Comments on: Today is Remastered Balance Of Terror Day (and Miri too)

By: TheGuardianofForever

TheGuardianofForever — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:48:05 +0000

I saw Remastered Balance of Terror. It was awesome. They did a fine job. And to the idiots who still want to live in the past SFX-wise because you don’t appreciate what CBS and paramount are trying to do with TOS, I say to all of you GET A LIFE!!! and to the dimbulb who suggested canceling all future mastered releases of TOS, GET A CLUE!!!!!

By: DouglasM

DouglasM — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:52:54 +0000

The Seattle, KSTW listing is incorrect. It’s on at 6:00PM and, unfortunately, even on their HD version of the station it’s not being broadcast in actual HD.

By: EricB

EricB — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:42:40 +0000

What a huge disappointment! With the exception of the comet, the effects showed only minimal improvements. But on the bright side, with these cartoony effects, they could redo ST: The Animated Series.

I also really missed the red and blue colored stars. Space has lost all of its appeal.

I think I’ll wait until the 50th anniversary and hopefully someone will be willing to spend a few more bucks to make decent effects. I hate to be cynical, but part of me is thinking they are doing this to sell more DVDs when they upgrade the “enhanced” version.

Overall, I give it a D-

By: Adam Cohen

Adam Cohen — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:50:06 +0000

WNBC-TV NEW YORK never played it (it was suppsoed to air at 3:30AM today- Monday). Well Sunday Night Football ran over their scheduled time (something I suspect will be normal for the remainder of the season), thus pushing back the whole schedule by well over an hour. Since Star Trek runs up against Early Today (4:30AM), Trek is the show that gets the short end of the stick. So, thanks to WNBC’s wish to hide Trek in the graveyard of the programming schedule, I will likely never see a complete episode ot the remastered episodes until 1) they come to their senses and put the show in ANY OTHER TIMESLOT or 2) I wait until the remastered DVDs come out in three years. Great. Just friggin’ great.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:07:26 +0000

I just saw “Miri”. Gene Rodenberry was brilliant. The series is about the message. He used our most basic fundamental problems which relates to all nations and all walks of life, combined it with basic psychology and tried to bring the message across with a solution.
Simple brilliant.
This isn’t about what color the nacelles are. It’s about how all the parts together compliment each other to bring a message to a believable level.
I loved it!

By: Ralph

Ralph — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:57:57 +0000

If you want quality, wait till the next movie comes out. These are only TV shows. You can only put so much in to get a return.
Let us support the crew for reviving the series and Viacom’s effort to restore the Star Trek phenomenon.
Take note… we need each other to make this work.

By: Matt Wright

Matt Wright — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:33:11 +0000

“Balance of Terror was then broadcast on WMLW (I don’t understand the affiliation with the local CBS 58 affiliate). ”

There isn’t one… Star Trek is syndicated to whatever local station wants it.

CBS and Paramount are both owned by Viacom and Paramount recently turned over the handling of the various Star Trek TV series to CBS which is why you see the CBS name involved.

By: TucsonDon

TucsonDon — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:23:13 +0000

If anybody is interested and/or knows how to petition CBS/Paramount about these issues, lets all get together and hound them to make the corrections. At the very least, let’s get them to commit to doing like George Lucas did the latest DVD releases (have one set of 100% restored original and a “companion” disc set with the “enhanced” versions). It’d be a crying shame to let them try and replace the classic versions with these poor remakes.

Let’s band together and send a loud and clear message to CBS/Paramount before it’s too late. It may already be to late to do anything about these “enhanced” versions but surely they’ve got to have the original footage brought up to hi-def before they went and added/replaced scenes.

Somebody lead the way!!!

By: Leonel

Leonel — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:41:49 +0000

Another thought – those of you who recorded the new version, how about stepping through the credits to compare the remastered Bird Of Prey to the original..

By: Leonel

Leonel — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:30:47 +0000

Here, here, Thomas Jenson! I’m with you and am once again that kid in awe with a great story. NCC-1701 (no bloody A, B, C, OR D) never looked better.

That said, a couple things. Milwaukee and Time Warner cable need to get their act together. If only one knew where to begin in order to do something about the situation. There seems to be little appreciation to things Trek around here.

I remembered an article stating that CBS affiliates were not going to be getting the full HD version of the remastered episodes. I forget the technical reason. The minute I heard that remastered Trek was on its way, I was looking forward to seeing it in HD. So I was prepared to be a little underwhelmed in my experience. At least Milwaukee has an HD capable CBS affiliate.

Last night I watched Miri. Had to wait because our local affiliate delayed the broadcast due to something going on earlier that day. Although it was worth it, I could not enjoy the full experience because I was not watching true HD on my HD set. There were subtle changes, such as the added echo, which made up for the experience.

Balance of Terror was then broadcast on WMLW (I don’t understand the affiliation with the local CBS 58 affiliate). It is not an HD channel. And, the HD box doesn’t process the WMLW signal all that great.

The new effects looked cartoony on the HD set.

So during the second commercial break, I switched to my trusty old 4:3 Toshiba, watched the show using the built-in cable tuner, and piped the cable box through the receiver.

Thank goodness!! No need to restate what others have said above. Everything looked great. Now if only Time Warner would catch up (hey Univeral HD, get the hint!) I’m that kid again.. wow.. :)