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"Tomorrow Is Yesterday" Tomorrow & The Day After Tomorrow On STAR TREK Remastered!!

Published at:  May 04, 2007 10:42:21 AM CDT



Merrick here...


..with a look at the newly reworked “Tomorrow is Yesterday” – this weekend’s STAR TREK Remastered.

This episode finds the 23rd Century Enterprise thrown back in time to the 1960s, where it unwittingly takes on a passenger whose presence threatens to change the course of human history. The problem is: it may be dangerous to send him back now that he’s seen the future…



First up, here’s a comparison shot from the episodes’ opening moments, which find a freshly displaced Enterprise within the Earth’s atmosphere…hanging as a “UFO” over Nebraska.

To represent the Nebraska landscape for the Remastering, CBS Digital used photographs of the state taken from the (real life) International Space Station.


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Remastered [CLICK TO EMBIGGEN IMAGE]







NEXT: Enterprise eventually climbs to proper orbit, rendered in the Remaster via photos of Earth nabbed by a Space Shuttle Crew.


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Remastered [CLICK TO EMBIGGEN IMAGE]







Finally, Enterprise attempts a “sling shot” around our sun in an effort to pick up enough speed to do its time warp thingie. This conceit was later used by Kirk & Co. to return to the 1980s in STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (and The Original Series episode/backdoor spinoff pilot “Assignment: Earth” if I recall correctly).

In The Original Series, we never actually saw effects representing the Sun – basic (and sparse) “flyby” effects (like the “Original” image below) were intercut amongst the gawking reactions of Enterprise’s bridge crew. The Remastered episode fleshes out the narrative a bit by incorporating shots of the ship approaching our sun, etc.



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Remastered [CLICK TO EMBIGGEN IMAGE]







HERE's a list of airdates and stations showing the Remastered TREK. If you can't find a station near you, they can be downloaded via iTunes, and XBOX Live (where an increasing number of episodes are available in High Definition - the series is not shown in HD by many broadcasters).


"Original" images from TrekCore






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  • May 04, 2007 10:21:16 AM CDT

    first

    by biggles2_22

    DVD sometime soon?

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  • May 04, 2007 10:21:33 AM CDT

    1st

    by saintsfreak

    on a star trek???

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  • May 04, 2007 10:21:47 AM CDT

    I would love to see these remastered shows..

    by just pillow talk

    alas, I do not get them.

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  • May 04, 2007 10:22:13 AM CDT

    beaten by 17 seconds!

    by saintsfreak

  • May 04, 2007 10:30:59 AM CDT

    These episodes...

    by kbass

    have been fun to watch. I've enjoyed seeing the updated special effects. The little touches they add have been great.

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  • May 04, 2007 10:32:43 AM CDT

    seems like...

    by casinoskunk

    ...a lot of effort, just to squeeze more money out of nerds

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  • May 04, 2007 10:37:09 AM CDT

    Isn't this the episode where..

    by cobrakai

    Kirk uses priceline.com to get a nice hotel for Spock, Uhura and himself on Nebulus 5 for a little 3 way action?

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  • May 04, 2007 10:51:40 AM CDT

    I concur, casinoskunk

    by tonagan

    Was anybody really screaming for new effects (though I may be a hypocrite because I like the little flourishes to the old Doctor Who's on DVD. However, in that case, they'll use a new image of a planet where there used to be just a tennis ball hanging from a string. Literally.)

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  • May 04, 2007 11:18:15 AM CDT

    Hmmm

    by sbp

    Haven't seen the remastered eps as I can never figure out when they're on. But, I think I would miss the cheesy effects, they were such a part of the show.

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  • May 04, 2007 11:23:50 AM CDT

    TOO DARK!

    by bythehairofsanjaya

    I still say the remastered Enterprise is too dark and on last week's remastered Chicago gansters episode I wondered why they did not reimage the phaser blast of the gangs around the two cars. Other than the establishing planet shot couldn't see anything else that was updated. Oh well, at least its getting me to watch them again.

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  • May 04, 2007 11:25:29 AM CDT

    I like it

    by yodaismyhomie

    I wasn't ever screaming for updated effects, but I have thoroughly enjoyed watching these remastered episodes. They look so much better and it doesn't look like the ship is on wires anymore!

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  • May 04, 2007 11:51:31 AM CDT

    What they should've done...

    by kid z

    ... is reedit the scene at the end where they beam the fighter pilot back to his plane. He should've been beamed back a split second AFTER they originally beamed him up to the Enterprise, instead they beamed him back BEFORE he was beamed out. Makes no sense, his two versions would've merged and exploded. Same thing with the Air Force guard who discovered Kirk sneaking around the Air Force Base. Oh well, plotholes... it was still a good episode.

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  • May 04, 2007 11:52:20 AM CDT

    Just Pillow Talk... Newsgroups might be for you...

    by kelvington

    If you don't get the episodes locally you might try signing up for a newsgroup service and looking in groups like in alt.binaries.startrek, or alt.binaries.multimedia.startrek I have it on good authority they show up in there from time to time. For the rest of us, here is a little parody or two of Star Trek this week I did Space 1969 - http://livevideo.com/Kelvington Spockboy does an even better parody here - http://livevideo.com/Spockboy

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  • May 04, 2007 4:25:07 PM CDT

    That shot of the ship over earth is lovely.

    by smashing

    Gave me goosebumps.

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  • May 04, 2007 4:48:33 PM CDT

    the old shots look better to me

    by rupee88

    The old effects is part of the charm of the old series. I remember this episode and it is really dumb, story-wise. I think it had some famous guest stars and it was sort of supposed to be spun into a different series.

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  • May 04, 2007 5:29:07 PM CDT

    Some enlightenment for the ill-informed...

    by scoobysnack

    Personally, I love the work that CBS-D is doing on the old eps. I never found the old effects "charming," and in an HD universe, they're simply terrible. With the exception of "The Tholian Web," I've really enjoyed all the work that CBS-D have done to make these episodes engaging again. But, to answer some of the ill-informed critics here: bythehairofsanjaya: The effect *was* replaced. The old effect had the Batman-esque "Pow!" animations which the CBS-D team has removed. Rupee88: If you're going to bag on a Trek episode, then at least get informed. The one you're referring to is "Assignment: Earth."

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  • May 04, 2007 8:14:55 PM CDT

    LENZ FLAR3!!!!!

    by judge dredds dirty undies

    LENZ FLAR3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • May 04, 2007 9:30:16 PM CDT

    I want the 2nd/middle one as a hi-res desktop wallpaper

    by robogeek.com

  • May 05, 2007 7:59:57 AM CDT

    I've decided

    by rokurgepta

    I want James Franco to play the younger Kirk. What do you think?

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  • May 05, 2007 9:26:41 AM CDT

    wallpaper

    by capt proton

    Yes! Sign me up for the middle image for a high-rez desktop wallpaper, too! Beautiful!

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  • May 05, 2007 10:43:07 AM CDT

    OG Star Trek writers interviewed on...

    by peter hyoguchi

    http://www.interviewinghollywood.com

    Hours of great video interviews!

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  • May 05, 2007 11:07:16 AM CDT

    This is the best thing to happen to Star Trek!

    by crispyman

    Kudos to the Okudas for doing this! They should all be praised and thanked for making ST:TOS something better to watch than it originally was.
    I do not understand why there is so much angst within the Star Trek community at this idea of fixing what was wrong in the first place with the Original Series. All the Okudas are trying to do, is to make the old series something far more enjoyable to watch, and making it look more 21st century.
    As a fan of the original series, I can say that the old SFX they used was awfully bad in most cases. Even worse than that, the SFX crew had to use the same SFX shots over and over again on different epispodes, because they could not afford to do something new every week.
    Not only that, but the shots were cheesy and silly, as compared to today's exposure to great computer-generated shots that we see now.
    I for one, look forward each and every week to seeing the old shows given a much-needed dose of high-tech adrenaline that they sorely need to revitalize the look of old shows. They are FAR BETTER to look at now, and great to see!

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  • May 05, 2007 11:27:37 AM CDT

    I'm Also Enjoying The Remastering Of TOS

    by real deal

    That one shot of it flying above the clouds is enough to sell me!

    The old effects for this episode were horrible. It's another episode that should be a poster child for why they are doing this.

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  • May 05, 2007 11:59:37 AM CDT

    Is it too soon to start remastering Ghost Rider?

    by jakes nel

    It'll be real easy. Just delete everything.

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  • May 05, 2007 12:15:47 PM CDT

    Once again, the video preview is better...

    by ds9sisko

    http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68702.html

    Check out that gorgeous shot of the Enterprise climbing OUT of Earth's atosphere!

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  • May 06, 2007 5:50:06 PM CDT

    Frankly

    by skydemon

    I'm not impressed. The quick shots of the Enterprise in orbit, or leaving orbit look very good. The Atmosphere shots and the Sun shots look awful. It looked so cheesy it's not even funny. I guess they just don't have the funds to do this right.

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  • May 07, 2007 1:48:06 PM CDT

    This week's effects

    by don lockwood

    Yeah, some of the establishing shots like with the Enterprise in orbit or the viewscreen shot down onto the planet were great, but the shots in the atmosphere were crap. I swear it looked like an Enterprise model being pulled by a string at the beginning of the episode.

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