Rl'Halsinor
Explorer
satori01 said:Star Wars as a base line, holds up in the effects department, thus adding Riding Lizard here, a new shot of the Rebel Snub Fighter force going to the Death Star there, does not seem incongrous.
Star Trek looks cheesy, it has always looked cheesy. From the fake alien that was really a kid to the giant floating space turd that was the planet destroyer...the sets, the costumes, the sound effects, the special effects, and often the dialogue are just B grade mulch.....and people love it despite that.
It will seem odd to me if suddenly a Klingon D-10 Attack Crusier suddenly looks modern day computer generated, and the next scene we jump to a shot of the Ugly, Plain Engine Room on the Enterprise where everyone is pretending that the ship is being shook in that awfull over the top, shaking the camera sort of way that only Star Trek has.
Well considering that the first Star Trek series was literally going where no FX has ever gone before because, well, no one ever attempted it before is the reason it looks so "cheesy" by today's standards. There were no computer rendered graphics anything in those days.
Then there is Voyager. That FX intense/driven show that was as boring as the characters and so-called plot thrust upon us. I'll take the characters and plot of the Original (with strong exceptions such as the infamous "Spock's Brain" and a few other 3rd season groaners) over Voyager's addictive dependency on FX any day.
By the way, I do hope they keep Berman & Braga away from anything else to do with Trek. Those two destroyed the franchise with such stellar work as Voyager and Enterprise.