Comments on: Spock’s Brain Screenshots and Video [UPDATED]

By: last minute flight deal

last minute flight deal — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:23:53 +0000

All right, this is a nice beginning but i’m going to look into that a touch more. Will let you know what else there is.

By: Shona

Shona — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:45:48 +0000

Awesome!!

Better than some season 3 episodes …

By: Jim the Spaced-Invader

Jim the Spaced-Invader — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:15:56 +0000

When I first saw the Ion Propulsion Drive Ship (when it was originally aired in the ’60’s). I couldn’t wait to see it again to confirm it’s existence. It took over 30 years because these first few scenees were always edited out of all the reruns I watched until the Sci-Fi channel restored and rebroadcast all of the original episodes. I carefully copied by hand the images I was able to makeout on the tiny screen so I’d have a record to use in making a model for my miniatures collection. It was difficult to see all the detail until now, but the original is a beautiful ship.

The new Ion Ship concept is also very nice but does not belong here and should not replace a preexsisting design. CBS, Please stop replacing already existing ship designs. Work on never shown but mentioned ships and show what these might have looked like if they could have been included in the original airings.

My opinion Jim the Spaced-Invader

By: John Doe

John Doe — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:02:29 +0000

Those mountains are some of THE best matte work I’ve ever seen!!!!! CBS digital is putting ILM to shame! TO SHAME I SAY!!! IF only they’re remaster the 2nd –> 6th movies to get rid of the crappy looking ILM model work

By: THEETrekMaster

THEETrekMaster — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:00:59 +0000

Um, do we like not get one of those “all-star cast” reviews for this episode? And where’s the advanced pics for Plato’s Stepchildren?

Lokai, I am sure Obsession will be amongst the episodes in the second batch of remasters….

By: Lokai

Lokai — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:52:04 +0000

Has anyone else noticed that the episode, “Obsession” is not on the list ? I was looking forward to seeing them rip half the planets atmosphere off.

By: Lord Edzo

Lord Edzo — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:07:25 +0000

I’ve said it before about other RM episodes, and I can say it again about “Spock’s Brain”: I was impressed that the CGI producers chose not to replace several of the original VFX, such as Kara beaming onto the Enterprise bridge, or Kirk phaser-stunning Luma and the “caveman,” or Chekov heating up a rock with his phaser. Why change them if they still work? Bravo, producers!

Kudos also for the various new CGI Enterprise pans/flybys, such as the top of Act I (with the ship powered down) or speeding toward Sigma Draconis 6. And, once again, the impulse engines were red-lit in the latter CGI, and in the finale when the Enterprise breaks orbit. You guys rock!

Now how about blue-lighting the impulse engines when they aren’t in operation??? Please???

I loved the arctic backdrop when the landing party beams down to the planet, but it didn’t make sense in the very next close-up shot when that backdrop was gone. One minute, the landing party is standing in front of snow-capped mountains; the next minute, the mountains are missing. It was, I’m afraid, a glaring omission.

Also, at the top of the teaser, the new CGI of the Eymorg ship didn’t last as long as its musical cue. The picture shifted to the Enterprise flyby before the Enterprise’s musical cue started. Hope they fix that for the DVDs.

Finally, the producers aren’t messing with the soundtrack, but I wish they had in the two instances when Kirk and Sulu mistakenly refer to the planet as Sigma Draconis 7. Surely someone could have looped in the corrections using established dialogue.

Anyway, great job overall, as per usual. Keep up the great work!

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:26:52 +0000

Oh and can I just add that I also don’t like what Ridley Scott did to his “Director’s cut” of “Alien”, another favourite of mine cinematically.
His missed opportunity (it’s only my own view) of deciding NOT to incorporate some of the amazing effects shots of the Nostromo against the planet, and the Spaceshuttle, both available as extras on the “Quadrilogy DVD Boxset”…nor the extra wonderfully creepy shots of Kane on the table with the Facehugger seen through his helmet…and his use of a far inferior NON scary sound effect as the “sos/warning” signal rather than the VERY scary sound effect heard in the same added scene when it was just an extra on the original DVD…AND his deciding to actually REMOVE some footage…(I care about all this stuff!)…REGARDLESS of all that, I dislike what HE also did to the lighting/colour timing too. Again, it is far too DARK compared to the wonderful, brighter, original cinematography. I wonder if this is anything to do with Peter Jackson’s penchant for DIGITAL GRADING throughout his “Lord of the Rings” success? I miss the look of the original “Star Wars:a new hope” and “Alien” and wonder how things will look in their High Definition incarnations…

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:54:05 +0000

“tar wars”?

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:53:23 +0000

#103 trektacular

After the initial excitement of seeing the remastered “tar Wars:a new hope” on DVD wore off, I realise how DARK it now seems in places where the previous lighting/colour timing seemed nicer to look at, and some places are OVERLY colour saturated… Check out the “unaltered, original versions” now also on DVD (albiet shamefully NON-ANAMORPHIC George!) to see how it isn’t just sharpness and detail that has been tampered with. I myself prefer the lighter, “dreamy” look of the originals, but that’s just me.