TNG Blu-Ray

Are the TOS new effects not well thought of? I thought they were pretty well liked, altho, from the comparisons I've seen, they didn't seem very necessary.

To be fair, Wil himself has issues with how young master Crusher was written and received.  Check out Memories of the Futurecast, a podcast Wil did a couple years ago reading excerpts from his book of nearly the same name, Memories of the Future.  Good stuff.

It's a very mixed bag. The colour grading and new matte paintings are fantastic but the CG ship stuff is hit and miss. When it's good it really is good but most the time it didnt meet the standard of Enterprise which had already been off the air for a few years.

I believe the plan was to have Gary Hutzel who had worked on TNG and DS9 and was currently doing BSG come in and supervise it but CBS had just bought the rights to Trek had decided they owned a CG house and that since the original show had about 4 flybys they could do it.

of course they didnt want to just recreat the original stock shots that got used over and over so they had much more work then they expected.

they bought a fan model of the Enterprise which had far too much detail and took far too long to render. Apparently you could zoom in to see screws on the bulkhead.

after the first batch of episodes (they did them out of order) they made a lower pologon version which gave them more useable shots

It would have been great if it was 1999 and you can't really hold up the original grainy model shots as being better but it just felt like it could have been better.

hope I explained that alright, its late and i'm tired

*shrug*

Fair do 

It's the fact they kept the original model footage that I find amazing. Makes you cry all the more that all the Babylon 5 CG data was erased, making any updating of its FX to match the HD live action footage too expensive (as well as screwing later TV movies over)

Nothing wrong with that 

I think TNG and DS9 will do well with the HD update. I do not think it will date itself quite as much as with the originals.

Brief nerd moment-um, am I the only one who noticed that the impulse engines on the saucer section were not lit up?   

It's because, as originally designed, the saucer impulse engines are only activated when the saucer is separated, which holds throughout TNG and the use of the practical model. It's not until the CGI model in DS9 that the saucer engines are consistently lit up.

There's another kind?

Yeah, this shit is too important to be lax about.

Star Trek is the thing with Ewoks, right?

All this time I've assumed it was a thing based on Biggles, but in space.