Comments on: UPDATED: New Images From “The Deadly Years” + Video Preview

By: james

james — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:05:48 +0000

i love it. i have watched the show since i was a small child. i was watching the doomsday machine episode and noticed the updated cgi material immediatly i am very impressed i am going to buy all of it

By: Mr. Whatever Man

Mr. Whatever Man — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:41:00 +0000

I think it’s just the setup of some of these shots. There’s no way you can make those long shots look realistic…given what they were doing in those shots. The best way to do that shot of the Enterprise speeding off and still get some mass of the ship would be to be real close up on the Enterprise with the Romulan ships in the background and zooming away from them.

Trying to use that layout of having all the ships small in the frame is just begging for it to look like some kind of video game animation. There’s just no way around it framing the shots like that.

By: Jeff Bond

Jeff Bond — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:35:25 +0000

I agree about the retouch of the “Errand of Mercy” shots of the Enterprise getting hit–I would think the whole point of those shots is to take advantage of the interactive lighitng CG can do (which, ironically, was done beautifully in the original “Errand” shots along with lens flares too–it’s grainy as hell but the animation and opticals are some of the best ever done at that time)–but there seems to be little or no lighting effects on the Enterprise in that shot whether the energy bolts are red or blue (and they’re YELLOW in the original shot!).

I don’t mind the “fast-moving” shots of the ship–maybe they need more motion blur but we definitely SHOULD be seeing a few shots that show that these ships move and maneuver at incredible velocities.

By: SteveinSF

SteveinSF — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:18:11 +0000

I think the original weapons fire hitting the Enterprise were and still are the best ( same shots in Errand of Mercy). Too bad they can’t get that right–funny, at one point I thought I heard the Enterprise rumbling by as it did in the first season. Then during the battle there were no sound effects with the space shots. Aghhhh TV/action science.
The Enterprise did look pretty good though.

By: Mr. Whatever Man

Mr. Whatever Man — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:14:33 +0000

I agree with #109. HATED the blob weapons…

By: ELTON

ELTON — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:58:41 +0000

Boy that was something… no doubt they are going way overboard trying to “respect the original effects”… those were just plain hokey!

By: Stanky McFibberich

Stanky McFibberich — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:19:24 +0000

That warp shot looked like somebody was swinging it toward the camera on fish line. Couldn’t see the fish line though. :)

By: Mazzer

Mazzer — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:43:20 +0000

97: I just KNEW someone was going to say that. Tired argument.

By: Lord Garth Formerly of Izar

Lord Garth Formerly of Izar — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:42:10 +0000

I thought the impacts on the ship were godawful!! Very disapointed!!!. The tiny effects looked ok but the full on impacts on the ship were unexcusably bad!!! The ship looked like the old flat CG-looking model in those scenes and the Romulan weapon impacts looked like painted blobs. Very angry about this one. The original looked far better when you see the weapons pummeling the ship. This one put it over the top for me I will not be buying the HD DVD’s. It’s the inconsistency I get upset about. I am tired of the poor CBS Digital they have no time nor recources excuse. They should all look as good as Doomsday Machine or Space Seed. It’s not the money it’s rewarding mediocrity which I will not do.

By: Kyle Nin

Kyle Nin — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:58:06 +0000

I didn’t have a problem with the battle FX. But it looked a little awkward when the Enterprise swooped away from the Romulan ships.