Star Trek Emasculated
The newly remastered Star Trek original series offers thrills as well as a few disappointments.Star Trek: Remastered
The newly remastered Star Trek original series offers thrills as well as a few disappointments. Gone are the grainy, crude models and special effects of the original run, replaced with gorgeous CGI, standardized photon torpedoes and phasers, and lots of fun camera angles heretofore impossible.
But the new treats appear to come at a price: in many of the re-mastered episodes, which sport wonderfully clarified and bright new resolution to the actors' scenes as well, the simple act of cleaning the gate has been forgotten. Specks, dots, hairs and other detritus can still be seen, sometimes right over the faces of the characters, particularly in the episode entitled "Mirror, Mirror."
In "The Doomsday Machine," an important face-off on the bridge between Spock and Commodore Decker has been edited out. Why? "Vulcans never bluff," Spock says. "No," replies Decker, "I don't suppose that they do." Gone! Ugggh. This to make room for more special effects? Absolutely not worth it. No way.
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2 Comments:
Have scoured the net watching the takes of the new cgi effects and thought that they were great. Now to find out that these effects are taking a front seat to the original dialog is very disappointing. Why go to the trouble to redo the opening score when you edit out parts of the original show?
True a whole bunch of lines and scenes are missing from a lot of the episodes, at least from the ones they showed on TV. Maybe the station edited them down? God I hope so, and it didn't go on the DVD like that.
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