BBC America airing all original Star Trek

[Fanatical Meat]

Restored too, they look surprisingly good. Cleaned up effects. I am surprized Uhuras earrings were generally neon green, I always thought they were copper or gold.
I think they're running all weekend.

The Menagerie was great to watch.

Spoiler

Never caught how it was prolific that Pike was severely injured in a fire and they spoke about how Pike kept going back to save people, when earlier his punishment was burning in Hell, almost like a regular intense fire was not something to fear

 

[cbrunny]

so is netflix....

 

[poofyhairguy]

Watched some TOS last night. Great way to celebrate the 50th anniversary.

 

[local]

The remastered version is free on Prime as well. I am watching the series for the first time and it is surprisingly good. Still weirds me out that McCoy is always smiling and happy though. I'm used to grumpy old man McCoy from the movies.

 

[JimKiler]

I love this version of Star Trek. Something about the other series always lacked.

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[JeffreyLebowski]

I've been doing a Star Trek marathon of my own. I've got the BD of TOSs and Next Gen and the movies. I still like watching Star Trek II, and on a 65" 4K TV it still looks better than most movies today. But I guess that's what you get when you use practical effects over CGI done at breakneck speed.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I've been doing a Star Trek marathon of my own. I've got the BD of TOSs and Next Gen and the movies. I still like watching Star Trek II, and on a 65" 4K TV it still looks better than most movies today. But I guess that's what you get when you use practical effects over CGI done at breakneck speed.

Actually Star Trek 2 has some of Hollywood's earliest CGI in it ("The Genesis Effect") made by the guys who eventually became Pixar.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Actually Star Trek 2 has some of Hollywood's earliest CGI in it ("The Genesis Effect") made by the guys who eventually became Pixar.

And I believe the first algorithm to make a procedural terrain

*I think*

 

[Fritzo]

If you're poor and don't have streaming services, OTA on MeTV they show a restored and updated episode every Saturday night at 9pm ET. The updated effects look really nice.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I'm watching it and enjoying it. It still holds up today.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Watching now too
Doomsday Machine episode enhanced nicely.
On the Deadly Years now, 1966 estimates of what an old Kirk would look like are way off

 

[superstition]

I'm not a fan of the "enhancements". I don't like CGI in general. I think The Simpsons looked considerably better when it was hand drawn. I prefer to watch TOS as it was originally done and the same thing is true for the first three Star Wars films.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Watching now too
Doomsday Machine episode enhanced nicely.
On the Deadly Years now, 1966 estimates of what an old Kirk would look like are way off

Yeah, he got a lot fatter in real life.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Yeah, he got a lot fatter in real life.

Yup fatter but mentally sharp & sarcastic

 

[DrPizza]

I don't normally watch much television - it gave me something to do last night and tonight. The original pilot, in color, was on tonight. (The Cage) - Leonard Nimoy was the only character from that episode who was a main character in the series.

 

[ViRGE]

I'm not a fan of the "enhancements". I don't like CGI in general. I think The Simpsons looked considerably better when it was hand drawn. I prefer to watch TOS as it was originally done and the same thing is true for the first three Star Wars films.

The practical effects in TOS were pretty awful. We're talking about a series famous for its paper mache boulders, for example. The remaster cleaned up a lot of nastiness, from the bad planet matte paintings to the ship errors. I feel like they hit the right touch there, as they aren't necessarily trying to make TOS look modern: the Enterprise is still flat colored, the phasers are "wrong" by modern standards, etc. Instead they made it look competent, putting together shots that either looked bad with the physical models or simply weren't possible on the series' ever-decreasing budget.

I do agree with you on the movies though. But those are high-budget affairs where ILM could be painstakingly precise.

 

[BUTCH1]

I'm not a fan of the "enhancements". I don't like CGI in general. I think The Simpsons looked considerably better when it was hand drawn. I prefer to watch TOS as it was originally done and the same thing is true for the first three Star Wars films.

I generally agree with that but TOS was a different beast, it was shot on film so they had that going for then right from the get-go. '60's TV special-effects were not very good though, TOS tried to please but the show was already costing $225K/wk and there was no avenue to go for better effects anyway. As mentioned above an episode like "The Doomsday machine" really benefited as the original "planet-killer" was a wind-sock dipped in concrete LOL but had a great score and a great job done by William Windom. It was nominated for, (and should have won) a Hugo award but lost to another TOS episode that year, "The city on the edge of forever" (which is a great one as well though).

 

[MongGrel]

Have been watching the remastered ones awhile now, I love going back and watching them now and then. Amazon Prime has them up also.

The City on the Edge of Forever, The Doomsday Machine, and The Cage have always been in my top 10 of the originals.

"Lets get the Hell out of here"

Was always a Harlan fan myself also. That and a young Joan Collins is fun to watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever

They did a lot of ground breaking things at the time.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Personally I really like the enhanced editions, the stuff they made better still fits and looks much better, The enhanced effects match the series well they don't look totally out of place.

 

[Mayne]

They need to reboot Star Trek

 

[MongGrel]

They are ...

 

[superstition]

Too bad City on the Edge is based on cheesy Cold War warhawk propaganda and uses the typical TOS sexist formula of portraying women as too weak.

But, I agree that it's a great episode nonetheless.

I think The Cage is the best one. "Too cerebral" for the network but oh well. The only drawback of that one is that Spock's characterization was inferior to the reboot (the real reboot with Kirk).

 

[Thebobo]

Watching now too
Doomsday Machine episode enhanced nicely.
On the Deadly Years now, 1966 estimates of what an old Kirk would look like are way off

Loved the Doomsday Episode. Forewarning to the Borg?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Too bad City on the Edge is based on cheesy Cold War warhawk propaganda and uses the typical TOS sexist formula of portraying women as too weak.

But, I agree that it's a great episode nonetheless.

You sir should skip straight to Star Trek Next Gen

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Loved the Doomsday Episode. Forewarning to the Borg?

I'm still pondering my original spoiler.