Star Trek Remastered "The Doomsday Machine" FX-Reel

[Quisquellano26]

The CBS remastered effects were good, but they were no better than anything that a fan coulda made on his come computer....

[OneSunRed]

boring , no match for TNG

[sailorhms]

Even after more than thirty years, I can still remember the look on Deckers face as he took the shuttle into the planet killers maw...great acting William!

[antimony11]

don't quit your day job,,,

[rpsmith221]

I read a Star Trek novel called Vendetta that said this Doomsday machine was only the prototype for one that was ten times the size. It was designed to fight the Borg.

[InfiniteMushroom]

I hope Decker realized that the cost of that shuttle craft was going to come out of his paycheck!

[Mikanojo]

i really did like seeing the remade show.. i REALLY hated all of the unnecessary editing. What was the point of so many bad cuts and pastes? If i could have watched 7 minutes and 14 seconds of show that would have been wonderful.. instead you gave us 7:14min of video hiccups ~o_0~

[geonerd]

@Mikanojo This video shows only those parts that were remade. That's the point.

[Roadracer987654321]

The New CGI Shuttllecraft in the Hangar Deck seems to be in Better Proportion to the size of the Original Enterprise.

[tangerinetigerr]

horrible editing, very annoying; way too liTTle dialogue, and

even that is edited! 15...14...edit..............a shame to go

that way...edit [decker's death, and this video]. there are much

better versions of this on YT. 643PM...110111

[4knobby7]

The original Doomsday Machine model was a windsock dipped in cement or plaster of paris. Norman Spinrad originally invisioned the planet killer to a massive object bristling with weapons. I guess the budget back then could only allow the most basic of effects.

[Philllllll]

what a shame :(

[gomro]

I sure wonder what Norman Spinrad wanted his doomsday machine to look like; I imagine, for some reason, something from Druillet. He tells that whole story in a video easily found by entering Spinrad and Doomsday. I'd post the link, but YouTube won't allow it...

[Rustler1able]

This was more a rendition of the classic novel 'Moby Dick'....to this day I still think the Planet Killer looks like an overgrown Bugle Snack!!

[Mitchz95]

In my opinion the new visuals are better than the old ones, with three exceptions:

1: They keep showing the Enterprise facing up when it's just traveling forward (see 0:10 - 0:17)

2: Stars fly past the Enterprise even when it's not at warp.

3: I preferred the original planet killer's design; it had a nice crystalline structure, whereas this one looks like it's made of rock.

Other than those three things, I think this episode benefited greatly from the remastering, more so than other episodes.

[DevilMaster]

@Mitchz95 I agree. Especially the Enterprise facing in one direction and moving toward another is painful to watch.

[heavymetalchains333]

Happy Birthday William Shatner.

[BertningStorm]

Not sure about the retro visual attempt, would have been better to replace the old visuals completely with proper ones like those in the "In a mirror, darkly" episode of Enterprise imo.

Still, regardless of visuals (classic or otherwise) this has to be one of the best trek episodes ever and I personally LOVE the music! Old trek music for the win!

[nmatos2005]

The new effects look like cartoons unfortunately. A great classic episode is ruined !

[moonspots01]

It was like some sort of anti-cornucopia!

[dburrigh]

@moonspots01 - It's the cornucopia of doom.

[SAARNO]

The best episode of the TOS series. The remastered version does justice to an already great story! I was able to build an AMT kit to resemble the damaged Constellation years ago - right down to the melted nacelles.

[Kabul81]

Gimme the studio models any day,reminds

me of the animated series!

Jman

[char00079]

Matt where is your crew? ahh their on the 3rd planet.. Matt there is no 3rd planet.... DONT YOU THINK I KNOW THAT.... there was but not anymore..

[char00079]

I agree one of the greats for a bottle esp. Funny low budget ones are always good lol.I will admit I do like the remastering of this esp. I hate they cut out deckers part. where he was sitting in the chair biting on the record chips while war hungry. and the battle music when the machine show up, beast piece of music in the show. Then the enterprise pursuit musicoh shit flash backs let me stop typing sry all.

[altfactor]

"Doomsday Machine" was one episode of "Star Trek" that benefited greatly from being remastered with updated special effects.

But wasn't the original episode nominated for an Emmy in visual effects??

[TheInspector3000]

if the new star trek movies, want to be action based, then need to take a lesson from "Doomsday"

[catsamurai16]

This episode scared me when I was younger. The original design of the Planet Killer scared the crap outta me. I like this design as well.

[LoranCehack]

My all-time favorite Trek episode. As much as I liked the original, the remastered effects make it a LOT easier to tell what's going on in the ship fights.

[OLDSMARKARL]

Neat...this has always been my fav episode...the attack sequences and view "down the booms" while Enterprise is pursued are great! The Constellation going into the "maw" of the Planet Killer sure beats the original shot of the old AMT kit sailing into it! Nice to see they made the old stuff more viewable for the newer generations. Thanks for sharing! :-)

[ronniekyo]

Wow that one big hurt to the dick! LOL

[mdimascio]

Definitely the most well done remaster of them all. The doomsday machine is so well done and very scary and ominous. Superb work on this one.

[astronomy00]

This scared the heck out of me when I was little.

[morath11]

I love how you're showing the effects. I unfortunatly bought a whole series version from a company called Phrinck.com which showed a cool cover for the remastered version for only $48.78. I got screwed. I got the original version of TOS. I'll just go ahead and get either DVD or Blu-Ray and full price

[jhmoonman]

Very good! One of My favorite star trek videos! 

[terrance217]

The original jagged and twisted doomsday machine looked better.

[Bla31n]

Tood bad they never used the Planet Killer for TNG (or DS9) to make an appearence.

[enterprise160]

@Bla31n

There was a Star Trek novel titled Vendetta, written by Peter David, that featured a larger more advanced Doomsday Machine. The Next Generation crew discovered it, and learned that it was built to fight the Borg.

[conroyva]

@enterprise160 And the ending of that book is one of the biggest cop outs of all time. It read like the author got to the end of his page limit and suddenly had to pull something out of thin air to end the novel. No way to break Warp 10 my left foot. The original Enterprise did it when hi-jacked and taken toward Andromeda.

[americanmonarchist]

@Bla31n It'd of been great against the Borg & The Dominion!

[wolfwing1]

@Bla31n There was a star trek next generation book with a woman, that managed to find where it came from and a more powerful version of it that she took to try to destroy the borg.

[TheChoujinVirus]

@Bla31n

you do get to fight it in Star Trek Online

[Ashenion22]

Just simple new touches, like a space debris, hiting the saucer section of the U.S.S. Constellation, makes the (updated) original Trek worth watching.

[CoyoteBuddy]

Those are some pretty amazing upgrades!

Does anybody else find that the lights inside the Doomsday Machine look like the beginning of a migraine headache, or is that just me?

[violinmerchant]

Yeah, if they actually had legit cgi and didn't use the fake as hell FX camera angles, it could have potentially been an improvement over the visual style of the first. You'll notice the best CG shots are the ones that take place in the background, like after the doomsday machine is disabled. It's because of the camera angles.

[jsbeerman]

good efx...but the planet killer looks stubby.....not a mile long, looks like a cigar

[mfc90125]

7 minutes of FX...it's like planetary killer joy!! Gotta love Decker's death scene. Thanks for posting this.

[CaptainBuckRogers]

Good heavens. The new FX...blow. Why oh why do they have to butcher the old series. Clean it up. Remaster it digital but can u please leave the old fashioned shows alone! We have enough obvious and fake-looking CGI, Thank u. If u don't agree. I'm sorry but I hate CGI. I like model which they made look real, costumes and real puppetters. CGI is not progress. Its regress.

[DevilMaster]

@CaptainBuckRogers I couldn't disagree more. Models look the wrong kind of real: they look like real toys, real puppets and real stickers being dragged across the screen, and I find that more anti-immersive than even the worst CGI could ever be.

[EnergonCubed]

I love this episode so much!! But the effects of the Doomsday Machine being destroyed in the original are actually better than than this enhanced version it's true!! They had the right idea about how it would look for sure!

[quacksacker]

Balance of Terror would be my favorite episode.

[wlt777]

At 2:33..............That's a GREAT shot of the crippled U.S.S. CONSTELLATION! Except for the damaged nacelles and a portion of the saucer section torn or ripped apart, I love how this starship resembles the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE!...........As well as the U.S.S. DEFIANT,, the U.S.S. EXCALIBUR, the U.S.S. EXETER, and the U.S.S. LEXINGTON!..........I think that covers the Original Constitution Class Starships?!

[Steve17010]

@wlt777 There were 12 Constitution-class starships, including the Constitution, the Kongo, the Intrepid, and the Lexington.

[Steve17010]

@wlt777 Wikipedia states that the Constitution class had 15 ships.

[jsharp1701]

@Steve17010 Canonically, only 12 were definitely made mention of (in "Tomorrow is Yesterday"). Only ten were ever given names (either in dialogue or on computer screens) in the various series or films. Memory Alpha (the Trek Wiki) gives a full explanation.

[Nowhereman10]

@jsharp1701 Actually the lines of dialog are"

CHRISTOPHER: Must have taken quite a lot to build a ship like this.

KIRK: There are only twelve like it in the fleet.

So the Enterprise, plus twelve more ships. Thirteen ships total at that time, and they probably built more.

[a1700zz]

nice work, Still numero uno

[universaljudge]

that is so lame

[makaio1985]

I hate remasters, they beauty of the old show was the effort they put into it with the budget and technology they had.

[gamgee87]

@makaio1985 I agree...it loses it's charm this way...

[amymjennings]

The only episode the new FX people really nailed right!. One out of 80 great job here, I mean it. Windom made the episode great.

[valuvian]

I think the enhanced effects was overdone. Like why was the Enterprise reworked when it looked fine just as it is? The sharpening of the graphics for HD for the most part is acceptable. If it were up to me I would have improved the graphics only where it most obviously was needed and that would have been only a few places. But also, I think adding advanced graphics techniques to a 1960s style Tv show just doesn't go together.

[alucard624]

Out of all the TOS episodes to get remastered, THIS was the one that I was looking forward too, as it was the most space heavy in regards to special effects. The original version is downright pathetic compared to this new version. They did a great job of finally giving the doomsday machine the originally intended scale in size compared to the other two ships.

[drdalek]

@alucard624 Ah, yes, I remember reading about the original, that the shuttlecraft appeared to be the same size as the starships. O_o

[evilkirk13331]

The Terran Empire would have half the Fleet there to share in the glory of the Kill!

[evilkirk13331]

Decker was a Fool! He should had never took on the that Machine with out Intructions from Star Fleet Command!

[thediremoose]

@evilkirk13331 True, but remember that Decker had just suffered the loss of his entire crew to that thing and was driven out of guilt and a need for revenge.

[mastersduhgree]

Did the original show the big turd puking the other star ship out?

[mastersduhgree]

Did they have photon torpedoes back when these episodes were made? Does anyone know when the torpedoe came to use?

[thediremoose]

@mastersduhgree

Photon torpedoes were first used in "Arena" during the first season of TOS, so yes they were in use at this point.

[LT1HILLINGHOE]

That Doomsday Machine they used in the original series always put me in the mind of a Bugles snack cruch.

[bealio721]

Sweet Jesus!  Why can't they make the Enterprise or any other ship fly in a straight line?

[gsxer13]

That was one of the best episode they made.

[rekcart1]

Great episode that keeps you hanging on the edge of your--- with or without enhancement!

[Lx3IV]

Well, there is the direction "down" from a first person perspective. But can it truly be considered "down"?

[Data1701E]

Everything works on all 3 axis. X, Y and Z, so yes in a way there is a "down" in space.

[jimdaddy65]

Is there really a (down) in space?

[derpenstein]

This is a bad-ass sci-fi concept. If you think about the size of the universe, there have got to be some doomsday machines out there. But rather than a massive planet smasher, they'd probably take the form of large masses of nanomachines that would consume the planet from the surface to the core, replcating and moving on.

[switcherdawna]

I saw this episode a while back without being sure it was this version.,.. and I was transfixed to the TV (I wish I videotaped it). One thing though, after 'it' was destroyed, why does it fall 'down'... ? There was no planet nearby (it had been destroyed), and 'gravity' wouldn't have affected it.

[polikia22u]

the explosion moved it

most likely

[M1903A1]

One detail I wish they'd left in from the old F/X...when the Constellation exploded inside the planetkiller, you could actually see the planetkiller bulge out a bit. Which makes some sense...I mean, neutronium may be impervious to phasers, but 97 megatons is still one hell of a lot of power!

I've always felt that the scenes in Constellation's engine room looked too clean. It's damaged and they're hotwiring the ship to make it work...I'd expect open panels, bypass cables, damaged stuff etc..

[mastersduhgree]

@M1903A1 Hanging wires and burnt panels

[TheKevinV08]

I'd say that the remastered version has a Enterprise that looks too digital, models make it have more realism... next time just add better special effects.

[wwclay86]

too bad there wasnt a planetkiller/borg episode in next gen, voyager, or ds9. bet it would been badass. theres a novel called "vendetta" that has that storyline. woulda made a hell of a movie!

[SunTrapped]

One of my favorite episodes from the original series. Fantastic!!!!

[CurstSaden]

Usually I prefer the original episodes over the remastered ones, but I have to admit this version is awesome!

[karkrashinc]

I've always wondered why they didn't try firing up it's 'mouth'. It might not have worked but it would seem more logical to me to try it.

[SunTrapped]

Your right, probably with ship damaged Spook would stay away from the firing angle.

[SeansCafe]

Very nice work. About three years ago I saw a snippet of something Paramount had tried back in the 90's. They have since removed it. The gave the machine more of metallic look.

[MRJAVIER196619862009]

THE BEST STAR TREK EPISODE EVER!!

[JMC47000]

i agree my favorite too

[hooweelewis]

this was james doohan (scotty's) favorite episode. THE ORIGINAL deathstar. Nothing new under the sun, eh Mr. G. LUCAS? just like everything else in star wars, completely derivative.

[VandalStork]

I've always liked the Doomsday Machine itself. It has a truly alien appearance and design, with an almost organic quality about it. I could imagine it being composed of some fantasticly dense crystaline substance, grown about a small, artificial sun by a race like Lovecrafts "Mi-Go" or "Elder Things". It's beautiful, simple...and creepy as heck. This and the Death Star are my favorite giant weapon designs : > )

[Peter7Paul]

looks good, but somehow I prefer the un-remastered version.

[78kokka]

I also like the "original" Doomsday Machine, but in frontal shots it lacked of depth. The new one has it.

Anyway, with or without FX this is a great episode, due to the plot and the acting.

[bondurango]

This is the 2nd time they re-mastered it & did a much better job than before. But it also goes to show that the FX don't carry the drama. Long before Jaws, TOS did it's narrative version of Moby Dick with Decker as Ahab. William Windom gives the series its best guest starring performance. But without Sol Kaplan's incomparable music score much of the dramatic weight would be lost. This episode is a text book masterpiece of cinematic montage.

[planthi80]

@bondurango Right on~!

[RedPortiaOne]

@bondurango I think they primarily remastered star trek to bring it into the 21st century. the storyline is extremely important I agree however the special affects of the original series without remastered does look extremely outdated. Thus they remastered the entire series. I heard that they are going to be remastering star trek the next generation within the next year or so. I'm looking extremely forward to that!

[bondurango]

@RedPortiaOne

I hate NG. It's metaphysics over morality. As drama, it's melodramatic. It's sappy sentimentality with a lot of techno-babble. Improving the FX on NG is just gilding the manure pile.

[RedPortiaOne]

@bondurango I don't know if you think you're talking about but tng has plenty of morality. Thats the basis of any of roddenberry's creations in star trek. I can name at least a dozen episodes right off the top of my head of t n g that are moral based. if you personaly hate t ng thats your opinion but don't go saying that that show has no moral value because that's the stupidest statement anyone can say

[bondurango]

@RedPortiaOne

blah, blah, blah

Whenever you put words into somebody else's mouth you're just arguing with your self.

Stupid is as stupid does, bitch.

STFU!

[KJOSCOT]

@bondurango I second that. This is the episode that got me into the show. Watched it since I was 4 years old.

[mikeluvrs]

i could watch this episode a million time and still be like a kid watching it for the first time. And with the FX recreation it's even better. Somewhere in heaven Gene Roddenberry is smiling!

[dagiffy]

This one and Balance of Terror are my favorites. I was on the edge of my seat every second.

[bobosharkey]

By far the best early Star trek episode.

[MeisterMurray]

Ahh... The Doomsday Machine. Very First Star Trek episode ever saw. :¬) And that was only a week or two ago. Hooked since.

[EnlightenedRogue]

Once the Constellation's hull is pierced wouldn't the entire ship be uninhabitable let alone have no artificial gravity? Great episode but how can something powerful enough to destroy planets not be able to crush a starship even with deflectors at full power?

[corvus1970]

No. The ships have interior bulkhead doors, remember? They can shut off any sections that have been exposed to vacuum, and hull integrity has virtually nothing to do with artificial gravity.

[EnlightenedRogue]

I found it amazing (even as an 8 year old watching reruns) how Scotty and his skeleton crew can get the Constellation back on its feet. Decker's engineers abandoned ship and Scotty as usual works his miracles. He earned his pay for the week!

[wlt777]

Poor Commadore Matt Decker! His bravery and that of the late U.S.S. Constellation will forever go down in the United Federation Of Planets history! We'll always love the galantry of Commodore Decker and the U.S.S. Constellation 4-Ever!!

[jarvisbrodiea1]

So much better than the original!

[FLAME4564]

lol the only thing to me between the size of the planet killer, the starships aswell as the shuttles is they are actualy seen like that from a viewscreen but when u see these things upclose thats where things start to get interesting.

[jsfowler2009]

This is, without a doubt, my favorite episode and this remastering is INCREDIBLE. Is this version available for download anywhere?

[yohannbiimu]

Re-enhanced or not, this has always been one of my favorite episodes. Actually, the newer imagery actually adds to the drama for me.

[photons66]

In my opinion, the best of all the remastered episodes. Nothing looks out of place, it all looks so much better and above all, enjoyable. I have no gripes with the old effects but I did find that the old effects let this episode down. The battle sequences felt static and the scaling of the ships were wrong too.

[CCACFilms]

Not to mention this one had some of the most realistic-appearing effects.

[toddsmitts]

The Constellation looks great here, but I really like how they fixed the size discrepancy between the shuttle and the starships.

Originally, when the shuttle gets eaten, it appears to be the same size relative to the weapon as the Enterprise and the Constellation.

Plus since it's not just recycled footage of the Galileo anymore, they were able to give the ill-fated shuttle a number (#6) and a name (the Einstein).

[garrisonskunk]

I always liked the shot of them walking in front of the viewscreen. I could just imagine Marc Daniels saying "We gotta do something to freshen up the bridge scenes..someone slap a picture of a starfield over the greenscreen and have Shatner walk in front of it." Especially when they repeat the exact same shot with Spock in the end.

Would have been a cute in joke to leave the old effects in the shots as seen on the Constellation's damaged viewscreen. Guess Scotty got the HD receiver working :)

[Steve17010]

The remastered Constellation and doomsday machine are outstanding.

[paktype]

Ever notice that the planet killer looks a lot like a giant joint? Maybe that was Roddenberry's little joke vis a vis the '60s drug culture.

[Tito1701]

You know it DOES look like a giant joint!

Pot references, always funny!

[jordinyc]

OK so wait, this IS what they're showing on My 9? Like WWOR 9? Coz there's like no ads for it or anything, in fact they're only showing it around midnight like WPIX11 did back in the 70's and 80's (which I seriously DOUBT they're doing as an homage).

I saw the Zephram Chocrane ep a few days ago and the camera angles on the exteriors were all swoopy, unlike the old stationary cam and hanging-from-fishing-line models they had in 1967.

[Xindi1985]

What is your question?

[Spud13ify]

@Xindi1985 I was thinkin the same thing LOL

[Spud13ify]

@Xindi1985 Just wondering. I actually saw this remastered episode on t.v when it came out and I could have sworn they changed the sound effect of the doomsday machine's main weapon. It sounded like a deep buzzing sound. If you dubbed it over with the original sound effect than well done. It's far superior.

[morath11]

@jordinyc They probably are or were. It's the best way to watch the original series. If you did watch it did you notice if the live action-not special effects-were better. I'm talking dialoge scenes that had FX at all. Just conversation. Did they fix those. I have to explain the first time I caught these I didn't have cable so I saw them on Fox, and I had fuzzy reception. But knew they had done something I couldn't put my finger on.

[morath11]

@morath11 I meant no FX at all. Did they fix the footage

[Franciszek64]

Does it will be in Blu-Ray version?????????

[retro38]

my favorite TOS episode. still haven't got to see the remastered yet;will most likely have to wait until the second season comes out unless someone has a copy of it now they would part with