This would be a reworked shot from the opening of the episode...on the planet Scalos...where an Enterprise landing part arrives to find an (apparently) desolate world.
I really like the atmosphere of this shot, and the detailing (archetecture, lighting) of the city in the background, sense of desolation.
When I first heard about an intent to remaster the classic series, I was a bit cynical. Truth be told...even though it took a while...the remastering team seems to have found its stride & have been turning in some really nice (although not entirely consistent) work.
The CGI Enterprise model used at the beginning of the project has been replaced with a far more convincing construct. Some nice visual kinetics have been added to effects shots (although they're organic & never as "over the top" as we've seen in other Special Edition fare). Check out "Trouble with Tribbles" or "The Menagerie" to get good examples of episodes done right."
Here's a list of when the rest of the remastered episodes will air
Weekend
Title
Prod #
01.06.07 Friday's Child 032
01.13.07 Wink of an Eye 068
01.20.07 Where No Man Has Gone Before 002
01.27.07 For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky 065
02.03.07 Journey to Babel 044
02.10.07 The Doomsday Machine 035
02.17.07 Amok Time 034
02.24.07 The Paradise Syndrome 058
03.03.07 Space Seed 024
03.10.07 Wolf in the Fold 036
03.17.07 I, Mudd 041
03.24.07 The Naked Time 007
03.31.07 The Tholian Web 064
04.07.07 The Immunity Syndrome 048
04.14.07 And the Children Shall Lead 060
04.21.07 All Our Yesterdays 078
04.28.07 A Piece of the Action 049
05.05.07 Tomorrow Is Yesterday 021
05.12.07 Errand of Mercy 027
05.19.07 Patterns of Force 052
05.26.07 Shore Leave 017
06.02.07 Bread and Circuses 043
06.09.07 Spock's Brain 061
06.16.07 Plato's Stepchildren 067
06.23.07 Miri 012
06.30.07 The Omega Glory 054
07.07.07 Return to Tomorrow 051
07.14.07 Charlie X 008
07.21.07 The Squire of Gothos 018
07.28.07 This Side of Paradise 025
08.04.07 Where No Man Has Gone Before 002
08.11.07 Wolf in the Fold 036
08.18.07 Wink of an Eye 068
08.25.07 For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky 065
09.01.07 The Corbomite Maneuver 003
09.08.07 The Doomsday Machine 035
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Has anyone been catching these? If so, what's the good word?
Sigh. I knew this day would come. Right after they aired the revamped Balance of Terror, I wrote this gushy post about how great it was.
Here's some relevant bits: "Ironically, I’m also a little bit worried that the new FX are a little too understated..."
and
"What was amazing was how literally the original scenes were used as a template for the new ones – if it was a shot of the Enterprise tipping nose-down after taking a hit, the Enterprise in the new shot was filling the screen the same way."
The reason I'm regretting my enthusiasm is that, in retrospect, I really wanted revamped Trek to be awesome when actually they've made a very strange blunder. The effects ARE too understated; there's a bizarre adherence to the original images that's very disappointing. They could be showing us new closeup angles of the ships and stuff, but since they didn't do that in OST they're not going to do it here.
I've only seen the one re-done episode back in September, so maybe things have evolved a bit. But the end result that I saw didn't look as good as the audition FX done by one effects company trying to get the job (posted here).
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