09-01-2006, 01:19 AM
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| They're pulling a George Lucas on ST:TOS!
http://www.trektoday.com/news/280806_04.shtml
Coming to a TV near you... Star Trek the original series with all new CG effects and so on. What do you guys think, will it be cool, or will it be a train wreck?
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09-01-2006, 01:24 AM
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| TRAIN WRECK!!! Haven't they learned anything from lucas' mistakes? YOU DON'T MESS WITH A MASTERPIECE!!!!
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09-01-2006, 01:53 AM
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| No, that'll only happen if they mess with the next generation.
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09-01-2006, 02:22 AM
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| As long as Kirk always shoots first.
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09-01-2006, 02:35 AM
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| I dont know, it might be good if they keep it subtle and dont change the substance of the stories. I mean, making planets and ships look better and enhancing the effects (like phasers, etc) might be pretty cool.
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09-01-2006, 04:58 AM
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| why dont they spend the money on some thing good instead, say like a new series of Farscape, insteasd of rehashing old programs! Any way it would give the Trekys some thing to talk about over coffee for while. Besides when they add CGI bits to old programs, it never looks right, any body rember the remastered Red-Dwarfs it the dancing Blue Migidet?
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09-01-2006, 08:43 AM
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| Perhaps they can finally explain the rather large change in Klingon brow ridges 
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09-01-2006, 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru Perhaps they can finally explain the rather large change in Klingon brow ridges
[/dork] | They did on Enterprise, didn't they?
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09-01-2006, 09:12 AM
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| As I recall, they explained it in at least one of the books, too. The crappy one about a plague that's ravaging a mixed race (Human/Klingon/Vulcan) world. | |
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09-01-2006, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by qatet They did on Enterprise, didn't they?
(hides head in shame for having watched much of that schlockfest...) | I only remember the DS9 episode where they went back to the "trouble with tribbles" episode from TOS. I think the conversation went something like
Capt.: Hey, Worf, what's with these klingon's whimpy brow ridges?
Worf: We don't like to talk about it.
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09-01-2006, 11:55 AM
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| No, no, no!
The tacky effects are what make the original series such a treat to watch! | |
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09-01-2006, 12:10 PM
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| Sacrilege to mess with the originals. Part of the charm was the salt-shaker or whatever fitted with lights to become a phaser or tricorder
Star Trek Continues: The Search For More Money From Old Shows
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09-02-2006, 11:39 AM
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| I'm very dissapointed. I don't have any problem with re-releasing old movies/TV shows digitaly remastered so that they look sharper and brighter (more like they once did before time took it's toll), but to go back and make changes to something of such historical significance is rediculous. Star Trek is a piece of history, and for me the silly efects are a part of the experience.
Lets face it, Star Trek wouldn't be Star Trek if there weren't monsters that looked like something I scraped off of the inside of my microwave, fight scenes with obviously rubber weapons, Kirk getting sliced across the chest (ultimately leading to removal of his shirt), and a strange phenomena where, durring a fight Captain Kirk doesn't apear to be Captain Kirk.
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09-02-2006, 11:58 AM
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09-02-2006, 02:15 PM
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| For their own reputation with the fans, they better not add in a CGI Alien like Jar Jar Binks. 
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09-02-2006, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Gamling For their own reputation with the fans, they better not add in a CGI Alien like Jar Jar Binks. | I heard they're going to replace all the Tribbles with little Cg creatures... lol, just kidding.
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09-02-2006, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Beowulfman6 | From how they describe it, I think it will be pretty cool. And besides, this is the wave of the future. I can see this happening more and more to old scifi. And, in 10 years you'll be used to the "new" old Trek, and the "old" old Trek will look so bad it'll be unwatchable.
As long as they dont start changing the wording of the opening... "where no man has gone before" -> "where no one has gone before" or sequence of events, dialog, etc.
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09-03-2006, 07:22 AM
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| I'm OK with changing what is probably the most famous of all split infinitives: "to boldly go". It always makes me cringe.
And all phasers and disruptors should be replaced with walkie-talkies. 
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