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If this is anything like the redone Red Dwarf episodes it won't be worth our time or their money. But there is the possibility that they won't screw up, however remote.
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Well let's hope they don't CUT parts of the episode like they did with Red Dwarf.
Having said that - are they going to extend episodes to allow extra footage - i.e. scenes of the Federation squaring off against the Klingons in "Errand of Mercy"? Or are they going to fit things into exisiting time-frames/episodes (again hoping they won't cut things for the sake of a pretty effects shot).
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I'd expect them to copy the camera angles and movements from the original shots, only making them much more realistic looking thanks to CGI. I wouldn't have thought there'd be any extra shots, only clearer or possibly better composed versions of the originals.
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I expect them to take as much artistic license as they can, then an inch or mile more, making it fit their vision of the way things could have been done.
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I wonder when the first real photos from "BoT" will be available. The photo referred to on the official Star Trek webside is neither 16:9 nor is it a high def picture.
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"...are they going to extend episodes to allow extra footage..."
I very much doubt it. The original episodes are already longer than today's TV shows, forcing them to either be cut down or to have a smaller-than-usual number of commercials. You think that, after dumping a bunch of money into this project, they're going to want to cut back on their advertising possibilities even further?
"I'd expect them to copy the camera angles and movements from the original shots, only making them much more realistic looking thanks to CGI. I wouldn't have thought there'd be any extra shots, only clearer or possibly better composed versions of the originals." --- "I expect them to take as much artistic license as they can, then an inch or mile more, making it fit their vision of the way things could have been done."
I don't see any reason to expect either one of those things over the other. While I would certainly like to see the latter, I would not be at all surprised by the former.
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Besides the question if they extend the length of the episodes I worry about the quality of the normal, not CGI shots. On the one side there is this remastered picture from the TV broadcast with reduced noise, on the other hand Paramount did't used it for the DVD release. What use is HD when they still have a blurry picture?
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They'll remaster it and clean it up. They can do incredible things these days with high-price-range studio-quality software, even extrapolating data into holes or scratches on the surface of old film.
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Well, based on what I've read at SFM (besides the parts where I suck if I'm not a professional 3d artist) I'm somewhat optomistic. CBS digital has trippled their staff for this project and the guy in charge is apparently a fan.
Does this mean things will go perfectly, no, and I'm not pretending it will. But if it turns out poorly, I doubt they'll stand behind it (and may even pull the plug on the project) because if it turns out poorly, they lose money.
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I wonder if they'll use the Klingon model from Trials and tribulations as the basis for the D-7. No idea what they'll do with the RBOP- anything they do will be hated by fans that love the (oh-so-Federation-looking) TOS original.
It'd be cool to see Enterprise actually damaged externally as she gets battered in several episodes.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: I wonder if they'll use the Klingon model from Trials and tribulations as the basis for the D-7. No idea what they'll do with the RBOP- anything they do will be hated by fans that love the (oh-so-Federation-looking) TOS original.
Well how did they go from this to this? Romulan spy in the Federation?
You know what if this turns out to be a failure not because of the upgraded FX but because of public backlash. I don't mean hardcore fans. I mean casual viewer.
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I dont think it does. I think you're crazy.
crazy.
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It's true. I wish I could find some documentation, but the thread on the TrekBBS where Sir Rhosis originally posted the first-draft script excerpt is no longer in their archive.
Basically, there was some additional dialogue on the part of the outpost commander citing the resemblance of the BoP to the Starship design and raising the prospect that there could be a Romulan spy in the Federation. This played into the whole paranoia that Stiles, et al, felt toward Spock. When Wah Chang designed the BoP, he deliberately included Federation-looking elements as stipulated by the script.
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