Comments on: “The Apple” Remastered Review, Screenshots + Video

By: RD

RD — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:31:23 +0000

The clouds are lit from reflected light, not by filtered light as is the sky.

Take a look at a Summer storm sometime. The cloud cover is black & white, not blue. Close lightening is bright white as is the sun when not filtered through a lot of atmosphere. So the clouds are correct. However, the sky itself when the clouds roll into frame should have been red/orange as is the backdrop.

More than likely given the reddish haze around the edge of the planet’s atmosphere, they are assuming if one looks straight up, the sky would be blue and only on the horizon where the atmosphere would appear reddish thanks to either a thicker lower atmosphere filtering the light or low-level dust particles.

By: MrRegular

MrRegular — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:44:54 +0000

Just watched this on DVD, delayed by the broadcast of “March Madness” by my local affiliate. I didn’t miss much.
When in ‘The Naked Time” The Big E is falling out of the sky above PSI 2000 the viewscreen graphic reflects that. Now the same thing in essence is happening to our beloved ship as the Vaalster is pulling it down from orbit, and the CBS-D folks have the Big-E merrily sailing along in standard orbit…WTF????
An ass-kicking Yeoman Landon and Keith Andes as the tribal leader are the few highlights of this otherwise terrible day for Spock. I think afterward the man deserved a few days “paid vacation” on Vulcan, at least!

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:00:07 +0000

Aaaarrghh! Every time I see this episode it drives me bonkers! There was no, repeat no, attempt at diplomacy here whatsoever. So they couldn’t get near Vaal? Well, why the H-E-doublehockeysticks didn’t they just ask the chief of the tribe (the one with the antenna in his ear) to speak to Vaal on their BEHALF?

No one, not even Spock the supposed master of logic, thinks of this. Guuhhh.

By: Izbot

Izbot — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:50:39 +0000

195. catnip – “It’s just that I felt AWFUL about it, it was unnecessary and cruel that they went out of their way to destroy what I saw as a noble creature Vaal, Why in heavens name didn’t Mr Spock use his mind meld with the Rock/God/Being…Vaal?”

Vaal was a computer. There was no evidence given in the episode that ‘he’ had sentience or feelings. Sure, its’ followers ‘fed’ it, but that’s analogous to you ‘feeding’ your car gasoline. I doubt the Vulcan mind-meld would’ve worked on a computer (but then again, Spock used it on V’ger so who knows?).

By: LordEdzo

LordEdzo — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:22:25 +0000

#183 – Batts, right you are about fixing “The Return of the Archons.” I’d forgotten that when the RM episode aired.

By: Garovorkin

Garovorkin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:42:59 +0000

I think that this episode would have probably been better if they could have reworked it into a comedy episode. Because its very hard to take it seriously anyway. The problem is that to many of the story elements just did not really work, there are moments in the episode that literally sink to the level of Spock’s Brain. Especially at the end when Kirk is explaining to the these people the bright future that they are going to be having now that Val is no longer making their decisions for them.

By: CanuckLou

CanuckLou — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:19:46 +0000

Wow! Who would have thunk this episode when generate so many posts? I guess its true, people do love to complain.

The adventure continues…

By: Engon

Engon — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:48:42 +0000

I believe I can say with a high degree of confidence that this episode is about free will, just like the Bible story it is based upon.

Vaal IS God. Kirk & Co. ARE the Serpent. The Apple IS free will, i.e. “the knowledge of good and evil.”

The reason they joke about it in the end (other than to conclude the episode on a light note) is probably to make the allegory seem harmless to the (presumably) easily offended 1960’s TV viewers.

Sorry, if I’m stating the obvious, but this show is not about the Prime Directive.

To quote John Stuart Mill, “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.”

By: Ed Hall

Ed Hall — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:26:07 +0000

Did anyone else notice that they flipped the new CG image of the planet and re-used it to get a “different” view of the planet? Same coast line, same clouds, just a mirror image of the previous shot. Check out the first two remastered screen shots above.

Have they been doing this all along and I just noticed it now?

By: Denise de Arman

Denise de Arman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:20:19 +0000

Dax#200- Hm.. Chocolate…