Comments on: CBS Digital Wraps Up Star Trek Remastered

By: Ed Smith

Ed Smith — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:57:07 +0000

Remastered FX were poorly done – poorly conceived and executed. CARTOONY and SILLY LOOKING.

They should have overlaid the exisiting visuals, not made wholesale changes making the Enterprise do barrel rolls and PS3 style dog fighting.

The exisitng visuals were done by professionals and masters of their craft. Now u get 17 year old dummies who don’t know anything about lighting or shading making video game type visuals that don’t match at all.

By: jen

jen — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:22:55 +0000

I agree with you Mira, part of the charm with Star Trek was its cheesiness. I bought this by accident and feel extremely cheated and concerned with whether or not the true original Series will be maintained for future generations. I feel like this was an adulteration. It should never have been done, they really changed too much.

By: Mira

Mira — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:25:07 +0000

Why do people feel a need to “fix” older stuff? Why not leave it the way it was? What’s wrong with that? Maybe it’s just because I like my 60s left alone and more AUTHENTIC.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:38:08 +0000

The effects are awesome. They are SUPPOSED to look like models and effects from the late 60’s…just cleaned up and corrected. That way they fit with the rest of the visuals…if you made them newer, better CGI it would ruin the whole feel of the episodes. Mission accomplished “A”

They are mastered in 1080i on the HD DVD (season 1) set and the BD set. The original aspect ratio is the way to go. The ones in Japan are 16:9, but they cropped off the top and bottom to get that. Why cut orignial footage to make it wide…that’s stupid. That’s like saying every movie filmed in 4:3 should be cropped so it fills my TV. Just a note to people…it doesn’t have to be widescreen to be HD. Again, “A” for NOT giving us 16:9 versions with heads and feet cropped off.

And to the guy who thinks the BD will NOT have bars on the side…look up original aspect ratio AGAIN…or maybe rent Casablanca or Robin Hood (the old one) on BD or HD DVD…guess what…bars on the sides due to original aspect ratio :)

By: Redjac

Redjac — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:54:28 +0000

#180 — Well, I guess I think most of the FX in 1999 still hold up. Personally, that shot of the big glow over the lunar horizon with Alpha in the foreground (when the waste dumps go up) is an iconic FX shot.

I don’t know…depending on how good the CGI is, I guess it would be OK. On the other hand, I don’t think we should hold our collective breath on such a remaster.

Really, I only think Year One would be deserving anyway…

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:50:30 +0000

> How about a remaster of the animated series? Jimmy Neutron style?

Thats not a bad idea – but instead of 3D, imagine it done in 2D by Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Samauri Jack and the well done Clone Wars series from 2003. (not the upcoming 3D one).

By: 4 8 15 16 23 42

4 8 15 16 23 42 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:55:24 +0000

#177 – I don’t think remastering is replacing – that’s why it’s annoying when George Lucas tries to pass the new stuff off as “definitive”. To me, the old and new are interesting to compare, side by side. So, when it comes to Space: 1999, as much as I agree that the original effects were great, I can’t say I wouldn’t be totally fascinated if someone went ahead and redid the Eagle shots and other effects *right* (like the nuclear dump going critical that sends the Moon careening off – that effect stands out as pretty poor by today’s standards). And, by *right*, I mean way, way better than CBS-D remastered TOS-R….

By: Engon

Engon — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:22:04 +0000

176:

I did not mean to imply that Williams alone scored “Lost in Space.” It is interesting, though, to listen to some of the underscore in LIS and hear it show up years later as the opening underscore in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

By: Talosian

Talosian — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:25:26 +0000

I agree with Sean4000, this is step 2 of 3. Currently, with CBS-D, we have what we have. It has been a fun ride. Thank you, Anthony for all your hard work, updating the website. I’m going to miss looking for the previews and reading the reviews and comments on the re-mastered episodes, as they aired.

By: Redjac

Redjac — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:39:42 +0000

I don’t think everything needs to be remastered.

There is NOBODY (on a TV budget) who could remaster Brian Johnson’s (Alien/The Empire Strikes Back; SFX Director) visuals from Space:1999 for example. To attempt to recreate those with CGI would be a travesty…

I would only accept ILM or Digital Domain undertaking such a task.

I hope it never happens though.