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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3043736" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>I will certainly watch with great eagerness every episode of the Enhanced series. Okay, maybe not Spock's Brain, and a few others. But if you haven't seen the DVD's and the commentary there stressing time and time again how <em>achingly</em> short of money the show always was then you're not giving the concept it's full due.</p><p></p><p>The original Trek looks cheap because it WAS. It HAD to be. It is certainly not the limits of what they could have done with the available technology, nor was it all that they wanted to be able to do. They just didn't have the money. They reused the standard planet-orbit shot every time and just added a new color filter on the planet to make it look different. In the SAME episode you can see two different versions of the Enterpirse model from one shot to the next (one having the dome on the aft end of the warp engines, the other having the pointy thing at the front and the knot of tubes for exhaust). Re-using one set for another and just adding one or two new wall-hangings, a plaque, or those two-tone half-mold widgets. Bridge computer displays that never changed because there was no money to even do something as simple as back-projecting slides. You can count on one hand the number of shows where a bridge display actually has an active change in a shot. The desktop computer/comm screens were rarely shown with an actual display - they were nearly always shown from behind, especially after season 1. Beam-ins/outs would happen off-camera, with just the sound effects so they wouldn't have to pay for another effects shot. Communicator conversations would only be shown from one side to save having to film on two sets as opposed to just some dubbing.</p><p></p><p>I have no doubt whatsoever that if Roddenberry were alive he'd be all over this idea. In fact, we likely would not have had to wait this long. From Paramounts perspective, the cost is likely to be easy to stomach when you look at what they can get from syndicating new, effects-enhanced episodes much less selling another set of DVD's. I think that little bit of proof-of-concept footage really ought to be shown side-by-side with the ORIGINAL effects footage before anyone starts to get judgemental. I don't see how it can be anything but good. Hell, before Enterprise came out I was all for just redoing the bulk of the original series with new cast and effects, maybe rewrites to certain episodes to allow for EXPANSION of certain aspects, or omission of those that are best left forgotten. Just watch that episode with the hippies or Spock's Brain and THEN tell me that the original Trek should be considered "untouchable".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 3043736, member: 32740"] I will certainly watch with great eagerness every episode of the Enhanced series. Okay, maybe not Spock's Brain, and a few others. But if you haven't seen the DVD's and the commentary there stressing time and time again how [I]achingly[/I] short of money the show always was then you're not giving the concept it's full due. The original Trek looks cheap because it WAS. It HAD to be. It is certainly not the limits of what they could have done with the available technology, nor was it all that they wanted to be able to do. They just didn't have the money. They reused the standard planet-orbit shot every time and just added a new color filter on the planet to make it look different. In the SAME episode you can see two different versions of the Enterpirse model from one shot to the next (one having the dome on the aft end of the warp engines, the other having the pointy thing at the front and the knot of tubes for exhaust). Re-using one set for another and just adding one or two new wall-hangings, a plaque, or those two-tone half-mold widgets. Bridge computer displays that never changed because there was no money to even do something as simple as back-projecting slides. You can count on one hand the number of shows where a bridge display actually has an active change in a shot. The desktop computer/comm screens were rarely shown with an actual display - they were nearly always shown from behind, especially after season 1. Beam-ins/outs would happen off-camera, with just the sound effects so they wouldn't have to pay for another effects shot. Communicator conversations would only be shown from one side to save having to film on two sets as opposed to just some dubbing. I have no doubt whatsoever that if Roddenberry were alive he'd be all over this idea. In fact, we likely would not have had to wait this long. From Paramounts perspective, the cost is likely to be easy to stomach when you look at what they can get from syndicating new, effects-enhanced episodes much less selling another set of DVD's. I think that little bit of proof-of-concept footage really ought to be shown side-by-side with the ORIGINAL effects footage before anyone starts to get judgemental. I don't see how it can be anything but good. Hell, before Enterprise came out I was all for just redoing the bulk of the original series with new cast and effects, maybe rewrites to certain episodes to allow for EXPANSION of certain aspects, or omission of those that are best left forgotten. Just watch that episode with the hippies or Spock's Brain and THEN tell me that the original Trek should be considered "untouchable". [/QUOTE]
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