Originally posted by: Scruffy
But the new Connie and K-7 models seen in Trials and Tribbletions and In a Mirror Darkly are really, really good. We're not talking about adding in floating droids and rontos parading around Cestus III, just replacing some 60s opticals with better composites of faithfully recreated models. Maybe adding some gradients or highlights to the various energy cloud effects out there.
Star Trek was intended to be viewed on a color NTSC television. (There were a few film presentations, but it was always meant to be a TV show.) DVD pretty much saturates the quality available from such a set, so I'm happy with the TOS DVDs. The original episodes -- insofar as the DVDs reflect those -- will always be available, as long as there's one Trekkie left to make a copy of them. Now that we are "upgrading" from the producer's intended medium to something better, it may be appropriate to insert better visual effects.
But the new Connie and K-7 models seen in Trials and Tribbletions and In a Mirror Darkly are really, really good. We're not talking about adding in floating droids and rontos parading around Cestus III, just replacing some 60s opticals with better composites of faithfully recreated models. Maybe adding some gradients or highlights to the various energy cloud effects out there.
Star Trek was intended to be viewed on a color NTSC television. (There were a few film presentations, but it was always meant to be a TV show.) DVD pretty much saturates the quality available from such a set, so I'm happy with the TOS DVDs. The original episodes -- insofar as the DVDs reflect those -- will always be available, as long as there's one Trekkie left to make a copy of them. Now that we are "upgrading" from the producer's intended medium to something better, it may be appropriate to insert better visual effects.
You make a great point there. I loved that episode of Deep Space Nine where they went back in time and were on the enterprise during the trouble-with-tribbles incident. The special effects shots were of the older ships but of a much higher quality and looked great. It would really be sweet to see a faithful reproduction of the original effects shots in a way where they simply looked better, especially for HD-DVD. Yet I wouldn't want the original effects shots to not be seen at all in an HD format. What would be great is if they made the HD releases to seamlessly switch to the original effects shots if you were to choose a different "play" option from the menu!
(Go, go, 50 GB BD!!!)Originally, all I wanted the SE of Star Wars to be was a simple updating of the original effects. Have everything be absolutely faithful to the original artistry but upgraded in a technical sense. That would have been beautiful as an alternate version of Star Wars. Instead we got a sloppy job that mostly added new crap that nobody in their right mind would ever have wanted. To make it worse we still aren't even allowed to see a version of the originals in new, DVD-dedicated master yet. >
