Comments on: Preview of New ‘Catspaw’ Castle

By: jonny

jonny — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:44:42 +0000

jonny

By: DB

DB — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:45:37 +0000

The plots of old TOS episodes are taking up valuable memory that I could use for things like womens’ telephone numbers. :(

By: dmack

dmack — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:13:53 +0000

thanks DB, been awhile
cheesy of not it’s a fun episode IMHO.

By: Ron Jon

Ron Jon — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:56:19 +0000

Yes, the Enterprise in the CATSPAW trailer seems bluer than it has been, but I don’t think it is the new model. (Personally, I think it’s a little too blue, but the lighting is a little bit better.) The CBS guy said that it the new model would not premier until TRIBBLES.

I hope it’s true that they airbrush out the strings. But I really really hope they don’t put in all new kewl CGI creatures. Little Syliva and Korab are just plain creepy as they are, and I wouldn’t want to see Species 8472 from VOYAGER.

By: DB

DB — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:23:17 +0000

“I think the halloween thing is cool. I mean, at least they acknowledge that this was the aliens attempt at being frightening by saying “an elaborate trick or treat”…. and that obviously it wasn’t REALLY frightening them.”

Actually, if I recall the in-story rationale correctly the aliens weren’t trying to frighten them — they were trying to make the landing party feel comfortable and at home on the planet.

Korob and Sylvia had meant to take familiar images and surroundings from the conscious minds of the Earth people, but screwed up and tapped into their subconscious minds instead. Bloch’s notion was that witches, black cats and creepy castles are somehow archetypical symbols of our dream worlds.

Or, more succinctly:

“Monsters from the Id, John! Monsters from the Id!”

By: An olde timey fan

An olde timey fan — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:30:05 +0000

The Enterprise on the trailer looks a whole lot bluer and a whole lot whiter and a whole lot shinier than before… could it be the new CGI model?!

By: TomBot2006

TomBot2006 — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:53:59 +0000

Hmmm, how much Remastering will it take to save this mostly *stinker* episode?
;-P
A lot.

I always did like the Starhip in a block of lucite… tempted to do that to my small diecast Enterprise someday…. :-)

By: Greg Stamper

Greg Stamper — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:58:01 +0000

Cransy is correct –
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68720.html

The Castle is nice but the weak visual links in Catspaw are the “Alien” Lifeforms at the end and the bulk of the Large Cat sequences. The Promo on Startrek.com does not show any New “Cat” effects. But that doesn’t mean there will not be any.

Good Work Cransy!

By: Cransy

Cransy — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:37:20 +0000

Hey everyone, the preview is up at startrek.com!!

By: dmack

dmack — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:09:03 +0000

I think the halloween thing is cool. I mean, at least they acknowledge that this was the aliens attempt at being frightening by saying “an elaborate trick or treat”…. and that obviously it wasn’t REALLY frightening them.