Comments on: Remastered Menagerie Part 1 Airs Today

By: BQ

BQ — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:40:46 +0000

Sadly, my local source for these episodes has never been a viable source for quality broadcast. It’s been fuzzy from the start, and hasn’t changed.

By: Lord Edzo

Lord Edzo — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:55:33 +0000

Ah, I whooped and hollered several times during “The Menagerie, Part I.” Let me break this down into Kirk Era updates and then Pike Era.

Kirk Era:
1. Loved the enhanced Starbase 11 planetside, particularly the CGI guys milling in the background. But I was still hoping that the crane waaaay in back was swinging/moving/whatever. Probably caught those SCE guys on their coffee break, dammit!

2. Loved the new day & night scenery outside Mendez’s windows, and outside Pike’s ICU (especially the moving shuttles).

3. All visuals of the Enterprise rock, as per usual. The Starbase 11 planet was cool, too.

4. Anybody catch the name on the front of that Starbase shuttlecraft? No HDTV have I.

5. Nice to see the stars “warping” past on the view screen, plus the reverse angle showing the nacelles! However, I wish the shuttle had been showered by fast-moving stars, too. Makes it look like the shuttle was only on impulse, which it certainly was not.

Pike Era:
1. NIIIIIIICE swoop into the old-style Enterprise CGI, complete with spired nacelle caps, curvy strips on the dorsal saucer section, the oversize sensor dish and the larger Bridge module. The pan down into the Bridge was *incredible.* It felt like you were being “dunked” right into the transparent aluminum cap!

2. I think the Enterprise’s “meteorite beam” effect onscreen was slightly tweaked.

3. NIIIICE window looking outside Pike’s quarters!!!

4. Awesome swoop into orbit of the “new” Talos 4! Was still hoping to see those “reflections from the surface,” though.

5. NIIIICE “warble” effect added to the disappearing old men, to complement the effect by which Vina had always vanished.

6. Nice enhancement of the Talosian’s “orange smoke puff” weapon or whatever the hell that thing is.

I *can’t wait” to see the Rigel Fortress next week, in addition to Mojave in the background and whatever you decide to do (or not) at Pike’s Orion house. Great job, guys!

By: TomBot2006

TomBot2006 — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 06:52:39 +0000

Hmmm, cutting Spock smile is a bad thing? I’m actually kind of torn on that. On one hand, it’s charmingly cute, but on the other hand, it seems way out of character…
Anyway, long live Vima, the green Orion slave girl…. meow. ~s~

By: foobar

foobar — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:52:17 +0000

The restoration itself was fantastic for this episode. WUHF cut out the part though where Spock smiles when he touches the singing plant :(

By: Ron Jon

Ron Jon — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:00:10 +0000

Yes, Vina was quite the babe. I can’t wait!

Bring on the bridge dome zoom in!!

By: Nelson

Nelson — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:55:39 +0000

re: Post #8-

I’m sure they will re-do the buildings out the windows at the starbase. However, from an expressionist and artistic point of view, I think those cut out buildings are great! They evoke the old expressionistic images of theater.

By: Matt Wright

Matt Wright — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:46:38 +0000

Can’t wait to see it later on tonight!

By: The Gregster

The Gregster — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:21:15 +0000

I just saw the episode. Most of the exterior shots of the Enterprise are unremarkable…standard stuff. The shots of Starbase 11 look very good. There is a nice exterior shot of the SB 11 shuttlecraft. The center forward window is uncovered which cuts nicely with the interior shots of the shuttlecraft. The bridge dome zoom-in shot looks very cool. Unfortunately it is shown on the court room viewscreen, and not shown full-screen. I guess we’ll have to wait for the remastered version of “The Cage” to see to see the old OLD girl in all her glory. The full screen footage of the first pilot is absolutely stunning!! I noticed details I’ve never seen before. Vina’s eyes are hypnotic. Well, that’s my from-the-hip review of “The Menagerie Part 1″. I’m interested to see what others think on this forum.

By: FishDS9

FishDS9 — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:34:11 +0000

My local affiliate is showing “Moulin Rouge” instead of “The Menagerie Pt.1″ at it’s usual time. :( Fortunately, I have the late night replay to fall back on. I just hope they don’t substitute it with some Infomercial.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:45:29 +0000

It isn’t on due to the holiday, usually youtube.com has it.