Remastered “The Immunity Syndrome” Airs This Weekend + Plus New Preview Images April 6, 2007
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: TOS Remastered , trackbackThe Enterprise must save the galaxy from a deadly infection
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Plus here are 3 cool new shots just sent over by CBS
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Pretty, I imagine it’s hard to get something so bizaar to look realistic, this is certainly a worthy effort.
Ah, good old anti-matter. Is there anything it can’t do?
^Live in peace with matter?
Looks interesting so far. Can’t wait to see more!
sometimes the big-e looks like a starship and sometimes it looks like a model! CBS-D you are doing a wonderful job, but is there any way to make her look as big as she really is all the time???!!!!???!!!???
I never thought I would live to see the day the old girl could appear so absolutely breathtakingly glorious.
That is some movie quality material there.
CBS, I don’t give a shit what anyone else says, you’ve made THIS fan quite happy.
p.s. CBS-D i’m not knocking the work. Love the work!
The spaceborne amoeba has dimension now, look at the edges where the light blue is illuminated, it is popping out. It appears as though it occupies space and has mass.
Absolutely Exquisite.
Heads Up WDKY-56 Lexington Kentucky Viewers -
“The Immunity Syndrome” will air today (Saturday 7th) at 1:00pm. Reprogram TiVo if necessary. – - – Pics look very interesting.
9. > Many thanks Greg.
They look fantastic . Compared to last week this looks really good
This is looking Suh-weet!! I’ve had CBS-D’s back since they started knowing that they would get to this level on the Big E. I still hope that they are planning to retrofit the lighting and model schemes their using now into the earlier episodes where the Big E looked less than stellar.
Niiiiiiiiicccccceeeee! Very nice!
Wow. CBS-D, you have surpased all my expectations. This looks truley amazing. “The Tholian Web” was, though not bad, a little less than perfect as far as some new FX are concerned, but this looks stunning. I know you guys over at CBS-D are working hard and it certainly shows. I can’t wait!
P.S. to CBS-D: If you guys plan to update your earlier remastered episodes, I suggest that on “Balance of Terror”, you start from scratch.
It looks like a freaking cartoon!
I’ll watch and reserve judgment, but…….
Awesome! Now if they can just add in Raquel Welch in a white wetsuit snorkeling around through the protoplasm we might get the ultimate 60s sci-fi adventure!
Thanks for the heads up, Greg! You’re a peach!
I’m truly amazed. This is really compelling-it will add greatly to the episode in many ways to show the big E in almost total darkness up against the ameoba-like entity.
The local affiliate in my area will show this episode tonight at 7pm…which makes me even more excited!
It’s a Ferengi! Rotate the first pic CCW.
Sweet
I don’t know how many times I have read that “the enterprise is too dark” over the past few months on this site, but now that it’s almost invisible you think it’s fantastic. Those poor CBS-D chaps must get very confused if they still read these comments.
I will echo a comment made here many times previously. The shot of E from above and directly behind is probably the least flattering angle. I really wish CBS-Dig would go for some cooler angles — from below almost always looks better than from above.
It would be nice to see more long shots to emphasize the scale of big things, like the Fesarius, doomsday machine, and the amoeba.
mrregular-
Yeah, no weather updates to mess up the TV screen on it and the repeat on Tholian tonight either. I’m looking forward to it to, with my dvd recorder fired up and ready!
#22:
I think it’s supposed to be dark in this episode.
#25:
Yeah. The reason people like the dark aspect in this episode is becuase there are no stars. In the original, the Enterprise was lit up dispite the fact that there were no stars to light it. The new FX fix that problem.
16. Mysterious (Don’t turn it into TAS) Stranger – April 7, 2007
” It looks like a freaking cartoon!”
I like cartoons.
Haha, it looks like they just used Photoshop’s Outer Glow on that dark spot of the amoeba. The third shot looks great, but the amoeba in the first and second shots looks completely 2-D.
#29:
Huhhuhhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuuhuhuhuh?
I think you’ve lost me.
I like that they kept the overall design of the amoeba, but I wish they would have updated it a little with organelles and a better nucleus.
I notice no green & red fantail lights, just below the hanger deck doors. These lights seem to come and go. Is CBS digital giving these a specific function (e.g. approach and landing lights), so they’re not illuminated all the time?
re: 31. Mark 2000 – April 7, 2007
” I like that they kept the overall design of the amoeba, but I wish they would have updated it a little with organelles and a better nucleus.”
…and maybe a pretty little bow tie
…and some spats and a top hat
I would have preferred some gastric juices up the Jeffries Tube.
Well, looks like Mr. 8 to the 21st power’s post was removed. It didn’t make much sense anyway.
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And as for the look of the amoeba, it looks great to me. It’s a very good recreation of the original.
#31: I don’t recall the red and green fantail lights ever being turned on in Remastered. Maybe they decided they didn’t like the way they look?
I appreciate that they tried to keep that “analog” feel of the aomeba from the original episode. I would’ve missed that chromatic 60’s acid-rock show look if it had gone too “realistic”.
I still miss having the square light on over the hangar doors, and the landing lights. Doesn’t seem right without them.
It’s always hard to judge and evaluate the new CGI effects from just a few screenshots. I will hold my comments and opinions, until I can see “Spockboy’s” weekly side by side comparsion video for this episode.
I think “Spockboy’s” videos give all of us the best tool possible for evaluated and judging the work of the CBS/CGI team. For the most part I really like most of the new CGI effects. But sometimes after watching a “Spockboy” video, I’m surprised that I find some of the original effects superior to the new.
I really appreciate the time and effort that he puts into these videos, and I hope that he will continue making them for all the remaning episodes.
Mike :o
#37 – I agree with you. SpockBoy’s side-by-side videos show that some of the original 60’s beauty shots of the Enterprise hold up very, very well today. And for whatever the reason, CGI just can’t seem to accurately duplicate that Christmas tree light / rotating mirror effect of the nacelles.
I made some remastered desktop images like the startrek.com ones if anybody wants some. I used mostly images from here (since they seem to be the best around) but used a little bit of filters for the noise since I had to scale them up.
Here is the thread:
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=7523921&page=0&vc=1#Post7523921
sorry, it looks like a videogame.
sorry. blech…
#40
sorry, you don’t know what you’re talking about. ……. in my opinion
Love to see the impulse engines lit up for action. THIS would have sold a LOT of color TV’s in 1968. Now… order up the HDTVs.
Oh, I have “The Ten Commandments” on as I write this. Would love to see a parody of Trek Commandments… if anyone is listening. (Does EVERYTHING with dated sfx have to be updated?)
39 – Skippy… maybe we should stick to the cable version. ha!
# 39. Skippy 2k – “I made some remastered desktop images . . .”
Wonderful Work Skippy, just Wonderful. Feel Free in the Future to do more because it is true that startrek.com is rather slow in keeping up with current episode images.
Thanks Much.
Frankly, I don’t care what anyone else thinks! I truly feel this is the best job they have done thus far. It absolutely rocked my Star Trek world! I could go on and on…and probably will later. But not now. I’m up too high!
I’m remember watching a Star Trek FX video on Youtube.com that had a really cool special effect for the impulse engines. When the Enterprise was cruising at full impulse the engines looked kind of like F-18 afterburners, with powerful red flames pulsing from the back.
I’m sure others think this is a stupid effect, especially for a futuristic starship, but to me it gave the illusion of heat and impressive power.
Mike:o
That was from the Digital Stream Doomsday pitch. I have those vid clips (somewhere) but while true it might not fit the “futuristic starship” I thought it was kinda cool with the Constellation plunging into the planet killer. The ships themselves though, and I especially didn’t like the planet killer (pink with a bit of neon green on the “arms” I think) could have been better. Even for the time I think?
Curious about Digital Stream. Could you elaborate? Thanks.
#46 I hated that “afterburner” look…
All it needs is a glow like what CBS-D is doing…and what was done in ST:TMP….something akin to that.
TTM
#49 Ok let’s compromise then…at “half impulse power” they can just glow red..but at full power let Scotty kick in those cool impulse afterburners!
Mike :o
The Digital Stream “Doomsday Machine” is a classic example of how TOS-R should NOT be done. The effects themselves cool, but they did not match the original show stylistically. Neither the designs, the camera work, the lighting, matched the original. Plus, they were trying so hard to be “high tech” that they ended up simply being distracting.
#48: Digital Stream was one of several companies that pitched the idea of remastering the original series effects. They did it around ten years ago. Evidently, quite a few companies pitched the same basic concept over the years.
#52: Thanks, a bit of Googling and presto. Some interesting stuff there but CBS got it the most right.
I just love the fact that they have the shuttle in the shot with the BIG E after Checkov says, “metallic substance outside the ship” and Kirk tractor beams it. I also love the fact that you feel the ship really IS going through (and inside) a living being…from what they show. Some great angles on the ship this week, too. Only one shot that remotely looked “plasticy”, as I like to call it. BRAVO CBS-D!
Excellent job on this one!!!
But, did anyone notice the weird edit after Spock goes to get into the Shuttlecraft?
TTM
#50, the problem with afterburners is that the Enterprise does not use chemical thrusters…and afterburners are typical of jet engines and chemical reaction type thrust….
So, to me anyway, it seems dumb to have that kind of effect with the Enterprise…
TTM
Very nice work CBSD. Too bad there was no room er, budget originally for explosion effects of the amoeba.
And who was that dummy in the second to last shot in the credits?
yeah, I noticed the weird edit. Maybe it was that editing houses way to try go into a commercial a bit smoother. Frankly, the editing place does a LOUSY job. People would enjoy the shows much more with different edits (or especially uncut). How can you cut the “are you trying to be funny, Mr. Spock?” “It would never occur to me.” lines from the show. DUH! At least they kept the “Shut up, Spock…we’re rescuing you!!!” “Why thank you, Captain McCoy.” bit!!!!!
Wanted to see parts of the Amoeba floating around after the explosion as well as the probes being launched.
Thought it was well-done. The film looked great with the colored lighting very evident. The only problem I noticed was when the Enterprise entered the Amoeba, the motions of the ship were very quick and jerky. Naturally, it was a shock for the Enterprise to hit that, but it looked like a little toy being shaken side to side and took away the illusion of its mass.
Now I am starting to sound like some of the nitpickers that I roll my eyes at each week :)
Make no mistake…I thought it was over-all very good.
#56..Well its all just science fiction anyway..who’s to say that impulse engines can’t give off a powerful visible heat signature at full thrust, that closely resembles the look of afterburners.
Star Trek special effects have often gone against scientific fact, to make them more impressive, exciting and theatrical. Here’s a good example…I think everyone knows there is no “sound” in space, but could you imagine the exterior shots of the Enterprise firing phasers without those cool sound effects. They would be pretty lame!
Happy Easter everyone!
Mike :o
Hey guys love to join with the comments, does anyone have the video clips from this week? Joe, Matt anyone?
I am really looking forward to seeing what they have done.
54 Jim J
Glad they have added the shuttle on the tractor beam I was hoping they would do that.
59 Roger
Thats a shame. I was kind of hoping they would add some floating bits of amoeba on the main view screen after it was destroyed too. Oh well still looking forward to seeing what they have done. It sounds good on the whole. I do hope CBS Digital listen to fans comments on missed opportunities and add to some of the missed chances before they finish these remastered episodes for good.
oh yeah and Happy Easter to everybody as well!
Awesome. A couple of amazing holy sh*t !!!! shots of the E looking huge, realistic and beautiful with people in the windows!!!! I had to hit pause on the dvr to just sit and look at the ship filling my 60″ screen!!!!!! These were before she even entered the zone of darkness. Where we were treated to more wonderous easter gifts. I loved the goo splatting against the connecting dorsel. Let’s not forget another awsome shuttle bay effects sequence as well!!!! Gorgeous work. Marta will peform the Orion strip tease for CBS digital!!!!!!!
Stanklin wrote:
> …but it looked like a little toy being shaken side to side and took away
> the illusion of its mass.
Yeah, I didn’t like that shot either. However, I approve of all the other special effects. I especially like the re-creation of some of the original Enterprise beauty shots, e.g., the 1/4 bow shot of Enterprise near the camera.
I hate to complain, but I sure would like to see that weekly SFX video. It sounds like they did a good job on this one.
After seeing the “Tholian Web”, I thought all hope was lost. After reading some of the comments here, I decided to watch “The Immunity Syndrome”. I was very impressed. Nice job on the whole. All hope has been restored.
Good job this week cbs/cgi!
I rated it a solid B overall…I would have been ratting it an A but for some of the horrible cuts by the station for more ads on tv!
Yes, this one make up for tholian web…alot!
thanks!!!
:-)
#68:
CBS-D is not to blame for cuts by the station for more ads on tv!!!!!
Just watched it. Bravo CBS-D! It all looks great.
Re: #69
Hey friend …whoever they were who chose the “edits” I have a beef with!
I .am NOT complaining about the QUALITY of THEIR FX work at CBS/CGI on this episode in fact I sing it’s praises this week.
..need a valuim?
… please dont have a stroke over what was said…
;-)
I didn’t get to see it. The Ten Commandments were on :(
It’s a seperate company that does the edits, and they suck-lol
I see the bi-polar extremist attitudes have returned this week as predicted.
CBS Digitals effects or effort hasn’t changed week to week, only the fan perceptions ebb and flow up and down.
the only extremist attitude i see here is yours Josh
believe or not…like something is not an ‘all or nothing’ proposition. The criticism of last weeks episode was not related to the quality of the work, but of some of the creative choices made. Many just did not like the design of th new ship. CBS rendered the new design well, but I and many others didnt like it.
Never thought I’d ever see Josh chewed out by the 6 million dollar man! lol Josh, I agree with you, to an extent…but I also agree with Steve. There is a small number of doom and gloomers and then there’s the “it’s all good all the time” crowd. Most of us fall somewhere in between.
My affiliate didn’t air The Immunity Syndrome! No Star Trek whatsoever. I am so pissed!!! The schedule for next week shows “And the Children Shall Lead…”. I was sooo looking forward to Immunity.
Overall, very good job by CBS.
The only thing I would have liked to see was instead of the Kirk spinning in his chair and the crew flying around the bridge set for what seems like an eternity. Why not insert a shot of the E getting flung away from the blast of the explosion and bits of the Space Amoeba along with it. Watching Chekov throw himself around the Bridge reaches the point of ridiculousness during this scene. The show would have benefited from such an inclusion without losing any important dialogue. Come on CBS do just a little bit more!!!
Still a good job CBS and I enjoyed it!!
i give to stars X X X X X because of night lights with Enterprise. wow very impress! i never see before…
re: 78. T Negative
“Watching Chekov throw himself around the Bridge reaches the point of ridiculousness during this scene.”
Anything with Chekov is automatically ridiculous…
To #58; I think the eyeless dummy on one of the closing credit cards is from “Return to Tomorrow”; one of the bodies being made for Sargon and the other aliens. The photo of Spock smiling broadly and nonchalantly leaning on a door is also from that episode.
The Immunity Syndrome make me think about:
1. Kirk cannot seem to pronounce Mr. Kyle’s name correctly; it sounds like “Cowl”.
2. It seems contrived to have only Vulcans on the starship Intrepid. I understand the dramatic need for Spock to feel their pain, but opens the question of segregation in an otherwise utopian society.
3. As previously mentioned; way to many people are throwing themselves around in the turbulence. I just now noticed a guy jumping off the steep stairs in Engineering (near the end of the episode; you can see him though the window of the room Scotty is in.)
sorry for the delay on screenies and vids…but we should have them up by Monday morning
re: 82
Thanks Anthony.
#81. I don’t think it would qualify as ’segregation’. Unless I am mistaken, at that time Spock was the only Vulcan serving in Starfleet. I always assumed the Vulcans had that vessel given to them by starfleet to use for scientific research, but that none of the vulcans where members of Starfleet.
I think Chekov should have screamed in this episode.
Chekov should have been given a red shirt and sent out to shake hands with the Amoeba. :)
I’m sure someone has already mentioned this, but I *loved* the way that house-sized glob of protoplasm went SPLAT! on the interconnecting dorsal as the Enterprise was backing away from the nucleus. I also was very much impressed with the way the windows of the Enterprise shone little beacons of light in the protoplasm right after she entered the amoeba… fantastic!
If it wasn’t for the herky-jerky motion of the Enterprise right before she entered the amoeba and the fact that the red and green nav lights threw color even when they were off (tsk tsk tsk) I would have given this episode an A+. CBS Digital is just going to have to settle for a solid A, I guess. Nice work!
The bit in the remastered “Immunity” where the Enterprise is backing out of the organism and a chunk of plasma broke on the ship’s neck under the impulse engine . . . abso-frickin-lutely BRILLIANT. I love the “new” episodes. They are an improvement at least 90% of the time.
Maybe it’s just me, but the “herky-jerky motion” hasn’t bothered me like a lot of the rest of you. Frankly, I think if you were going through something that was somewhat a solid mass, the motions of the ship would probably be about what they showed there. Who knows. Maybe a scientist?
I think ANY type of motion that the ship makes that is new and different is going to “upset” some people. We’ve got over 40 years of “conditioning” about HOW the Enterprise moves.
The inards of the Amoeba were first shown to be in constant motion, changing, yet every time there is a new shot of it, the animation reverts, or resets back to the first shot. Other than that, it was an improvement over the original FX.
I’ll fall in line with Scott and other posters above about the jerky penetration shot, but overall thought this was one of CBS-D’s best efforts. I’d have liked an entrance shot that really showed the surface of the amoeba as the E entered it, but once inside, I thought the effects were top-notch and very convincing. Lots of “pause and rewind” moments in this one!
How sweet it is to see those red impulse engines LIT UP! Thanks, guys!
But how about taking another step? See the Defiant from “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II”: At warp, the impulse engines are a “cooled down” blue color, not “black” as if they’re completely off.
I think you guys should do the same for Enterprise in the Remastered Series: When not in use, color the impulse engines blue! Please!
92-Have you ever noticed how good that ship looks in …”Mirror, Darkly”? It really was well done on short notice. However, in “Trails and Tribblelations” the nacelles look all wrong to me. Perhaps CBS-D’s inspirations with their first Enterprise model? lol
Geez, I said the “n word” again.
I wondered if the new amoeba would hold up against the superb original effect, and it did. They truly improved the realism of traveling through the amoeba with the excellent aforementioned shot of protoplasm striking the dorsal, the ship in darkness shots looked much better than the original ones, the shuttlecraft looked great as usual, etc.
But what stood out most to me was not the fancy later shots, but how the early space normal shots looked so close in style to great 3rd-season ship shots, but with proper color, beautifully clear ship rendering, and subtle camera moves that enhance the old shots without breaking the style.
They have really got the ship shots down at this point, showing strong improvement over the early remasters. I wish they had held off on Balance of Terror, one of my favorites, until later in the remastering but such is life.
As for the denigrated ship wobbles upon penetration, remember that the crew was being flung about like crazy, so the ship had to be acting pretty strange. Kirk was enjoying the carnival ride in his rotating captain’s chair while the rest of the bridge crew was probably cursing him for not ordering those new Bose turbulence-canceling inertial dampers.
Kudos on this one, and from somebody who usually prefers the untouched show. I still like the original amoeba, but the new one was very good. What stood out here was the first ship shot– very nice. And the shot of the ship entering the amoeba was spectacular and looked very much like what they would have done at the time. Also, the “lava-lamp” viewscreen shot looked very good and fit the show’s style. Yes, the movement of the ship was kind of awkward when they went in; maybe the left to right bow shot could have just gone on longer. The directing of the changes is better and many of the new FX are matching the show’s aesthetic. That makes STR an enjoyable experience for me and a worthy addition to the original episodes. I will save this tape. Nice work.
I’ve been one of those guys generally supporting the work of CBS-D, (except for the recent Tholian ships) but those two shots of the E as it was about to penetrate looked like crap.
It was like something out of Tron.
I’d give this week’s effort a B-.
The best effect was the E in total darkness. THAT was cool- AND it worked.
Enterprise in total darkness was cool.
#23 Neal
Sorry Neal, but I myself absolutely always LOVED Star Trek’s shots of the “E” from above and directly behind (and don’t recall many comments saying it’s the least photogenic angle either), which sometimes gave a menacing viewpoint of the “mysterious obstacle of the week”, like the example seen in the TOP photo above does. In fact, I actually prefer a CLOSER IN shot of this angle which gives us a BETTER look at the top of the “saucer” with it’s blinking red and green lights. Surely this imaginatively designed Starship looks great from ALL angles? I hope that CBS-D continue to give us as many varied angles as possible (while keeping some ALREADY excellently “composed” iconic ones!) in the future, as too many “shot from BELOW” angles would become VERY boring and unimaginative to this viewer…
However, I absolutely agree with your point that the team are missing out on great opportunities for long shots of “encountered menaces”, such as “The Doomsday Machine”, which could have shown us the far smaller scale of the “E” to these overpowering objects.
#35 CommadorZ
These lights DO indeed seem to come and go inconsistantly as #31 Tom pointed out, and if you go back to some of the side by side video comparisons done previously here, you will see how much they are MISSED. To me, as someone who sorely misses nicely photographed actual Miniatures (or even “Bigatures” as Peter Jackson’s “Weta” effects team calls some of the ones they thankfully still use for certain scenes), the LACK of some of the vibrant, blinking or otherwise, coloured lights seen on the original Model in most of it’s shots, is one of the details that is making some of the new “E” CGI shots look inferior. Bring ‘em ALL back, and make them stand out as much as the originals did for VISUAL, dramatic effect!… Please?
The original ameoba was more convincing, they should have kept the look more fathful:
http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/6/6c/Amoeba_approach.jpg
The 1701 really looks like a CGI model in those shots, they could have done a better rendering job, look at the new Battlestar Galactica or the old Firefly series for competent 3D modelling and rendering.
I agree with everyone above, I like the colored tail running lights below the shuttlebay. Why aren’t we seeing these on more often?