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What Changes Would You Like To See For "Shore Leave"?

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"Captain...this is Rodriguez! We're being attacked by...well, what appears to be an Earth bicycle with flapping leather wings and a weird crank on the side!"
 
Sir Rhosis said:
^^Or one of those famous bits of footage shown anytime anyone makes a documentary about powered flight.

Remember the thing that looked like a small car with a rotor that bounces spastically up and down? Or that plane with about ten wings stacked one over the other, Venetian Blind-style, that crumples in mid-taxi? Or the one that goes straight off the bridge into the drink?
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Most of those, for the record, are from 1948's Air Force publicity reel Aeronautical Oddities in the News. Generally speaking the really silly plane concepts were created in the 30s and 40s by eccentrics or people putting on a good aero-comedy performance for audiences, particularly the newsreel audiences.
 
Makes one wonder if Leonardo da Vinci wasn't looking down from heaven/the other side and going..."Wow...it took them 400 more years to come up with what I drew in one weekend when I was drunk on the vino?"
 
Being aired yesterday, there are no opportunity for changes in the near term, short of what shows up in the HD disks
 
Shatinator said:
IS THIS ENTIRE THREAD GOING TO REVOLVE AROUND AN AIRCRAFT ? ! ! ?
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I agree. We should be also talking about the Enterprise's orbit in this episode. This was the only episode of TOS that the ship orbited clockwise over a planet. Yet, for the remastered version, they kept it counterclockwise. And the planet looked more Earth-like instead of greenish in the original version. It was strange that they screwed up the ship's orbit here, especially since they corrected it for "Mirror, Mirror". Originally, when Kirk and crew beamed to the ISS Enterprise, it was in a clockwise orbit (I know the model had reversed lettering and all). Yet, for the rest of the original version, it was counterclockwise, which was eventually fixed for the remastered edition.
 
Well, in case anyone was wondering...Okuda and his people didn't change ANYTHING about the airplane footage. Nothing. It all remained the same. The only effects changes in the entire episode were the shots of the Enterprise in space and orbiting the planet. :(
 
Well, don't feel too bad. At least the new shots of the ship entering and breaking orbit look nice and up-to-date. Even if all the stuff on the surface was left untouched. So it wasn't a COMPLETE waste to sit and watch. It's still a decent-enough story. ;)
 
cooleddie74 said:
Well, in case anyone was wondering...Okuda and his people didn't change ANYTHING about the airplane footage. Nothing. It all remained the same. The only effects changes in the entire episode were the shots of the Enterprise in space and orbiting the planet. :(
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This is why, outside of the heavy model effects episodes (Doomsday Machine, Balance of Terror, Ultimate computer, etc.), I'm beyond bored with these new versions. It's actually frustrating to watch episodes missing around 10 minutes just to spot an odd new effect or two.

I was curious in the beginning, but my interest in the redone FX is gone.
 
Proximity_Phaser said:
Damn, I was hoping that they would change the aircraft to a Nakajima Ki-27 just to be even more obscure.
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[Felix] Oscar, Oscar, Oscar....[/Felix]
 
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