"Remastered"
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I would like to see TMP warp effects with occasional TVH warp effects.
But I still like the new effects added when The Enterprise is already in warp.
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I prefer the remastered version. Seeing the original TOS and its errors caused me to not take TOS seriously and I didn't want to watch it. It was bad effects combined with multi colour design, especially purple walls.
With TOS-R I now see a sun in Tomorrow Is Yesterday and that episode where everybody aged and the Commodore stole The Enterprise and didn't know that he isn't supposed to cross The Romulan Neutral Zone originally had silent torpedoes. But now TOS-R has sounds added to them.
However, there are a few moments that I would have liked retained. Such as The Planet Killer. nothing was wrong with the original Planet Killer. I actually prefer the beautiful lights and it is much more realistic compared with ugly CGI. That episode didn't need to be remastered. The Amoeba Episode is another. Some episodes have minimal production problems which means that they could have been left alone, while others badly needed TOS-R.
I do not remember every original TOS episode. But it seems that the third season had an improvement of visual effects. I don't know if these are remastered additions or not, but I like in episode The Empath the "poof" transporter and also the moving forcefield. The colours are where they belong in this episode: the visual effects. The background in this episode is solid black.
I enjoy watching TOS-R. But a few times they did things that didn't need any remastering.
My complicated requests are similar because they also involve changing the displays to show other things. They can make them different each episode. This would make The Enterprise look much more similar to the TOS Films. And in The Cage they had an equal amount of rear projection displays. The Engineering and the ? Station had two displays above each, not one. The Science and Communications have two displays above each, but the set designers never bothered to cut a simple hole in the wall to insert whatever rear projection screens are made of. They didn't even have to put a projector behind it, just make the bridge appear to have an equal amount of screens!!
Also if only they did colour correction to get rid of all the extra colours such as the red doors and purple walls it would have looked much more futuristic and much less cheap.
Wow. The colors are one of my favorite things (among many) about TOS. Why drain the color out of the show?
This has become a popular theory. Even in the current Navy, they now recognize that sending crew out for weeks or months at a time in confined quarters and not allowing the environment to break out of its battleship sterility in some ways is a recipe for poor mental health. Same goes for the reason Gene like Andrew Probert's idea of the wooden wishbone railing on the bridge of the Enterprise D: he felt it brought a bit of 'Earth' and character to what could potentially otherwise have been a dull computerized hub.
IMHO one of the things most sorely lacking in the interior designs of the USS Voyager and the Enterprise E, and even the refit movie Enterprises come to that, is that sense of colour and human life. As great as the monochromized versions of the sets look in "The Cage", I think if the whole of TOS had looked like that it would've been terrible. The bright colours give TOS a life and energy.
Grey and metallic is the expected, cliché look for SF ships. I'm glad Trek defied expectations in that way.
TOS also went for a more nuanced and moodier look than most shows of the time where the practice was to brighten everything up and eliminate shadows. Jerry Finnerman used coloured lights to "paint" the sets with colour.
Unfortunately the network didn't appreciate what TOS was trying to do and kept trying to "brighten" the prints and eliminate the contrast for a more conventional look. They were compromising the moodier atmosphere TOS was going for.
Unfortunately the network didn't appreciate what TOS was trying to do and kept trying to "brighten" the prints and eliminate the contrast for a more conventional look. They were compromising the moodier atmosphere TOS was going for.
Agreed. Most of the remastered planets look cool, but even my daughter made a comment about the 'tooner spaceships.
I say this on every remastered FX thread, and may even have done so in this one, but it's the colour of the Enterprise that looks wrong to me. In my mind she's white, not that flat MS Paint grey.
I blame my Dinky toy
I blame my Dinky toy
I say this on every remastered FX thread, and may even have done so in this one, but it's the colour of the Enterprise that looks wrong to me. In my mind she's white, not that flat MS Paint grey.
I blame my Dinky toy
You're absolutely right.
I wouldn't say that the original planets were that bad myself although some of the newer ones are good too. But the earth in the transmitted episodes was just like a green atlas map! Now they've improved on the look of the old earth but not in my opinion the spaceships with a need to show the angles of the nacelles as the ship moves in space! There is an argument for both camps but in mine I prefer the original look!
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Most of the remastered planets looked a little too Earthlike, IMO. It made the galaxy feel much more homogenous.
Hmmm. Maybe. I didn't think of that. If Earth people can survive on them, though, they're going to have water clouds... the surfaces are different colors. The one in Savage Curtain looked different. It had to. The only examples of different planets I can think of are gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, which they couldn't and didn't beam down to.
The don't look any better to me when they did when they were first broadcast. A valiant but failed effort, unfortunately.
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