Naked Time Remastered Promo

Wow……that looks good! could it be that they’re getting better on a weekly basis? I have to wonder…..where our these CGI – group from? Is all the work done here or abroad? Nice to see these subtle changes you know?

I haven’t seen anyone mention that episode with the giant single celled space amoeba, that is another episode they can go all out on, impressive, most impressive!

Well…..I know of no weather condition (none exists at all!) that would cause any planet to spiral so rapidly. Of course this is only Tv – but! Though wouldn’t it be neat after researching to find a wayward planet that does just that? Your so called….Hurricaine Katrina planet?

Ditto on the “amoeba” episode. I’m also looking forward to “Spectre of the Gun”, because I think there’s much that could be done with the skies to enhance the “eerie” aspect of the episode, which is it’s strength… All of my other looking-forward choices would be obvious ones.

Yes… as Psi-2000’s radius decreased, it’s rotation increased. I assume the logic applied here was similar to that of an ice skater. If an ice skater starts a spin with arms extended, the rate of the spin will rapidly increase as they pull their arms in to their sides. As Psi-2000 collapsed on itself, its mass became more concentrated in a smaller space, just like the skater, and the rate of rotation increased. I believe this would be due to the conservation of angular momentum: “This important concept carries over to more complicated systems: generally, for rotating bodies, if their radii decrease they must spin faster in order to conserve angular momentum. This concept is familiar intuitively to the ice skater who spins faster when the arms are drawn in, and slower when the arms are extended; although most ice skaters don’t think about it explictly, this method of spin control is nothing but an invocation of the law of angular momentum conservation.”

Also, remember that for most of TOS’s viewscreen shots, the Enterprise is orbiting at a considerable distance. But in Naked Time, she is skirting just above the atmosphere! And, as we’ve all witnessed, if you’re driving in a car at 60mph, the road right beside the car seems to whiz by, while the mountains in the distance seem to barely move at all.

The third factor invovled would be the speed necessary to maintain orbit. Just like Psi-2000, as the Enterprise pulled tighter and tighter to the surface of the planet, her own angular momentum would need to be conserved as well (unless braking thrusters were applied, which I doubt)! Plus, she would probably even need to increase speed in order to maintain an orbit.

All those factors combined: the increased rotation of Psi2000, the increased speed of the Enterprise, and the extremely close proximity of the Enterprise to Psi-2000’s atmosphere would make for an extremely wild ride… and an extremely awsome visual on the viewscreen!

I found some images of the CBs Digital crew working on Star Trek here …

http://www.myspace.com/daquake

After viewing Balance of Terror, I’m kinda disapointed……

Don’t get me wrong – the CGI is great, but they just replaced the Enterprise model with the CGI one. What I mean is that they left the same unrealistic flying pattern of the ship. When the Enterprise flyes towards the screen and to the right for instance, it seams that the front of the ship is slightly inclined downwards. So many hours and money spent to remaster the series, I think they could have put just a liiiiiitle more effort and fixed this issue. And the series wouldn’t loose its 60’s “feel” at all!

Or during the Enterprise firing its phasers scene….. where does beams come out from??? Here too, they didn’t change anything – just replaced it.

Anyhow, they still managed to do a great job in improving the special effects!

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I watched the episode tonight and DL’d the trailer here. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. NO OTHER Trek compares with the original “Star Trek!”

This episode rocked and the effects worked marvelously!