Comments on: Tomorrow Is Yesterday Video and Screenshots

By: BillyBobby

BillyBobby — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:02:53 +0000

This episode sucks eggs. The first 20 minutes is bad television. Then Kirk and Sulu beam down to the planet to retrieve the evidence. This is stupid because later in the episode the crew said that when they went back in time none of it would have happened. And then the biggest turd is the ending. It offends all logic. So, the first 20 minutes suck, the second 20 minutes was filler because it was not necessary, and the last 10 minutes make no sense. I haven’t seen anything so bad since Lost In Space!

By: Doctor

Doctor — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:35:01 +0000

I agree with the criticisms of the “wobble” at the beginning — it makes the Enterprise look like a toy on a string. I try to imagine an aircraft carrier wobbling about that rapidly and with that amplitude and it just doesn’t seem realistic to me. (A rowboat might wobble like the remastered opening shot of Enterprise.) Perhaps the remastered opening shot would look more convincing if the amplitude of the wobble was less and it was slower.

By: Colonel Kurdatz

Colonel Kurdatz — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:57:39 +0000

One of the things I never figured out was how did the Enterprise end up in Earths atmosphere? Wouldn’t she have burned up after a while?

By: eagle219406

eagle219406 — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:39:59 +0000

# 22 and #25. I think the shaking of the enterprise in the CG can be explained. They had just used up a lot of power trying to escape a gravity well which had brought them to the 1960’s. Also they were in earth’s atmosphere which had them fighting the earth’s gravity. So the ship probably would shake a bit.

By: jfrancis

jfrancis — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:04:32 +0000

I cannot believe that no one else has spotted the most glaring error of the entire episode: the Earth is spinning backwards!

If the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, then the rotation of the planet should be COUNTER-CLOCKWISE (when looked at from the “north” pole, or top). Nope, the CBS/P “remaster-ers” gave Earth a clockwise spin, which means the sun now rises in the west and sets in the east. Think about it.

For shame, CBS. For shame.

By: neo

neo — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:20:22 +0000

*cries*

By: mrregular

mrregular — Fri, 11 May 2007 05:49:56 +0000

#91 Thanks Chuck_N for that important info on the F-104. Yes, you are very right about the windscreen and other inaccuracies. Wish the CBS-D team would have got it right.
BTW, the scene from “The Right Stuff” is a fictionalized version of what happened to Yeager during a flight that nearly led to his demise.
But I digress…The F-104G is a beautiful plane!

By: Greg Stamper

Greg Stamper — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:47:20 +0000

#91 Thanks Chuck_N great info and I did love that scene from “The Right Stuff”

By: Chuck_N

Chuck_N — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:42:29 +0000

A lot insightful comments have been made on the new Enterprise effects so I will pass; I agree with some and not so much with others. I do have a few comments on the new CGI F-104 visuals though.
First, the version of the Startfighter used in the new inflight shots doesn’t match the original and is in fact the export version with a much larger tail assembly used by NATO (F-104G variant). The USAF used the F-104A model as an interceptor (this is what is in the original footage).
Second, the profile as rendered is not accurate and much too short in the forward fuselage (I refer you to this link for excellent photos of real ‘104s
http://www.starfighters.nl/
Third – The view of the Enterprise thru the windscreen while capturing the distortion and reflections the curved plexiglas would cause, did not show the very prominent windscreen braces that form a triangular frame. Capt Christopher’s view of the Enterprise would have been tightly framed by these braces on the left & right and the optical gunsight from below. On a related note, the canopy brace seen above the pilot’s head iparallel to the plane is not on real Starfighters but I suspect added by the producers to imply a canopy when in fact none was filmed.

The best movie footage ever made of a real Starfighter was in the climax of the movie “The Right Stuff”. They used an F-104G that was kept for airshow purposes and maintained in a highly polished state. That’s what a plane should look like on film!

By: diabolik

diabolik — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:32:51 +0000

Looking back at the old effects (or lack of them) for this episode, one realises just how much the awesome music carried those parts, and still made it exciting. Now, with the effects updated, the scenes with the music are just that much more effective.

TOS had the best music of any show on TV, then or since. Lost In Space had some great music, due to John Williams, and many of the same composers as Trek, but they re-used it more. But LIS still doesn’t match the incredible body of great music that Trek had.