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I was perusing an article on TVshowsondvd.com regarding the release of TOS Remastered on HD and BluRay DVD, when I came across a mention of a possible Star Trek TNG "remastered" release:
quote: They also revealed that Seasons Two and Three were expected to start production this week. They further revealed that tests had been done for a possible future Star Trek: The Next Generation - Remastered effort.
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And maybe reshoot the entire first two seasons.
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quote:Well, the earlier episodes could use it... But unfortunately it would mean the loss of footage of some genuinely cool model ships!
And that would both solve problems and possibly create more. Let me explain:
1. Didn't all of us supernerds shiver in disgust when TPTB would reuse an alien ship model five or six times to represent other alien ships whose owners couldn't possibly have had the exact same technology? Obviously this was done because the budget didn't permit the building of a brand-new model every single time the episode script called for one. Well, with CGI/Remastered Trek, that problem is solved! But wait a minute...
2. Let's think about TNG seasons 1 & 2. The re-use of movie models such as the Excelsior, the Grissom, the Reliant, the BoP, the Regula 1 station, the (stock footage of the) Spacedock, and (almost) the TMP Enterprise was done for the same reason - they didn't want to spend a bunch of money building new models when they could utilize the movie models instead. But if they remaster TNG the same way they're doing with TOS, all they'll do is replace the Oberths and Excelsiors and BoPs with CGI versions of the same ships. Who gives a shit about that? If they instead, for example, replaced the Grissom version of the Tsiolkovsky in "The Naked Now" with a new science vessel design (a la the Red Dwarf remastering), or replaced all the Enterprise-D/random Excelsior stock footage from at least ten different episodes, then it would be worth it. But if they're going to just use the same ships in a CGI version, what's the point? And most likely they won't change anything, because then it will contradict Okuda's Encyclopedia, which is pretty much the basis of what they're doing with TOS-R.
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Rick and Mike would totally have to be involved, as they knew best what ships they wanted to do but couldn't. I don't mind the Excelsiors so much, but a couple do need to be replaced with their intended vessels (such as the Crazy Horse[i] being a [i]Cheyenne). And the Grissom would only show up once, possibly, as the disabled S.S. Vico, with redone markings. The rest of the Oberths should actually be Oberths -- the way Rick designed the class.
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quote:Rick and Mike would totally have to be involved, as they knew best what ships they wanted to do but couldn't.
Yes, I agree. For example, if they show a remastered version of the tachyon fleet from "Redemption Pt. 2" where they actually showed every single ship, then the conjectural classes would need to be designed based on Okuda's registry #'s he gave to them, and the other ships would have to correspond to the classes he gave them in the Encyclopedia.
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It wouuld be nice to see the randevous with the ships at Dytallix B....and to replace the GIANT KBOPs in Yesterday's Enterprise with...anything else.
I'm personally all for it- maybe we'll be able to really see some of the W359 ships instead of just blurry images on the viewscreen.
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Maybe they'd get around to fixing that phaser bank torpedo launcher from "Darmok".
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quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: Rick and Mike would totally have to be involved, as they knew best what ships they wanted to do but couldn't. I don't mind the Excelsiors so much, but a couple do need to be replaced with their intended vessels (such as the Crazy Horse[i] being a [i]Cheyenne). And the Grissom would only show up once, possibly, as the disabled S.S. Vico, with redone markings. The rest of the Oberths should actually be Oberths -- the way Rick designed the class.
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Me commands you to provide links & pics this Rick-Oberth you mentions, yes?
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He auctioned a drawing of it that he created for an engineering display for "The Pegasus", and let some of us have a small scan of it before it went off to the auction house. Bernd has it also, and maybe a couple others from the old ASDB. He didn't want us showing it around, but that was a long time ago. Not sure what to do here...
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Oh, is it the one of the Ambassador-esque design with the underslung nacelles?
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