Thanks for the info about Eden FX, very interesting to know.

The answer is CBS-D wanted to do things cheaply so they set up an in house operation. Their model maker should be burned at the stake for making that abortion of an Enterprise near the beginning. If it was not for the repeated protest by the fans we would be seeing that model throughout the series.

Star Trek: Enterprise’s FX were created by a company called Eden FX. Their people and abilities FAR SURPASS CBS-D. CBS should have consulted them at least before undertaking the work themselves to hammer out technical problems that Eden is more capable of handling.

So far I have only been marginally impressed with this effort to date. The DDM is my favorite.

Before Matt Wright gets in an uproar, I understand that money is an issue. Blah Blah Blah. KMH!

The least CBS-D could have done was hire more capable people and give them better equipment. From what I’ve seen the tools these people are using are straight off the Dull (Dell) production line and running Windows XP…….a “NO NO” in VFX land!

On my desktop I have solid state drives and Linux software that easily surpasses these sad little Macs and Dulls.

Stanky I really want to talk to you. Please find a way to contact me.

One little note is that I lost a lot of faith in this when they stated that it took twenty-five minutes to render the original crappy model. THAT right there told me someone did not know what the hell they were doing. I suppose they fixed it with the new E but the drone in charge of getting the thing to fly straight needs to be remastered himself.

This job should have been Eden’s from the start. “In A Mirror Darkly” Anyone?

That’s my assumption. CBS would be VERY smart to release the episodes on both HD-DVD and Blu Ray formats like this.

32. MichaelJohn – I agree wholeheartedly with your final sentence.

I’ve noticed that a few black and white tv shows from the sixties are being offered in both original and colorized versions. I think that’s the proper way to market these shows, and it pleases a much larger audience.

As much as I like the TOS remastering project so far, I would be TOTALLY AGAINST IT if Paramount/CBS was planning on discontinuing the production of the original TOS DVD season box sets, in favor of these remastered versions. Let’s hope that never happens.

Long live Star Trek TOS in it’s original (non-remastered) form!

Mike :o

Star Trek is “Wagon Train to the Stars,” The Wild Wild West is “Star Trek to the Wagon Train!”

Maybe they will “reimagine” the shots and have an Amtrak Diesel Locomotive pulling the train!

Other than cleaning up the prints, there’s very little else that they could do to that show, it seems to me. Most of the special effects were practical effects (models, explosions, etc.), not visual effects (spaceships). And any VFX that overlay the sets and actors — as we’ve seen with Trek — are hard to alter.

Scott B. (huge WWW fan) out.