HD DVD Screen Captures from "Where No Man..." On-Line!

[FrontierTrek]

Continuing with our awesome HD-caps at TrekCore.com, exclusive restored and enhanced HD DVD screen caps from "Where No Man Has Gone Before" are up for y'all!


http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/thumbnails.php?album=3 << Direct Link.

Enjoy!!

 

[FalTorPan]

Thanks for the link! I mimicked the briefing room scene between Kirk and Spock almost shot-for-shot in a sci-fi spoof that I started making some years ago...

Astronuts (Starting with Shot #44)

EDIT: I just noticed the "mud" in the lower right corner of this shot of Kelso on the bridge. I wonder if it was gunk on the helm console, or a problem with compositing. Probably the latter.

 

[David cgc]

I still can't believe they didn't add reflections in that desk. That bothers me much more than the typewritten records on the screen. Damn CBS and their inability to let the VFX boys take their time!

 

[Outpost4]

Huh?

 

[Rat Boy]

You know, of the three episodes showcased so far, I think the effects of this one suffer from being in HD. The galactic barrier shots don't look that great at all in high resolution.

 

[Kail]

Great caps! Looking forward to more. Thanks!

 

[Kagan]

The command tunics have an actual hint of green...as they should.
The engineering/support tunics lean more to brown than salmon.
:thumbsup: I like HD's ability to bring out those colors.

 

[USS Mariner]

Kagan said:
The command tunics have an actual hint of green...as they should.
The engineering/support tunics lean more to brown than salmon.
:thumbsup: I like HD's ability to bring out those colors.

Chalk up the bad DVD colors to...well, bad transfers and cleanup.

It's a shame that the rest of the FX can't match up to Max Gabl's matte work, which only shines even brighter in HD. The inverse true for the CG.

I'm extremely tempted to get the TOSR packages, but I would want the original, restored cuts included, and at the very least have the team finish up restoring several live shots that are well below par ("Arena" and "Mirror, Mirror" come to mind.)

 

[Kryton]

He played MOST illogically...his next move SHOULD have been the ROOK.

Did I get that line right? It's a highlight of the episode...along with the "walking freezer unit" and "pity, having bad blood like that (and the additional ...but you may learn to enjoy it" depending on what version you're watching.)

 

[FalTorPan]

Kryton Kryngle said:
He played MOST illogically...his next move SHOULD have been the ROOK.

That's right... except that Spock pronounced "been" like "bean." Maybe it showed Spock's alien-ness... or maybe it showed Spock's fondness for the musical fruit.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

FalTorPan said:

Kryton Kryngle said:
He played MOST illogically...his next move SHOULD have been the ROOK.

That's right... except that Spock pronounced "been" like "bean." Maybe it showed Spock's alien-ness... or maybe it showed Spock's fondness for the musical fruit.

I can't remember where I read it, perhaps the Whitfield/Roddenberry book, but during the pilots Nimoy thought about giving Spock a slight British-accent, or similar-type accent, as if he'd learned English from tapes.

 

[exalted one]

Is it just me, or are those HD images way too pixelated, full of "boxes" and other artifacts? Like, I mean, the walking man's uniform in this shot - http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x03hd/wherenomanhasgonebeforehd014.jpg - are those a result of JPG compression, or are those a part of the actual videos?

 

[USS Mariner]

That isn't pixelation, that's motion blur.

As for the "compression blotches," IIRC that's actually film grain.

 

[Rat Boy]

exalted one said:
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x03hd/wherenomanhasgonebeforehd014.jpg

Kelso: "Yeoman Smith? Uh...haven't seen her."

 

[USS Mariner]

Rat Boy said:

exalted one said:
http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x03hd/wherenomanhasgonebeforehd014.jpg

Kelso: "Yeoman Smith? Uh...haven't seen her."

One wonders why he has his legs facing sideways, and his one knee raised...

 

[Professor Moriarty]

David cgc said:
I still can't believe they didn't add reflections in that desk. That bothers me much more than the typewritten records on the screen. Damn CBS and their inability to let the VFX boys take their time!

DrunkenSanta said:
Huh?

Look carefully at this screen capture. There should be a diffuse upside-down and reversed reflection visible in the semi-glossy table surface of Kelso at his helm station. Instead, all that you see is the plain white surface of the tabletop "viewscreen" and nothing more, which makes it obvious that the "viewscreen" is nothing but a plain white surface onto which the F/X guys matted a film clip of actor Paul Carr.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

FalTorPan said:
EDIT: I just noticed the "mud" in the lower right corner of this shot of Kelso on the bridge. I wonder if it was gunk on the helm console, or a problem with compositing. Probably the latter.

It's neither... you're seeing the edge of the light-gray center pedestal.

Oh and p.s., THANKS for the new screen capture goodness, FrontierTrek! I continue to be amazed at the resolution and clarity of the live-action shots... you can almost read the itty-bitty labels on the controls in some of those frames!

 

[Outpost4]

^ Ahhh, now I get it. Thanks, Professor.

That would have been easy to fix, you'd think.


In case anybody is interested, I took 9 screen caps from the end of this episode and put them together in a sequence. Click here to see the TOS-R Enterprise leaving Delta Vega in all of its 4320x3240 glory.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

It really is amazing that the CGI Enterprise--which admittedly sometimes looks almost cartoonish in syndication because all that we can see is blurry standard definition resolution (or worse)--comes to uber-detailed life at 1080p resolution.

 

[Maurice]

Professor Moriarty said:

FalTorPan said:
EDIT: I just noticed the "mud" in the lower right corner of this shot of Kelso on the bridge. I wonder if it was gunk on the helm console, or a problem with compositing. Probably the latter.

It's neither... you're seeing the edge of the light-gray center pedestal.

Incorrect. He's referring to the greenish smear to the "lower right corner" of the viewscreen image, not the gray bit at the bottom center.