Star Trek Remastered "The Cage" FX-Reel

Here is the FX-Reel from STAR TREKs first pilot fully remastered!
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• roddenberry

[madcapromanian]

I think the new effects are great, esp the "through the dome" shots in the begining and end of the feature. It looks as though the camera ctually goes through the dome and down instead of like you were looking at one piece of film cut through a hole of another.

[Trekfreek]

The original Enterprise deserves to be on the big screen.

[lewisvanatta]

Speaking as an engineer who use to work or aircraft....what "works" (that is, what LOOKS GOOD) on a move or TV screen is usually a whole lot different from what works well in real life. In a "real" starship like the Enterprise, they probably would have a smaller bridge than the movie or NextGen simply for speed of response to orders. Something more like what we saw in "The Hunt for Red October"...which a former submarine officer once told me was almost scarily realistic.

[roninredshade]

I am so happy that we still have Jeffery Hunter's Captain Pike on film somewhere.... great performance....

[brainboob]

I think the bridge set up in this episode looks better than it did in the rest of them. It actually looked somewhat realistic technologically.

[cdname47]

@jetflock I'm willing to bet both JJAbrams and myself are of a "new generation" to you and I think we are right in that the original ship wouldn't work on the big screen (something they also decided in 1979 with The Motion Picture too!)

Those who cling to the TOS model are just confusing nostalgia for design.

And that's absolutely fair enough, everyone is nostalgic to those icons they grew up with.

It doesn't mean any new interpretation is bad just because its not the original.

[jetflock]

@cdname47

The phrase "for a new generation" is bullshit made up by some marketing exec. The original designs lasted for generations and appeal to everyone. We don't necessarily need some flashy "modern" construct to portray an idea that is going to be abstract anyway.

[terranchuck]

To seek out new life and bongo music.

[leone7227]

@cdname47 The Ferrari 250 GTO is still one of the most beautiful cars ever. While the new Ferrari 458 is a good looking car (finally, Ferrari has produced some less than stellar material the last couple of decades), that original GTO is still upheld as one of the benchmarks of all time classic automobile design. (it had a hell of a competition history, as well)

Matt Jeffries' original TOS Enterprise is to Starfleet ship design what the 250 GTO is to automobile design.

[edt558]

I respectfully disagree with that. It's not so much nostalgia in my mind as it is inventiveness and thoughtfulness. Could 40 year old designs work? Sure, but it requires a level of devotion that just does not exist in the business of making films. Films for profit have to mirror their era's, anything else is 'experimental' (like Star Wars was). If you want a stunning example of this, watch 1979's "Star Trek: The Motion Picture".

[cdname47]

So tired of the "JJAbrams should've used a 40 year old design because I thought it was cool when I was 12 and because I feel nostalgic about it a whole new generation will too"

Err, no, they need a new Enterprise for a new generation and I'm glad they redesigned it, they did a damn good job imo.

This model is held back by never being filmed right, either in the 60s, where it looks like its listing in most shots, or the remastered, which copied the 60s look for authenticity...shame