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Flint's Got An Awesome New Fortress-House-Thing On This Weekend's STAR TREK REMASTERED!!
Merrick here...
...with a shot from this week's episode of STAR TREK REMASTERED - it's "Requiem for Methuselah".
This is the one in which Kirk & friends encounter a mysterious man named Flint (James Daly), who lives a solitary existence on planet Holberg 917-G...save for his beguiling companion Reyna (Louise Sorel) and a floaty robot called M4. But there's more to Flint than meets the eye, evidenced by his possession of impossibly rare artifacts from throughout human history & behavior that suggests he's fervently guarding a very precious secret.
In the original iteration of this episode, Flint's crib was actually a reused (and slightly tweaked) matte painting from "The Cage" - the Captain Christopher Pike pilot which was never aired at the time, although material from the installment was later cannibalized for a Kirk-era episode "The Menagerie".
The remastering allows for not only an original, and substantially re-approached, design which looks to accommodate architectures from Flint's...experiences. The "remastered" image features a digital matte by Max Gabl, from castle designed by Niel Wray. Note the subtle details, like the inclusion of an observatory dome. Pretty damn cool...
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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, some episodes 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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Looks good.
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Why bother?
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that original shot, when viewed in HD, looks like something your kid would stick to a refrigerator door. This one shot is the classic example of why this update needed to be done in order to sell HD episodes.
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the rest of the remastered stuff had been as consistently excellent as Max's digital mattes. There's not been a stinker in the bunch.
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Very reminiscent of Naboo from Episode I. Nice shot though.
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I always liked that episode. Even small touches like that enhance the hell out of it. NBC cut funding for TOS making already hokey mattes and effects worse. This elevates the whole episode!
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You do, too. Admit it!
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Oh, right, the Highlander episode. Along with the hot robot chick that Kirk acts like an idiot and hits on as his crew is dying of some space illness. And Robby the Robot's mentally handicapped cousin. Good times.
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That's what I'm thinking.
The original book(s), that is. Not the TV miniseries. -
Oh damn, someone else said that.
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Although alot of the effects work has been woefully inconsistent and underwhelming (save standouts like Space Seed, Doomsday Machine, Mirror Mirror and Charlie X) the matte work has been outstanding!!! Plus in this episode Kirk fucks a hot android chick.
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That's a nice place. Look, there's even a little dome top observatory. Must be a pretty good size scope Flint's got in there. You know, Flint should have taken some of his big bucks and built himself a holodeck, instead of messing around with all that android frustration.
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...is the reason a certain Shat has bought up and burned all blooper footage from that episode, where he sports a woodie from the dancing scene. True Story! (I read it. It was on the internet. I wrote it down, then I read it.)
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And who said Dinotopia? I always thought Naboo looked familiar.
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Pictures or it didn't happen. I can't read, so don't try to make me. I can believe Shatner achieved chub because I'm sportin' just thinking about her. I always thought the old matte painting wasn't too bad when you consider the state of technology when it was aired. Hi Def in the sixties was what you got from standing too close to the speakers at Woodstock.
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As the 720 rez you get on xbox live is only HALF the full 1080 resolution of HD. HALF. Sure that's a bit anal, but this IS a trek tb after all.
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More inspiring. New one just looks like Naboo. I like how the original building looks ancient, a lot of history there. The new one just says "hey look what we can do with a computer!" I also like that bright star/planet in the sky in the original.
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The original's perpective (large planet in background) is a cooler view. NORMALLY, they just enhance the exitsing background matte and make it 3d, vs totally changing it. I agree, they should have just reconstructed the original.
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If you're going to be anal, at least be correct.
High definition is the correct term to use for 480p/i, 720p/i, and 1080p/i. The 360's resolution is neither the best nor the worst HD. And also, 720 isn't half of 1080. -
Which ain't a bad thing, but makes me want to play an adventure game.
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The issue with keeping the original is that it was all ready used in The Cage/The Menagerie. It makes sense to replace it. And it still has a similar look.
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That is another byproduct of remastering. That is, eliminated the budget-warranted re-use of the same mattes, props or footage from other episodes. Making the new background a different perspective makes sense.
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The original shot still looks great ... in "The Cage" and in "The Menagerie", which is what the matte was originally painted for, so feel free to watch it in those shows. It was a cost-cutting re-use in this episode and thus ripe for replacening - and thus they replacended it. And it looks like Naboo because Naboo was based on Italian Renaissance arcitecture, and Flint happened to have been Michaelangelo.
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That was sorta my point - I think labelling lower rez stuff like 480 and 720 as high-def is disingenuous (with the 480 being a bit of a joke). The lower-end stuff gets the 'high-def' moniker too, and Joe Blow in the street thinks they're getting the best quality when they're actually getting half or less.
You're right though, I didn't write the p for progressive. But I'm right too. 1280 x 720 (720p) is 921,600 pixels. 1020 x 1080 (1080p) is 2,073,600 pixels. TWICE the picture info (actually 2.25 times). And I'm not talking 1080i, either.
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It many ways it is ST version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. (As as Forbidden Planet). I always found it extremely interesting that Flint mentions in the long list of famous people that he was--that he was Lazarus, implying that Christ really didn't raise his friend from the dead as in the Gospels.
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I hear ya, I hear ya. I was just flinch reacting. I admit my OS is very sketchy at best, and anything that reminds me of Naboo makes me queasy and shudder like I just tasted something real bitter.
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480i/480p (720x480) has *never* been designated as HD - I have no idea why you'd lump that SD spec in with proper HD (720 or more horizontal). There has also never been a 720i broadcast spec either (all broadcast 720 is progressive).
Side note: half vader's total pixel comparo is correct, but he has a type in that 1080 is 1920 vertical (not 1020).
FWIW, 720P still looks fantastic (some broadcasts use this spec - Fox, ESPN - and are indiscernible from 1080 broadcast - in fact they're preferred for high speed content like sports).
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Serves me right for posting at ~5am :^)
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I mean, yeah, she was hot, definitely...But, Andrea from "What Little Girls Are Made Of" (you know, the episode with Ted Cassiday, aka "Lurch" from The Addams Family) is by far the hottest of all robotic babes, perhaps ever.
Hell... Sherry Jackson might be the hottest Star Trek guest star of all time. I have no idea how Bill Thiess got her costume past the censors back when that episode aired in 1966.
http://tinyurl.com/5oakop
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The episode is actually titled "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"My apologies.
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Very close in hotness to Sherry Jackson in all aspects, but I don't mind conceding Sherry as #1.
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...many of the remastered shots feel very rushed and bland IMHO.
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They seem to have a corporate policy not to get "too real" or go overboard. They are self-limiting so that the effects are supposed to fit in. This philosophy might save time and money, but I'd say go for it. Make everything as photo real as possible. Get rid of the clunky, styrofoam looking sets and flat matte paintings. Make it look like 2008 effects all the way.
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biggest role other than Star Trek is Fredo's wife in the Godfather films. She doesn't even look the same!!! But Sherry Jackson is the Hottest! Trek-babe! EVER!-----later------m
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is that George totally ripped off , the Dinotopia series of books.On the day P.Menace came out , the writer /artist of Dinotopia , received a load of phonecalls from friends , telling him that he'd been ripped.After seeing the film , he was talking about legal action against George.I don't know if he was payed off or something , but it didn;t seem to go any further.But the naboo scenes are blatently lifted.Waterfalls , golden domed venice like buildings and flower stewn processions with dinosaurs !!Ironically Lucas did it better than the actuall Dinotopia miniseries!As for this update , I dunno..the lighting could be so much better {it looks wayyy too flat} and at that distance the detailing should be a lot softer.Once again the original matte looks more real in many respects .
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Than any of the star wars 1/2/3 movies. Those were a steaming pile of sith. Bad acting, bad dialog and characters that were a pile of Dooku.
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For one person and two robots? Also, genious that he is and even though it is the 24th century, how the hell did he build it?
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