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Doctor Who beat them to that same solution some years before. I'm not entirely sure, but the first show I remember having the budget to show the characters act

Doctor Who beat them to that same solution some years before. I'm not entirely sure, but the first show I remember having the budget to show the characters actually taking ships to their destination each time was Space: 1999, where the "Eagle" shuttles were ubiquitous. (It beat Battlestar Galactica by a few years.)

mjevans 10y ago
Didn't Babylon 5 have frequent CG sequences relating to ships docking and even landing on planets? (Granted they probably reused, maybe from different angles and with small changes, a lot of those sets).
- blakeyrat 10y ago
  ... yes? But considering Space: 1999 came out literally 20 years earlier, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
- laumars 10y ago
  B5 was CGI and literally decades after Space 1999 and BSG (the original series). The latter two would have used models like how Star Trek TNG did.
- sangnoir 10y ago
  Babylon 5's CG did not age well: they might have been served better by teleportation devices (left behind by the First Ones, naturally)
  - jonathankoren 10y ago
    B5's CG looked like someone's dorm room povray animation at the time.
TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
Space 1999 was preceded by UFO, made by (more or less) the same production company. There was no teleportation - but there were ships flying a regular run to and from a moon base. UFO is unbelievably good considering it was made in 1970. It's of its time socially, ahead of its time visually, and a lot of the scripts still stand up as excellent imaginative TV writing.
- blakeyrat 10y ago
  That's true; but Space: 1999 did it every episode. Most transportation in UFO via. that futuristic car, which they had a full-scale working example of. I'm sure they showed the moon shuttle a few times, and of course they did lots of effects for the fighter jets and submarines blowing UFOs up, but it wasn't ubiquitous like in Space: 1999.

mjevans 10y ago

Didn't Babylon 5 have frequent CG sequences relating to ships docking and even landing on planets? (Granted they probably reused, maybe from different angles and with small changes, a lot of those sets).

blakeyrat 10y ago
... yes? But considering Space: 1999 came out literally 20 years earlier, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
laumars 10y ago
B5 was CGI and literally decades after Space 1999 and BSG (the original series). The latter two would have used models like how Star Trek TNG did.
sangnoir 10y ago
Babylon 5's CG did not age well: they might have been served better by teleportation devices (left behind by the First Ones, naturally)
- jonathankoren 10y ago
  B5's CG looked like someone's dorm room povray animation at the time.

TheOtherHobbes 10y ago

Space 1999 was preceded by UFO, made by (more or less) the same production company. There was no teleportation - but there were ships flying a regular run to and from a moon base. UFO is unbelievably good considering it was made in 1970. It's of its time socially, ahead of its time visually, and a lot of the scripts still stand up as excellent imaginative TV writing.

blakeyrat 10y ago
That's true; but Space: 1999 did it every episode. Most transportation in UFO via. that futuristic car, which they had a full-scale working example of. I'm sure they showed the moon shuttle a few times, and of course they did lots of effects for the fighter jets and submarines blowing UFOs up, but it wasn't ubiquitous like in Space: 1999.