Your Favorite Remastering Job?

[Rush Limborg]

Greetings to you all, Trekkers, Trekkies, Treknecks and Conversationalists all across the fruited plain! It is I, Rush Limborg, here today to discuss... The Remastering Project.

Overall, what would you say is your absolute favorite re-do? The Doomsday Machine? The mountain-bridge scene in "Amok Time?" The Stratos city?

Which one's your favorite, and why?

 

[Noname Given]

Well, one vote here for The Doomsday Machine. I still have this one on my DVR. I do wish Paramount would get off their collective ass and release Blu-Ray versions of the remastered episodes. I still also have the original DVD TOS season sets; but unfortunately it is true that the original effects really do not look good on a 73" DLP HDTV.

 

[Rush Limborg]

I still also have the original DVD TOS season sets; but unfortunately it is true that the original effects really do not look good on a 73" DLP HDTV.

Right on. Say what you will, but you have to admit --at long last, all the crackle and grain is GONE!

 

[Steven Of Nine]

They didn't fix the R. on Kirk's tombstone. Second: Norman's stomach.

Worst: adding visible phaser to "The Naked Time."

 

[AstroSmurf]

For me, I am still madly in love with the new detailed version of Stratos. Some of the new effects are nice but this one really stands out in my mind. I would want to live there (as long as everyone on the planet was treated equally that is).

I also would like to give kudos to "The Doomsday Machine", the new Vulcan surface effects in "Amok Time", "The Immunity Syndrome", "The Tholian Web" and Flint's palace in "Requiem for Methuselah".

My least favorite has to be the poor attempt given to some of the more glaring mistakes in the series. You can add bullet hits and remove puppet strings but you can't bother to fix the hideous split screens in "The Enemy Within"? I can live with the flipped footage and incongruous cutaway shots (Is McCoy in the transporter or the Sickbay?) but a few things they left out of the remastering was questionable.

 

[cooleddie74]

Overall, The Doomsday Machine. No contest.

 

[Outpost4]

^ Funny. I thought this was one of their weaker efforts myself. I didn't like either the planet killer or the Enterprise swooping over it like a WWII fighter/bomber on a strafing run.

For me, it's a tie, between The Corbormite Maneuver or Arena. Both were very well executed.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My least favorite has to be the poor attempt given to some of the more glaring mistakes in the series. You can add bullet hits and remove puppet strings but you can't bother to fix the hideous split screens in "The Enemy Within"? I can live with the flipped footage and incongruous cutaway shots (Is McCoy in the transporter or the Sickbay?) but a few things they left out of the remastering was questionable.

They should also have changed the Constellation's registry number in "The Doomsday Machine". NCC-1017 is too low for a ship of that class.

(Although even in the original version, where a model kit was used, they still wimped out. They couldn't have used NCC-1710? )

 

[EEE]

The only one I don't hate in a "don't give the Mona Lisa a sheist-eating grin" sort of way is Tomorrow is Yesterday, as it had the only special effects out of the entire series that actually bothered me (even though the original angles are much better done IIRC).

 

[22 Stars]

Tough call for me, some eps. required more work, like Doomsday, Ultimate Computer and Ent. Incident, but I think my favorite shot would be the land bridge in Amok Time.

 

[nx1701g]

^ That was a great shot. Those four are my top four actually.

I have to add in I, Mudd because I love that shot of the Enterprise leaving the ringed planet.

 

[Noname Given]

My least favorite has to be the poor attempt given to some of the more glaring mistakes in the series. You can add bullet hits and remove puppet strings but you can't bother to fix the hideous split screens in "The Enemy Within"? I can live with the flipped footage and incongruous cutaway shots (Is McCoy in the transporter or the Sickbay?) but a few things they left out of the remastering was questionable.

They should also have changed the Constellation's registry number in "The Doomsday Machine". NCC-1017 is too low for a ship of that class.

(Although even in the original version, where a model kit was used, they still wimped out. They couldn't have used NCC-1710? )

You obviously never saw Star Trek on a B&W or even Color TV set of the era (1966-1970) using 'rabbit ears' as an antenna. If you had youu'd realize that they didn't do '1710' because with the standard picture on that setup; a viewer might actually confuse it for '1701' and the producers wanted to make it clear to the audience that it was indeed another Starship, and not the Enterprise.

That seriously is why they went with 1017 in 1967.

 

[Basil]

Most of the changes didn't improve things much for me, and some looked a bit too much like modern ST and were aesthetically wrong for the original show (like the shiny, plated shot of the Bird of Prey from "Balance of Terror" or even some of the battle sequences in "The Doomsday Machine," though some of the other effects were fine), but I did enjoy the few glimpses of TOS-era ships that were not Constitution-class . . . in particular, the Antares from "Charlie X." I realize it was more or less based on something from the animated series, but I thought the design and execution were completely believable as something that could have been done when the the show originally aired. Kudos to the effects programmers. Of the "planetside" mattes, the best were the ones that minimally improved the originals, like the Lithium Cracking Station in "Where No Man Has Gone Before.

 

[PlainPatrick]

Alright, you are not listening. I said i didn't see any remastering. Now, I did master something. I caught some worms (bait) and I mastered the bait twice today reading these posts. Alright, do you understand. Mwahaha.

 

[RevDMV]

My least favorite has to be the poor attempt given to some of the more glaring mistakes in the series. You can add bullet hits and remove puppet strings but you can't bother to fix the hideous split screens in "The Enemy Within"? I can live with the flipped footage and incongruous cutaway shots (Is McCoy in the transporter or the Sickbay?) but a few things they left out of the remastering was questionable.

They should also have changed the Constellation's registry number in "The Doomsday Machine". NCC-1017 is too low for a ship of that class.

(Although even in the original version, where a model kit was used, they still wimped out. They couldn't have used NCC-1710? )

Actually I think it was someone with great forethough, "In fory years this is really going to piss someone off...."

 

[Trekwatcher]

I am not a fan of TOS-R, but even I had to admit they did do some nice work. The Doomsday Machine was really outstanding (although I still like the old version better!).

 

[Shatmandu]

I enjoyed them all. There were a few shots here and there that stood out as crap, one in Balance of Terror from behind the BoP looked unfinished for instance, but I enjoyed the various shots.

Until they really go in and lengthen the time of the special effects shots, this is what you get.

Joe, got

 

[Captain Pike]

I know the very idea is sacreligious to some, but my main beef with Balance of Terror is that they didn't correct the original mistake - that throughout the episode when Kirk orders phasers to be fired we are shown a SFX shot of the Enterprise firing photon torpedoes, complete with the torpedo sound effect.

 

[Rush Limborg]

I know the very idea is sacreligious to some, but my main beef with Balance of Terror is that they didn't correct the original mistake - that throughout the episode when Kirk orders phasers to be fired we are shown a SFX shot of the Enterprise firing photon torpedoes, complete with the torpedo sound effect.

No, they aren't photon torpedoes. The Okudas made it perfectly clear that they are phasers "set for proximity blast", as Stiles says in the episode.

Also, the effects are pretty different from the (remastered) torpedo effect. Torpedoes are ball-shaped (and red). If you focus your gaze on the BOT phaser-effect, you can see a tear-shape (and a blue color).

 

[Terra Pryme]

I know the very idea is sacreligious to some, but my main beef with Balance of Terror is that they didn't correct the original mistake - that throughout the episode when Kirk orders phasers to be fired we are shown a SFX shot of the Enterprise firing photon torpedoes, complete with the torpedo sound effect.

No, they aren't photon torpedoes. The Okudas made it perfectly clear that they are phasers "set for proximity blast", as Stiles says in the episode.

Also, the effects are pretty different from the (remastered) torpedo effect. Torpedoes are ball-shaped (and red). If you focus your gaze on the BOT phaser-effect, you can see a tear-shape (and a blue color).

This is correct. The pulse phasers are the ones used for the Defiant on DS9. I guess we could say "Balance of Terror" was the only episode for which this was used. I definitely like the blue phasers better than the orange they used for the spinoffs.

As for the best RM jobs, my top picks would be "The Enterprise Incident", "The Doomsday Machine", and "The Galileo Seven", which I finally got to see the other night after missing it the first time.