New Star Trek

[jamespowers]

Can I do that on my Moggy too? Please! lol
That's just WRONG!

I am just waiting to see that on a Mini. Seen it on a 69 Oldsmobile last weekend. The dope had to radius the wheel wells on the front fender.:eusa_doh:

 

[Nick D]

The effects in TOS are are worn out as that sweatband-into the trash I say!

But on the other hand, the stories were compelling enough that they didn't need distracting FX. A lot of things nowadays are more about FX at the expense of the story. I'm a long-time fan of Star Trek, can't pick a favorite, but I am partial to TOS, and the original Enterprise will always be the most beautiful lady in the franchise.



(Okay, usually compelling. I won't get into "Spock's Brain" and "The Way to Eden") ((Yaay, brother!))

 

[J. M. Stovall]

... improving their acting.

?
We are still talking about the original Star Trek, right?

 

[carter]

Seen it on a 69 Oldsmobile last weekend. The dope had to radius the wheel wells on the front fender

fftopic:

We probably need a new thread called Dumbing Down a Smart Car.

I'm restoring a '76 Mercury Colony Park Station Wagon. Maybe I should do it to this car. Naaaa.

Back to 'Going Where No Man (or Woman) Has Gone Before'.
We now return your thread to you.

 

[jamespowers]

?
We are still talking about the original Star Trek, right?

I'll take their acting over today's let see:
Matt Damon
Ben Aflake
Jim Carey
Robin Williams
Oh, just go over to the Actors that are Annoying thread and you'll get my complete list.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

But on the other hand, the stories were compelling enough that they didn't need distracting FX.

I too am a long time fan, since I watched the show originally air when I was a kid, and I think the old effects are distracting myself. I'm always thinking, "man, couldn't they do that bluescreen around the ship better?" even when I was 6.

 

[jamespowers]

fftopic:

We probably need a new thread called Dumbing Down a Smart Car.

I'm restoring a '76 Mercury Colony Park Station Wagon. Maybe I should do it to this car. Naaaa.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Leading Edge]

[LEONARD(BONES)MCOY] -28-32 Medic on the Enterprise. Smart, clever and a bit danger-loving. Dark hair, blue eyes.

Shouldn't they also add: cynical, conservative, and passionate?

 

[jamespowers]

"man, couldn't they do that bluescreen around the ship better?" even when I was 6.

Uh, yeah sure. Exactly what I was thinking when I was six.
More like just sitting there staring at the screen.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

I'll take their acting over today's let see:
Matt Damon
Ben Aflake
Jim Carey
Robin Williams
Oh, just go over to the Actors that are Annoying thread and you'll get my complete list.

Hmm, I don't remember saying they were good actors?

 

[carter]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol :eusa_clap

 

[jamespowers]

Hmm, I don't remember saying they were good actors?

lol lol lol lol lol lol
Just a comparison list.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Uh, yeah sure. Exactly what I was thinking when I was six.
More like just sitting there staring at the screen.

Come on, you never noticed that light grey box that followed the Enterprise around? I'm pretty sure it wasn't the shields.

 

[jamespowers]

Come on, you never noticed that light grey box that followed the Enterprise around? I'm pretty sure it wasn't the shields.

When watching it at 6?! I wouldn't have noticed if it were followed by a rainbow.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Ok fellow nerds, I have to go home now. The new remastered Trek is on!!

 

[jamespowers]

Ok fellow nerds, I have to go home now. The new remastered Trek is on!!

aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Sacrilege!

 

[MrBern]

Shouldn't they also add: cynical, conservative, and passionate?

Perhaps at 28, he's not cynical yet....

 

[Jovan]

As I said above, the huge goofy grin was clearly a "mistake" in that Spock's character was not yet clearly defined when they shot the pilot. Now that they are digitally screwing around with TOS, I fully expect that grin to be removed in a future iteration of "improving" the series. The Lucasization has begun!

A "mistake," just as many others in Trek, that is pretty much well accepted by now. It IS in the canon though, as much as the "mistake" of Spock and Kirk-in-woman's-body holding hands for 30 seconds... (BIG fuel for the K/S fire, but I digress)

The episodes have not been Lucasized. Everything is timed the same, and there has been no digital tweaking of rubber alien suits besides a blink of eyes from the Gorn. I have to ask, and don't take this the wrong way... have you actually watched the remastered episodes? Leonard Nimoy said the same thing until he saw how closely their work stuck to the intents of the original effects artists.

 

[Jovan]

Ok fellow nerds, I have to go home now. The new remastered Trek is on!!

... it's so unfair that you get to watch it at a decent time. Here, it's on at 3:00. In the morning. No joke.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

I agree wih you Jovan, until I saw it I wasn't sold either. But all the colors are so vivid, and the picture so sharp, and those effects! I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl! I feel like I'm 6 all over again discovering something new!

Ok that was a major nerd moment.