I'm not fussed on this one. I mean let's face it... sometime before the next millennium it'll be remastering all over again to match whatever look JJA's Star Trek goes with. 
CGI Enterprise, put the Blue Warp Lights in one episode
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And don't forget...there's serious talk about Remastering TNG as well once TOS is completed and the new movie's out and about.
So, should they remaster the Boseman (sp?) to be a Constitution refit then?
No. Because it was said to be a Soyuz-class ship in that one TNG episode and the Soyuz were supposed to be contemporaries and design offshoots of the Miranda(Reliant) class. No problems there.
Well at somepoint, they're going to have to remaster at least one TNG episode, Relics. The stock picture of the planet seen on Scotty's bridge recreation...
How about his ass instead?
I believe the structure of the TOS Enterprise nacelles would make side-illumination impractical. As I recall, there's a protruding structure over at least part of the length of the inboard grillework. (FJ's blueprints called this pipe-like fin a "control reactor") It looks like this protrusion would negate the desired aesthetic effect.
http://cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/star-trek-blueprints-sheet-13.jpg
I have mixed feelings about the outcome of remastering, whether anything is changed or not. It's neat to see a clearer rendering of the good ship Enterprise, but I went all this years thinking that the rear, semi-spherical nacelle caps were illuminated because of the way the original model was lighted during shooting for TOS. I was shocked to see those rounded structures, well, dark in remastered TOS.
All this aside, I think the one thing that remastered TOS has brought home for me is how little TOS relied on special effects in the first place. Looking at some of these eps, and checking out a few of the "VFX reels" fans post to YouTube, I'm struck by how little is actually shown. Just a minute or two per episode. That's it.
I would imagine that remastering TNG would require a much larger undertaking, because it tended to rely on more FX and the stories (from where I sit) seemed less driven by either writer's creativity or by being designed to rely on the viewer's imagination. (There are exceptions, of course, such as "The Measure of a Man", and "Ensigns of Command".)
http://cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/star-trek-blueprints-sheet-13.jpg
I have mixed feelings about the outcome of remastering, whether anything is changed or not. It's neat to see a clearer rendering of the good ship Enterprise, but I went all this years thinking that the rear, semi-spherical nacelle caps were illuminated because of the way the original model was lighted during shooting for TOS. I was shocked to see those rounded structures, well, dark in remastered TOS.
All this aside, I think the one thing that remastered TOS has brought home for me is how little TOS relied on special effects in the first place. Looking at some of these eps, and checking out a few of the "VFX reels" fans post to YouTube, I'm struck by how little is actually shown. Just a minute or two per episode. That's it.
I would imagine that remastering TNG would require a much larger undertaking, because it tended to rely on more FX and the stories (from where I sit) seemed less driven by either writer's creativity or by being designed to rely on the viewer's imagination. (There are exceptions, of course, such as "The Measure of a Man", and "Ensigns of Command".)
The amount of running time comsumed by opticals probably increased quite a bit during TNG's run - in the first year, they were almost as limited as TOS.
As I mentioned earlier, just be glad Okuda and his team left the NCC-1701 without glowing nacelles. As did the DS9 and ENTERPRISE episodes to recreate 23rd century Constitution-class ships.
Didn't Datin and Co. once have an idea to light the nacelles and the set of rings behind the sensor dish if they had the money, or was that heresy?
Personally, I would love to see a TWOK-style warp effect (which was better than the TMP version). The camera accelerating with the E, the ship's lights streaking and the stars elongating, before the ship snaps off into the distance.
Much like this:
^Hey Forbin, long time no speak!!
There is only onbe episode where this will work visually and in line with the story. In the ep "By Any Other Name" where the Kelvans make mods to the engine so that they can make the run to Andromeda. You could at least explain away the glow as coming from the mods and thusly explaining also why in the rest of the eps no glow.
The ret-conner fanboys can then project/hypothesize that since the Kelvans and Feds became friends of sorts, they incoroporated Kelvan tech into the Fed warp drive and thus blue lights start appearing on warp nacelles after TOS era.
Just a thought - party on peeps!!
There is only onbe episode where this will work visually and in line with the story. In the ep "By Any Other Name" where the Kelvans make mods to the engine so that they can make the run to Andromeda. You could at least explain away the glow as coming from the mods and thusly explaining also why in the rest of the eps no glow.
The ret-conner fanboys can then project/hypothesize that since the Kelvans and Feds became friends of sorts, they incoroporated Kelvan tech into the Fed warp drive and thus blue lights start appearing on warp nacelles after TOS era.
Just a thought - party on peeps!!
Someone years ago told me(I kind of doubt the story)that when the DS9 producers built the new NCC-1701 model for the Tribble episode they came close to making the inner sides of each nacelle glow a little in a fashion like later TREK starships. Glad they never did it, provided it was even something that was really discussed.
I think it would be odd to change the effects in a random episode...unless its the last one.
Might it not be better for them to mayb include some alternate affects as bonus features on the DVD release with these sorts of thing, gives the "what could have been" without altering the original feel to the series
Might it not be better for them to mayb include some alternate affects as bonus features on the DVD release with these sorts of thing, gives the "what could have been" without altering the original feel to the series
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