Comments on: Today is Arena Remastered Day

By: Jumana Fanni

Jumana Fanni — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:00:13 +0000

cuz we both thought,that love last foreve. Jumana Fanni.

By: Hamlet Tori

Hamlet Tori — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:38:01 +0000

What in the world happened to. Hamlet Tori.

By: inside

inside — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:09:38 +0000

Thanks alot people Keep your job

By: An olde timey fan

An olde timey fan — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:32:16 +0000

#34 — those reflections are lens flares.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:48:03 +0000

The Gorn ship sure looks like a Cylon Raider…. :)

By: Greg Stamper

Greg Stamper — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:50:49 +0000

Welcome aboard Scott. The More the Merrier.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:35:57 +0000

For some reason I can’t access the fields where I identify myself to you. I’m not Anonymous, I’m Scott Brooks! Nice to meet you all.

I only caught the last half-hour of Arena because our station decided this week to show it thirty minutes earlier than they have been showing it. At 2:00 a.m. instead of 2:35..or 2:45….

First, Arena is my third fave Trek episode. I even wrote a 90,000 word novel sequel to it many years ago, so I must like it. (Editor Kevin Ryan at Pocket Books didn’t like it…then wrote his own Gorn story a year or so later :-)

Anyway, I like the bright colors. Good job. I think the Enterprise travelling at warp 8 ought to look a LOT faster than it does in both the original and the new shot. I liked the close-up of the E after the Metrons had stopped them cold. The original full-body shot was always a bad-looking effect. I liked that they DIDN’T show the Gorn ship in a close-up. I was afraid we’d be treated to a design I wouldn’t like. Still, from the teeny little image on the bridge screen, it had the typical Star Trek “main body with two nacelles” design.

I liked the blinky Gorn! I know compound eyes don’t blink, but this is science fiction. Who’s to say that a creature couldn’t develop such an eye? I’m GLAD they didn’t replace him with CGI or makes his lips move like some dumb talking animal movie. The obviously inadvertant reflections to the left of the Metron always bugged me, so I’m glad they decided to add to them rather than get rid of them. Nice touch.

One thing that surprised me is that they didn’t replace the colorful swirly lights on the bridge screen with the Metrons talk to the Enterprise. I’m REALLY glad they didn’t. I always liked that effect. However, I’m even more surprised that they didn’t fix the crummy matte line between that effect and the edge of the bridge screen. Sloppy. Also, the images of Kirk and the Gorn that the bridge crew see were as dull as ever, with that annoying pulsating blue holding line where they matted it into the bridge viewscreen. Again, they should have fixed this.

I wish I’d caught the first half-hour. Did they do anything to enhance the mortar explosion on Cestus III?

I’ve been enjoying the enhancements, good, bad or iffy. It’s fun to revisit these shows again with a new eye.

Scott out.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:34:00 +0000

People keep asking why CBS/Paramount is doing this. Yes, it is to make money. But the actual stated reason on the startrek.com website is that the SFX were starting to look dated and that was making the show a tough sell into syndication. So in order to make the show more accessible to a new and younger audience they decided to update the SFX and fix some of the errors that slipped by in the original editing process.

One they missed in this week episode, Arena…

Helm button sound effects. When Sulu is hitting the buttons on his console its obvious from the sound that his is hitting buttons that do not move thanks to the hard wooden sound that is made whenever he punches the console.

By: Jim J

Jim J — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:16:35 +0000

#21 Post- I compliment the show but throw in one little negative and your response is that you want to phaser me and add in a photon torpedo? You are out of control. Get a grip. Posting things like my dad (my CGI Enterprise) can beat up your dad (your CGI or non CGI Enterprise) is just plain pathetic.

I have been watching Star Trek since I was 3 years old (I’m 40 now) and have always loved the original the best. I have wholeheartedly supported this project and love everything they are doing so far, except two things: the change of course shot in I, Mudd and the nacelles. Frankly, I didn’t even montion them until the last few episodes, because I like the rest so much.

Nobody is perfect and it’s good to see that Okuda and crew are striving to continue to improve. There were a lot of improvements this week and I can’t wait until November (especially for Mirror, Mirror).

Try some decaf, Josh, and frankly…I think a moderator ought to take you to task for “phasering and torpedoing” people who are “discussing.”

By: kirok

kirok — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:51:13 +0000

first, the obvious. compound eyes do not blink. and a blink should be accompanied by a brow motion. it’s just wrong wrong wrong.
in the distant future there will be a trivia question: “how many times did the gorn blink in the first digital enhancement of arena?”
in the final scene, kirk is transported back to the enterprise and his uniform is dry cleaned and his limp is gone. the metrones fixed him on the fly i guess.
then sulu says “we’re clear across the galaxy”. in star trek voyager, this entailed an 80 year voyage at maximum warp to return home. but in “arena” kirk says “take us back to cestus 3 at warp factor 1″