lol, thanks muchly for the thought, but I intend to get a secondary rendering machine sometime next year anyway.
The best way to get me to make some of those ST cutscenes would actually be the release of ST:R, because I never played ST in the first place. The death vs survival of the Hades sounds like cool cutscene material, but I'd need to actually have played the whole campaign to get a proper feeling for the setting.
And to be honest I'd really rather HTL more ships in the near future if for no other reason than having nicer models to use in these sort of cutscenes.
For example:
They'll be allright for this sort of cutscene where they're either zipping around or exploding, but anything more and their age would certainly show.
IceyJones: The starfield I'm using is a blender special setting - it works quite nicely, and doesn't require the huge textures that a skybox does.