Merrick here...


...with a look at this weekend's episode of STAR TREK REMASTERED.

It's "The Lights of Zetar". This is the show in which a bunch creepy living light things are wandering around the cosmos, only to inhabit Enterprise crew person Mira Romaine (Jan Shutan).

When these Zetar entities impact a human, the affected person's voice becomes garbled and echoey and funky & their faces glow in eerie, radiant, fluctuating colors.

This scared the piss out of me when I was a kid, and it's still pretty fucked up today.

Here's a reminder (from the original version of the episode, not the remastered):

Shari Lewis (the lady with the Lambchop puppet) co-wrote ZETAR with husband Jeremy Tarcher. At one point, she'd hoped to play the Mira Romaine character - but it didn't work out.

Several tweaks have been introduced into the remastered version of this episode. Notice the interactive lighting incorporated into this shot of Enterprise approaching The Lights.

Original

Remastered - CLICK TO EMBIGGEN

At one point in the episode, Enterprise travels to Memory Alpha - a humongous knowledge base/research facility.

In the original iteration of the episode, we saw only the ship in orbit around a red planet. In the remastered version, we can see the Memory Alpha facility from orbit (located on something closer to a planetoid than a world).

Original

Remastered - CLICK TO EMBIGGEN

HERE's a newly updated list of stations carrying the next wave of REMASTERED episodes.

Airtimes/stations may be in flux. If you've been watching these, be sure to check for changes in your area.

If you can't find a station near you, they can also be downloaded via iTunes and XBOX Live (where a number of episodes are available in High Definition - the series is not shown in HD by many, if any, broadcasters).

"Original" images from TrekCore

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