🌌 Embark on a Time-Travel Adventure with Trek World! 🚀
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- 🌌 Embark on a Time-Travel Adventure with Trek World! 🚀
Join Jim from Trek World as he takes us on a captivating journey back to 2005, a year of cinematic and television milestones! 📽️📺 From the popularity of "Star Wars Episode Three" at the box office to the intriguing intrigue of "24," this era was a pivotal time for entertainment. 🎬
🔦 But wait, there's more! Learn how paramount's groundbreaking decision in 2006 transformed the face of Star Trek forever. 🌠 Unveil the remastering of the entire Star Trek original series into a stunning 16 by nine format, complete with high-definition scans and cutting-edge effects.
💡 Dive deep into the technical and historical aspects of this monumental shift. Explore the journey from bootleg VHS copies to DVDs and Blu-rays, and discover the true essence of the original Star Trek episodes. 🚀
🎥 In this engaging video, Trek World reviews the meticulously remastered scenes, pointing out fascinating details like wooden cell caps, creative lighting, and more. 🌟 From slow approach to breaking orbit, witness iconic shots like never before. 🌌
👀 Discover the secrets behind the reversed letters on the iconic model, debunking urban legends and providing a fresh perspective on this beloved series. 🛰️
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Awesome! When it comes to things of an entertainment nature the Star Trek franchise will always be the great love of my life! So these vids of yours are a great treasure too for those of us in the loop of fandom!
I worked as a mechanic at the Post Group the studio where much of the A.D.R. (After Dub Recording) and final edits were done. This was located behind that Cinima Dome in Hollywood. Got to meet William Shatner, Deforest Kelly and James Doohan. Saw the actual ship model and the camera was on tracks to do the fly by. What I found the most amusing was how the shimmering effect for the transporter was done. It was a empty mayonnaise jar filled with baby shampoo and gold glitter which the was shaken and then filmed. The photon torpedo sound was the steel cable that went from the ground to a telephone pole that they tapped with a hammer. Great place to work, they even had a chef that prepared meals.
thanks for sharing thats awesome!!!
Cool beyond belief. Thanks for sharing.
It's still the BEST transporter effect ever.
Thanks for the whole comment. 🖖
true creativity is born of necessity.
Awesome story and experience for you
I loved the ORIGINAL effects. These redone effects shots are nicely done in many cases, but seem unnatural inserted into the show. I very much like the stereo remixes done on the TOS episodes, though, those are generally very nice.
I always loved the zoom into the bridge in The Cage; it was a really impressive effect for that time!
Albert Whitlock, one of the pioneers in motion picture visual effects, rendered the matte painting of the Rigel fortress in "The Menagerie". In "Where No Man Has Gone Before", Mr. Whitlock painted the filming illustration of the lithium cracking plant.
I miss those old effects. When I was a kid they looked like the grainy photography on National Geographic specials, like they were films actually taken in outer space. The new ones just look like CGI. Oh well. :)
The new ones aren't aging well, and I've got more realistic visuals from Kerbal Space Program, in-game, to be honest. I wish they hadn't done it and I never watch them with the new FX if I can manage. They just look too clean and sterile. And they did it too soon. They needed to wait another 10 years.
I remember the the very first "remastered" versions on VHS. Even those, just too "cleaned up". Ruined the illusion, the sets too obviously became....sets. The TOS episode "Court Martial" fight scene was really bad after remastering, it was way too obvious when the stunt doubles stepped in.
Sometimes, "enhancements" can be a crime. I consider this on a par with colorizing a classic film-noir like Maltese Falcon or Casablanca. It just ruins a classic pieceof art.
Good thing that the Blu-Rays allow us fans to see both versions of these original episodes.
Except i seen people say they episodes have been edited cut etc so I'm happy i have 2004 DVDs
Wow, I like knowing that. I loved the original look of the show.
ST TOS was one of the few TV shows that my dad endorsed. I watched first run episodes as a youngster, initially on a black and white screen. To say that it had a strong influence on my childhood would be a tremendous understatement. Adulthood too, to some extent. I'm not a nerd or anything like that.
Well, it's time you acknowledged your nerd side! 🙂
Nothing wrong with being a nerd Carlos.
@@NathanTarantlawriter I know. But back in the day you could get beat up for it. Now nerddom is a cottage industry, and there's not much of a price to pay physically or socially.
No offense.....but ya you are....embrace it
@@Terminus_El_Camino So true. We have had several folks in the comments talk about how growing up in the 70s and liking Star Trek - or any other science fiction - made you a target for bullies. Both verbal and physical.
It wasn't until Star Wars came out in 77 that our peers actually began to show a respect for Sci-Fi.
It was so bad that "Trekkies" tried to change the name to "Trekkers" because they didn't want people to see them as the "Get A Life" group that Shatner mocked on SNL.
I am so happy that all three of my children didn't have to got through that. Even today, they can' fathom why in the world people would bully someone because they liked a TV show.
In many, even most episodes, I find myself missing the original effects. There are things I think are better... but there's just something about the original effects that FITS the show better.
i agree. the cgi looks fake.
Yes. The original effects made the charm because its how they really did it to tell the story. Similar to old Godzilla movies. The effects made the charm of the spectacle.
Absolutely yes😎👌. Original stays charming original. ✨For me just simply the best.
They were made FOR the show and are inextricably part of it. The original effects are beautiful and organic. And there is something about the integrity of the original work. Trying to improve on something that was good to begin with introduces a feeling of doubt, as though they’re apologizing for show that was done well enough that there is a whole ST empire now. It was a budget show and they spent the money very well.
It is like "improving" the Mona Lisa...
I have the original offering of VHS tapes from 1979 or '80. All 79.
Love the changes. They did them respectfully and didn't ruin the originals.
except the nacelle effects. 100% botched. They picked up on a flaw in the original process and magnified it, to widespread ridicule.
I disagree. New Enterprise looks so cheap and plasticy and flat. I say improve but do not alter the angle, keep original colors and audio.
If I had to describe this in one word, it would be: crafty
The special effects in the original series as they were originally presented certainly didn't age very well by most modern standards, however, even when I was a kid in the 80s watching this on VHS they still worked for me. For what they did with the limited budget and time they had for a TV series, they still took my kid self to space and made it a place of wonder. It's interesting to see how they did it and made a show about future science and computers...without computers. lol
Remember the chronometer/timer that moved by one number on a roll on the nav stand next to Sulu and how absolutely dated it looked for a 'futuristic' starship? I got a clock radio for Christmas in '75 that had numbers that flipped down on individual printed thin metal sheets. That thing was cooler to watch than those blocky black numbers rolling on a wheel. But for 1966 I guess that was whiz-bang!
primitive as they are, the original effects hold up better than the obnoxious remasters.
only reason I watched the pirated version on the star trek series was that I knew that the DVD release had been ruined.
All I need to know is if Nichelle is digitally enhanced.
You think that’s her voice vocalizing during the opening theme? It’s not. It was originally done by Loulie Jean Norman, with Alexander Courage conducting it. The re-recording had a soprano named Elin Carlson vocalizing.
@@darthkurland I don't think that's "enhancement" he's talking about! 😉
This stuff is a blast! I am recommending this channel to my buddy Chris Hunter son of Jeffery Captain Pike Hunter. He'd love this!
By all means! I would love him to check it out. There's going to be a video package that will cover the various film versions of The Cage. It's a small world, isn't it? 😀
@@TREK-WORLD very much so! Lol
The original effects are so much better than the remastered! The original Enterprise had a "glow" to it, to me it alive, the remastered cgi Enterprise looks dull and, well, cgi, kinda lifeless...
But my biggest beef is the scene editing (for the television viewing) cutting out portions in order to elbow in more commercials 🤬
Looking forward to seasons 1,2 and 3 comparisons!
I too started watching Trek in 1972. I had some of the VHS releases but quickly switched to the LaserDiscs (U.S.), which used the same masters. I have almost the entire set. In the early 80s I worked as an engineer at a TV station that ran the series every day. For years we ran the episodes on 16mm, but at some point switched to remastered versions on 1" video tape. I hated the remasters because City on the Edge of Forever didn't have the original music, while the 16mm prints did. Plus, the remastered versions were missing 5 minutes of footage from each episode. Needless to say I've seen the originals more times than I can count.
thx for sharing, i hate the remasters too, only watch TOS with the original fx
The guy standing at the mic going, “puuueew…..puuueew…..”
I never ever watch the CGI enhanced episodes, not because of some sense of nostalga but because of the blatent disrespect for the efforts of the original models makers and special effects crew. I appreciate their work, amazing for the time, dated now yes but It is what it is and these individuals efforts should be lauded, not cast aside.
I like the enhancements. They did a great job on the effects and the picture quality. It’s not like you can’t watch it with the old effects, at least on the Blueray edition which I have.
All new effects aside. No Sam? No Heart or Pathos in the new series.
I cant stand the new fx looses all the athospere and charm in space... I rewatch it only with original effects... the newer ones feel so steril! But you have to have seen the original as a child to apprecitate them. So its good to have both options on those sets...
Am I imagining things, or at 14:31, if you look carefully at the secondary hull for the model, you can see what looks like wires or something hanging off the side by the row of shuttlecraft hanger observation deck windows?
There is something hanging there. There's also it looks like a bit of crud on the model, which is probably why it never got reused.
Guys, check on TREK WORLD's old vid called "50 year old Star Trek secret!", which actually goes into detail about that.😅
(Is "Jim" and "Wierd Nashville" old names of TREK WORLD, or an associate?)
@@PeteOhki Been there, done that, and commented on the controversy over how finished or not the 11 foot model's port side was, and how far back it was known in the fandom.
Sorry I missed this question Pete! But better late than never, right?
Yes, I started Weird Nashville as a channel back in 2020 I think.
That channel covered several different subjects while I tried to find out what my "niche" was going to be. Then, at the tail end of 2021, my Star Trek videos began to get traction. It wasn't long afterward that I changed the name of the channel here on TH-cam.
Always used to wake up to the original series in the 90s being blasted by my late father and how the bridge pings would emanate ..good memories! :)
your dad is spot on... the bridge sound fx are so soothing and you instantly get these strong childhood memories... and the feelng of family and god times are deeply associated with the bridge sound fx... i will never understand the producers of star trek the motion picture - they actually did not integrate the bridge sounds when it aired in the cinemas... thank god they made an updatet version of that movie many years later with the old bridge sound fx!!
Remember the Bridge sounds just running on 'auto' when it was deserted or the crew dissolved as in Omega Glory? LOVED THAT. I could imitate a lot of the computer controls and transporter sound effects pretty well by mouth kinda like the guy from "Police Academy" movies who did effects and believe it or not it made me popular with some girls who also liked ST. They often asked me to do it and then show their friends.
@@ntvypr4820 Love it!!!
Black on Red 1957 Plymouth Belvedere 6:18
On these remastered copies, the opening narration of "space, the final frontier..." sounds terrible. Kirk's voice is distant and hollow, as if coming from the lowest deck in engineering.
This reminds me of the original Star Wars trilogy. I had the original cuts on VHS, but decided to upgrade to DVD and found they were the remastered films! I was gutted. Still am 🫤
Great point about the early remastering! I've also seen various discussions online where people bemoan the loss of the original audio mix.
Good point! I think I'm going to try to dig up some stuff on that Japanese LaserDisc set. I'll use GoogleTranslate and see what I can find in Japanese. I'm sure there has to a detailed discussion somewhere about the set and what it was touting as being a first time exclusive.
I don't miss the original optical effects. We had a 25" color TV and I remember as I got older I could plainly see the matte lines in all the shuttle craft shots. The effects really don't hold up in HD.
I'd be interested to know why they chose to use the reverse shot of the ship in orbit in only one episode, _"Shore Leave"._
Sort of two, if you also count _"Mirror Mirror"._
I loved the original series. I remember being about 4 or 5 when I first saw Star Trek on TV in 1975. It was my favorite show.
None of them look better than the original. And the very latest 'offerings' are lessons in CGI excess and poor lighting.
I was also 8 years old in 1972 and ran home as fast as I could after school to be in place to watch Star Trek. It was all new to us, being too young to remember when it originally aired. We were lucky enough to have a brand new color tv and I remember it looking great even on those old tvs.
Great video! I gotta say, part of me has always kinda preferred the more retro-scifi look of that 2nd pilot model with its huge dish and spikes on the nacelles. Plus the fact it's the model we see in all of the opening credits.
I hate the changes they messed with what the original suppose to be and I'm pissed they use Crappy cgi when the original style was just fine!
I hated the new CGI for the Original Trek.
I have the original series on dvd with the three colours box set. Paramount did a good job with the new CGI. Effects but the aliens like the Gorn and the Horter still laughable but that's part of its charm! Least not tampered with as bad as Star Wars original trilogy. Star Trek was the daddy to Star Wars!
Lol your joking the cgi effects are terrible and have aged worse than original effects! 2006 cgi is not great looks like 90s computer game models will.always look more real
A friend and I recorded the series off TV when they were shown in Australia in 1986 some of them still have the adverts of the time in them. Before that the series had not been shown since the 70's at least in Perth anyway. I still have some of these I should go back and have a look at them sometime to see the difference cause they would have been the ones they showed in the 70's. There were about 15 episodes they did not show. Wolf in the fold and Amok time being a couple of them we worked out they didn't air. I do have a Blu-ray sets and have a player that allows the switching of angles which changes the view to the original effects on the fly. This is good cause sometimes when I watch the new effects i like to do a switch back to the old for a quick comparison. I'm not a big fan of the new effects i think it could have been done better it definitely looks like dated CGI. I wish they would re do it to fit in more with the original. Love what your doing by the way.
Thanks! I am so glad you like what you see so far! We are literally on the ground floor of where this channel will go. So hang on!😀
Nice job. There is an additional shot in Where No Man Has Gone Before, but it's of the three foot model and you're only doing the eleven.
The season 2 and 3 opening credits are exclusively from The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before.
Where are you getting the idea that the remasters are 16:9? I had the 1999 DVDs as well as the 2004 season sets and they were all 4:3 as are the Blu-rays. Even the 2006 Remastered are 4:3. I have many (many) complaints about TOS-R but the aspect ratio isn't one of them.
Hi Bill!
There are a few places out that that documented the 16:9 remasters. Here's a link from 2006 : trekmovie.com/2006/12/18/video-of-trek-remastered-in-widescreen/.
They remastered in 16:9; but they they cropped the image so that it fit 4:3 on normal TVs. Even when they originally "released" the new remasters into syndication on TV in the early 00's - it was cropped to 4:3. People had no chance of seeing the uncropped version for quite a while.
With the clip I showed form the "original" DVD of the Cage, you can clearly see they cropped the top and bottom out as compared to the original 4:3 masters for VHS.
I also ran across this 6 month old post on Reddit during my research as it related to someone wanting to know how they could see the 16:9 version as Paramount only streams the cropped version : "If you’re in Canada, Cravetv streams the original series in 16:9. The original footage is cropped but most of the effect shots are larger in 16:9 The effects shots are actually cropped on the sides for the 4:3 version if you compare them. The 16:9 version also airs on the sci fi channel in Canada and maybe on BBC and also in Japan I believe."
However, there is always a chance that there is more to discover here. I'll see if I can actually rip a scene or two from my blu rays and compare the exact same scene with the original DVDs (and what is currently streaming) and see what we get.
One of the reason I broke this into serval parts was to allow us to update upcoming videos to reflect something we may have found after the first one.
And that includes "eating crow" if I double check and find out I was wrong! 😀😀😀😀
Yeah... I think I'm going to head down that rabbithole again before the next video. I want to find other clips to look at so that I can compare the cropping. I'm also going to take a more in depth look at that Japanese LaserDisc set that the digital enhancement was done for. I think it may give me a bona fide "source of truth".
Time to clean off the old bifocals. 😀
Nothing good has resulted from Star Trek TOS episodes being "improved" with modern CGI. Keep the originals intact.
For me, it's the original effects hands down. I'm 57 (same age as TOS) so I grew up along with my generation with Star Trek. Sure, some special effects looked kind of corny, but it was 1960's science fiction. It was pretty cool back then. Great video and channel.
Thanks for sharing!
I do think the Remastered versions are superior, BUT, I still think these original versions are important and valuable and should be preserved! P+ should give the option to view the episodes in their original versions! I believe in preserving all media, especially something as culturally important as Star Trek TOS, people should be allowed to watch it if it is the version they prefer, and also we should still be able to celebrate and admire what the effects team was able to pull off given the limited budget and time period it was made in!
The bluray dvd's allow you to do that.
I watched Season 3 on Friday night with my dad. All this high res/high definition is lost on me-since I have low def eyes and ears.
Yes, and whomever had ANY hand in butchering T.O.S.'s glorious original effects should be imprisoned for life....
Or thereabouts....
But lets face it, after DS9, S.T. all endeavors suck...
Except the 'Continues' webseries.
'They' got it right....
So let it be written....
Thank you for this video.
You said near the beginning that they mastered a 16:9 version??
If so, is it cropped to fit or actual 16:9?
….And where can I purchase this, if it doesn’t.
I will followup on this in the next video. A lot of folks say they didn't ever produce the remasters at greater than 4:3. So rather than move on; I will be doing a separate video specifically on what was done to those Japanese masters and what Paramount said about "HD remastering".
It could be they were simply saying they would be roughly 1200 x 1080, which would still be considered HD - but at 4:3 instead of 16:9.
However, I have two screen shots that someone gave me that show they may have cropped the video down into 16:9 when broadcast in syndication and on foreign television.
I like the new effects. I do find it curious that they didn’t fix obvious mistakes like occasionally mixing up phasers with photon torpedoes.
For balance it was important that they used the later called photon torpedo effect, as they were laying a string of depth charges in the plot. However that episode filmed in July 1966 and was about the 6th filmed so the ship only had "phasers" in the technical lingo. Since the climax occurred in "phaser control" those remastering it were stuck. They had to stick with the original VFX direction.
At least in Tomorrow is Yesterday they fixed the 1966 VFX team's misunderstanding of NASAs "slingshot effect" by using ST IV's stock footage.
There is only one Star Trek for me, the original series, even the movies didn't quite feel like Star Trek to me.
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look in the top corner
behind the bald guy
CHRISTINE
is sitting there
Young Eugene allayed most of the fears "First Fandom" felt about the remaster when he assured a panel (San Diego ComiCon?) "We're not *changing* it ... we're *fixing* it! We're doing it the way Dad would have done it if he'd had the budget and technology." Good job, too, imho.
Bought my first Trek episode on Vhs in 1985, The Naked Time. Special order at a mom and pop video store, common at the time before large chains. $40 USD at the time, for One episode!?
When Paramount did the remastering CGI was in it's infancy. Most of the remastered effects look even more dated than the original. Just 2 particular examples: In 'Balance of Terror' when the Romulans first fire on the Enterprise (& she goes into emergency warp backwards) the Plasma Bolt is not only MUCH worse than the original but by todays standards it is amateurish. In the 'Doomsday Weapon' virtually all the shots involving the weapon & interactions with it look like they were produced by Video Toaster.
Who knows maybe in 2026 Paramount will do a 4K remastered; of the original series for its 60th anniversary with new updated CGI to go with it and release it on Ultra HD Blu-ray sets then through seamless branching have it to where you view the 2006 CGI, or the original 1966 special effects.
I like the newer FX, but I do feel as if they could have been done better (sometimes subtler). Look at 0:36. You would have thought that the phasers in the new FX shot would have been properly placed (same thing when the photon torpedoes were launched).
I cant watch TOS with the new effects.. the ship just doesnt have the same charme from the original lighting.. same with space the athmosphere is completely steril! I startet watching at age 6 in 1971 or 1972 every saturday at 18:00 in germany when they startet airing star trek. I until today can only rewatch TOS with the original model/fx. Thanks for making these clips I just subscribed :) Still my faivorite TV show of all time and the modern iterations of Spock and Kirk are all terrible! Leonard Nimoy became Spock the moment he put the suit and makeup on.. what an incredible transformation and personification of Vulcans! The actor from the Kelvin Timeline can't even raise his eyebrow... Spocks most iconic facial expressions are all lost! They shouldnt have casted a botoxed guy!!! Strange new worlds lol pretty similar he at least tried to raise an eyebrow 3 times with a decent attempt in the final episode only... but whoever did his hair in that season should get fired!!! well enough ranting, I love TOS and appreciate your content!!
Your voice sounds Very Same As Harry Anderson From Night Court. Not a slight at all a Positive If anything. With Headphones I am Listening to this Video and that Voice sounds So Super Famnilar To me and to me Its Of Harry Anderson. 6:45 odd coincedence He mentions a Howard Anderson.
Notice how stupid the cgi artist are. They don’t bother matching the shuttle with the live sized prop. Also in AMOK TIME the red sky doesn’t match and stupidly have the landing party beam down away from entrance and cross a bridge.
I mostly like the changes. For me TOS was always a bit too hokey/campy to take seriously. Only a few specific episodes were really good (eg, "The Doomsday Machine"). The updated space graphics at least made things a little more bearable.
Exclusively watch the original effects, as the new 2006 CGI is so bad.
I have seen very little 16x9 footage anywhere. Everything up to Enterprise has been released 4x3 1080i
Love the remastered episodes. I recently watched the original version of _The Doomsday Machine_ and I was astonished at how primitive it looked.
Yeah, I saw Star Trek when it first aired in 1966 before any syndication. I still watch it now on the remastered reruns, but I often get a cognitive disconnect on some of the CGI scenes because I remember what they originally looked like. Yes, they look better, but they don't match the live action in style and quality.
Cool that the bridge originally had a real window for the viewscreen, per the 2009+ Trek films. I have no issue with this unlike many Trek fans. When all systems are knocked out, gotta see where you are and whats around you the old fashioned way.
THE ORIGINAL SERIES LOOKED JUST FINE ON A 25" COLOR TELEVISION. WHEN TVS PAST 48" THE OPTICAL FLAWS BECAME VERY NOTICABLE.
Dude, I watched the original broadcast episodes, and I actually prefer the remastered versions.
It's hard for me to take a strong stance on the old vs. new effects. Most of the time, I'm fine with the original version of the episodes. But there are a few exceptions. For instance, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" benefits greatly from the modern effects, since the original effects didn't do the greatest job of visually conveying their method of time travel--in fact, the shots don't even show the sun!
I couldn’t believe how bad the effects were immediately back in 2006 with the “remastered.”
I would rather have the originals, and don’t like how scenes have been cut out and new ones created and put in their place (e.g., “Amok Time). I watched it for the stories, not the special effects. Unfortunately, most people now tend, I think, to place the latter before the former.
The I think you got the description of shot of the 11 foot model's zoom in backward. It's not meant to show the ship moving toward the camera, but the camera moving toward the ship. It's an awkward camera move because of the technical limitations at the time, but I think the intent was to have the "viewer" move toward the ship, and then the bridge. The final result being an internal shot of the bridge, ending the intended immersion.
One of the things I noticed before the digital remaster is just how BAD many of the effects shots looked; especially in the second and third seasons. Suddenly you would see a shot of the enterprise in battleship grey rather than its usual sky blue color and then realize you are really seeing a B&W version of the same planet they flew by last week because they used a b&w print to remove the color from the planet. How many times did they simply tint the same footage of the planet to make it look a different color?!? So in many ways I am grateful for the digital redo.
Im watching the originals right now, I love the original FX despite the shoe string budget. However, Im not opposed to the new FX because it gives us a bigger picture of what the creators were trying to accomplish but couldn't considering the technological constraints of the time.
Wistful sighs of fond remembrance from a faithful Star Trek (TOS) viewer.
Unfortunately they used non union services and very low budgets to update - 😂 kind of like the original-
But the original looks better- even now.
Grew up on it, first run 🖖
In other words, they ruined it. When will they be re-popping it in vertical format for dumbphone users too?
We watched DVDs and Blu-rays because we're against technology!
Yes they ruined the originals, cut scenes, changed the graphics to the point some of them didn't make sense... The imbecile who decided to change the graphics and the ones who actually did should never touch another remaster... Literary license or whatever, some things are better in the original form...
I don’t care about this remastered crap. I only want to see the original special effects.
I remember the blowback from some of the fans when the CGI effects came into play, a lot of " HARMPH HARMPH HARMPH HARMPH !"
That's because the cgi is terrible and even more dated now!
Huzzah! I was one of those HARUMPING! 😆
I kind of wish they remastered the ship effects using the model footage instead of completely replacing it. The CGI sticks out like a sore thumb
Did we learn nothing from the saga of George Lucas?
Leave beloved iconic media as is.
No Sam Beckett? The new QL will fail. This isn't " Rocket Science" NBC.
No remastered trek for me....I'm a purist,only the original will do
I think the planets look better, but the Ships look like something rejected from the animated series.
I just don't get the need to change the old FX. The should have just enhanced them not replaced them.
I love the remastered episodes. They made Star Trek look great. I've still got most of season one on VHS that I recorded from TV, but I don't own a VCR.
One can find a process to convert VCR content to DVD. I do not know the details, so consult someone more technically sophisticated than I am.
@@DavidRLentz why would I dig out old VCR tapes to convert to digital when I can just stream the remastered versions? Makes no sense. I really don't care about my old VCR tapes. Your comment has helped me to realize that I need to throw all that old stuff away.
Thanks 🙏
@@jaydav6521 some like it! Please donate it to fans who would derive enjoyment from them. All right?
I had suggested this anticipating that you are a collector of Star Trek TOS memorabilia.
@@DavidRLentz I don't collect. Love all the shows though. I got my first VCR for Christmas in 85. Immediately started taping Star Trek. I think I taped season one of TNG as well.
What is a VCR, please?
i prefer the original fx...the remastered ones have dodgy ship movements.
Personally, I'd like to see the show remastered again.
The 2005 remastering looked good for about a week.
Today, most fans have more computing power than they did back then.
They need to upscale the original effects instead of replacing them. Like they did with the TNG remaster
@@admiralpercy No amount of 'upscaling' would make the images look better. There are rips and tears in those images that would still be there if you tried to upscale them.
The only way to even get close, would be to go back to the original uncomposited negatives and start from scratch. And even then, the different versions of the Enterprise (Pilot, second pilot, production version, 3 footer) would still make for horrendous continuity errors.
As long as the original effects are offered as an option for those who would like to see them, then there is no good reason to not update them again.
they need to just leave it alone.
quit painting mustaches on the Mona Lisa. its an old painting. we all know that.
Just goes to show that there is a lot more to good sf tv than CGI and lens flare. Give me TOS any time.
Maybe this is why I remember both red and blue phasers and both white and red photons.
The upgrades are interesting, but the originals are the true TREK.
Detail wow.
The remasters are a disaster. Check out the doomsday machine for example.
Sadly they cut away some of the morals explained.
I love the original version of the barrier effect much more than the remastered!
I hoped they were at least scanned in 2K so maybe we can get a 4K upscale someday.
Do they still offer the original? I prefer it.
Only on the DVD & Blurays. It is not available to stream.
All CGI looks cheesy within ten years.
4:43 zooming on the paused image, it looks like the logo at the bottom left of those Japanese box sets is a laserdisc and not a dvd one. It figures since around the same period, I was buying my TOS and TNG episodes on PAL or NTSC laserdiscs (never owned any VHS or Bêta. Only tapes I used were Sony Hi-8 to record TNG on satellite channels like Sky One or SAT-1 (in German, once Sky One stopped being free-to-air)
Correct! The Japanese release was on laserdisc and not DVD. Which is why they did the very first "remaster/enhance" on the episodes that they released in the set.
They also expanded the 4:3 to fit into 16:9 via cropping. This was something that was not done anywhere else. These Japanese laserdiscs were also used for a syndicated release in the UK and Canada. They were easy to spot because of the Kanji subtitles on TV.
I would love to be able to revisit this again in the future as most people have no idea that there were 16:9/cropped episodes shown.
What's funny is the pic reprsenting the updated effects in the thumbnail is the same pic from the cover of the book "The Making of Star Trek" from 1968.
@@TREK-WORLDthe one on the book cover has blue phasers. I own the book. Same copy I bought over 50 years ago. While the one on the right might be an update, it has the same bluish coloring as the book cover pic. The one on the left definitely isn't the book cover.
I at one time had every star trek ever made my wife thought it was time for something new got rid of them .
Like the Enterprise drifting in orbit for the title sequence
I got to see the 11 foot model at the Smithsonian
me too. pretty cool ..
So where is the talk about FX (other than that one picture)?
I've always wondered why they show the phasers shooting out of the sensor array instead of the one of the three phaser hardpoints. I didn't even remember ever watching the original FX where the red phasers shot out of the correct place until you showed the original picture. Yet another example of rights-owners and producers trying the change the show even back then.
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Actually, we go over that in the next video about season 1's enterprise shots.
Didn't have phaser hardpoints until the movie. The blueprints showed one phaser room at the front of the bulge 2 decks below the bridge, and another one just forward of the main sensor at the bottom of the saucer.