Re: So what TOS-R episode will be best?

"DDAY" <zirconic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

A variation on a question I've asked here before (i.e. "What do you want to
see?"):

-which of the remaining TOS-R episodes do you think will be most interesting
in terms of SFX?

The one they showed last week (name escapes me at the moment) was rather
lame. Not effects heavy.

Wolf in the Fold -- I caught all but the first fifteen minutes
or so, thanks to being at my aunt's place, but unfortunately the home
Tivo wiped it out of its memory-tapes before I got back home. Still,
there wasn't *anything* really amenable to computer effects in that. The
last I saw the guy who was putting effects reels up on YouTube still
hasn't got around to it.


But which remaining episodes are effects heavy and likely to be interesting
when remastered? We've already seen The Doomsday Machine, which was near
the top of everybody's list, I think. But are there any others?

For myself, other than "The Ultimate Computer" I can only think of "Space
Seed"--already shown--and "The Cage" which was shown as "The Menagerie."
But maybe I'm not thinking hard enough.

Given the space-action scenes between them, 'The Enterprise
Incident', 'The Ultimate Computer', 'Elaan of Troyius', and 'The Tholian
Web' are the most obvious places where changes could be made. 'The
Immunity Syndrome' features a lot of effects shots of the Enterprise in
the giant space amoeba, and that's going to use plenty of effects.
'Is There No Truth In Beauty?' also has an extended sequence in the odd
never-never-space within the barrier that was really impressive to start
with, and could be expanded on.

There are some individual shots that should be beauties, like
getting through to the other side of the Galactic Barrier in 'By Any
Other Name', or the Enterprise outrunning a supernova in 'All Our
Yesterdays'.

-- You know, I wonder. For 'Assignment: Earth', will they use
the stock footage of Apollo 4 that everybody everywhere has used, that
was in the original episode, or would they generate their own original
footage a la 'Apollo 13'? The episode is otherwise a bunch of fairly
routine Enterprise-orbits-Earth shots, after all, and it's not all that
much new footage. On the other hand, if they *did* do their own Saturn
launch footage, they'd get the first stage coloring wrong again, a la
'Apollo 13'.

But then think what they could do if they decided to make the
launch platform a Saturn V variant -- there could be *so* much cool stuff
in alternate upper stages or side boosters or the like. (Case in point:
a Saturn V looks *so* awesome when in-scale Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters
are matched to its sides for the first stage.)

*If* they wanted to spend the time on enough of the weapons
platform launch footage, they could do such rocket porn following the
Saturn on its ascent. And if they feel comfortable adding cutaways
you get a Skylab atmospheric smashing half an orbit later, too!


And I wonder, could remastering do anything at all to improve "Spock's
Brain"?

The biggest thing that could be done to improve the reputation
of Spock's Brain would be to add the little whimsical and chuckling
music cues to the proceedings. It's played rather too straight for the
comedy to sound out, which has hurt it. (That said, it's considerably
better than its reputation -- how could it not be? -- and it never falls
into the real vices of being boring or annoying, except maybe with the
clicking on McCoy's remote control.)

It'd be a shame to lose the original rear-projection screen
shot as Kirk paces over and over in front of it, since that was one
of the show's best original effects. Perhaps adding on new data screens
or making the planet representations rotate would add sparkle without
taking away from great original work -- along the lines of how the
similar projection was tinkered with in 'The Doomsday Machine'.

--
Joseph Nebus
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