Star Trek-RM: Elaan of Troyius… Grading/Discussion
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I imagine the uncut version on the Season 3 Remastered DVDs will be better. No choppy edits in the music or the new ship effects.
I didn't like the lighted rectangular windows in the D-7 forward module. The old studio model had round porthole-like windows. Minor detail I guess. The D-7 CGI model looked a little rough perhaps due to its many and challenging compound curves.
The shot of the cruiser pulling away at the last moment was definitely stylized for the story. It could have been better. Ships that massive should not "juke" quickly. It makes them look less...well...massive. I like the lumbering motions as in ST:II.
The shot of the cruiser pulling away at the last moment was definitely stylized for the story. It could have been better. Ships that massive should not "juke" quickly. It makes them look less...well...massive. I like the lumbering motions as in ST:II.
I didn't like the Klingon's impulse engines. They just felt stuck on. The portholes were also too big and too square. I also really missed the sense that the ships were really far apart, especially when the warp driven Klingon ship just slowly slides by the Enterprise at impulse.
I do sort of wish they had put a rear/aft torpedo launcher on the back of the D-7, something all other Klingon battle cruisers even chronologically predating TOS("Unexpected(ENT)")had starting with the first movie. They could have put a round little tube between the aft impulse exhausts.
The redesign of the D7 wasn't bad at all. But I think the aft engine glow should have been red, not blue. That made it look too similar to the Starfleet ships. The green disruptor blasts were cool. They sort of looked like the venting of plasma energy (my best way of describing it). The episode overall was good, so I'm not complaining. 
A for the episode, "average" for the CGI. The motion of the battlecruiser was off in several aforementioned shots. Also, it just seemed to me that the model was poorly lit--the parts of the cruiser in shadow were pitch-black. Meh.
The D7 needed a tad more surface detailing and texture. Koloth's D7 in the DS9 Tribble episode had a lot of intricate detailing and was more aquamarine in color, and that was an episode from more than ten years ago.
Regarding the color, looking at the side-by-side caps at Trekmovie, you can see the original ship has the light aqua underside on the secondary hull which really emphasizes the "manta-ray" impression of the ship. Too bad the CGI ship is a uniform gray.
Yeah...FAR too gray. It look more like a drab Imperial warship from a STAR WARS movie than it does a Klingon ship. Even the most boring Klingon ships from 1979 onwards had some color and verve. This is yet another example of the Remastering team being too damn slavish to the original model color and effects and not being creative enough to make something that would both stand out on its own and be nifty and fit into the original episode fairly well.
You missed my point... the Remastering team didn't replicate the color variations evident on the original ship. They weren't "slavish" enough.
In that case, GOOD. The less of that...the better. 1968 plastic shooting models had their weaknesses. Let's not replicate all of them, shall we?
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