What Changes Would You Have For "The Apple"?

[Brian]

From orbit, only the "horizon" (edge of the planet) shows the red hue. Looking straight on, it's the familiar Class-M blue. So on the planet surface scenes, a red sky looking toward the horizon and a blue sky looking straight up would be correct.

It was shown that way for realism. Our blue sky doesn't make our planet look blue. But if you look at the atmosphere edge-on, the thin layer of atmosphere has a bluish tint. Straight-on, it's effectively clear. That's what the reddish orbital shot conveyed. When you look at our atmosphere from a ground position in daylight with space behind it, it's completely blue. The stormy sky in "The Apple" should have been completely red behind the clouds. Or at the very least, reddish. Not blue.

 

[Michael]

Fiona Apple

Now that would be nice!

 

[Ronald Held]

Thanks for providing the changes.

 

[Brian]

Thanks for providing the changes.

Except that the original actress was way better looking.

 

[Basill]

It might have been nicer if they had shown the Enterprise a little closer to the planet before they attempted the pull away. Scotty mentioned they had minutes before they came into contact with the atmosphere, and even after the pull away attempt they only gained an hour at most. However, the establishing shot immediately before looked like the good ole standard orbit from afar.

 

[AC84]

This is very weird. Appearently, if you watch the original episode on DVD, the sky behind the stormy clouds was actually red and not blue. I don't know if this was something new, done exclusively for the old DVDs that came out four years ago. Is it possible that the original negatives used for the HD remastering contained the stormy blue sky footage?