This past weekend I stumbled across an old original (or so I thought) Star Trek episode called “The Doomsday Machine” where a big ugly “horn-o-plenty” looking space robot goes around munching up whole worlds for the sheer mindless fun of it. (Insert your own Wal-Mart joke here)
My 3 1/2 year old son William, who has never seen Star Trek, was immediately mesmerized by the episode, and he and daddy played “space rock monster” using a brown blanket after seeing the evil beast, which looked in the original series like a paper mache’ horn-o-plenty, like you might make in first grade around Thanksgiving, suspended on strings with model space ships around it over a star background. In fact, it was exactly how that was done.
You could always count of the original TV show looking a bit cheesy in the effects department. It goes with William Shatner’s anguished overacting perfectly.
But something about the episode I saw this weekend on Channel 30 caught my eye…lo and behold, the cheesy effects were gone! And while the ‘horn-o-plenty turned space beast’ was still there, it now took on some new 3 dimensional qualities…and then I saw some 3D flybys over the wrecked hulk of the USS Constellation, which also figured in this episode…and to my surprise…IT LOOKED REAL.
Holy cow! Even the view-screen scenes from the deck of the Enterprise look different! Whats going on?
Doing a little web searching I found this: CBS Paramount Confirms Original Star Trek Episodes Have Been Remastered and Updated – High-Definition version of the 1960’s series, featuring new special effects to air soon
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