Comments on: The Naked Time Remastered Review

By: mrtew

mrtew — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:06:35 +0000

The way the E looks in the museum is just pathetic. Why haven’t the legions of trekkies risen up and demanded that it be fixed? It doesn’t look “weathered” to me…. it looks like someone tried to paint on the kind of crap that you see on the ship from the latest series. Gross. And it never occurred to me while I watched every episode a dozen time over the last 40 years that the Enterprise was anything other than white, until I found people debating it on this site. Maybe the model was greyish or something, but on screen it was clearly a white ship. You guys are weird. Blue?

By: Granger

Granger — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:29:02 +0000

Okay, before anyone flames me, I meant LET That Be Your Last Battlefield!

By: Granger

Granger — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:27:35 +0000

Here’s another vote for the 3rd season look! I remember watching the show back in the early 1970s and noticing at a tender age how great the ship looked in The Tholian Web and Last That Be Your Last Battlefield. In the latter they got in tight and pivoted the shot, really creating a sense of mass in the old girl. And yup, she was a beautiful blue.

And another hear hear for the sad look of the old model in the Smithsonian. It is in better shape physically than it was years earlier when it was strong up above a stairway there with the holes in the unfilmed side for the cabling duct-taped over, but the weathering they later applied is way too extreme, especially considering that we’ll never see the model under film lights again.

Thanks for this website, and for the great comments from the various posters.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:35:16 +0000

The hull color of the Enterprise is camouflage grey.

The Enterprise appears light blue, green, or violet because of the mood lights.

If you are going for accuracy over aesthetic sensibility, the grey being used is correct and appropriate.

By: An olde timey fan

An olde timey fan — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:49:39 +0000

I’m glad daren agrees with my eyes and pronounces the Big E: blue! Haze gray is wonderful if you’re trying to hide your shilouette on the horizon of the North Atlantic but I don’t know why that color would make sense in space.

For example, I saw an Apollo-Saturn Ib spacecraft on the pad in Florida in 1975. I have the distinct memory that it was semi-gloss white with black detailing. Gosh it was beautiful. I can only imagine what a Saturn V looked like! Similarly, the Trek Enterprise is a pride and joy to be seen, not camoflaged against the sky.

By the way, it occurs to me the only colors that cont are those that we saw on the tube. B&W era actors would shock you if you saw their make-up in its true colors!!!

By: Fred Passmore

Fred Passmore — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:39:32 +0000

I just wonder if it would have killed them tho put in ONE shot of the ship exterior as it plowed through the upper atmosphere in low orbit, flames playing at the edges of the shields?

Just one lousy shot.

By: Donn

Donn — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:29:16 +0000

I think that the conservative approach CBS is applying to the episodes is appropriate for the conservation of the piece of modern mythology Trek has become. I also think that the digital tinkering perpetrated on the Star Wars films served as a shining example of how NOT to do it right.
No, Trek Remastered isn’t perfect, (those pesky nacelle domes, and why stars the size of headlights??) but it could be a lot worse. (Or, Daren, as you know, a lot better!)
PS- Curious that I originally had the #2 post- and it somehow got deleted. So much for freedom of speech.

By: Daren R. Dochterman

Daren R. Dochterman — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:55:40 +0000

This has been debated over and over… the ONLY section of the Model in the smithsonian that has the original paint on it is the top of the primary hull. The rest was re-painted by Ed Miarecki in the early 90s. (some, including me, think that this paint job was a little “extreme” in its weathering.)

By: Captain Pike

Captain Pike — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:34:48 +0000

Enjoying TOS-Redux so far but wishing they would go a bit further “reimagining” the space scenes. Showing me a shot for shot remake is just wasting my time. I want a crisp, dynamic Enterprise with smooth camera moves. If I want to feel the camera “dolly” in or slide past the model off-axis (ie looks like the ship is skidding”) I’ll just watch the original. Doing those kinds of moves too faithfully is plain stupid and maintains the “dated” look of the show. I thought the point here was to update it so the “kids” would watch it?

RE: Color of the Model. Model building fanatics have examined the orginal at the smithsonian and pronouced it’s color to closest to “concrete gray”.
http://culttvman.com/what_color_is_the_classic_ente.html

By: EricB

EricB — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:11:37 +0000

The colored stars were shown in the first season. I re-checked the orginal Balance of Terror on DVD and there are clearly blue and orange stars in many of the space shots, as well as the viewscreen shots of space. I really hope they correct this BIG problem!