OT: The original Star Trek getting a CG makeover

[Baron Munchausen]

Kamog said:
Hopefully they'll have better phaser disintegration effects. In the old series, you shoot someone with a phaser and their whole body glows for a moment and then just disappears. The wall or any objects behind the person are totally untouched.

And when the Enterprise fires phasers, you see these two beams diverging out an angle from the ship. Then the view changes to the beams hitting the target, like an asteroid or whatever, and the two beams converge at the target, which doesn't make sense. Also, in some of the episodes, the phasers from the Enterprise look like these glowing balls instead of beams for some reason.

New graphics for the planets would be nice, too. They re-used the same generic footage of the Enterprise orbiting a planet for many different episodes that are supposed to be different planets.

In "The Balance of Terror" phasors function something like depth charges. You see these glowing pulses go out and then they just explode in space without actually hitting anything. Seems more like photon torpedoes. Cut to inside the Romulan vessel where they bounce around as the phasors 'detonate' around them just like the crews in the old submarine movies.

And then in another show where photon torpedoes would have been extremely useful they aren't mentioned once. Why did they have to drop the wrecked Constellation down the throat of the planet killer in "The Doomsday Machine"? Apparently because photon torpedoes don't exist when they interfere with a plot line.

The inconsistency of the technology is one of the most (in)famous features of the Star Trek franchise.

[Randallw]

Such as when the episode revolved around having to fix the transporters so they could save the crewmwmbers freezing on the planet. why?. The shuttle hadn't been invented

[DarkHorse]

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[DarkHorse]

Randallw said:
Such as when the episode revolved around having to fix the transporters so they could save the crewmwmbers freezing on the planet. why?. The shuttle hadn't been invented

If you watch that episode on the DVD with the pop up info-thingies turned on, it mentions why there were no shuttles in that episode. Something about the models weren't finished yet during the filming of the first six episodes or some such, I don't remember exactly.

[PvK]

Baron Munchausen said:
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And then in another show where photon torpedoes would have been extremely useful they aren't mentioned once. Why did they have to drop the wrecked Constellation down the throat of the planet killer in "The Doomsday Machine"? Apparently because photon torpedoes don't exist when they interfere with a plot line. ...

My suspect is Chekov again. I think he used all the photon torpedoes joy-firing at stuff when others had left him in command, so they happened to be all out when they encountered the Doomsday Machine.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Or maybe photon torpedoes wouldn't have made a big enough explosion.

[Kamog]

Chekhov the trouble maker...

Why did the Romulans start using Klingon ship design? Did they not have the model of the Romulan ship when they filmed that episode?

[Black_Knyght]

Remember the scene in the "Wrath of Khan" where Khan, who'd never actually met Chekov, say he remembers him?

Like maybe he remembered hearing, during his short stay on the Enterprise, all about Chekov's rep for screwing things up......?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

How do you know they just didn't show the meeting?

'Hi, I'm Chekov.'
'Hi, I'm Khan.'

Not exactly noteworthy.

[Azselendor]

For chekov, they'll most like insert him into a scene with kahn as a background thing.