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Is it just me, or are they trying to hit up all the "themed planets" in a row?
Is it just me, or are they trying to hit up all the "themed planets" in a row?
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I must admit I'd want to get all the easier episodes(effects-wise)out of the way first so I could then focus more time on the episodes that really need a lot of work(for better or worse)like "The Ultimate Computer" and "The Alternative Factor." Episodes like the Nazi world, "Shore Leave" and the Roman planet have very few space effects and little or none on the planetary surfaces. This allows Okuda and his team to take something of a breather.
There's one ("Ultimate Computer") that I'm hoping they really get right. I was looking forward to "Doomsday Machine" and, while it looked good, some of the shots left me feeling like "Meh, this is the best they could do?" So, I don't mind if they're taking their time with the "big" episodes if it means getting a better product over a so-so one.
I can't wait to see Drusilla's little tinfoil bikini in HD!
I don't see much to change in this one, much like "Shore Leave" last weekend. Almost all the action is on the surface and without Starfleet technology and weapons. Don't expect much to be tweaked aside from the space shots and visuals of the Enterprise.
Aren't the usual changes to the space and orbit scenes first, and then things that the Okudas and Rossi want to alter?
Slightly OT, but something always bothered me about this episode (and bear with me, I'm going from memory, and haven't seen the ep in a number of years).
Kirk and Co. beam down and discover their fellow Fed has contaminated the planet; they know about starships, transporters etc. Yet I recall that Kirk goes out of his way to describe the Enterprise as being a ship "out at sea", as if that fey chubby dude didn't already know about starfleet etc (and we know he does).
So-- dafuk?
Kirk and Co. beam down and discover their fellow Fed has contaminated the planet; they know about starships, transporters etc. Yet I recall that Kirk goes out of his way to describe the Enterprise as being a ship "out at sea", as if that fey chubby dude didn't already know about starfleet etc (and we know he does).
So-- dafuk?
^ Like you, going from memory, Kirk first meets some escaped slaves and has to make that analogy. Later he meets the pudgy emporer guy and is surprised he knows about starships.
Exactly right.
The most underrated episode of TOS IMHO.
The most underrated episode of TOS IMHO.
Yes. Usually.
But in episodes like this one, "Shore Leave," "Patterns of Force" and "A Piece of the Action"---ones that have very few effects and opticals on the planetary surfaces and rely heavily on one-on-one interaction and dialogue---the job is usually done or near so once the space shots have been changed. Okuda and his team don't have to do too much work on these, and don't.
I actually always liked this episode. Thought it was an interesting one.
This is also about the only episode where Kirk is completely adament about not breaking the Prime Directive and makes sure that Scotty doesn't do so.
Here's what was actually changed in the final, completed episode based on my own personal observations:
-Enterprise dodges six-year-old drifting debris from the SS Beagle as the starship enters the 892-IV system.
-Planet 892-IV now looks more Earth-like and realistic, with a day-night terminator and shading and TWO moons in orbit overhead.
-When Kirk and company beam down to the surface, those same two moons are now inserted into the sky overhead and are faintly visible in the daylight/sun.
-New orbital shots of the Enterprise before and as Scotty and Chekov disrupt the electrical power grid on the planet's surface.
-There are now bullet holes from the machine gun fire on the back wall of the Enterprise officers' holding cell. Before now, none were visible...one of the big snafus/continuity errors of the original series.
-Enterprise dodges six-year-old drifting debris from the SS Beagle as the starship enters the 892-IV system.
-Planet 892-IV now looks more Earth-like and realistic, with a day-night terminator and shading and TWO moons in orbit overhead.
-When Kirk and company beam down to the surface, those same two moons are now inserted into the sky overhead and are faintly visible in the daylight/sun.
-New orbital shots of the Enterprise before and as Scotty and Chekov disrupt the electrical power grid on the planet's surface.
-There are now bullet holes from the machine gun fire on the back wall of the Enterprise officers' holding cell. Before now, none were visible...one of the big snafus/continuity errors of the original series.
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