I think part of Trek's problem in the here-and-now is that the good guys are mostly government/military types. Almost every other franchise has the government as the bad guys/people who get in the way of the heroes.
DS9 on blu ray?
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I think part of Trek's problem in the here-and-now is that the good guys are mostly government/military types. Almost every other franchise has the government as the bad guys/people who get in the way of the heroes.
Someone once said, "Star Wars is about fighting the man. Star Trek is about being the man."
I'm not sure who said that, exactly.
Kor
Which is probably a reason DS9 tends to be seen as one of the better series - there were fewer Federation types, and the main cast included a terrorist and a criminal. Even the lawman didn't like to follow the rules he was given.
TOS comes out a post-war, pre-Vietnam culture that saw government as a force for good. That looks a little naive these days.
Yet TOS is the one CBS markets the most to "normal" people (i.e., non-Trekkies)
TOS was often leery of authority. Just not the authority of the home government.
That's a weird way of describing it. I'd describe TOS as pro-human-endeavor, not pro government (and certainly not pro-military). Any mass human endeavor will require some form of government. There are good governments and bad governments and good and bad aspects to both.
Perhaps I didn't articulate that very well. I mean it has that Kennedy-era optimism, "ask not what your country can do for you" etc. The boundless boomer optimism that came with the burgeoning civil rights movement and a belief in the American century as a force for good in the world. The end of 19th century empires and the spread of democracy throughout the world.
I think Star Trek owes a lot to that feeling, before the cynicism and reality of Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination and Nixon set in, and government came to be seen (especially in a lot of genre TV and film) as a malign force at best.
Current stuff: yes.
20 year old stuff: no.
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Right in time for #STLV we'll release our next #DS9inHD #DS9 #trailer. Charge your phones and PADDs! #startrek
No, I don't want something half-assed like that. I want to see the amazing makeup work, intricate set design, the texture of the costumes and yeah, I also want all the flaws and gaffes, in glorious HD. Just getting maybe the pilot and two other episodes in HD I could live with, but not something that only remasters the special effects.
That's what I want as well but I would take a little over nothing at all. Plus I wonder if this would be enough to garner interest in the idea that would get the more complete update in the future. I wonder how much influence those TOS special editions years ago had influence in them wanting to update TOS and TNG into HD.
Jason
That's actually the hard part. That's what would have to be done all over. The non-effects scenes are easier in that they'd just require scanning the film and re-editing. If you were going to do it half-way, doing all the non-effects stuff is what you'd do first.
Much more than that. They would essentially have to do all of post-production again. Adding music, any audio FX, audio redubs... anything that is part of post-filming has to be redone. Plus, they have to dig all the elements out of the salt mine where they are stored.
What in the hell is a fake nerd?
Not sure that the term "nerd" has much meaning these days given that most of the things that would label you as such in decades past have now become popular culture or universal (computers, science, comics, video games). I like it as a quasi-synonym for "fan", though, like "science nerd" or "car nerd" or "cooking nerd".
There's nothing particularly geeky about watching the biggest, most mainstream blockbuster of the year.
Was Star Wars ever nerdy? I'm just talking about the films, not the people who buy all the novels and write wookiepedia pages.
Likewise millions of people saw the Donner Superman films, or The Dark Knight trilogy, without delving down to the minutiae of the comics.
Star Trek never quite had that blockbuster appeal on a consistent basis. The nerd faction seems like it makes up a higher proportion of viewers.
Was Star Wars ever nerdy? I'm just talking about the films, not the people who buy all the novels and write wookiepedia pages.
Likewise millions of people saw the Donner Superman films, or The Dark Knight trilogy, without delving down to the minutiae of the comics.
Star Trek never quite had that blockbuster appeal on a consistent basis. The nerd faction seems like it makes up a higher proportion of viewers.
Is using super-resolution upscaling a possible more economical solution for conversion from SD to HD than the process used for TNG?
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/SingleImageSR.html
Requires feeding in the video to a dedicated server farm for fast conversion, adding the audio back in if necessary, QA for obvious conversion artefacts and audio syncing problems, reprocessing for QA rejections, and archival.
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/SingleImageSR.html
Requires feeding in the video to a dedicated server farm for fast conversion, adding the audio back in if necessary, QA for obvious conversion artefacts and audio syncing problems, reprocessing for QA rejections, and archival.
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