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Space Hippies On This Weekend's STAR TREK REMASTERED!!

Published at:  Jun 12, 2008 11:58:52 PM CDT


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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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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  • Jun 12, 2008 10:53:25 PM CDT

    Hippies!

    by chrth

  • Jun 12, 2008 10:58:26 PM CDT

    I am not sure about this episode...

    by powerring

    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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  • Jun 12, 2008 10:59:39 PM CDT

    I don't remember this one

    by bloo

    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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  • Jun 12, 2008 11:00:13 PM CDT

    Keep these up Merrick

    by antz

    I love seeing the comparison shots.

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  • Jun 12, 2008 11:00:21 PM CDT

    If there's one thing I hate more than hippies....

    by fiester

    It's goddamned space hippies.

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  • Jun 12, 2008 11:05:53 PM CDT

    You can't own property, man!

    by chrth

    I can because I'm not a penniless hippie!

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  • Jun 12, 2008 11:11:05 PM CDT

    Love These Merrick - Keep 'Em Coming...

    by read and shut up

    Is JJ sweating bullets yet?

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  • Jun 12, 2008 11:18:02 PM CDT

    The ultimate jam session

    by noahtall

    Nothin better than Spock playing his harp accompanied by hippie chick on bicycle wheel.

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  • Jun 12, 2008 11:31:32 PM CDT

    yeah. hey what happened to gone?

    by frankenfickle

  • Jun 12, 2008 11:40:06 PM CDT

    HOT DOG SPACESHIP!!

    by batman_cape

    Now serving Hot Dogs in space Lane 10

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  • Jun 12, 2008 11:43:47 PM CDT

    Khan

    by grand moff toht

    Have they redone Space Seed? Botany Bay anyone?

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  • Jun 12, 2008 11:44:47 PM CDT

    Actually only season 1 is on itunes

    by batman_cape

    2 and 3 aren't on there yet.

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  • Jun 12, 2008 11:56:23 PM CDT

    Only Spock's brain is worse..

    by billyeveryteen

    Delicious painful bliss.

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  • Jun 13, 2008 12:01:53 AM CDT

    They've remastered Space Seed

    by batman_cape

    That was in Season One. They're already finished with this project.

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  • Jun 13, 2008 12:25:42 AM CDT

    LSD will set you free!!!!

    by ricky retardo

    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.

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  • Jun 13, 2008 12:37:16 AM CDT

    Spock: "...you know I reach you..."

    by sir loin

    That made me laugh as a snot-nosed kid in the early 70's, and still does today. YAAAAY, BROTHER!

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  • Jun 13, 2008 2:11:24 AM CDT

    Are you gay for BSG!!! BSG!!!!!

    by batman_cape

  • Jun 13, 2008 3:03:10 AM CDT

    Jesus H. Christ

    by literarywanderer

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 4:28:43 AM CDT

    Not the best episode

    by nudeandaroused

    It truly does leave something to be desired. Though the remastering looks really good.

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  • Jun 13, 2008 5:10:52 AM CDT

    this epi sucked...but

    by bacci40

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 6:53:52 AM CDT

    Cartman was right

    by dazzler69

    All hippies should die. Any time hippies appeared on a show it sucked. I remember the Jeanie ep. *shivver*

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  • Jun 13, 2008 6:53:59 AM CDT

    They need to remaster Shat's performance

    by ricardomontalban

    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

    Spread the word!

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  • Jun 13, 2008 6:57:55 AM CDT

    SPACE HERPES! SPACE HERPES!

    by manos

    Uh, um, never mind.

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  • Jun 13, 2008 7:28:27 AM CDT

    This episode and the one with the robots...

    by kid z

    ...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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  • Jun 13, 2008 7:32:02 AM CDT

    Xiphos!

    by pennsy

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 7:41:59 AM CDT

    Acid fruit

    by wcme

    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!

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  • Jun 13, 2008 7:51:43 AM CDT

    "Oh, the pain, the pain!" - Dr. Zachary Smith

    by the starwolf

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 7:54:08 AM CDT

    "It's all relatives." Said the probate lawyer.

    by the starwolf

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 8:00:05 AM CDT

    BBC

    by powerring

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 8:14:28 AM CDT

    I am not Herbert.

    by meglos

    You know I reach you. (makes triangle shape with both hands)

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  • Jun 13, 2008 8:16:44 AM CDT

    Well Now That They're Almost Done

    by real deal

    My local station KPDX is finally showing them in HD!

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  • Jun 13, 2008 8:18:29 AM CDT

    Yay, brother.

    by gotilk

    Can't wait to see it.

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  • Jun 13, 2008 8:37:55 AM CDT

    The model standard

    by the starwolf

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 8:51:04 AM CDT

    Space $19.99!!! LMFAO!!

    by powerring

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 9:09:03 AM CDT

    Every time you eat a steak...

    by gislef_crow

    ... 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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  • Jun 13, 2008 9:11:02 AM CDT

    And yes, that's Charles Napier...

    by gislef_crow

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 9:32:40 AM CDT

    Oh! And that other godawful, but hilarious..

    by kid z

    ... 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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  • Jun 13, 2008 9:33:40 AM CDT

    Some of the CGI

    by powerring

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 9:34:24 AM CDT

    Wonder why Trek never did an episode...

    by kid z

    ... featuring Space-Republicans? Waitaminute... Oh yeah... those were the Ferengi... or maybe the Cardassians?

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  • Jun 13, 2008 10:01:41 AM CDT

    Is this in season 3?

    by ciroslive

    Season 3 eps are NOT in HD on Xbox Live Marketplace. Not sure why...

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  • Jun 13, 2008 10:13:23 AM CDT

    I am not Herbert

    by kentucky colonel

    Do you reach that

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  • Jun 13, 2008 10:28:03 AM CDT

    Bitter Drinks

    by arcadiands

    Spock is a master of the lute

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  • Jun 13, 2008 10:31:25 AM CDT

    "I'm gonna crack my knuckles & jump for joy!

    by circean6

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 12:09:55 PM CDT

    Murdock from Rambo:First Blood Part II...

    by tacom

    was the singing Space Hippie. Couldn't believe it when I was watching it again recently.

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  • Jun 13, 2008 12:26:32 PM CDT

    Leggings

    by powerring

    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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  • Jun 13, 2008 1:20:37 PM CDT

    "Whoa Herbert you are TENSE!"

    by moviewhore

    Even funnier because White Zombie sampled it for one of their songs

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  • Jun 13, 2008 1:51:55 PM CDT

    The space hippies moved on....

    by cookylamoo

    To colonize Risa.

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  • Jun 13, 2008 3:09:21 PM CDT

    Yeah Brother, Song by Warp 11

    by warp11

    ’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

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  • Jun 14, 2008 4:52:13 AM CDT

    I like the original better!

    by big dumb ape

    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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  • Jun 14, 2008 9:04:59 AM CDT

    dirty hippies

    by duncanwk

    They need a shower and a job!

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  • Jun 14, 2008 12:02:16 PM CDT

    groovy man.

    by skydemon

    I can digg..errrr, Reach this man.

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  • Jun 14, 2008 9:46:12 PM CDT

    worst episode ever

    by jccalhoun

    this has to be the worst episode of star trek ever. Horrible. damn dirty hippies!

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  • Jun 15, 2008 10:47:02 AM CDT

    James Doohan said it was the worst

    by tylermo

    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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  • Jun 15, 2008 9:43:59 PM CDT

    There are a handful

    by powerring

    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.

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  • Jun 16, 2008 5:59:42 AM CDT

    There are a handful

    by the starwolf

    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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  • Jun 16, 2008 11:00:14 AM CDT

    Shore leave

    by powerring

    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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