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A brief tutorial on how to do this effect in Blender. First, animate and render a regular beauty pass, but do so by leaving the ship static and animating the camera (actually how most physical model shots are done). Then, turn off all sun lights and such, and give the ship a nice blue fill...

Jen Carling (mangledpixel)@mangledpixel.bsky.social

Happy 60th Anniversary, Star Trek! Excelsior model by Chris Kuhn, vfx shot by me. #startrek #blender #vfx

...light (I just used the World for this). Important step: set Motion Blur to 'Start on Frame' position, 0.5 shutter. Duplicate the camera, set the new camera's parent to the old camera, and remove the new camera's animation. Turn off any DOF on the new camera. Give the new camera animation...

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... along the axis of the ship such that on each frame it's keyframed to be at the same position as its parent, and every half frame it's keyframed to move forward in the direction of the ship's travel. Have these half-frame keyframes steadily animate to a further and further offset. This will...

... create streaks that expand out the back of the ship as the motion blur increases. Alternatively, you could keep the offsets all the same and instead keyframe animate the motion blur shutter value. Render this out, and composite over the beauty shot. Starfield background is just done with...