Star Trek-RM: The Apple… Grading/Discussion

[AstroSmurf]

This is the grading & discussion thread for Star Trek Remastered airing the weekend of 03/01/08.

The Apple

When a landing party beams down to the planet Gamma Trianguli VI, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise finds an idyllic paradise, one where the inhabitants neither age nor die. But soon Kirk finds the illusion of utopia shattered when a good portion of his away team is destroyed. And in the midst of plants that shoot thorns, rocks that explode and lightning bolts, the captain finds Vaal, a godlike serpent shaped oracle worshiped by the inhabitants. Now, in a quest for survival, the crew must find a way off the planet before they, and the ship, are destroyed by this over-protecting deity.

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[cooleddie74]

C grade. Average Remastering. Not much to change here, and precious little was aside from standard, routine orbital planet and ship shots and the final barrage of phaser fire on Vaal.

 

[AstroSmurf]

Ok kids. I have screwed up the poll. I forgot to mark the multiple answer box at the bottom. Sorry. I am still getting used to this thing.

As for the episode, I give it a C-. If it wasn't for the now legendary death of Mallory, I would give it a D. I am not sure why but this episode is clumsy and moves like molten rock at times. Other times it is rather interesting. I really don't know how I feel about it since it is all over the place.

As for the remastering, I give it an average. The new phaser effect at the end was nice and I liked the planet but it was all things we have seen before. I was hoping they would clean up the lightening and make it look hotter and more dangerous. But alas, no.

 

[AC84]

I actually liked the final phaser attack against Vaal. It was done much better than what we saw on "Who Mourns for Adonais?"

As I've said in the other thread, one thing I was disappointed by was the fact that they didn't change the blue sky behind the stormy clouds. It still doesn't match up with the beautiful red-orange sunset-like sky we see in a majority of the episode.

 

[Stag]

Average episode, nothing much in the remastering...did Vaal's eyes get enhanced? I thought the phaser shot was better but everything else seemed ...meh. The lightning, the clouds, the exploding rock all seemed uninspired.

Now the syndication edits...holy sh!t Batman. They really hacked the hell out of this one. A shame really because I had not seen it for awhile and would like to have enjoyed it without the jarring edits.

 

[Daowulf]

I watched a recording of a broadcast of the original 1967 episode, and it showed the stormy sky tinted red, not blue. The remastered episode shows a blue stormy sky, so either they are working with a different set of original masters, or they intentionally changed it from red to blue.

 

[Hambone]

...did Vaal's eyes get enhanced?

I was wondering that, too. They seemed to glow a little more convincingly. I thought the phaser assault on Vaal was pretty well done, plus we got a new angle of the Enterprise firing phasers.

As for the episode itself, meh. Pretty unnecessary entry in the series, basically combining elements from "Return of the Archons" and "Who Mourns for Adonais?".

 

[cooleddie74]

The episode itself has pretty much always been in my Bottom 10. Never cared for it even as a kid. Too cheesy and hokey with the funky tribal makeup and the Vaal cave-machine that is OBVIOUSLY painted papier-mache and styrofoam with big light-bulb eyes.

 

[AC84]

I watched a recording of a broadcast of the original 1967 episode, and it showed the stormy sky tinted red, not blue. The remastered episode shows a blue stormy sky, so either they are working with a different set of original masters, or they intentionally changed it from red to blue.

I just noticed that too! What the hell happened?

 

[Swarles Barkley]

Poor for not remastering the beehives off of Vaal's male subjects. A planet of people where all the guys look like Flo from "Alice"? Kiss mah grits!!

 

[cooleddie74]

They SHOULD have remastered David Soul(Makora the native)singing "Don't Give up on Us Babe."