Most gorgeous episode
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"The Immunity Syndrome", bar none!
Giant oil blobs and lava lamps will never look better.
Use the original effects on this one, the updated effects are good but this is one of the few stories where I advocate for watching the originals.
It also helps if you play Jefferson Airplane music in the background during the blobby scenes...
(Seriously, though, "Immunity Syndrome" is a fantastic story whose high concept ideas are one-upped by terrific character drama, and the high concept idea of space amoeba is the sort of thing only the 1960s could pull off with any sincerity. It's one of my top 5 episodes...
Giant oil blobs and lava lamps will never look better.
Use the original effects on this one, the updated effects are good but this is one of the few stories where I advocate for watching the originals.
It also helps if you play Jefferson Airplane music in the background during the blobby scenes...
(Seriously, though, "Immunity Syndrome" is a fantastic story whose high concept ideas are one-upped by terrific character drama, and the high concept idea of space amoeba is the sort of thing only the 1960s could pull off with any sincerity. It's one of my top 5 episodes...
I would also say "Wolf in the Fold" for the cool effect given to the Redjak demon later in the episode, "The Tholian Web" to see Loskene in his original and new f/x glory, and "I, Mudd" for a steeped use of bold, hued lighting for the sets (which is still more or less typical for TOS, NBC did sponsor the show to help sell color TVs and TOS is replete with numerous examples of bold color schemes that somehow don't look garish. Kudos to the color theory scientists on staff, but I digress.) Plus, it's always fun to look at Norman if nobody else...
Lastly, it's blocked in my country, yet all the others on his channel are readily available. Regardless, maybe you'll see the differences:
Lastly, it's blocked in my country, yet all the others on his channel are readily available. Regardless, maybe you'll see the differences:
Cool, I should have asked that earlier. "Immunity Syndrome" (as with the other episodes I'd mentioned above) is definitely best with its original effects. I like some of what was done for some episodes, but not all. And when a TOS episode with its original effects outdo TOS-R, I will be quick to mention it.
Hmm...
That's not a great way to start a thread, and the topic doesn't really match your first post.
If the discussion truly is "what is the most gorgeous episode?" then we can leave it open (assuming the term "gorgeous" is defined).
Sorry if I was unclear. I am over at someone’s house who has a giant TV, and I would like to take advantage of that by putting on an episode of Star Trek that is really gorgeous. Sometimes when there is something you have seen before, but you see it for the first time on a really large screen, it is a revelation just how beautifully it is filmed. So what episode do you consider the most gorgeous. I’m not sure how much “gorgeous” can be defined, but I brought that up about the big TV to provide context. Hope that works.
I would have to choose one of the episodes that was shot outdoors...probably Paradise Syndrome. The indoor planet sets just aren’t as picturesque or ‘gorgeous’.
Good point! As much as the interiors are shot with so much bold color (which I personally like but not all might) and good quality sets (which many larger ones put in by default but YMMV) meet or exceed the NTSC 72% color space standard (100% rocks,. especially with filmed sources as film has exponentially more density (and accuracy) than videotape had for color!!) , the on-location sets are generally top notch and "The Paradise Syndrome" is exemplary in that regard. Therefore it should be decreed that any episode to welcome a new large screen TV would be any Trek episode ending in "Syndrome".
Well, that last sentence is One explanation of the NTSC color standard:
http://en.tab-tv.com/?p=14528
The 100 vs 72% comparisons alone negate the need for reading the piece but I eat this stuff for breakfast, but I babble more than a brook...
Good point! As much as the interiors are shot with so much bold color (which I personally like but not all might) and good quality sets (which many larger ones put in by default but YMMV) meet or exceed the NTSC 72% color space standard (100% rocks,. especially with filmed sources as film has exponentially more density (and accuracy) than videotape had for color!!) , the on-location sets are generally top notch and "The Paradise Syndrome" is exemplary in that regard. Therefore it should be decreed that any episode to welcome a new large screen TV would be any Trek episode ending in "Syndrome".a tadoverly silly but what else is new...
One explanation of the NTSC color standard:
http://en.tab-tv.com/?p=14528
The 100 vs 72% comparisons alone negate the need for reading the piece but I eat this stuff for breakfast, but I babble more than a brook...
We can control the vertical and horizontal...
I think Arena is "gorgeous" on the big screen. We get a massive outdoor scene in the bombed outpost and battle inside it. We get some space ship chase scenes. Then we get the massive outdoor battle of Kirk and the Gorn among the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park! 
I think Arena is "gorgeous" on the big screen. We get a massive outdoor scene in the bombed outpost and battle inside it. We get some space ship chase scenes. Then we get the massive outdoor battle of Kirk and the Gorn among the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park!
That was going to be my second choice, so I agree.
Honestly, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is pretty gorgeous as well. The visuals are pretty stunning, the matte paintings used for Delta Vega, etc...
A lot of old-fashioned care was taken in the early Finnerman episodes to make the female guest star look gorgeous, like a glowing 1930s star, but in dazzling color. "The Conscience of the King" and "Dagger of the Mind", you can't go wrong. "Mudd's Women" is another one I like for the imagery. "Miri" is a good one for cinematography in general.
...and TSOP where Finnerman backlit Jill Ireland’s head in order to make her face ‘glow’.
When Finnerman was unsure how to light TOS actors and sets, I think it was GR who advised him, “They’re out in space in the future. No one knows what it will look like. Use your imagination...shadows, filters, colors, etc.”
Lights of Zetar - the original effects, are great in HD. Much better than the remastered version. The sets and uniforms look bright and crisp with the colourful lighting.
The shadowy, ghostly abandoned USS Exeter looks good in HD.
The shadowy, ghostly abandoned USS Exeter looks good in HD.
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