Comments on: Check Out This Killer Preview Of “Doomsday Machine” Remastered

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By: Serenity » Blog Archive » OMGOMGOMG

Serenity » Blog Archive » OMGOMGOMG — Wed, 16 May 2007 05:39:23 +0000

[...] Check out a preview clip here. [...]

By: will law

will law — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:30:22 +0000

Wow. This is worse than when they started colorizing black and white movies.
Just…does not look right. A 1960’s show with passable late 1990’s special effects tacked on. Just horrible.
I’m not against fixing actual flubs in re-mastering, but the CGI stuff is just jarring, weird, and in my opinion nowhere as cool as the old stuff.
And it will not age as well as the original, at all, I guarantee that in 2 years this will be hard not to cringe at.

By: Christopher John Seeley

Christopher John Seeley — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:20:40 +0000

Hell yeah! The Doomsday Machine was very well done! The level of detail you guys gave the Constellation was astounding! The Planet Killer Enterprise battle was awesome. I like how you had the Enterprise straffing it’s much larger foe. The final “Poison Pill” scene with the crippled Constellation delievering the death blow to the Planet Killer was superb! My complements on your work, this was a Doomsday Machine fan’s dream. I can’t wait to see what you come up with for “The Ultimate Computer”.

By: Dave H

Dave H — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:47:17 +0000

I agree with much of what Kevin (#229) said.

I was REALLY happy with the E and Constellation. I was reasonably happy with the DDM until I saw Darren’s (Damn, I wish I could do stuff like that, I can’t even draw a stick figure). Darren’s “fire” was much more appealing than the CBS version and the skin of the DDM looked much better IMHO…

Still, I couldn’t help but keep yelling WTF when they cut so much more out. Some of the lines no longer made sense. It already looked like they used the 70’s “reduced runtime” versions of the episodes but now they cut even more out. Will we ever see the original full length versions like they had on SCIFI a few years back? Not even the DVD releases are original length…

I don’t have access to i-prunes so can someone tell me are the remastered episodes there full length or at least as long as the 70’s versions?

Still happy to see this redone. This was always my favourite episode.

“Keep that power coming”…

Dave

By: Kevin O'Riley

Kevin O'Riley — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:16:09 +0000

What no true trekkies?

The version I saw on channel 50 Santa Rosa had two changes to Dekkers lines. He challenged Spocks authority to releive him and Spock tells him that Vulcans never bluff – which he follows with “I don’t suppose they do.”

Kick also tells him when he’s in the Shuttle that no one expects him to die for a mistake and judgment and he replies with “you siad so yourself,,,”

Both added to the story more so than 50 more seconds of 2 year old special effects..

It’s Trek, give it more respect…

By: John Pemble

John Pemble — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:21:01 +0000

Jesus this sucks. What are you people looking at? What doesn’t look like an animatic demo in the fx shots? Have you seen a good special effect oh like Say in Star Trek X where the Enterprise E is seperating from the Romunan ship? Now that’s an effect. Trek has never looked sillier than it does now with these new effects. It’s an idea that has some merit but every time each fx shot looks funnier than the original. I want this project to work, but dammit Jim I can’t take it.

By: taz1017

taz1017 — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:11:36 +0000

I first saw The Doomsday Machine when it aired 10/20/1967 at age 9. This is my all-time favorite! I have enjoyed the other series and movies, but nothing comes close to this and the other best TOS episodes, in terms of originality, vision and message. I wondered for years what The Doomsday Machine would be like with modern special effects – the previews and stills look fantastic and I await tomorrow’s airing with both excitement and anticipation. I look forward buying it on I-tunes so that I can enjoy it uncut! Perhaps, CBS will consider making a 5 minute or so prequel that starts at stardate 4202.1, when Decker records his log.
so we can witness the Constellation’s encounter with the planet killer and the destruction of planet #3 in star system L-374 (maybe for the DVD release ?!) Everyone -enjoy the best of TOS.

By: Josh T. ( The undiscovered wrath of SPOCK voyage the motion picture) Kirk esquire'

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:30:48 +0000

Were there any photos of the k’tinga from the Christies auction?

By: Josh T. ( The undiscovered wrath of SPOCK voyage the motion picture) Kirk esquire'

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:28:36 +0000

Yes Orb you talk about the holy grail of Studio miniatures, most photos are extremely dated and the color is washed.
I know DS9 went back to the Green K’tingas but they lacked the paint jobs of the first film, I don’t understand why the K’tinga has been so neglected over the years, it’s easily just as iconic a design as the Enterprise.

I know it’s Green and Tan/beige, but that’s about it. On DVD and T.V. it looks grey but, the green makes it appear far more alien and warlike for some reason.