Arik

...sucks.

Now I know why my teachers were always asking me "Did you just wait until the last minute and do a rush job on this assignment?"

I mean, what the fuck? It looks almost exactly like the old special effects, only now it's done in CGI. What's the point?

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The point was to have the special effects in an HD resolution for the eventual switch to HD broadcast and HD home video release.

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Arik

So, instead of looking like models from the 60's, they wanted it to look like crappy CGI from the 80's?

And, ultimately, the cheezy cardboard scenery is going to make the episode look bad in HD, not the 3-5 second establishing shot of the Enterprise.

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Bean

Well they can only go so far with it before the outrage about tampering with the original starts. Oh.. wait a sec.. it already did.

I've yet to see the full episode, but I have seen the promo footage and it does look prety much the same. What you have to realize though is that like Brikar said, this was never really about updating the effects ala George Lucas, but more about bringing the quality level up a notch to get ready for HD.

I mean really, what do you want, Star Trek Special Edition?

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Cymro

Wouldn't complain...

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I dunno... it looked really nice to me... on my video tape... recorded at SLP speed... from my rabbit ears... on my 10-year-old TV.

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Bean

Ok, so it sounds like a good idea right?

A starfleet vessel stranded on the other side of the galaxy sounded good.
A Star Trek prequel sounded good.
A Star Trek movie with a crossover between TOS and TNG sounded good.
Kirks big glorious and heroic death sounded good.
A Star Trek movie involving the Romulans sounded good.

All of these things sounded like great, exciting ideas until it came time to implement them. Then we got crap that is still to this day argued and complained about. Even without B&B, I don't trust Paramount with something like a Special Edition TOS. It's just too tempting for them to go beyond "tweaking" and start changing shit like Lucas did with his SEs.

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Cymro

OK, Bean, I promise I'll be good...

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Bean

What the hell are you talking about?

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Cymro

You slapped down my naughty opinion, and rightly so!

As for the episodes. OK, keeping the old school stars was OK, but really, there was no reason to have the ship bobbing around and moving through them in the funny way.

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