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Space Hippies On This Weekend's STAR TREK REMASTERED!!
Merrick here...
...with a shot from this weekend's episode of STAR TREK REMASTERED. It's..."The Way to Eden"! You know..."Herbert! Herbert!" & all that?
This episode was originally called "Joanna" & was to feature extensive background about McCoy and the circumstances which brought the doctor to Starfleet (an unsuccessful marriage & what not). "Joanna" referred to McCoy's daughter, who was to be one of the hippies.
The episode was heavily re-written, re-titled, and the character "Joanna" transformed into "Irina" - who was unrelated to McCoy & a love interest for Chekov.
These images illustrate design changes made to the Aurora, the ship used by Doctor Sevrin (leader of the hippies) and his followers. The original Aurora was a reused Tholian ship from The Original Series' episode "The Tholian Web", with warp nacelles added on. The remastering allows for design changes accommodating the vessel's description as a "space cruiser".
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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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But 3/4 of the remastered trek episodes are geek nirvana. I love the way they have improved the experience over the shitty Desilu effects. I was maybe 4 when ST was canceled. I have seen the episodes numerous times since 1972. The remake has totally re-energized the viewing enjoyment. The 1st one I saw was "doomsday machine" and the new CGI version not only looked more massive, it looked deadly and threatening, not like a model. Even the subtle touches to "devil in the dark" enhanced the experience exponentially. It was like watching a whole new show. Finally, effects that are elevated to support the story, not take away from it with hokiness.
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I may have to check it out this weekend, because for the life of me, I can't remember this episode and I thought for sure I had seen all TOS
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I love seeing the comparison shots.
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It's goddamned space hippies.
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I can because I'm not a penniless hippie!
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Is JJ sweating bullets yet?
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Nothin better than Spock playing his harp accompanied by hippie chick on bicycle wheel.
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Now serving Hot Dogs in space Lane 10
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Have they redone Space Seed? Botany Bay anyone?
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2 and 3 aren't on there yet.
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Delicious painful bliss.
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That was in Season One. They're already finished with this project.
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Space Hippies. I think it's a groovy idea! Far out!
Like, you know, man. They should have CGI'd Shatner a long-haired wig. You can't have him baldly going where no man has gone before. -
That made me laugh as a snot-nosed kid in the early 70's, and still does today. YAAAAY, BROTHER!
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And people wonder where all the hippies went after the Seventies. I could see this episode serving as inspiration for the next Star Trek Flick. Star Trek XI: In Search of Chong.
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It truly does leave something to be desired. Though the remastering looks really good.
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Mary-Linda Rapelye has gotta be one of the hottest women to ever grace the trek stage...and my god, even 30 years later, she is still hot
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All hippies should die. Any time hippies appeared on a show it sucked. I remember the Jeanie ep. *shivver*
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Has anyone seen the remastered "Space Seed?" How did it turn out?
Hey fellow Trekkers, check out this awesome new blog on blogspot. It's called thebitterproducer
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Uh, um, never mind.
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...who can have their electronic brains set on fire via non sequiturs are hilarious! (Especially when you're in college, it's 3AM, and you're drunk... good times.)
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Your presence is requested on the I Dream of Jeannie talkback stat. And to keep this ontopic, I think this was one of the poo-stinkers of the entire series.
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Man, when they eat the fruit that has ACID in it - get it, ACID?!? thats one sad scene.
I loved when Spock hears the sonic signal first while they are cutting into the room and kirk is like "Whats the matter spock?!" while his ears bleed. Great! -
OK, wrong show, but that's how I feel thinking back to that episode. I don't care HOW outstanding Kirk's record is, Starfleet should have court martialed him for allowing his ship to be taken over by a bunch of 23th century hippies. A dreadful episode.
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PowerRing - "the shitty Desilu effects" Which were head and shoulders above what any other tv series was doing. It's all relative. They may be quaint (OK, pathetic) by today's standards, but even the 70s BBC wasn't able to do anywhere near as good as TREK's ten years earlier.
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Yeah, The Dr. Who effects made me groan. I understand that the Daleks made young Brits hide behind the sofa when they appeared, but they looked so fake to me that I never got into the show. As a consolation: we had an otherwise decent show with weak effects: Space 1999.
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You know I reach you. (makes triangle shape with both hands)
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My local station KPDX is finally showing them in HD!
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Can't wait to see it.
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Give the British that much. Though their shows tended to be on the "special effects by Billy" level, when they wanted to do it right, they had the best model work in the industry. SPACE: $19.99 was a good example of this. As was its predecessor, UFO. Even as far back as 1968's wonder-filled big screen 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. TREK and its sequels never came close. Their strengths lay elsewhere.
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I never thout of it like that! But yeah, the wire work on the models looked very bad. When I was finally old enough to watch 2001, it stunned me that it was made in the same timeframe as trek.
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... a space hippy's hackysack goes in the gutter. Yeah, this one's pretty bad. Check out Dr. Sevrin's ears, for starters. Strange, though: No remastered shots of a Romulan ship? Maybe they never actually show up, but including one at the end as the Enterprise gets the heck out could have worked.
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the Blues Brothers guy, as one of the hippies. Would later go on to appear in DS9. He helped write his character's songs here.
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... episode with the gay, telekinetic Greeks and their non-telekinetic midget butler. Gut-wrenchingly funny (when you're drunk) and it featured TV's first interracial kiss, between Kirk and Uhura. (Even though it was a telekinetically-enforced kiss.)
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Wasn't done. Except for one episode, hand phasers didn't seem to get fixed. I was hoping they'd CGI enhance the flying raviolis in "Operation annihalate" so they didn't look so wired. I do appreciate the fact that they standardized the phasers from the ship. The lighting glow looks great! My favorite moment, was when they re-did the phasers for bursting on "Balance of terror." that episode looks 1000% better now.
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... featuring Space-Republicans? Waitaminute... Oh yeah... those were the Ferengi... or maybe the Cardassians?
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Season 3 eps are NOT in HD on Xbox Live Marketplace. Not sure why...
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Do you reach that
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Spock is a master of the lute
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I got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy" yeah this may not be the best episode but its one of the most unintentionally funny ones!
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was the singing Space Hippie. Couldn't believe it when I was watching it again recently.
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I consider this to be the gay episode of trek. It was sooo overtly homoerotic and flamboyant, especially those green legging costumes.
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Even funnier because White Zombie sampled it for one of their songs
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To colonize Risa.
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’m like Odo
I’m jelly
I got a slug in my belly
I can say “He’s dead, Jim” like Deforest Kelly
I’m like Scotty when I party
Cause I need more time
To get with all of the honeys
At least 7 of 9
So give me Tranya
I’m on ya
And I’m gonna wrath of Kahn ya
You’ll head now to Eden when I put my boot on ya
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah brother
Feel my tachyon
I’m on your ass like a pissed off Klingon
Warp core overload
Prime directive gonna make my dick explode
I’m like Kirk
I flirt with bitches not of this Earth
I’ve been killed so many times I should wear a red shirt
Gotta cock named Spock
My emotions in a jar
I go psycho every 7 years if I don’t get to pon farr
So when I beam down
I put the ream down
A miser from Risa because I never spread the cream round
Like a Klingon with a hard on
Captain never let me get my mother fucking thing on
Boy
Feel my tachyon
I’m on your ass like a pissed off Klingon
Warp core overload
Engage and enter your wormhole
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah brother
So if you want to cry havoc
And let slip the dogs of war
I can free my willie
Like I’m motherfucking Star Trek 4 -
Maybe it's just me, but the pink tones to the original look more hippy-ish. They should have gone with a color scheme more like that. So I agree with Batman-Cape above: the new ship looks like it's the intergalactic Oscar Meyer mobile!
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They need a shower and a job!
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I can digg..errrr, Reach this man.
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this has to be the worst episode of star trek ever. Horrible. damn dirty hippies!
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And, I'm forced to agree. Somebody posted earlier that he had not seen this one before. I'm a huge TOS fan, and all I can say is, "Ruuuuuuuuuun away! Jesus Christ!" Previous posts have summed up this shitastic episode, so I'll say no more. But, let's not forget the 2nd or 3rd worst of the series...Spock's Brain! Everything was off with that episode. All of the key actors sucked in that one, even De Kelley. I love all of the TOS actors, and I never say anything bad about De Kelley, so that says a lot. I have yet to see any of the remastered ep's, except for that theatrical release of "The Cage". It will be a long time(if ever) before I buy them on dvd. I have the old sets, and the price would have to come down considerably.
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of TOS episodes that are just too flimsy and no amount of remastering helps.
Any time trek relied on song numbers or kids, it was definitely a weak script to start with. I hate this episode, Shore leave and a few others. In all, I probably like 65-70/75 of the episodes. Jimmy Doohan and the rest of the cast have much to be pissed about. It is obvious to me watching that Shatner got lines they should have had (especially Scotty) and the camera cuts to Kirk for a close up when someone else delivers lines,robbing them of screen time.
No series (show) is perfect, and TOS is no exception. There is a huge gulf between the best trek, and the worst, this being one of them. It doesn't "reach" me. -
PowerRing - I concur some episodes can't be salvaged, though I disagree about SHORE LEAVE. It was an interesting concept. As for the worst, I'd cite SPOCK'S BRAIN (ion propulsion is sub-light, yet they overpowered and outran the Enterprise?!) as the worst of the old series and JUSTICE in NEXT FABRICATION as possibly the all-time worst, though there are a lot of 'let's rewrite TREK continuity ENTERPRISE' and the godawful VOTYAGER I haven't seen, so I can't say for certain.
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The concept was good, but I hated that hokey rabbit. If they could CGI in something better. The deal with Finnegan was also annoying. The remastering has cleaned up a lot of the "oops" like saying "fire photon torpedoes" and phasers are shot. My favorite is eliminating that crumpled metal skyline from sestus V in "Arena." They made the gorn blink, which was cool, but they could have done a bit more. I like the new digital chronometers. I wish they'd cgi flat screens in, and make the background bridge displays do something. I seriously dislike ruining continuity for the sake of a new series. Funny, many of TNG re-runs I find unwatchable now.
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