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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Googe?

New Dictionary Definition:

googe (goojz) verb: To make an attempt at flare and instead wind up garbling your meaning entirely. Example: "He'll try to impress the bosses and just wind up googing it." googed, googing, googes




Google Googe

Doesn't this say "Googe?" Are we crazy, or did Google make a mistake on Valentine's day? Google ran this logo on Valentine's Day in 2007. We can't find anything in this stylized version of the Google logo that represents the seemingly absent L. Let us know if you find it somewhere. Like on the floor at the Google offices amid the empty beer cans and cocktail umbrellas.

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