Topic: Paramount to give TOS starships a Digital "Refit"

[AlchemistiD]

I've already seen something like this.  It was an enhanced version of "The Doomsday Machine".

http://www.trekenhanced.com/

I personally think that what Paramount does probably wont look as cool or stay as faithful as this guy's work.  Unless they got this guy to do it, in which case I'd be excited.

[Don Karnage]

IIRC wasn't the TOS The Doomsday Machine episode the 'test bed' for this TOS CGI enhancement before ENTERPRISE came out?

The Ultimate Computer and The Doomsday Machine are the episodes I most want to see.

KF

this could be good, more detail battle and damage on the ship in the Ultimate Computer, more details on the other 4 constitution class who get damage by the enterprise amd the episode with the romulan bird of prey 

[DeepThought]

Oddly, the first episdoe being aired in my TV market (Central Illinois) is "Miri", followed by "Balance of Terror" the following night.

[Lieutenant_Q]

same here, but Miri is the original episode...the remasters start with Balance of Terror.

[Chris Johnson]

I've seen the previews of it at StarTrek.com, and it was much different than I expected; Very faithful to the original.  I thought it would be a bit more contemporary Trek like, but a little TOS-ish as well.  Instead, it's very faithful to the original graphics.  They're enhanced.  No NV-style "Barrel rolls" or warp streaks or things like that.  I sort-of half-expected that, partly looking forward, but dreading it as well.

I guess I don't know what to feel now.  I really like what they've done according to the trailer I saw for the enhanced Trek, but I also wish they could've taken a bit more creative liscense in a way... *shrug*

I'm probably going to go to bed now before I confuse myself to death on how I should feel about it.  I think what they've done is pretty good, after all.

[TheStressPuppy]

Hey! they ripped my connie model! hehehehe just kidding. (bad joke)

IMHO im all for the TOS facelift. I grew up with the show and as the years go by i see TOS become more cheeze compared to whats out now. They said they didnt touch how the episodes played out. They just enhanced what was already done, and did new things with what wasnt "seen" like new models of the wooden, and the antares. They also did away with some of those repetative reused stock footage shots of the E, and replaced them with shots of the ship at different angles not seen on TOS (like her port side). The "new" TOS connie looks alot like the mirror darkly connie. It will be interesting to see if they put a faint aztec pattern on her like they did with the defiant.

I also think it was very smart of them NOT to do drastic changes. I think they dont want it to become like Star Wars OT (redone over n over n over again). I got good money on people modelling the Antares and Wooden. It will also be interesting to see what they do with the Romulan D-7 (bird or no bird hmmm).

[Chris Johnson]

I barely caught BoT, missing the teaser and the first act or two (I caught up on a commercial after the Romulans were revealed to look like Spock) and started recording (I made a recording blunder or two, however, that made me miss part of it).  The time/syndication cuts annoyed me (I have TOS on DVD, all three seasons), but I saw the new graphics and the way it was done.  I liked it.  It's faithful to TOS in some aspects while in one aspect or another it seems more reminicant of the late-1990s-to-2000/2001 in some way (a new shot of the BoP or Big E).  The new more blue phaser-looking proximity phasers, the new plasma torp that didn't look like it come from the 1960s Batman spoof, the different take at the comet...

I just liked it.  I sort-of expected a more modern take as I originally feared (but soon didn't, or something, when I went crosseyed in my previous post), and after watching an episode, I see it had a hint of that in a shot or two, but it's still faithful to TOS.  I have the more-contemporary shot of the Big E (a screenshot of it) resized and set as my wallpaper, and while there wasn't apparently any shiny aztec (although the quality of the shot wasn't great) on the beautiful Big E, I saw some on the BoP.  On either-or, it was nicely done.

What suprised me was some of the negative reaction on Trek BBS.  I respect their beliefs, but a comment or two left me baffled.  I'd like to go on, but I don't want to further bring in another message board community and belittle some of their opinions, I'll just respect 'em.