They're the same ship, just different visual interpretations.
I doubt CBS is going to stop selling merchandise with Jefferies original design any time soon.
Why did TOS:R recreate crappy effects?
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They're the same ship, just different visual interpretations.
I doubt CBS is going to stop selling merchandise with Jefferies original design any time soon.
So, they've overwritten the original design. Thank you for agreeing.
They haven't.
A new interpretation usually overwrites an old interpretation. Or, do you ever expect to see Matt Jefferies design again on a CBS production?
Not on TV, but they'll still sell TOS themed merchandise with it.
Weirdly enough one of them is about as real as the other.
Then it is being overwritten. Nothing more, nothing less.
It really isn't about them being real. It is about people being deluded about what CBS is doing. Slowly but surely overwriting the most iconic elements of the franchise in favor of a new vision, but not being honest about it.
I can see a future generation of filmmakers borrowing the original E from the Smithsonian to shoot stock footage for a throwback version of Trek. All new, but all the same. New recreations of the original sets with a budget big enough to make it convincingly real, state of the art SFX, and casting and scripts to make a new version of TOS that will please even the most hardcore fan.
Then again, it might just be a parallel universe in a snow globe.
Then again, it might just be a parallel universe in a snow globe.
If it was, they'd replace it on all future merchandise.
It's not fair to paint with a broad brush about how they did. There were 79 episodes (plus the pilot) to work over. The results are highly variable. Some were more recreations and some were more ambitious. Some things they did I felt changed things for the better, giving it more of a high budget look. Other times I kind of missed the more minialistic glowy lights and things that were sometimes used in lieu of an actual shop model.
What bothered me the most is when there was a technical glitch, like the compositing mistake on the neck of the E in the opening shot of The Cage. Future generations will now introduce themselves to Trek canon with an FX glitch. Inexcusable.
What bothered me the most is when there was a technical glitch, like the compositing mistake on the neck of the E in the opening shot of The Cage. Future generations will now introduce themselves to Trek canon with an FX glitch. Inexcusable.
I'm lucky that my introduction to Trek was in the 60s, and again in the early 70s reruns on a small B&W TV. Really, I feel sorry for the people whose expectations of a Trek show are based on later incarnations. They missed out on the experience of seeing something that had never been done before on TV, and growing up with the franchise as a whole.
This is how I feel about the Disco Enterprise, and the depiction of 2250s Trek as compared to TOS (go to 3:37):
So 1979 then?
I like being able to see the remastered version and the originals.
There are details in the remaster, like the Medusa ship (and just things in general that had to be left out) that are nice to see. I think they did the best job they could incorporating the look.
Even TMP didn't go back to the five year mission or prior, and go "hey this is all supposed to be happening at the same time!"
Was the series version of the ship being overwritten every time they used a shot of the Cage or WNMHGB versions, and then back again? Unless you go with the wacky idea about the pneumatic bridge dome and extending nacelle spikes and such.
Yep. The Enterprise could transform. Take that, everyone who says it's not futuristic!
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