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Post by CRAMBAM on Dec 13, 2012 9:33:49 GMT -5
Without Nimoy, it would have essentially been a pure reboot. You wouldn't even have needed time travel, and the plot would totally be different. Not sure if that's better or worse.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Jan 8, 2013 13:56:54 GMT -5
Over at io9:7 minutes of super-creepy Star Trek: TNG test footage It's not as funny as that Star Trek: The Next Generation blooper reel from a few weeks ago, but what this recently unearthed costume and make-up test footage lacks in humor in more than makes up for in creepiness, especially via its bizarre musical accompaniment. More » io9.com/5974160/7-minutes-of-super+creepy-star-trek-tng-test-fo otage
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Post by Mel on Jan 9, 2013 5:39:34 GMT -5
The music wasn't as creepy as the incarnations that lead to the Bunhead (who knew there were worse choices!). Oy vey! As for Frakes, I was surprised by how much he reminded me of Barry Williams (Greg Brady) from The Brady Bunch!
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Post by TrekBeatTK on Mar 15, 2013 19:34:40 GMT -5
Well, with the TNG season 3 blu-ray approaching, there will be another theatrical screening event, and this time it's Best of Both Worlds. This is supposed to be both parts shown in feature-length format, with all the usual behind-the-scenes stuff they've been showing as well. I didn't go to the last one, but it's BOBW, so I'm definitely going to this one. Even though I've seen them so many times now. It's on Thursday night April 25th. More info here: www.fathomevents.com/#!star-trek-best-of-both-worlds |
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Mar 16, 2013 1:58:31 GMT -5
Well, with the TNG season 3 blu-ray approaching, there will be another theatrical screening event, and this time it's Best of Both Worlds. This is supposed to be both parts shown in feature-length format, with all the usual behind-the-scenes stuff they've been showing as well. I didn't go to the last one, but it's BOBW, so I'm definitely going to this one. Even though I've seen them so many times now. It's on Thursday night April 25th. More info here: www.fathomevents.com/#!star-trek-best-of-both-worlds
I think I'm going to check this one out. I hope to anyway.
And keep your chin up, TK --at least you'll be seeing it remastered, and with upgraded, superior FX for the first time. |
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Post by Mel on Mar 16, 2013 10:29:57 GMT -5
I clicked on the link, although, living in the boonies, I figured none of these events were near me.
The Buy Tickets link knew which city I'm near, without me putting in any info. The map then went to Seattle, and displayed several theaters showing these events. I would love to go, but Seattle is too far away.
I dunno how these things know where I live. I've asked about it before, and someone speculated that my ISP gives my location. (I don't like it that links know where I live!)
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Mar 16, 2013 11:08:34 GMT -5
I dunno how these things know where I live. I've asked about it before, and someone speculated that my ISP gives my location. (I don't like it that links know where I live!) They don't know your exact location, Mel, as in, they're not reading your home address if that's what you're worried about; they are able to detect your general area via your ISP and the servers your account is being channeled through at the location of your provider. That's why they can see your general area/region that you're working from. I also get the sense that you don't clean your cache regularly, so your machine is probably loaded to the gills with tracking cookies that you've picked up while surfing the Internet. That's why it's wise to dump all that garbage periodically. I'm sure you're seeing ads on the various Web Pages you're visiting which allude to your general location/borough pushing various products and services on you pretty much wherever you go. Drop me an email, or a Private Message here, if you'd like me to advise you on how to deal with that nonsense and do away with it. |
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Post by Mel on Mar 16, 2013 19:44:53 GMT -5
Thanks for the explanation. As for cleaning my cache, I do it every couple of hours. I play games online that tax my computer's memory, so I clean frequently. I also run cleaning software from time to time.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Apr 12, 2013 11:30:33 GMT -5
Over at TrekNews:WATCH: New Star Trek: TNG Season 3 and “Best of Both Worlds” Blu-ray Previews
April 12, 2013
By TrekNews.net Staff
In Star Trek: TNG, TNG in HD CBS Home Entertainment has released new promotional videos for the upcoming release of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3 on Blu-ray along with the standalone “Best of Both Worlds” Blu-ray disc. Check out the videos below. Both TNG Season 3 and “Best of Both Worlds” are scheduled to hit store shelves on April 30th. Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3: The Blu-ray set contains all 26 Season 3 episodes plus a bevy of special features. According to the Amazon product listing, special features include: Mission Overview: Year Three… Read More » www.treknews.net/2013/04/12/new-star-trek-tng-season-3-best-of-both-worlds-blu-ray-video/
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Post by TrekBeatTK on Apr 12, 2013 16:24:39 GMT -5
Interesting they're releasing BOBW on its own. I wonder if they'll try out other 2-parters as individual discs. Perhaps there's a market for folks who don't want whole seasons or who have whole seasons on DVD but would buy certain episodes on blu-ray. I'm sure there are VOY fans who wouldn't mind having just "Scorpion" or something like that but don't want whole seasons of VOY.
Or they could put some of those Dominion Arc DS9's together.
Considering all those "Fan Collective" sets they put out on DVD, it wouldn't surprise me. One theme they never exploited that they could have is the Maquis. I think it would be nice to have all the Maquis eps from TNG through VOY in one place.
-TK
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Post by CRAMBAM on Apr 17, 2013 9:01:56 GMT -5
They could do all of that, but BOBW is different because it was more epic.
With very few changes, it could have been a hell of a movie.
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Post by Mel on Apr 17, 2013 16:05:00 GMT -5
They could do all of that, but BOBW is different because it was more epic. With very few changes, it could have been a hell of a movie. |
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Post by CRAMBAM on Apr 18, 2013 22:43:57 GMT -5
Instead we got FC, which really was not as good as BOBW. They tried to make the Borg more menacing, but it wasn't the same. Plus, the Borg's logic was so flawed that it didn't make sense.
You send one ship, and it nearly takes out the entire Federation.
Ok...send 2 ships.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Apr 25, 2013 15:52:22 GMT -5
Over at TrekNews.net:See TNG’s “The Best Of Both Worlds” In Theaters Tonight For One Night OnlyApril 25, 2013 By TrekNews.net Staff In Star Trek: TNG, TNG in HD  Tonight’s the night. In celebration of the release of the complete third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the “Best of Both Worlds” single disc on Blu-ray, CBS Home Entertainment and Fathom Events brings a special feature-length event to theaters on Thursday. The “Best of Both Worlds” two-part episode will be shown in select theaters on at 7 PM (local time). Those attending the event will also get a glimpse of some of the behind-the-secenes special features that will be included in the “Best of Both Worlds” Blu-ray… Read More » www.treknews.net/2013/04/25/tng-best-of-both-worlds-theater-event-thursday/
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Post by CRAMBAM on Apr 25, 2013 21:55:13 GMT -5
I would have liked to see that, but I went to the Yankees game instead.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Apr 26, 2013 11:46:41 GMT -5
I would have liked to see that, but I went to the Yankees game instead.
I went to the screening last night. I expected to be the only one in the theater because I went alone for the hell of it and was very surprised to see a good fifty people in the theater. I missed about five minutes of the half-hour documentary they ran before the episodes because I stopped to get a soda, but it didn't really bother me because I know it'll all be on the Blu-ray come next week when it's released.
One of the things that bugged me about the presentation was that the documentary was full-screen, but when they got to the episodes they were cropped, with black bars on the right and left of the picture. I believe they could have altered the format so that the episodes, which were spliced together, with no Introduction going into Part 2, appeared in a 16X9 format instead, but apparently they foolishly believe that presenting it in its original aspect ratio was somehow respecting the original work. That just doesn't hold up well nowadays though, wherein so many people are watching theirs shows and movies on widescreen flatscreen TVs.
All-in-all, I could have waited for the Blu-ray to come out next week. The new effects didn't especially impress me; in fact, I was rather underwhelmed by how those sequences were redone actually. They still have an animated, cartoon-look, which I hated about the effects work in TNG. You can notice the CGI overlay in the textures in a few scenes, particularly when looking at a pass of the Enterprise-D, but I was hoping they did more of a complete overhaul. I would have preferred it if the effects work looked more like what we saw in "Enterprise", which in itself looks a bit dated now compared to what can be done with CGI presently as opposed to eight or ten years ago, but it would still be preferable. I now know exactly what to expect from the Blu-ray sets of TNG though, and you can see all of the imperfections in costume design and sets that the producers undoubtedly would have preferred our not noticing.
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Post by TrekBeatTK on Apr 26, 2013 12:41:17 GMT -5
See I feel just the opposite. I liked that they didn't crop it for widescreen. And I was actuallly annoyed that they bothered to redo some of the effects. I accept that they have to re do the animated effects like phaser hits and such which were originally done in standard video. But there was no reason to CG "enhance" the explosion of the Borg ship. This ticks me off as unnecessary since all the original model/explosion elements should still be intact on film. And seeing the side-by-side comparison, I prefer the original.
During one of the scenes I actually started to feel like Locutus and the Borg were spokespeople for blu-ray. "Why do you resist us? We only wish to improve quality of life" And there's even a point he says of Data "you will be obsolete in the new order" which seems just what the HD prophets say of everything else. Sorry, I continue to believe resistance is not futile.
Still fun night, and I enjoyed the blooper reel. But why the heck was Seth MacFarlane's ugly mug in that doc? Who gives a crap what he has to say?
-TK
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Post by CRAMBAM on Apr 26, 2013 22:52:07 GMT -5
You have no idea how cold it gets at night at the Stadium this time of year, and it's an unusually cold year too. The Mets played a day game. The Yanks played at night. But the last 2 nights weren't that bad.
I never go to weekday day games, except opening day, and rarely go on weekends.
As for BOBW, if you're making a movie out of it, go all out, and create an extended battle at Wolf 359.
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Post by captainbasil on Apr 27, 2013 7:45:12 GMT -5
Over at TrekNews.net:See TNG’s “The Best Of Both Worlds” In Theaters Tonight For One Night OnlyApril 25, 2013 By TrekNews.net Staff In Star Trek: TNG, TNG in HD Tonight’s the night. In celebration of the release of the complete third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the “Best of Both Worlds” single disc on Blu-ray, CBS Home Entertainment and Fathom Events brings a special feature-length event to theaters on Thursday. The “Best of Both Worlds” two-part episode will be shown in select theaters on at 7 PM (local time). Those attending the event will also get a glimpse of some of the behind-the-secenes special features that will be included in the “Best of Both Worlds” Blu-ray… Read More » www.treknews.net/2013/04/25/tng-best-of-both-worlds-theater-event-thursday/ I was out of town anyway, but I would have considered seeing this. I like the Fathom Events. At Halloween my wife and I went to a screening of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein that was a co-production between Fathom and Turner Classic Movies (the only cable channel worth having). The theater was surprisingly full and the crowd was of all age groups. It was a fun night. This thing just sounds like a bloated Blu-Ray commercial. |
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Post by TrekBeatTK on Apr 27, 2013 9:57:27 GMT -5
As for BOBW, if you're making a movie out of it, go all out, and create an extended battle at Wolf 359. I really wouldn't want to see them create stuff just for the sake of it, but I do think it would have been cool to cut the Wolf 359 scene with Sisko from "Emissary" into the episode. -TK |
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Apr 29, 2013 1:50:05 GMT -5
You have no idea how cold it gets at night at the Stadium this time of year, and it's an unusually cold year too.
It's gotten warmer the last few days though, finally.As for BOBW, if you're making a movie out of it, go all out, and create an extended battle at Wolf 359. |
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Apr 29, 2013 2:11:16 GMT -5
This thing just sounds like a bloated Blu-Ray commercial.
What bothers me about this release though, is as I said, that it's presented cropped so as to preserve its original aspect ratio, so if you're watching it on a flatscreen, there will be black bars on the right and left, and that makes absolutely no sense to me. They've reformatted the classic "Doctors Who" episodes that they're showing once a month on BBCAmerica for full 16X9 viewing so that none of the screen goes to waste, with the image taking up all of it, and they most certainly could have done the same thing with "The Best of Both Worlds", but chose not to. From a business standpoint, it was a very poor decision in my view. As a matter of fact, BBCAmerica shows TNG in an almost full 16X9 format, and that's not even the Blu-ray releases that they're broadcasting. It's still the original episodes released on DVD. There's still about an inch of unused screen space on each side of the screen with those episodes, and I don't know what the formatting issue is there because it doesn't take up the entire screen, but it's still a lot better than BoBW will look on the Blu-ray release. |
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Apr 29, 2013 14:14:25 GMT -5
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Post by Mel on May 1, 2013 1:13:47 GMT -5
That's very funny, as you wrote it.
We have resisted. We own dumb flip phones that don't text and nothing Blu-Ray equipped.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on May 7, 2013 16:37:35 GMT -5
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Jul 14, 2013 12:04:48 GMT -5
I get a kick out of when people who post ask to be proven wrong over there, which is fairly often.
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Post by CRAMBAM on Jul 15, 2013 7:46:02 GMT -5
That movie stinks. Even the writers have backed off it.
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Post by captainbasil on Jul 15, 2013 18:55:43 GMT -5
That movie stinks. Even the writers have backed off it. My biggest problem with Generations, besides the obvious ignoble death of Kirk, is that it just fails both casts, TOS and TNG. It seemed to me that Paramount didn't quite have enough faith in the TNG cast to carry the whole picture and it used TOS members to pad it and their characters were treated poorly. |
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Post by CRAMBAM on Jul 16, 2013 7:15:06 GMT -5
This is very true. Hell, they took McCoy's lines, crossed them out, and just had Chekov read them.
Picard looked not only like a wimp, but a moron.
You can travel to any place, and any time, to prevent a disaster, and you pick the spot where the odds of succeeding are the least?
That's like trying to prevent 9/11 by showing up at the WTC at 8:30 after the planes have already been hijacked.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Jul 20, 2013 11:21:45 GMT -5
Came across this over at reddit . . .
Over at TrekCore:
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