50 Years ago...

[megoscott]

http://m.imgur.com/hd3mEmu

The Enterprise was delivered....

[boss]

That's cool!

[Hedji]

Take THAT, CGI!!!! Pew! Pew! Pew!

[TomStrong]

Too awesome. As I get older I seem to prefer conventional special effects to the new cgi. I think the old Star Trek and Star Wars scenes were great. The old puppet yoda is certainly preferable to me than the cgi one.

[Mikey]

Wow !!!, I never seen that pic before !!!!!!!

[ScottA]

That was pretty neat.

[LonnieFisher]

The coolest thing ever!

[TrekStar]

I absolutely love that, that looks great for something that came out 50 years ago.

[HardyGirl]

Late to the party, but loving that picture! I prefer conventional special effects to CGI as well. It actually took more effort and imagination to come up w/ that stuff than to punch keys on a computer.

[palitoy]

While I think CGI is more than just punching keys on a computer, I have been watching the "enhanced" Star Trek TOS lately and I gotta say, give me the old effects back. Some of the scenes look like 90s PC screen savers.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^I've avoided the "enhanced" episodes for this reason. That picture is just astounding. Those guys can't realize how momentous the occasion is.

Chris

[HardyGirl]

While I think CGI is more than just punching keys on a computer, I have been watching the "enhanced" Star Trek TOS lately and I gotta say, give me the old effects back. Some of the scenes look like 90s PC screen savers.

OK, maybe that wasn't the right way to phrase that. But actually coming up w/ the concept, building it and making it appear that it's actually flying takes more blood, sweat and tears than CGI. And I agree w/ the re-mastered versions. The exteriors look phony, and even some of the aliens come out wrong. The Children of Vaal in "The Apple" are supposed to be orange, but they look like regular flesh tone in the re-mastered version.

[Mikey]

My older brother-in-law that's still in the stone-age for TV likes said it best.

He said the new Star Trek CGI on the Classic Series looks like a "cartoon"

Couldn't have said it better myself

[palitoy]

I think I watched Journey to Babel the other night and while the people shots looked nice and crisp, when Sarek's shuttle arrived, I was completely taken out of the moment. It looked weak and then the cg model didn't match the physical prop (!)

[huedell]

Practical vs. CGI for ST:TOS?

From what I can tell it's more about the ones in charge cheaping out, than any kind of notable CGI tech lacking.

These days CGI tech is really coming into it's own. There's really no excuse for CGI "fixes" of an iconic show like TOS being as universally unaccepted as TOS' seem to be.