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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] I saw [i]Balance of Terror[/i]! I guess I missed Miri (but that one sucks anyway). It was really very good with a couple of exceptions: The good: Enhanced picture is great to see- everything is crystal clear and I noticed many intresting lighting techniques for this episode- like them shading all of Kirk's face exceept for his eyes in a kind of "reverse racoon" pattern. The GREAT: the new Enterprise shots are so good and generally match the original's shots...except for when the ship gets nailed by that "debris nuke"- then the ship is listing badly. The RBOP is very VERY nice- an exact replica of the original (no matching the one Eaves made) except in one shot where you can see various hull panels in a sort of checkerboard pattern (not quite the "aztec" of a federation starship, but the general look is close). The plasma weapon is new and looks much better- a big red ball of flame. Disapointing: No new computer screen shots- we're forced to look at the horribly dated cardboard diagram of the Neutral Zone and it really does not match the crispness (newness?) of the show. The RBOP just "fizzles" into cloak (like the original version) when the pattented cloaking effect would have been much better. No new background for the outpost's interior we see- the commander still looks to be hailing from a broom closet. The phasers still look and act like [i]torpedos[/i]- bright blue blobs from vaguely the correct spot that (somehow) blow up into big blue coronas of light as they sweep the area for the RBOP. Nothing to say it's new or improved at all! NOTHING! If they'd announce it was the NEW version, people would watch- as it stands, most will tune it out as "the same old thing". The timeslot sucked ass- 6AM on what is the WB for one more week- nothing known after that. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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