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To Boldly Go Where Many Geeks Have Gone Before: A Journey Through Star Trek (TNG Episodes 322-325)
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Zaz
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1/23/07 6:18am
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That looks great.
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Darth-Stryphe posted:
Ah, if you're referring to the Voyager episode that says warp 10 is essentially infinite speed, it is Voyager that is in err. OS, the movies and TNG refer to ships capable of passing the warp 9.whatever limitations. Warp 12 is mentioned more than once. I think warp 13 is the fastest any ST ship traveled.
Actually, according to the warp curve used from TNG onward, an object traveling at Warp 10 would occupy all points in the universe simultaneously. It is the theoretical maximum "in universe".
Of course, in "All Good Things", the future Enterprise reaches Warp 13 (IIRC), but we don't know if they redrew the warp curve again like they did between TOS and TNG.
The old warp curve was basically determined by the formula v = (w^3) * c where w is the warp factor, c is the speed of light, and v is the ship's velocity. Warp 15 on the old scale is about Warp 9.9 on the new scale.
There's some good information in the wikipedia article on warp drive.
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208- I, Mudd:
-Premise: An android takes over the Enterprise and forces Kirk and crew down to a planet of other androids seemingly led by Harry Mudd
-T2Q Comments: Surprisingly, this one wasn't quite as unbearable as Mudd's Women and was obviously TOS's attempt at a comedy episode. It kinda works at times, but is basicly a cartoon sitcom type approach (though Spock's "I love you, but I hate you" line is pretty funny). Also, Uhura's love with immortality comes outta nowhere- must have picked that up in her 2 hour college reeducation... Oh, and Kirk: 4, Computers: 0- yet another machine talked to death by Jimmy boy.
I'll be generous and say it's an "Ok Episode, But Not Necessarily Essential" and, really, that's about the highest it could ever get because otherwise it requires one to have seen Mudd's Women/raikse that episodes classification, and that just isn't going to happen 
209- Metamorphosis:
-Premise: Kirk, Spock and McCoy escort a Federation diplomat who has fallen ill to a serious disease back to the Enterprise, but are forced down to a habitable asteroid by an alin force called The Companion, where they discover a young Zephrane Cochrane
-T2Q Comments: I was pretty surprised to see Cochrane pop up here- i was under the impression he was invented for First Contact, but apparently not. There's apparently a reference to his dissapearance in an Enterprise episode as well, so it kinda all ties together at least.
The episode itself isn't too bad up until the end where it kinda falls apart with the tacked on love story.
With the Cochrane connection, I'll go with "Potentially Essential, But Not Necessarily Good" (a category that's been somewhat bare up until now, only joined by Arena)
210- Journey to Babel:
-Premise: The Enterprise carries several diplomats to an important conference, including Spock's parents- but someone onboard wishes to disrupt the conference and is in contact with a fast and mysterious ship trailing the Enterprise.
-T2Q Comments: Surprisingly good episode- we meet Spock's father (though it's kinda odd to have known him playing the Romulan commander in Balance of Terror) and mother, as well Andorians and Tellorites (the other two founding Federation races besides Humans and Vulcans). Having only primarily known the Andorians through the recurring character on Enterprise, I was pleased to see this still matched the somewhat quirky speech style and look to the Andorians in this episode that that actor on Enterprise injected into his performance. Bones' "Shh! Shh!" at the end was kinda funny too.
With the various core races, especially given the episodes on Enterprise and Sarek's role in future Trek stories, gonna have to give this one a "Definitely Essential" ranking. Looking forward to the remastere dversion hitting soon (the preview of which is up online and shows some promising shots, including the shuttle landing sequence, the Enterprise's pahsers tracking in an attempt to hit the Orion ship, as well as the interesting redesign of the Orion ship itself- which is still a pinwheel of lights, but actually looks like a ship now).
Up next, 211: Friday's Child, 212: The Deadly Years and 213: Obsession.
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Zaz
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Mudd is always a harbinger of a bad episode, though this isn't as bad as "Mudd's Women", quite possibly the worst ST episode ever.
The other two are Essential, I think.
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And finally we have the remastered Doomsday Machine! They did a really good job with this one.
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Zaz
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A bit dark...
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The starship visuals were top notch, but the Doomsday Machine itself looked more cartoony.
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It's motions were better though- I love the "tail cam" shot of it slowly turning after the Enterprise- it's organic feel really adds a bit of creepiness to Spock's "and it is, pursuing us." line.
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I liked the shot where the Doomsday machine was sucking the Enterprise in and then let's it go, and the ENT just goes off.
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Remastered Doomsday, awesome! That's actually one I want remastered.
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The Doomsday Machine has long been my favorite episode. Unfortunately, they play these so late here that I can't always stay awake. I probably saw about 20% of it between nodding off, but it looked great.
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Follow that video link, then, it has all the new FX bits.
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Yep, I checked it out. Very impressive!
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This past weekend's remastered episode was Amok Time, which had only a few, though rather notable, new FX shots, which includes some new establishing shots of the Vuclan landscape more in tune with what we see in the subsequent films and series.
 
 
 
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Apparently they evn considered color-correcting the Vulcan sky to be less red like it is in it's other appearances, but it would have proved too costly.
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Zaz
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Looks very much better, though.
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