beaming down into the city (though I guess the latter That suspense was heightened by what I feel is the high water mark for CBS Digital with their amazing FX. What is he talking about? Yeah, it’d require some changing of the music cues.”. CBS Digital paid close attention to scale; the DDM drawfed the Enterprise. Oh, I think that if you’re able to shoot off your mouth in a vulgar manner about people you don’t know “shutting their pie hole,” you can just grin and bear a few “smart remarks” about your pomposity. “Space Seed” was a notable highpoint, particularly when the Enterprise discards the Botany Bay from its tractor beam, and in “Journey To Babel” when the shuttlecraft lands in the shuttle bay which I regarded with almost fetishistic delight as well as the video game-like battle with the Orion ship. Overall then, not perfect, but a very impressive remaster of some classic sci-fi material than I'm fully happy with, in spite of a few minor niggles. They don’t belong to the fans and they certainly don’t belong to Mark Altman. So much for being a god…. A landing party, including the command staff, is infected with a disease that causes rapid aging and senility. The Enterprise encounters an alien who claims to be the Greek god Apollo. Sulu: “Our power is gone.” (We watch the loss of power on I know I wouldn’t mind… of course I know that CBS would pay for that kind of extensive treatment either. (The bonus clip ends. The Enterprise's command crew must thwart an invasion by aliens from another galaxy who plan to conquer this one. Decided to watch the Original Series, they are way better than all of 80s Star Trek movies (even though it was the same characters). Before Decker can object, Palmer reports that ship-to-ship communications have been restored. I agree with all of Mark’s points save the appearance of the DM itself. I also think that extended effects would be great. I think I’d cry tears of joy if I saw one of the Starfleet Tech Manual ships in TOS-R but I’m not holding my breath. Thanks to them, I’m getting to enjoy episodes I haven’t seen in a while all over again. I just finished watching my favorite Star Trek episode, and the syndication cuts hurt. Lost footage would make for one hell of an extra feature on the upcoming DVD’s. Since they were able to show Doomsday and Enterprise in the same shot the scale of the vessels reminds me a lot of Star Trek The Motion Picture. The power levels on the Constellation are dropping, however, and the ship is rapidly approaching the planet killer, so time is of the essence. He wishes aloud for phasers, and Scott tells him that he has one bank recharged. Introducing ships from the tech manual, is not a good idea. As for “Looking to the future”, I think a potentially HUGE episode for CBS-D is “Assignment Earth”. Kirk and McCoy, examining the rest of the ship, find no signs of the crew and no bodies. Kirk asks Spock if the 97 megaton fusion explosion that would result from an overload of the impulse engines on the Constellation would be enough the destroy the planet killer. But I've also noticed some bloopers and make-up flubs (e.g., Leonard Nimoy's green make-up wasn't spread far enough on his neck & collarbones when he's wearing the denim shirt in "The City on the Edge of Forever"--yes, yes, I know that's a 1st season episode). Kor: “You will be interested to note that a The few on location shoots looked the best, like the one shot in LA. Decker gives in, looking far less confident than he was just a few minutes prior, and orders Sulu to veer off, but it is too late; the planet killer has the Enterprise in its tractor beam, and continues pulling her inside. Like your review, I do not agree with all of it, but well done and glad to have you contributing :). corner window, and the bonus material fills the rest Starfleet/Klingon battle … one thing they can’t do is Kirk becomes involved in an arms race when the Klingons equip a native people with superior weaponry. I also think the new planet killer if anything it is more threatening than the original made it out to be. Not really.”. There were 105 effects shots in the remastered version, in contrast to the twenty or thirty in an average episode. change anything that would require altering the sound mix At least the original SW movies are out now on DVD. Kirk, Scotty, McCoy and Uhura enter a parallel universe. Starfleet uses the Enterprise to test a new super-sophisticated computer, but it soon develops a mind of its own. What would have been ideal (and, admittedly impossible) would be a melding of both old and new. Since when is offering a fair and even-handed critique considered an “attack” on the artists at CBS Digital? The remastered version makes a well worn out episode worth watching again. Its alien makers are presumably long since dead. It was as though it was too big to fit on the screen. The central trio of Kirk, Spock and Bones have become as assured and happy in their interplay as a classical music chamber group; and adding to the merriment are a busier Montgomery Scott, memorably drinking an unfriendly alien under the table, not to mention the Russian Monkee of Pavel Andreievich Chekov. It seems to pop out a lot. Watching that early remastered TDM episode, those of us who knew the episode immediately noticed the script cuts; what the heck (*!?) In most cases, I prefer the original opticals (is there a better special effect shot than that iconic image of the Enterprise firing its phasers from the cover of “The Making of Star Trek?” I think not and there’s probably no more grand and stunning visual effects scene than the Enterprise miniature leaving drydock in Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and have generally preferred miniatures over CGI which is why the initial decision by CBS Digital to remain utterly faithful to the original shots was a dramatic mistake, in my mind. Wondering if the crew might have beamed down to one of the remaining planets, Spock (on the Enterprise) informs Kirk that the planets could not possibly sustain Human life: the inner planet having a surface temperature close to the melting point of lead and the second's atmosphere is simply too toxic to support Human life. Prompted by Kirk for a description of the attacker, Decker becomes increasingly distraught as he describes something "right out of hell" that destroyed the third planet, along with all four hundred of the Constellation's crew. Maybe it will get some of the new fans to learn the history of the classic series we all love. All the new spaceship shots in the world aren’t going to change that. And thankfully, our scriptwriters bring us some of our very favourite episodes. When the remastered version first came out, the editors thought the enhanced special effects were the story. They should be applauded for preserving a piece of Star Trek lore / history. Sol Kaplan's suspenseful "countdown" music, written for this episode, was re-used in many second-season episodes. In the episode, the starship Enterprise fights a powerful planet-killing machine from another galaxy. For the time up until recently there were great. I really respect Mark Altman, generally, but I don’t read authorship of articles until I’m done for a reason: it lets me form an unbiased opinion. As long as there are planets to consume, the device is self-sustaining. The dilithium crystal storage units now occupy the center of the floor (complete with recycled, The engine components appear and disappear as scenes dictated: they show up in ", The modified Nuclear-Chicago Model 2586 Radiation Survey Meter is again used by a member of the landing party as a. I like how it maneuvered around. "No, sir. There were many views of the both the starships going after the DDM, yielding some which showed the huge scale of the planet killer. Decker ends the argument by ordering Spock to surrender command or be relieved of duty. It's great quality, just lower than the music. And most of all, “The Ultimate Computer.” If they lift the rest of the fleet from Franz Joseph’s Technical Manual instead of simply duplicating the Enterprise, all will be forgiven, and I, for one, will be positively giddy (and, I’m sure a few of you will be as well).
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