Sigh. I knew this day would come. Right after they aired the revamped Balance of Terror, I wrote this gushy post about how great it was.
Here's some relevant bits: "Ironically, I’m also a little bit worried that the new FX are a little too understated..."
and
"What was amazing was how literally the original scenes were used as a template for the new ones – if it was a shot of the Enterprise tipping nose-down after taking a hit, the Enterprise in the new shot was filling the screen the same way."
The reason I'm regretting my enthusiasm is that, in retrospect, I really wanted revamped Trek to be awesome when actually they've made a very strange blunder. The effects ARE too understated; there's a bizarre adherence to the original images that's very disappointing. They could be showing us new closeup angles of the ships and stuff, but since they didn't do that in OST they're not going to do it here.
I've only seen the one re-done episode back in September, so maybe things have evolved a bit. But the end result that I saw didn't look as good as the audition FX done by one effects company trying to get the job (posted here).
January 11, 2007 9:24 AM
From Aicn, "Here's an image from one of the upcoming (remastered) STAR TREK episodes. It airs this weekend. It's from "Wink of an Eye" -- in which Kirk and the gang end up living at an accelerated speed... (while the world around them seems to move at an almost complete standstill).
This would be a reworked shot from the opening of the episode...on the planet Scalos...where an Enterprise landing part arrives to find an (apparently) desolate world. [Image] I really like the atmosphere of this shot, and the detailing (archetecture, lighting) of the city in the background, sense of desolation.
When I first heard about an intent to remaster the classic series, I was a bit cynical. Truth be told...even though it took a while...the remastering team seems to have found its stride & have been turning in some really nice (although not entirely consistent) work.
The CGI Enterprise model used at the beginning of the project has been replaced with a far more convincing construct. Some nice visual kinetics have been added to effects shots (although they're organic & never as "over the top" as we've seen in other Special Edition fare). Check out "Trouble with Tribbles" or "The Menagerie" to get good examples of episodes done right."
Here's a list of when the rest of the remastered episodes will air
Weekend Title Prod #
01.06.07 Friday's Child 032 01.13.07 Wink of an Eye 068 01.20.07 Where No Man Has Gone Before 002 01.27.07 For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky 065
02.03.07 Journey to Babel 044 02.10.07 The Doomsday Machine 035 02.17.07 Amok Time 034 02.24.07 The Paradise Syndrome 058
03.03.07 Space Seed 024 03.10.07 Wolf in the Fold 036 03.17.07 I, Mudd 041 03.24.07 The Naked Time 007 03.31.07 The Tholian Web 064
04.07.07 The Immunity Syndrome 048 04.14.07 And the Children Shall Lead 060 04.21.07 All Our Yesterdays 078 04.28.07 A Piece of the Action 049
05.05.07 Tomorrow Is Yesterday 021 05.12.07 Errand of Mercy 027 05.19.07 Patterns of Force 052 05.26.07 Shore Leave 017
07.07.07 Return to Tomorrow 051 07.14.07 Charlie X 008 07.21.07 The Squire of Gothos 018 07.28.07 This Side of Paradise 025
08.04.07 Where No Man Has Gone Before 002 08.11.07 Wolf in the Fold 036 08.18.07 Wink of an Eye 068 08.25.07 For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky 065
09.01.07 The Corbomite Maneuver 003 09.08.07 The Doomsday Machine 035
"Check Out This Moody Shot From The Remastered "Wink Of An Eye" STAR TREK Episode"
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Has anyone been catching these? If so, what's the good word?
January 11, 2007 7:32 AM
Sigh. I knew this day would come. Right after they aired the revamped Balance of Terror, I wrote this gushy post about how great it was.
Here's some relevant bits: "Ironically, I’m also a little bit worried that the new FX are a little too understated..."
and
"What was amazing was how literally the original scenes were used as a template for the new ones – if it was a shot of the Enterprise tipping nose-down after taking a hit, the Enterprise in the new shot was filling the screen the same way."
The reason I'm regretting my enthusiasm is that, in retrospect, I really wanted revamped Trek to be awesome when actually they've made a very strange blunder. The effects ARE too understated; there's a bizarre adherence to the original images that's very disappointing. They could be showing us new closeup angles of the ships and stuff, but since they didn't do that in OST they're not going to do it here.
I've only seen the one re-done episode back in September, so maybe things have evolved a bit. But the end result that I saw didn't look as good as the audition FX done by one effects company trying to get the job (posted here).
January 11, 2007 9:24 AM