN: Andy Tyrer
ARTWORK: Andy Tyrer
DURATION: 28 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: 25 December 2007
PRODUCTION CODE: 001

by Finntrekkie

What follows is a slightly tongue-in-cheek look at one of Star Trek's most popular tropes, and an easy, convenient way to ramp up the tension and add some extra visual appeal to a scene - just turn off the lights! If you rather not do that, just make sure that everyone is gone..somewhere, and you are left alone to fend for yourself. You might see where that is going at. This article will look at the various examples and versions of the trope of the haunted ship in Star Trek, and also includes an illustrate gallery of all the examples I could think of.

Why Dark is Scary in Space

Who Turned Off the Lights?

Fear of the dark is probably an innate sense of dread built into us on the biological level. Human beings operate on vision for a great part, and being unable to see gives a natural sense of dread and danger, even if one knows on an intellectual level that you are in a safe place and nothing dangerous is lurking in the darkness, just out of touch. Human night vision is rather poor and is limited to shape vision, giving us a lacking sense of scale, distance and a loss of color perception too due to the physiological function of the eye. Any threats might be much nearer than we might know for starters, which puts us in extra danger. It is likely this fear of the unknown - which is a huge part of the mystery of space and space travel as well - that gives us the dread of the darkness. Moviemakers love to exploit that, of course, and not only in Star Trek.

The Visual Appeal of the Dark

Darkness is not only useful as a way to create tension by suggesting monsters are lurking in it, right outside your field of view. With the general lighting level low, interesting ambience can be created with spot lighting that highlights characters or crew. These can be used as visual cues in storytelling besides just trying to make things more interesting to look at. The interplay of darkness and light can have a symbolic value as well. Things may be hidden in the dark, and then other cues, such as sounds, suggest interesting things happening soon.

Let's also be frank. Darkness can also save money. A dark set does not need to be nearly as elaborate as something you need to show in its fully lit glory. The darkness can cover things the production team does not want the viewer to see - although sometimes they slip, with silly results. Darkness, with a few other visual clues, can enlarge the space to be as big as the viewer can imagine. It is an interplay of suggestion, and perception.

Light in Darkness aka how Movie Darkness isn't all that dark after all

The innate problem with darkness is that you can't see anything in it. Although this may be the point being created, to give a more adventurous, tense, exciting feel to the scene, being unable to see the actual actors and their surroundings is counterintuitive. You want things to appear dark without being too dark. You still need to have enough light to see the action, even if it's meant to be pitch black in there. Any portable light sources such as the famous palm beacons seen throughout Star Trek are also an issue, since their light beams have to be taken into account. Sometimes this is added in post-production for better control, too. Movie darkness is usually created with indirect lighting, using particular filters, low-power set lighting pieces and various methods to disperse the light to create a suitable ambience for filming.

Technical limitations are another thing that makes a careful control of the darkness important. Both photographic film and the CCD sensors used by digital camera equipment have limitations to the light sensitivity they provide. Using too little light can cause for the imagine to become very grainy and of low quality. Even with all post-production trickery available to the modern cinematographer, it all begins from properly lighting the set and the actors. The same applies to the special effects photography of the actual ship models. It's dark in space, but you have to be able to see the actual spacecraft.

Dark Means Business

The same way the flashing indicator lights of Red Alert tells us that the ship is heading into danger, turning off the overhead lights suggests urgency. While on a present day warship, the lowered light level is conductive both to improved night vision that might be needed and to make it easier to read computer and other displays, on the spaceship it probably serves some less obvious purpose. 'Yesterday's Enterprise' is a good example, showing the Enterprise-D in its combat configuration, with a persistent dark lighting scheme.

Dark Means Danger - a power cut in space

Our highly technological lifestyle has made us wholly depending on electricity as a way of running our society. It heats our homes, cooks the food, runs our computers, and keeps the lights on. Even a brief power cut can give a sense of dread and make one wonder on just how long such an unusual state might continue. Artificial lighting is integral to our function, and the people in Star Trek are no exception. Just like in any other visual medium, the sight of a flickering lightbulb - whether figuratively, or literally so - is a sign of something threatening the infrastructure, the very basics of survival at hand. The lights going on and off is a traditional sign of a starship receiving damage from weapons fire or spatial phenomena. It suggests the immense disturbing power of whatever affecting the ship that it can cause the lights - an essential system - to either flicker or actually fail completely. If darkness or near-darkness prevails, the situation must be rather grave. As such, the flickering light is as equally strong a visual cue as sparks, falling debris or even the crew shaking about due to the impact. It is also easy to implement, which makes it all that more attractive.

Damage Control

While flickering lights suggests the ship receiving damage, a persistent darkness afterwards or the use of dim or oddly colored emergency lighting suggests that the ship is now under duress and other kinds of danger awaits as a result of being damaged. Many examples are found throughout the series and the movies, notably the likes of 'The Wrath of Khan', 'The Year of Hell' and TNG's 'Disaster'.

Out of Power

Occasionally the darkness has been suggested to be a result of a lack or a loss of power. Voyager had several episodes where the ship had to conserve their power reserves, and turning off the lights was one way to do that. 'Night' and 'The Void' were built around this premise.

It Feels so Empty

The Evacuation

One of the least sinister ways of produ

Star Trek Ghost Ship