“The Naked Time” Screenshots and Video [UPDATED]

Those shots look pretty spiffy to me, especially the updated chronometer graphics (I always cringe at closeups on the old instrument readings because they are blatantly out-of-date, even in the 21st Centruy, let alone the 23rd Century). Thanks for the update, Matt!

I’ve been pleased with the remastering so far. I’d like to see them remaster ALL of the obvious ‘cheesy’ effects, including those within the ship, which were forced upon Mr. Roddenberry and his production staff by the very limited budget with which they had to work at the time. I’d even like to see them introduce those star-filled windows that we have become accustomed to seeing in Starfleet vessels including the NX-01, which of course precedes the NCC-1701 in Federation history by about a century. These would look good placed in their ‘conference room’, set into the bulkhead between those curved beams which give structural ‘ribs’ to the ship. Heck, give Kirk a window in his quarters; Archer had one!

The Sick Bay could use alot of upgrading. Shouldn’t McCoy have at least the same sophistication of instrumentation at his disposal as did Phlox? Actually, a century later he should have more; but I’d settle for something at least as good. The same holds true for Engineering, of course, as well as for all of the shuttle craft.

One more thing I’d consider doing: updating a little of the dialog. This could be done by CGI altering of the actors’ mouths, or by simple voice-overs with the actors’ voices when their faces are off-camera. I would do this VERY sparingly. For instance to explain the physical difference in the appearance of Zefram Cochrane (the female entity did it) or in the Klingon’s appearance from our first contact with them (we know why). Or to include references to pre-Kirk Era canon: such as to the NX-01, or to the Xindi, or to Archer, T’Pol, Trip, Malcolm, Hoshi, Phlox, or for that matter the history and structure of the Federation and Star Fleet. These are the ONLY changes in dialog that I would suggest, for I too want to protect the integrity of the original series while attempting to improve its quality.

Love the new science station exterior, and the planet looks good from orbit. They might have been a little too conservative with the time warp effect, but the chronometer is great. It looks retro in style but advanced in tech.

When they added the actual phaser beam to Scotty cutting through the bulkhead, how come there is no phaser noise? Why fix one thing and not the other?

Maybe Scottie bought the phaser at Home Depot, which sells those no-noise bulkhead remover phasers…

ECH, it’s Hyperbola the Hutt’s residence, Jabba’s ill-fated slug cousin.

i though it was really great, they are getting better all the time, mike okuda? if your listening, im sorry that i pre~judged your new cbs cgi department before in a few unflattering words here on the trekweb.com recently.

yes i was wrong.

..even the way they fixed the ships, “look” this time, and the simple things, like the relative time clock , finally no longer embarrasing, next to sulu, was a update in a respectful to the original style, yet in a nautical kind of way as it should be.

i prefered also the new version time warp shift effect greatly, but my one complaint was the cuts, can’t wait to see on this on dvd, when they show the enterprise enough herself, during the time warp effect away from (the beleivable for once) planet, the greatly enhancing (but never intrusive) fx really added to to the storys believable factor.

again, the colour transfer as in the other remastered episodes thus far were awsomely great.

i had read somewhere recently that these are “the first direct trasfers from the original film negatives, in their original desilu/paramount cannisters, they were only proccessed and “duped” once, and that was for the network original run (66-69), and then in fthe fall of 1969 for the syndication package to inependant mostly UHF stations back in the days of tos’s original syndication packages (1969-1975).

so just realise fellow kiddies that all those years of tos reruns were “second generation copys” of the original film printed to begin with, and they were mediocre transfers of that, especially so for the first 2 seasons of rerun transfers at the best…the the third season seemed to fair slighly better in quality transfer,
i am not sure exactly why…

well the naked time really looks like great and the acting was great in most cases real goog showcase for several players and a exciting story well told..

it was better than ever, with the new print of it to enjoy, and the rare consideration for his comunications officer captain james R…t kirk….showed when hapologised to her, when he was just about done overcoming his demons w/spock’s help.

i had always liked this episode alot before, and to me now it’s the number
#1 updated episode that i have seen
thus far.

“the naked time” deserves an “A” on the cbs paramount/okuda “remastered trek” report card this week.

regards from an old timer trekkie~r !
(geek)

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Born the same day as Will Wheaton

Scotty’s new phaser effect was excellent, I just wish they would have used it to replace the old beams in the Devil in the Dark last week. That episode was very well done as well, but Kirk and Spock’s phasers took me back out of the episode.

I don’t understand why they would take the time to replace the ship clock reading but not revise bad phaser effects if the intention is to update without tampering with the original story.

So far, that’s the only change (or in this case, lack thereof) that has really bothered me. I really hope they replace phaser effects going forward.

The Enterprise would absolutely annihilate Godzilla!

Godzilla would try that nuclear/atomic breath garbage and after the camera stopped shaking and the crew recovered themselves, Kirk would order a full barrage of Photon Torpedoes on the big lizard -” Fiiiiiiire!”

Then Bones and Spock would debate the rightness of exterminating a unique species only to be pimp slapped back to reality by Jim.
Kirk cracks a joke and the camera fades on the bridge crew laughing as we see the Enterprise sailing away from the ashes of a big guy in a suit.

Godzilla,
To answer your question, “Am I the only person who is tired of hearing from Daren Dochterman?”

— Yes, you are.

I don’t have an ‘educated eye’ concerning all these items, but I’m not fully confortable with the ship as it is now. My hope is that the remastered team will continue to improve the effects and that they will be even better in the eventual dvd release. And I think that comments by Mr. Dochterman toward that end should be welcomed in this forum.

Hi Sam! Photos i send on e-mail.
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Whoa! This blog looks just like my old one! It’s on a totally different subject but it has pretty much the same layout and design. Superb choice of colors!