Star Trek XI

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Because they're releasing the original series on HD DVDs soon.

You know....if there are any special effects that you don't want highly defined.....it's these.

Do you make snide comments without the slightest bit of research with everything, or just Star Trek?

I'd describe a painting of Earth from space with no atmosphere as being "crappy."

Sorry.  I keep forgetting that we're free to express our opinions on this board as long as you approve of them.

When TOS cast member Leonard Nimoy heard about these changes in special effects, Nimoy simply responded "Shame on them" for changing the effects, saying that it was "out-of-bounds" for them to do that. However, after viewing a remastered episode, reportedly he was quoted saying, "I'm amazed."

So, Nimoy was making a "snide comment without the slightest bit of research"?

[Sharktopus]

Because they're releasing the original series on HD DVDs soon.

You know....if there are any special effects that you don't want highly defined.....it's these.

Do you make snide comments without the slightest bit of research with everything, or just Star Trek?

I'd describe a painting of Earth from space with no atmosphere as being "crappy."

Sorry.  I keep forgetting that we're free to express our opinions on this board as long as you approve of them.

I was merely pointing out that you immediately dissaproved of the HD remaster of the Original Series before you knew anything about it.

When TOS cast member Leonard Nimoy heard about these changes in special effects, Nimoy simply responded "Shame on them" for changing the effects, saying that it was "out-of-bounds" for them to do that. However, after viewing a remastered episode, reportedly he was quoted saying, "I'm amazed."

So, Nimoy was making a "snide comment without the slightest bit of research"?

Exactly, then he changed his mind.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Exactly, then he changed his mind.

And I haven't.  Live with it.

[Sharktopus]

Exactly, then he changed his mind.

And I haven't.  Live with it.

I'm not trying to change your opinion. It just bugs me that you create an opinion before knowing the facts, like how you keep crapping on the new Star Trek movie assuming that it's still Rick Berman and Brannon Braga making Starfleet Academy 90210.

[Rude]

Sorry.  I keep forgetting that we're free to express our opinions on this board as long as you approve of them.

I've never seen Godwin's Law boiled down to a single animated image, so that's... impressive? But if this thread keeps going in the same direction as that quote, you're going to manage to prove it twice over!

Anyway... personally i also like the cheezy (read: crappy) special effects. The original series to me has always had a sort of tongue-in-cheek nostalgia to it. And those incredibly lame SFX just add to the overall charm. But if you're going to prepare a series like this for high-def, i certainly don't mind the changes as long as the original version is still available out there somewhere. Ya' know... as opposed to what Lucas attempted to do with Star Wars.

I think most of the changes look great. And eventually TNG will really benefit from this sort of thing as well...

-Rude

[bettertomorrowamy]

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20049407,00.html

Ending months of speculation, J.J. Abrams announced the first major casting in the director's hush-hush re-energizing of the Star Trek movie franchise by tapping Zachary Quinto to play Spock, the hyper-logical science stud with the pointy ears and Vulcan death grip. In case the name doesn't register on your tricorder, the 29-year-old actor plays Sylar, the serial killer who eats superpowered brains on Heroes.

[Rude]

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Not bad... just a week or so behind: The Star Trek thread

-Rude

[bettertomorrowamy]

Dammit, well why didn't you tell me!

[Junkyard]

Darn it, I thought this thread would be showing what the new Spock would look like with the makeup. Oh well.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Last thought on this.....if there's any franchise with crappy special effects (looking at them in retrospect) it's the Bond films.

The space shots and the clumsy process shots of the volcano opening and closing in You Only Live Twice, for instance....   

And yet I don't see anyone rushing to re-do them.

And for anyone who would say, "Well, it's the stories that are important in those."

That's how I feel about Trek.

[David]

As long as they don't completely disown the original cuts like Lucas did with Star Wars I guess I don't mind.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Happened upon this interesting fact about Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit...

"Special software had to be created in order to photo-realistically recreate the texture of genuine Aardman plasticine in the computer. The software had to create the possibility for slight imperfections, e.g., fingerprints to appear on the fake plasticine bunnies and ripple effects of the characters moving their plasticine arms and legs."

So, instead of correcting the "imperfections" of the physical animation, they went to the trouble to have the work done with CGI to have little imperfections to match....

[Tripe]

And that is why God punished them by sending fire (but not brimstone oddly perhaps the old chap needed to restock) to destroy them for their wastefulness.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

And that is why God punished them by sending fire (but not brimstone oddly perhaps the old chap needed to restock) to destroy them for their wastefulness.

LA's been burning to the ground for years.  Any connection?   

[Chaos]

And that is why God punished them by sending fire (but not brimstone oddly perhaps the old chap needed to restock) to destroy them for their wastefulness.

LA's been burning to the ground for years.  Any connection?   

Yes.