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Feb 4, 2018 - 1:21 PM
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Xebec
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I'm not a Star Trek fan but i have seen all the films and probably half of Next Gen and only bits of the other ones.
I saw episodes of the original series as a little kid but mostly remember being a bit frightened of some scary faces in it. So i was either very young or very cowardly, or a bit of both. Anyhow before Christmas i started watching a few episodes of TOS and have since resumed.
It's actually really entertaining. Every episode kicks off straight away into an adventure. There's tons of action - i had it in my head they just stood around talking a lot then reversed phasers and that solved everything. The fight scenes range from not great (Gorn) to some genuinely decent fight choreography that looks like it hurts. There's some interesting camerawork in here too. Like the Mirror Universe episode where Shatner walks out of a lift and gets punched in the face.
The music is really good. It adds so much. Once again i hadn't realised it was so sweeping, thrilling and often quite memorable.
I even like the stylized alien landscape sets and the lush colour throughout the wardrobes. I hadn't realised everything was so colourful.
Shatner has tons of presence, Nimoy is fantastic, and Bones is great too. I like how Bones was portrayed in the JJ Abrams films, Karl Urban got him bang on it seems.
Starting the second series it's good to see how youthful and energetic Chekov was, he's a fun character. It's also fun seeing people like Reggie Nalder, David Soul, the barber from High Plains Drifter, Joan Collins pop up too.
I can see why people liked it so much when it first came out and why it endured. Good entertaining fun.
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Only a few episodes with the new CGI footage ("new" even though they're over 10 years old now) work for me.
"Tomorrow Is Yesterday" hit it out of the park. The Enterprise in Earth's atmosphere looks amazing and the slingshot effect actually makes sense now.
"Space Seed" looks very nice and "Balance of Terror" nailed the Romulan ship.
Some episodes miss the mark. "The Doomsday Machine" has a few wrong-headed changes that don't make any sense (an example of not paying attention to the script of the finished episode before making new FX), and some episodes relaced dynamic shots with cutting edge FX, but more slack pacing. For the most part, I prefer the originals ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" still holds up VERY well).
And no, the old effects don't stick out, they look like they were done in the same era as the live action footage. They don't suffer from Babylon 5 syndrome. Everyone's mileage varies, but I'm just as happy the original FX are still available on the blu-ray sets.
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I'm into season 3 and may have watched too many too quickly. I'm finding a few wpisodes have too little content to fill the time. And there's a few bad episodes and one absolutely awful one that involves creepy children who can control people. Nice idea but I thought it was executed badly, repetetive and just a chore to watch. Also it feels more like they keep finding civilizations based on available wardrobes, ancient Romans, Greeks, Nazis (though that episode was pretty great). Cracking music constantly though. Kirk's spacesuit when he fades in and out of reality isn't the best but made me laugh too.
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