Star Trek: "The Doomsday Machine" (Part 1 of 8)

This video is my "reimagining" of the visual effects from the classic 1967 "Star Trek" episode "The Doomsday Machine". I am the sole creator of all of the models and images you see in the revised visual effects sequences.

I started this project way back in 2005, long before Paramount and CBS Home Video got the bright idea in their heads to remaster the original series in high definition and with new CGI effects. Well, that project, which involved 79 episodes (eighty if you count "The Cage" pilot episode) has started and finished (and they did a great job!) in the time it's taken me to get not quite halfway through one episode. Admittedly, I picked what is arguably the most effects-heavy episode in the original series, and they had a small platoon of people working around the clock, whereas I'm one amateur hobbyist working in his scattered free time... but still--five years??!

So! I hope you enjoy my take on part 1of this classic episode of "Star Trek". You can find part 2 by following this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73eE9d0ve8

Hopefully parts 3 through 8 will see the light of day in 2010! Visit my website at http://www.scottgammans.com to watch "work in progress" videos as I post them on my blog, and thanks in advance for your feedback!

PLEASE NOTE: This presentation is not endorsed by CBS Studios Inc. or Paramount Pictures Corporation and should not be confused with the official Star Trek: Remastered episodes syndicated by CBS Television Distribution and available on Blu-Ray and DVD from CBS Studios Inc. (Be sure to buy the Blu-Ray season box sets. They are totally awesome!)

This presentation is a reimagining of the original visual effects from the classic 1967 Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine". This performance is being presented strictly for free, private, in-home entertainment purposes only.

"Star Trek" and various related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation. No infringement on the copyrights, trademarks or intellectual property rights of CBS Studios Inc. or Paramount Pictures Corporation is implied or intended. Live action footage and background music is from the 1967 "Star Trek" episode "The Doomsday Machine" and is copyright (c) 1967/2009 CBS Studios Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corporation.

It is ILLEGAL to sell, rent, or show this video performance in a for-profit public venue. If you paid for a video disc, tape or other media containing this presentation or paid to view this performance, please report it at www.scottgammans.com.

Thanks... and enjoy the show.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Star Trek
• The Doomsday Machine
• planet killer
• USS Enterprise
• USS Constellation
• remastered
• CGI
• visual effects

[MrJuno6]

"She may have been wrecked by whatever destroyed the solar system". Great logic Mr Spock !

[PrfMoriarty]

@MrJuno6 That's probably why the junior officers call him Commander Obvious behind his back. And well out of range of his Vulcan ears ;)

[Toshiro7777]

Really well done.



[misereiko666]

obviously you used a consumer pc(companies always have more advance tech than the public obviously,even in today's world,but there is a few things i can't mention here)anyway,i know its a fan made thing & thats ok,we all have our favorite shows,movies,etc(the 2009 movie was great too & i can't wait for its sequel.)

[fancyrimz]

cool video,thx

[charodon]

This is really cool. I've only watched the first 4 minutes but I particularly like how you got the screen display as Kirk walks in front of it.

[Venturi01]

THis is GooooooD!

[drslash33]

The only thing I would change in them would be longer bursts or some longer bursts mixed in! And maybe slow down the enterprise when it's going through the debris field. Either way I love the show so I had to dig out mine so I could finish the episode!

GOOD JOB!

[drslash33]

Holy S%*T! I really hate change but I did like the enhanced version I watched a few years back but this is AMAZING!!!! Before whining about it people need to know there will always be the original versions which I will keep and continue to watch over and over. But this....If they don't have you do all of them then they are RETARDS! That was a bad ASS DOOMSDAY MACHINE!!! I would have liked to see how you would have blown it up when Kirk went into it! I also liked the phaser test videos as well.

[Matteax1]

Loved it !!! thx cool work !!!

[jerryscullion]

Please finish this one, Prof!! :)

[Bobbykpghpa]

Awesome job, when are you going to finish the other 4 parts?