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The Omega Glory opening scene, reminagined with the DisConnie.
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The re imagined constitution class enterprise approaching one of her sister ships
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Ooh, nice. Ah, Captain.. Tracy, if I remember? I'm not gonna look it up. I wanna see if my memory's any good. 
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Yupp, it was Tracy. And yupp, he was an idiot
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I love this episode - it is so silly its fun,
Monstrous punch ups, over-acting villain, embarrasing dramatic entrances... and I love the lass in the fur bikini - she looks primitive and then speaks so well educated
Wonder how this one would go....
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Discovery has a lot to learn to become a realy good Star Trek Show but the DisConnies are great!
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Agreed!
Picard looks good, though!
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Can't watch it. Only got Netflix.
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Very nice! Would you be willing to do a USS Constellation Ncc-1017 andΒ USS Defiant Ncc-1764 done in reimagined version? Thanks!
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Awesome Render!!!Β
I always thought it was funny and ironic thatΒ it seemed that a Canadian (Kirk/Shatner) understood the Constitution more than American.Β It would be interesting to see a remake of a Disc-verseΒ "The Omega Glory" especiallyΒ Captain Kirk's Constitutional speech.Β Β
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Beautiful render. I wonder what the story in this scenario would be. Pike? Kirk? Or Metlesits?Β
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Kirk, it has to be Kirk!
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Just bad pondering. I apologize.Β
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I always liked to pretend the Enterprise had the means to occasionally travel to alternate future realities Sliders-style, and that explained all the numerous Earth-parallels they encountered like this one or "Miri" or "Bread and Circuses", as otherwise it made no sense to me (even as a kid) why they kept encountering parallel earths all the time but never any parallels to other planets like Vulcan or the Tellarite, Andorian, Klingon, or Romulan home-worlds.
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It has to do with the Preservers...
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The Preservers explain the Indian tribes found in The Paradise Syndrome, yes; one reason i didn't list that one. But explains none of the others.
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Maybe they should have encountered a cosmic being called the Ultimate Bookkeeper, who would have explained they could only visit planets that could be made up from old costumes, props and sets, like in "A Piece of the Action" and "Patterns of Force."
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Amazing how an idea can sound so ludicrous and yet at the same time reflect the mundane reality.Β
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Thank you. In college, I majored in Ludicrous Ideas and minored in Mundane Reality. (I still consider mundane reality something minor.)
I hadn't thought of it before, but the short story on which "Arena" was based didn't feature a saurian like the Gorn; the alien was a sphere with tentacles. They couldn't do that, so it became a Guy In A Suit on a location used in westerns. Star Trek wasn't the only recycler - Bossk, the reptilian bounty hunter in The Empire Strikes Back, wore a space suit left over from Doctor Who. (That's all for today, class. Next time - a surprise quiz.)
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Yes, I read the original Arena by Fredric Brown. The producers discovered in mid-production that the scriptwriter had adapted the story without Brown's knowledge or permission and hastily called Brown for his permission. Fortunately, Brown was apparently a Star Trek fan and was happy to oblige for next to nothing and story credit. Apparently figured it would boost his writer career. Apparently, it actually did.
Syfy did recycling all the time. Irwin Allen was especially notorious for reusing props among his various syfy series like Lost in Space and using film footage from major movies to make time Tunnel look like it had a vastly bigger production budget than it actually had.
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Wow. So that's how they "adapted" the story! I'd never heard that before. I wonder if that writer ever got another script assignment after that.
I remember the use of stock footage in Time Tunnel. It was always really obvious - you'd see the two leads talking in a shot obviously filmed in a studio, then cut to an outdoor shot of a frontier saloon with horses, wagons and extras, then back to the much cheaper studio shot, just like on the comedy F Troop - only they knew it was obvious and funny.
And I swear every Irwin Allen s-f series had at least one episode with an "alien" who was the guest star wearing silver make-up, like a high-tech Tin Woodman of Oz.Β
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Yep; for the very good (to him at least) reason that because they were cheap. And as a kid at the time i didn't mind them at all. Remember, we didn't have all the cool special effects later generations got spoiled on back then.Β
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I think Star Trek won an Emmy award for special effects with the amoeba in "The Immunity Syndrome," so things were improving.
More Useless Knowledge:
I read long ago that the special effects people preparing to make 2001: A Space Odyssey actually got help from the effects people of Doctor Who! Until then, almost all "floating in space" images were shot from the side, making it look like a guy on a bungee. For Doctor Who, they shot the scene from below, with the actor's arms and legs spread realistically. And they did the same in the "groundbreaking" effects for 2001.Β
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No, the original star trek was nominated for several Emmys in fact but TOS won none, and none were for that particular episode. Episodes that were nominated for an Emmy for special effects included Doomsday Machine and Tholian Web The first time anything from Star Trek won anything was the animated series in 1974. In the TNG era though things were much different.
I don't know anything about the involvement of effects people from Doctor Who with 2001. Never heard that one before. I do know Douglas Trumbull was the guy in charge of special effects for the movie, and since he's of course British and 2001 as filmed mainly in southern English it certainly makes sense for that to be the case.
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Really? Hmm. That'll teach me to double-check, so I stand corrected.Β
Actually I'm sitting, so I sit corrected, which will certainly improve my posture.
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