While crawling around in Moya, one of the crew accidentally triggers a Peacekeeper experiment designed to impregnate Moya to create an autonomous gunship that had Starburst ability.
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I had to look that up.
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Because there are no active hostilities right now. Because what’s happening “now” means something when you have time travel.
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“Treachery!” Feyd-Rautha shouted. “He’s poisoned me! I do feel poison in my arm!”
Paul dropped his cloak of silence, said: “Only a little acid to counter the soporific on the Emperor’s blade.”
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I learned it in toxicology class the day we covered benadryl
God, yes. I’m surprised there haven’t been more angry villagers rampaging the countryside over this issue.
The inarguably dated Enterprise-orbiting-the-planet practical effect, the Enterprise-phaser effect, they are so linked with the show, that to take them away does them injury. The CGI alteration doesn’t change the story as such, but it makes it so “palatable.” [And, I take that back, because some of the background CGI scenes as so detailed as to completely reimagine the basis for matte.]
We shouldn’t add modern CGI to TOS for the same reason we don’t colorize Casablanca. (To which the Paramount executive says, “Hey, we should colorize Casablanca! Do we own Casablanca?”)
Anyway, my pitchfork is raised. Who’s with me?
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Yet the effect was also filmed in 35mm. I wouldn’t be averse to “some” cleanup (eg, removing evident guide wires, etc), but that’s not what they do. This was a '60s show. It had '60s effects. They replace it with 2017 CGI. It just doesn’t work for people who grew up with TOS. And I have to think that it is a lesser product to young viewers who are seeing it for the first time (even though they don’t know it).
The Director’s Cut of THX-1138 and Star Wars follow the same pattern: more and “improved” CGI recuts do not make for a better product.
It’s the Thread On The Edge of Forever thread.
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Ah, so they went the IVF route (Interstellar Vessel Fertilization).
Star Trek was filmed using 35mm, so the actors look amazing.
The original visual effects don’t, because they were made for television cameras.
Only in a Star Trek thread could someone reply to a post which hadn’t been made yet…
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From my memory, I felt it was introduced too early and they ran out of fresh stories to tell especially for a new series. Now that I watch re-runs in order mostly, I can see how it “worked” but at the time it aired it was just seem unnecessary. All the other series had time travel but it just felt wrong when it got added to Enterprise.
The time travel always seemed to me to be a way to add elements to appeal to fans that were more familiar with DS9 and Voyager than they were with TOS. TOS fans got a return to some classic aliens like the Tholians, Andorians, and Orion Syndicate. All the Treks had time travel to some extent (and sadly, the time-travel rules set up by the TOS are on the looser side of logic). But the temporal cold war storyline depended heavily on things like the Temporal Variance Authority as a time-traveling successor to the Federation, as it was used in DS9 and Voyager.
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I think my favorite time travel “rule” in Star Trek is that going around the Sun anti-clockwise sends you to the past, and clockwise sends you to the future.
isn’t that (more or less, or less) what Superman did, made the earth turn backwards to run back time.
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