Comments on: “The Changeling” Remastered Screenshots + Video + Mini Review

By: Beee Rad

Beee Rad — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:37:34 +0000

I am irritated with the remastered version they recently showed on the Fox Network. Was it censored for political correctness? In the original series Nomad said that Uhura was “a mass of conflicting emotions” and that “aborbing it unsettled me” (if I recall from watching it many years ago). Spock replied “We call it a woman.” Granted, it is sexist, but it is something from that era. Why take that away? It’s like saying we’re not going to allow “All in The Family” to air due to political correctness…

I am not a fan of the remasturbated episodes. I like the originals for what they were. It’s too bad they messed with them.

By: RD

RD — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:42:41 +0000

They definitely missed a number of wires which were obvious on standard def broadcast. Makes me wonder how bad it will look on BluRay and how many more wires I will notice. Simple things like this should have been included as much as the exterior shots. Even a modern audience can overlook poor sets, they still turn up today, but bad special effects puts it into the Plan 9 category. Sadly little was done in this department from hiding wires to more convincing laser and beam effects.

By: Higgs Boson

Higgs Boson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:15:27 +0000

OK- you can argue about the dated special effects from 1984, and how that was “improved” upon through the remastering process.
Nevertheless, this is one of my all-time favorite star trek episodes. A strong and compelling story for this one.
I can see why it was used as the basis for the first Srar Trek movie.
The fact that parts of Nomad were re-used in other episodes (the Romulan cloaking device as well as the robot M4) actually adds to my appreciation for this particular episode!

By: G. C. McDowell

G. C. McDowell — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:11:18 +0000

Does anyone know if they updated the computer readout with the diagram of the solar system?

By: Jovan

Jovan — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:52:57 +0000

#22: Try turning on your TV’s captioning… they are there, and I own the set. There are Spanish subtitles on the DVD as well if you dislike the mono.

By: eagle219406

eagle219406 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:39:28 +0000

# 87 Spock’s workstation’s light is always blue, no matter what he is looking at. We don’t exactly know what he is looking at but I can pretty much say that it does not match what’s on the screen because he pretty much sees an analysis of it.

By: Hanov3r

Hanov3r — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:19:04 +0000

#55: “My biggest beefs (beeves?) with all these are the damn edits for syndication ruining the pacing and dropping key bits of the stories”

Yep. Anyone notice, when Nomad first contacts them in English, Kirk says “Apparently, they got what they needed before the computers burned out”… but the sequence where we *see* the computers burn out was dropped.

By: smelly pot

smelly pot — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:11:11 +0000

In the old one it’s blue, in the new one it’s green.

So I’ve spotted a mistake… when Spok is looking at his science workstation he has a bright blue light shining in his face, presumably from the alien. It should be green to match the colour that it has been changed to!!

By: Spocko

Spocko — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:45:29 +0000

I was disappointed with this remastered one. They changed Nomad’s shot to a slow green glow that came from the side, and they changed the photon torpedoes to red when it has been blue during all the other episodes. They also didn’t change the turbo lift background behind Nomad when it comes out of sickbay. I’m not usually one to complain, but some of the effects in this episode were highly illogical.

By: paustin

paustin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:22:07 +0000

yes its a real shame this is the death blow for the little teeny tiny bit of the bacon blooper that existed in the actual episode.
#68 watch the blooper and watch this scene (un remastered of course) and you’ll see….it make me just love that they left that little bit in there.