TOS Teasers
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"Doomsday Machine" was pretty long.
The U.S.S. Enterprise orbits from right to left in "Shore Leave."
The shot is interesting not only because the Enterprise orbits from right to left but because you can make out from the "mirror" lettering on the nacelle that the footage has simply been flipped:
Greg Schnitzer
Star Trek Phase II
Whatever gave you that idea?
The U.S.S. Enterprise orbits from right to left in "Shore Leave."
The shot is interesting not only because the Enterprise orbits from right to left but because you can make out from the "mirror" lettering on the nacelle that the footage has simply been flipped:
Greg Schnitzer
Star Trek Phase II
Indeed. As I understand, the folks doing the remastering have the ship orbiting from left to right. I hope that's not what they did, I'd feel like they were Lucas-ing TOS.
The U.S.S. Enterprise orbits from right to left in "Shore Leave."
The shot is interesting not only because the Enterprise orbits from right to left but because you can make out from the "mirror" lettering on the nacelle that the footage has simply been flipped:
Greg Schnitzer
Star Trek Phase II
Indeed. As I understand, the folks doing the remastering have the ship orbiting from left to right. I hope that's not what they did, I'd feel like they were Lucas-ing TOS.
The remastered "Shore Leave" does indeed change the Enterprise's orbit orientation:
So, "Shore Leave" loses the novelty of being the only episode with a right to left orbit of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
My hunch is rather than saying "old effects be damned; we're fixing the orbit," the remastering team probably never even knew or noticed that this episode was somewhat unique. I think that if they knew or noticed, they would have kept the same ship orientation--as a testament to how knowedgeable they were about the arcane effects details and Trek trivia.
It could be that the Enterprise actually does what Apollo spacecraft did in order to avoid being unevenly heated by buring sunlight: they go into a slow roll "rotisserie" mode. So as the Enterprise orbits, sometimes the port side faces the surface and sometimes the starboard side faces the surface--and everthing in between.
Greg Schnitzer
Star Trek Phase II
I'm sure your right about not noticing the novelty. However, the curmudgeon in me still prefers the old pick. I like the enhanced planet image, but prefer the old model Enterprise. Also, the improved grafics they do just stand out so much from the rest of the original material that the improved images don't seem worth the enhancement because they feel a distraction rather than a benefit to the total watching experience. I can't say I'm thrilled.
I think he's getting teasters (the action before opening credits) confused with the previews for next week's episode. Those were all the same length with the exception of The Menagerie Part 2 preview. That ran around 1:30.
^^Ahh, okay. If it helps, the portion of a program before the opening credits is more commonly called a "cold open" these days, at least within the industry.
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