Star Trek Remastered "The Cage" FX

[energicko]

@aadeeza anyone willing to give a "chocolate person anything." it's better than no one giving nothing at all. Lloyd Haynes (Mr. Alden) was never seen again. the original, 1965 TV Guide only had his photo-but other supporting cast & stars had more. Almost fifty yrs later, fans can see all colored people (Black, Arabic etc.) given credit.

Uhura made it to Capt. Dr. Bashir's medicine is only outdone by McCoy (or Voyager's Doctor). USS M.L. King is a ship in the videogame "Star Trek Armada II"

[Cpnowys1awsome]

MAN SPOCK IS SOO YOUNG!

[energicko]

I like how the remastered version flashes scenes & clips from the 50's and 60's (back then considered controversial and censored) that are commonplace now. For example the quick shots of Eisenhower (who partook in Area 51) Kennedy (space program), Johnson (Vietnam before Nixon) etc. The close-up eye at 5:51: Maybe representing "the all seeing eye", but I have no idea who it belongs to...Dr. MLK, Jr.????

[aadeeza]

@energicko who would give chocolate person anything?

[MrJackStill]

I'm loving the transition onto the bridge at 0:58. Nice work! :)

[EduardoTVideos]

Who lives: Anyone who's from Command or Science.

Who dies: Redshirts. (Security)

[shutdafup]

I hate CGI ... They still never get the look, feeling of mass and movement right... Kids today love it because they don't know any better

[Idazmi7]

@shutdafup Mostly because they don't really try to get the movement right.

[paktype]

If I'm Pike and that alarm starts going off on the Bridge, I tell Spock "Turn that shit off pronto! And get someone to replace that alarm, its giving me a freaking headache!"

[longstemmedlily]

I wish there was more

[proximajoe]

Contains the biggest goof of the Remastered series starting at 0:45...the "neck" of the Enterprise is partially transparent.

[spacecowboy5000]

@proximajoe No. Space is black and that part of the ship is in deep shadow -- with white lights. Nothing transparent about it. Also, CBS spent oodles of money on the remastering. I don't think they'd let a mistake like that go by unnoticed.

[luis6079]

Gene Roddenberry created (lookup and download Forbidden Planet and gasp at the blatent plagerism) this series, right?

[1tb4life]

@luis6079 Gene Roddenberry mentioned before that a great deal of his inspiration of the Star Trek look or feel was influenced by The Forbidden Planet. That movie itself was well ahead of its time and Gene took what he could from it and then went in a bit different direction to creat Star Trek.

[paktype]

Tango!

[supermanfan62]

this never happens in the new movie

[GhostOfACPast]

I just read a news story that they have actually been able to send a radio wave via sub space in real life. Then I flip over to Youtube and see an episode on science where a journal article was written by this dude who discovered the mathematical formula for warp speed (this was about 1.5 to 2 years ago for the formula). OMG, put the two together and we have Star-Trek. The scientist who discovered the formula was/is a Trekker.

[rangeclerk]

Imagine if the "updated visuals" that are being used to improve the old ST Series had been around when ST first aired! The series would never had been taken off the air given how AWESOME these "new" visuals have been then! RIP GENE, MAJEL, DeFOREST, "JIMMY"!---cast your mast and sail on and on 'til morn'---maybe they are now all travelling together towards the center core of our Galaxy to find out "what is out there'?

[OpenMawProductions]

@rangeclerk What? Star Trek for its time was cutting edge. The visual effects were not the shows problem. The problem was the producers at NBC did not understand just how large the audience for Star Trek was, and it was an incredibly expensive show to produce. One of the most expensive in its time. Star Trek didnt really hit maximum popularity until syndication. Visual effects has nothing to do with what made Trek the great show that it was. It was the characters, issues, and stories.

[rangeclerk]

@OpenMawProductions U are to quick to argue-----was a teenager when ST first aired & was impressed. If u read my previous statement I was saying 'imagine if the "present sys of CGI" had been around when ST was first created'. Note; ST might have been somewhat pricey but when SPACE 1999 showed up---each esp was = & > in cost than each of the ST 2 pilots. When later estimates were done, was discovered the "young consumers'`18-25yr olds where the ad folks were trying to target ---highest viewers

[OpenMawProductions]

@rangeclerk You're quick to ignore your own points. You said "The series would never had been taken off the air given how awesome these "new" visuals have been" Implying that the FX were the issue. The huge budget of the show and the producers lack of understanding is what led to the shows cancellation, not the quality of the FX. You could have had the latest effects of today, but Trek's fate was sealed. Years after it was cancelled they started demographics, which revaled how populer Trek was.

[rangeclerk]

@OpenMawProductions As I stated before u are really quick to look for an arguement---again with CGI of today, had it been avaliable in the mid 60s almost all those who had been wired to the Nelison ratings would have been inpressed with the visuals & then would have also been taken by the story lines! Most humans are "visual creatures" a very small portion of us are "Cerebral"--- some of the stories where they were in a cave one could tell it was a sound stage & the "rocks" were covered in foil

[talaxian1]

@OpenMawProductions Get this man some Ritz crackers!

[spacecowboy5000]

This will always be a classic. I just noticed the guy at the back of the bridge playing WoW.

[hypnodance]

I think the best part was Vina as the green belly dancer. No remastering needed there!

[Korolev61]

I'd like to get my hands on the Enterprise's ample nacelles if you'd forgive the engineering parlance!

[bryguy615]

I have read that they redid the Red Alerts on the 6 movies to be the alert from TOS & TNG, so why not do the same here. Honestly, I perfer the ones from the movies or the DS9&Voyager era.

[commandox20]

That isnt a Red Alert. Its a proximity alarm.

[artivan]

where is kirk

[optimusprime209]

this was when captain pike was in control of the enterprise, you know before captain james t kirk. the only character from tos ( the original series) is spock.

[mikethegent]

Kirk wasnt even thought of....

[1tb4life]

@artivan Kirk wasn't the captain yet. At this point the enterprise was commanded by Captain Pike.

[trekmaster78]

Die ersten Bilder von Star Trek überhaupt, anno 1964 - hier in der remastered version!!!

[nightflyer28]

I have to admit, I kinda prefer the original external scenes for this one, just because it's so obviously a model. Something about that, like old movies being in black & white, just adds to the classic 'feel' of the show.

That said, the remastered cgi is really good. I'd want both versions if I got this on dvd.

[dragulless]

Tutto ebbe inizio da quì....

.....da "STAR TREK - THE CAGE: LO ZOO DI TALOS".

Bellissimo pilot.

Grande anche il capitano.

[TiktaalikRoseae]

Pretty decent remastering...an all time fun episode.

[Flagman00]

I always thought that the alarm sounded like a violin in distress!

[ForceMaximus84]

@Flagman00 ROFL It does!

[theinquisitor]

Can someone explain the meaning of the blurring of the starfield display on the viewscreen at the beginning? I never understood what that was supposed to be.

[kb7rky]

They were scanning for that "something out there", which turned out to be the old-style radio distress call.

[kargaroc386]

uhh, warp speed

[crimsonninja6995]

magnification, they were trying to see what was in front of them

[SuperMagnetizer]

I suppose the meaning of the blurring of the starfield display on the viewscreen is the Enterprise warping the spacetime continuum at warpspeed.

[FekLeyrTarg]

Very impressive

[thirdclass2006]

A nice remastering of the soundtrack.

And plus, all scenes in color! I still recall the mixed B/W and color version released on video.