Comments on: “Metamorphosis” Remastered Screenshots + Video

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:19:56 +0000

Water is “blue” because it absorbs more “red” out of the visable light spectrum (as opposed to reflecting it). ‘

Read this article.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~etrnsfer/water.htm

By: Jon G.

Jon G. — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:47:24 +0000

#66

Dark or not… its now my desktop picture. Haha

By: ozy

ozy — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:46:10 +0000

#37- Water is blue ( on Earth ) because of the blue sky. Water has no color.

If sky is blue, oceans, lakes, rivers are blue also.
If sky is red, oceans, lakes and rivers are red also……

REFLECTION

By: planettom

planettom — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:52:51 +0000

What’s the fan explanation of why Kirk describes him as “Zefram Cochran of Alpha Centauri?” I mean, even if he later moved to Alpha Centauri, it seems odd that the inventor of warp drive on Earth, a guy who was present at First Contact with Vulcans, would be remembered as being “of Alpha Centauri.”

That part where Commissioner Hedford/Companion makes a veil of her blouse and looks through it at Zefram, apparently to give herself “Companion-Vision”… I was thinking maybe she was lifting her blouse to show Zefram her tattoo, or her thong, or that she wasn’t wearing panties, or something along those lines.

By: MrRegular

MrRegular — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:55:44 +0000

The effects are OK. I was really wowed by the on planet scenes, the colors almost popped out of the television!
As other posters have remarked, this episode has several layers of subtlety not easily understood by younger viewers, specifically those who have not been married. I am married(we’re both trek fans). Believe me, your point of view changes, as does the amount of money you have left at the end of the month to buy star trek goodies!

By: eagle219406

eagle219406 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:24:56 +0000

#77 and #79. I was looking at the episode and I remember the argument THey were having with Cochrane about killing it. They basically said that although they would accept killing it as a result, it was not their intention. They just wanted to weaken it so they could leave.

By: Michael Hall

Michael Hall — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:41:01 +0000

“Blah, blah, blah … I know, shut up already.”

Not really–you raise some pretty good points. I think if you look at Gene Coon’s scripts as a whole the theme that keeps cropping up is one of a cautious optimism, perhaps best characterized by Kirk’s speech to Anan 7 when he admits that humans are still a pretty savage species but that it remains within our power to make the choice “not to kill. . . today.” From “The Devil in the Dark” to “Errand of Mercy” to “Metamorphosis” Kirk’s first impulse may be to fight (however reluctantly), but when he reflects on his options and learns more about what drives the motives of his adversaries he usually winds up agreeing that there are better ways of ultimately resolving the problem. I’d call that pretty enlightened by today’s standards, if far from utopian, and think it conclusively demonstrates how much in tune Coon and Roddenberry were with each other philisophically, and why Coon’s contribution to the Trek mythos was so important.

By: TomBot2007

TomBot2007 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:19:36 +0000

In deference to Kirk’s Kill First mantra, he had been traumatized by the Vampire Cloud afterall… ;-)

I didn’t see all this episode, actually barely the beginning, but I was underwhelmed by the Companion space shots… really closer to TAS remastered there. ;-)

By: Kyle Nin

Kyle Nin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:11:44 +0000

How come there are less screenshot coverage than usual? There used to be a screenshot for every new FX scene, but now it’s only selective. There’s no screenshot of the Galileo leaving the planet and no screenshot of the asteroid belt on the Enterprise viewscreen.

By: LordEdzo

LordEdzo — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:21:01 +0000

I never understood why they activated the Companion-disruption device while Cochrane was enveloped by the Companion! Spock’s “quaint, old-fashioned electric shock” would be nothing to the jolt Cochrane must have received (and about which he wasn’t the least bit angry).

Although I’ve always had a soft spot for “Metamorphosis,” Kirk’s actions once again run contrary to Roddenberry’s perenniel assertion that his human characters are more evolved in the 23rd century and more tolerant of alien life. As in “The Man Trap,” Kirk’s first instinct is to *kill* the Companion before trying to talk to it. So much for evolution and all that claptrap we’ve been fed for years.

Granted, the two situations aren’t identical. The Salt Vampire *was* killing Enterprise crew members before it was ever located, so McCoy was entirely justified in stunning it. But why the second (killing) shot? The creature clearly was weakened. Why couldn’t it have been taken alive?

Conversely, in “Metamorphosis,” the Companion *did* snatch the Galileo right out of space and intentionally ground it by burning out its circuits … but it never tried to outright kill the landing party. As we all know, it wanted Kirk (etc.) *alive* to keep Cochrane company.

Blah, blah, blah … I know, shut up already.