Comments on: Remastered Friday’s Child Airs Today

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:17:58 +0000

I haven’t seen the remastered episode, but am encouraged by the comments. I’ll be curious to see the improved phaser shots, etc.

I am a little nonplussed by all the negative comments about the episode itself. Friday’s Child has always been one of my favorites from the second season. So much to like about it: some McCoy history, Klingons, those cool kligats, some humorous bits, a great score, Julie Newmar (granted, the “pregancy” mitigates some of her natural hotness), some great Scotty stuff, that nifty use of the communicators to set off the avalanche, and the location shooting alone, which always bumps up an episode a notch or two. I guess the way Kirk flouts the Prime Directive is a bit of a sticking point, but frankly, this episode shows what a starship, out on the fringe, would be doing a lot of the time — manipulating the populace of some backward planet to secure favorable trade agreements! (Is there a “tongue-in-cheek” emoticon?)

Why are you people hatin’ on this great episode?

Scott B.

P.S. BTW, #19 scott, my mom’s comment on this show was that that was an awfully BIG newborn! I forgot to remind her that “seven feet tall is not unusual” in adult Capellans! :-)

By: scott

scott — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:38:48 +0000

My Mom asked me this about the show and she stumped me – who’s the kid playing Leonard James Akaar? Was he the kid of somebody associated with the show? Does anybody know who he is/was? Is he cashing in on his infant fame by doing conventions? I checked memory Alpha and there’s no mention of who the little oochie-woochie-koochie-koo was.

By: Laserlover2254

Laserlover2254 — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:15:27 +0000

I”d like to see the Scout ship in this episode, preferably a new ship class, not a D-7 or a TOS BIrd of Prey.

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:45:34 +0000

Enterprise shots over Cappella IV gave a great sense of scale, and loved new phaser disintegration effects. Stock shots still show over-bright nacelles, whereas new ones do not. Hope they will go over all of these eventually to correct. Would like to see a closer image of the Klingon ship. “Klingon,” as he was known to the Cappellans, said it was a scout, but Scotty, I believe, mentioned a battle cruiser. If it was the latter, D7 should have been obvious, but it wasn’t. Great Kirk-Spock-McCoy interplay in an otherwise ho-hum ep. The new graphics make you realize that the “10 Tribes” probably inhabit a territory the size of Rhode Island on such a massive beautiful M-class planet.

By: Scott Vela

Scott Vela — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:26:04 +0000

This has been my first time watching Star Trek Remastered and I was rather impressed with it. It wasn’t a effects intense episode but from I saw I really liked. I have seen clips and images of past remastered shows and I have been rather intrigued by the coverage here. Tomorrow I am looking forward to “Mirror, Mirror;” at noon. I must have seen most of these episodes hundreds of times and it felt completely new.

I admit I was fairly reluctant to see the remastered version but after seeing this particular episode I gave it a chance and enjoyed it.. Now I can look forward to watching Star Trek again on the weekends. I wish the Klingon ship was more detailed or bigger myself.

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:04:10 +0000

is it my imagination or did the opening scene (the meeting) look not redone at all?

By: CmdrR

CmdrR — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:59:53 +0000

oops. actually 1p-2p.

By: diabolik

diabolik — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:59:25 +0000

I KNEW it would be a distant shot of the Klingon ship. Wimped out again….

By: CmdrR

CmdrR — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:50:45 +0000

Big news from Atlanta… somebody at WSB-TV woke up. They put it on at 2pm this (Saturday) afternoon. That’s 13.5 hours earlier than it had been airing. Thank you, Great Bird of the Galaxy!

No, not a great Trek, but an OK use of the characters. Scotty owns the bridge!

By: TomBot2007

TomBot2007 — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:07:24 +0000

Whoop, whoop! Remastered is back on the clock! Nice to hear they are stretching even further… :-)