Take A Pledge To ‘The Omega Glory’ Remastered Preview

Who woulda thought I got in a “first” there? LOL… I know I certainly didn’t aim it to be… but it’s a very cool thing nonetheless.

Awsome beauty passes of the two ships. It was actually a pretty decent episode. Can’t wait for Ultimate Computer with all those Starships!!!!

I was ready the Star Trek wiki (memory alpha) for this episode. One effect that wa planned, but never produced, was the Exeter medical officer actually dissolving during his log entry. If this were true, perhaps we’ll see that

Crusade2267: Ewww! That’s one effect I don’t need to see. And really, if you think about it, how could CBS Digital possibly do that… the effect would be so grotesque that it might make “The Omega Glory” unsuitable for children to watch.

The clever holiday scheduling almost makes me happy to watch this. Almost. Actually, it’s not too bad until the flag enters and any suspension of disbelief or illusion of Roddenberry as a science-fiction writer is destroyed. From then on, the only way to enjoy the show is to chuckle at the Canadian actor hyperactively selling the US Constitution to aliens, and to give Roddenberry points for being well-intentioned and sincerely patriotic. The message that the words of the Constitution must apply to everyone is never a bad message, after all, and is certainly lost on certain people who currently hold constitutional offices and should know better.

Post above (#11) is in regard to #10- Magic Al.

I for one am looking forward to reciting the Eplebnista. Hail to the Chief!

Gary Seven, my phaser’s on stun, and I don’t think I even fired it. I could not have tweaked unidentified officials any less specifically. Anyone who would blast me for criticizing “their” side must already know something I didn’t say!

The lighting in the scene with the ships looks flat.
Needs more contrast. Planet could use more atmosphere on the edge. Do any of these folk look at NASA images?
Id swear they use a photoshop plugin that makes planets, cuz they all look like the ones I make.

FishDS9 called it before I could. Yes, the NCC registry for the Exeter is… wrong.

(This is where we heap tons of praise on Dennis Bailey and his awesome AWESOME CG work for Starship Exeter. NCC-1706 lives on!)

Back to this remastered “The Omega Glory” episode from CBS-Digital: I find myself in a love-hate thing with the opening shot with Enterprise and Exeter orbiting side-by-side. In the original, the distance between the ship positions added to the stigma about the Exeter. Now that the ships are close to one another, the viewer loses what the original episode FX conveyed.

On the flipside, the shot of these two Constitution-class vessels together is an incredible shot: Beautiful lighting, awesome camera work, and near-perfect positioning. Exception work. I’m looking forward to seeing what else has been cleaned up/changed within this episode.

#21 + Dennis Bailey:
I’m sure you are sick of hearing us ask, but it’s because the episode itself so far is excellent and your effects are top notch. I WANT TO SEE IT COMPLETED. Too good to let it die! Please, anything we can look forward to on “The Tressaurian Intersection”???

I’m psyched for the Exeter and Enterprise in orbit and more fun things about this show, even if THE SHAT does go way over the top. he had to outdo Morgan W.’s “He was…..CAST OUT!!!!!!!”

I never noticed until now, but anyone remember the first episode of Red Dwarf…and what happened to the crew (except for Lister)?

Some may remember a TV movie in the early seventies called “Where Have All The People Gone?” with Peter Graves. The idea of people reduced to thier chemical components was lifted straight from “The Omega Glory”, though in WHATPG? it was due to a solar flare while Graves and kids were spelunking. Haven’t seen it since I was a kid, but it had definite creep appeal.

I am always torn about this episode; love the ideas and drama from the first 2 acts and Morgan is great (though not quite the scenery gnasher that Van Gelder was), yet as Magic_Al says, as soon as Old Glory makes his entrance, it’s all over. Love me some flag, but no parallel development is that close (as discussions of Miri brought up last week). As a writer, though, as soon as you decide you can’t hew that closely, you lose the ability to have Kirk recognize the stuff, and you have to re-break the denoument.

The opening shot of TOG was always one I wanted fixed since I was a kid, since they couldn’t have both ships move they had Exeter move, then park, then E comes in, one of TOS’ more obvious FX failures.

Don’t assume the shot in the trailer is the opener for the ep, folks… I have a suspicion we’ll get a closer redo of the old opener. Agree about the flat lighting, but recall some of the “too dark” complaints from earlier eps.

Registry is a puzzler. A minor detail to be sure, yet just the kind of thing that I would expect Okuda to have religion on. Perhaps the thinking was that the similarity to 1701 was a byproduct of reusing a physical model and minimizing the retool, so the original desire would have been more variety if the budget had allowed.

I used to have Shat’s entire WE THE PEOPLE speech on my answering tape. Appropo of nothing.

Why is the image flipped at 13 seconds into the promo?

“Ex’s registry is”-used to be-” NCC 1672″ Oh well, they must have changed it when they gave it to Garovick.

#20 (Roger)
Exactly what I thought on seeing it. The planet doesn’t look real. They rarely seem to add any atmosphere and the orbits are usually too far away. If anything, I’d say they’ve successfully created the look of a couple of models in front of a painted disc. I can’t see a single star either.
I think they’re getting tired of it now and are just doing as little as is necessary to get it done.

Seeing the two ships together has whetted my appetite for “Ultimate Computer”. As Joe would say on Family Guy, “BRING IT OOOONNNNN!”

I cannot believe how many people like this rubbish episode! The last 15 mins are intolerable rubbish the distorted playing of the Star Spangled Banner and Shatners stammering rendition of the Constitution.

Add to that it is racist; “Americans” are all portrayed as ethnically white Anglo-Saxon in appearance in contrast to the Yangs.

Not to mention Kirk’s playing fast and loose with the Prime Directive. I say only the eyes of a chief may see the Eplebnista!

The preview stops, at least on my browser, on the shot of the remains of the crewman on the floor of the bridge next to the captain’s chair.
Perhaps he died as a result of too much Paris Hilton????

You know, my 11th grade history class began by watching a documentary about the American Dream, and it used a lot of clips from this episode (And bizzarly, Voyager’s “Caretaker”), and interspersed with Shatners constitution reading and debates with Captain Tracy were interviews about what America means. I love America, and despite the country’s problems today (or in the 1960s), the framers of the constitution meant well. Hats off to Roddenberry for keeping alive the spirit of America, even in the midst of so much turmoil.

That said, I don’t like the way the episode hits you over the head with the message. Other TOS eps are much more subtle… even “A Private Little War,” with its discussion of Vietnam is more subtle.

And written by the Great Bird, himself.

5. Crusade2267 – June 27, 2007
Happy 4th of July everyone… lets all enjoy the most sickeningly patriotic Trek ep of them all!

Ingrates are free to leave any time you like — no one has put a “phaser” gun to your head to make you stay.

Unlike the Soviet Union and the Maoist People’s Republic of China.

Frankly, the idea of “Eeb pebnista” sends chills down my spine, even now, just thinking of the blood sacrifice of my forefathers. And it’ll be a cold in (you-know-where) before I apologize for being an American.

E-Plabnista, that’s cool!