Adding exterior views and viewscreens with more realistic graphics to the old series could work. Imagine actually seeing starships instead of TOS' yellow blobs, and redoing some of the man-in-suit aliens. OTOH, there's the risk that it just won't look right.
I don't know. If they do it right, it can be fun. If they screw things up by modernizing it too much, or by making it look weird, it'll probably get the TAS treatment.
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Sure, they could make "Special Editions: of every one of the 79 TOS episodes. Sure, they could theoretically make a fourth & fifth season utilizing completely CGI effects. But my question is, why? Instead of thinking up this inane crap, shouldn't they instead try harnessing all of this creative energy of theirs for the Star Trek show that's currently on the air now?
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There's also the slight problem of needing more than just CGI to recreate the original cast. You need, y'know, voices and stuff. And there's a teeny, tiny problem with DeForest Kelly that would stop him from doing this.
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Yeah... it'd probably cause him to roll over in his grave, too.
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But, w/ modern technology, they could create all of his dialogue by splicing together clips from the original episodes! Hooray!
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Couple this with that Slashdot story about how soon Hollywood-grade special effects hardware will be cheaply available for the home market, and you have a recipe for unlimited horror.
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I'm surprised that you never hear anything about voice impersonation software. I mean, if you can create a convincing human APPEARANCE with a computer, why would a voice be undoable?
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Well, you haven't been hanging around the right circles, Omega. But voice stuff is very hard to do.
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all bones has to say is "he's dead, jim". problem solved. i just hope braga doesn't write any episodes if they make more "tos" with cgi *shudders*.
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With the 60's SFX, doing CGI like that shouldn't be that hard to do. With all the shiny skin from the 8 iches of grease, CGIing their faces shouldn't be that hard either. Pasting Kirk's dialogue wouldn't be that hard if your remember how Shatner acts.
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Regarding the article, I saw part of Digital Streams' updated effects for 'The Doomsday Machine,' and they sucked rocks. It was horribly mismatched to the show's look, and their animation was lifeless. Their choice of camera angles was pretty bad too.
I think you could possibly update the effects, but you'd have to match the photographic style and look of the film of the period. Also, you'd want to avoid trendy CGI effects that would age worse than the original effects have.
If you want to see how TOS would look with updated effects, just cut a few Enterprise flybys from TMP or TWOK or their ilk in place of the old shots...if you could replicate that look, it might be acceptable.
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Meaning replace the TOS version of the ship with the refitted version?
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quote:Originally posted by MrNeutron: Regarding the article, I saw part of Digital Streams' updated effects for 'The Doomsday Machine,' and they sucked rocks. It was horribly mismatched to the show's look, and their animation was lifeless. Their choice of camera angles was pretty bad too.
where did you see the effects? i would like to see them, personally.
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