Star Trek - Original Series

[Scourge]

It just doesn't seem out of place to me. The art style is the same, the only real enhancements done are physics related (movement, proportion, lighting) except for the few things like the transporter which looked fine and the view screen which is a screen so it looks like a screen.

Since they aren't overhauling the art style, I think the cg looks good. It should be noted that that video I posted was not necessarily a final edit of the show but one of the final tests before deciding to go ahead with this (it's dated 2003). There's another video of the same episode with much more primitive cg and without the image being cleaned up.

I actually think it does enhance the feeling that they're actually in a real space with real alien worlds and technology out there instead of cheap miniatures and bad in camera optical effects and whatnot. The cg looks more like the covers to sci-fi books in the 60's that promised a lot of cool stuff inside.

[Dolemite]

I wonder if they'll cg over the cheesy matte paintings that served as backgrounds whenever they beamed down to alien worlds?

[Scourge]

I wonder if they'll cg over the cheesy matte paintings that served as backgrounds whenever they beamed down to alien worlds?

Yes, they are. They are also adding in cg of movement of people in longshots to give life to alien cities and stuff.

[TobalRox]

The Klingons will finally have head ridges.

Actually, they said they would not make any changes like that. As mentioned, it's mostly special effects and backgrounds being changed.

[Dolemite]

Fuck that. If they're insisting on "fixing" things that don't need to be fixed, then they should just go all-out.

[cka]

you know, dolemite, this isn't nearly as bad as you're making it out to be

www.versuscity.net/trekse.mov
www.versuscity.net/trekse2.mov

this is almost exactly what they did back in 1990, except they're doing a bigger job of it due to bringing it into HDTV land.

[Dolemite]

The HD upgrading indeed looks mighty fine.

And I never said adding the cg was bad, I just said it was kinda stupid and a waste. But I suppose the original effects shots would look totally horrible if converted to HD, huh?

[TobalRox]

Fuck that. If they're insisting on "fixing" things that don't need to be fixed, then they should just go all-out.

I agrree... I say just putting in HD and be done with it. I also think it's odd that they're going to make it 16x9 though... I know all HD is supposed to be that way, but I say don't crop shit just to fit your TV... that's as bad as a widescreen movie on a 4x3 TV. Keep shit the right aspect ratio and be done with it.

[Dolemite]

Suffice it to say, no one will care. It's the same old shows with a fresh coat of paint. It's not like it's going to pull in many (if any) more viewers. Waste of money.

The HD footage cka linked to DOES look very nice, however.

[TobalRox]

"Star Trek is for nerds!"
"It's in HD now"
"Oh really? I guess it can't be all bad then"

Yeah, something tells me this won't be a conversation ANYONE is having. It's not like noone has heard of this.