THE CAGE is coming to TOSR!!!!

[gastrof]

Just saw the upcoming TV listings, and the weekend of May 2nd and 3rd THE CAGE will air on TOSR.

I don't know if it's being done as a two parter, since the schedule at zap2it.com doesn't go beyond that weekend yet, but at least part of THE CAGE will air in two weeks. Possibly a VERY edited "whole thing".

 

[Klingon Empire]

What's TOSR?

 

[Hober Mallow]

What's TOSR?

Remastered Star Trek.

 

[gastrof]

TOS, R

"The Original Series, Remastered"

 

[Klingon Empire]

On WXSP?

 

[Good]

Forgive my lack of enthusiasm. With the exception of the planets and the "beauty shot" flybys, most of the changes in TOSR have added very little for me. Some of the changes have been nonsensical, some just look bad. Some are different than the original effects, but really don't look like they were done with modern technology. They just look different for the sake of being different (I'm thinking of the Romulan ship in Balance of Terror).

 

[Klingon Empire]

I always thought the TOS, not TOSR, is better.

 

[Cakes488]

Just saw the upcoming TV listings, and the weekend of May 2nd and 3rd THE CAGE will air on TOSR.

I don't know if it's being done as a two parter, since the schedule at zap2it.com doesn't go beyond that weekend yet, but at least part of THE CAGE will air in two weeks. Possibly a VERY edited "whole thing".

How could "the cage" be a two-parter?
When and what time do they show Star Trek in your area?

 

[Hambone]

How could "the cage" be a two-parter?

The uncut episode ran 64 minutes, as opposed to the usual 52 minutes. With today's bloated commercial breaks, it would easily run 90 minutes. I would doubt that the episode will be run uncut, though.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The remastered effects sequences from "The Cage" are already up at Youtube and they're pretty remarkable.

 

[gastrof]

The remastered effects sequences from "The Cage" are already up at Youtube and they're pretty remarkable.

Link? (I'm sure there are 937 different vids that'd come up if I searched for "Star Trek The Cage".)

 

[gastrof]

How could "the cage" be a two-parter?

The uncut episode ran 64 minutes, as opposed to the usual 52 minutes. With today's bloated commercial breaks, it would easily run 90 minutes. I would doubt that the episode will be run uncut, though.

There was even an incident on SciFi Channel where a STARGATE SG-1 episode ("Threads") ran for 90 min.

The first repeat showing ran as a two-parter, with a HUGE amount of material being repeated in the second half. I think the "previously..." section of the second half ran for 20 minutes or something before there was any new material. (Sadly, since then repeats have been a horribly butchered version in a single 1-hr timeslot...now jokingly referred to as "Shreds")

I'd hoped maybe the guys at CBS would, out of respect, do THE CAGE in a similar way, and show the whole thing over a two week period.

Guess we gotta wait until the following weekend's TV listings are up to see what runs then. ("The Cage, pt 2"?)

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmEuXsa4z_Q

Search under "The Cage" and "remastered" - it's the first item up.

 

[Data Holmes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmEuXsa4z_Q

Search under "The Cage" and "remastered" - it's the first item up.

Oooo.... Very cool!

 

[ncc-1017-e]

I like both TOS and TOSR!

 

[doctorwho 03]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmEuXsa4z_Q

Search under "The Cage" and "remastered" - it's the first item up.

I'm watching that right now. The opening shot where they go through the bridge dome into the bridge was most impressive, but that shot going back out the dome just blew me away. I wasn't expecting that. for the entire crew of TOSR. Now I have to get the DVDs to watch the entire episode.

 

[gastrof]

...but that shot going back out the dome just blew me away. I wasn't expecting that. for the entire crew of TOSR. Now I have to get the DVDs to watch the entire episode.

The problem with the original depiction of the ship going to warp to get to Talos IV was that it was SO different from how warp was depicted later, it just didn't fit, but them CHANGING it in the name of "remastering" has left me torn.

I know now it "fits", but it's also a major change. I mean, we could have lived with the idea that during that point experts in warp had come up wtih something that caused the ship to become transparent during transition or something, and that later updates caused that effect to no longer be seen.

Oh, I dunno.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Forgive my lack of enthusiasm. With the exception of the planets and the "beauty shot" flybys, most of the changes in TOSR have added very little for me.

What I like about Remastered Trek is that they aren't trying to add anything new. The basic idea is to bring us HD versions of the original effects. They didn't even fix the phaser/torpedo FX bloopers in "Balance of Terror," they simply deferred to the original goof. Sure, there are shots where I think they indulged themselves too much, there are shots I don't agree with, and there are shots which I like less than the original shots. But on the whole, I like the approach they took: don't do too much.

 

[Hober Mallow]

The problem with the original depiction of the ship going to warp to get to Talos IV was that it was SO different from how warp was depicted later, it just didn't fit, but them CHANGING it in the name of "remastering" has left me torn.

The problem I always had with the original warp effect is that it was ambiguous. I was never sure exactly what the intent was. Was the ship suppose to be actually transparent or was this just a cheap way to illustrate an intentionally ambiguous technology?

 

[Ziz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmEuXsa4z_Q

Search under "The Cage" and "remastered" - it's the first item up.

One thing they didn't show in that is that they cleaned up the dissolves as Vina transforms back to her "true" self - the elements align better now.