> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>

>> It looks terrible. It's like they've given up any pretense of making it
>> match the original footage, and they're just gonna make it look like
>> what it is: low end CGI.

>
> I actually like the fast-paced swooping Big E and the different 3-D
> camera angles, but they're nothing like the original episode. They went
> beyond "remastering" to "re-imagining." They took the original script
> just as a point of departure for entirely new concepts in SFX, rather
> than just cleaning up what was there before. (That's the same thing
> they did with the energy barrier in "Where No Man Has Gone Before.")
>
> The original conception was the Big E sort of hovering near the Doomsday
> Machine, firing at it with phasers, like one galleon blasting another on
> the high seas in the Age of Sail. Instead, the "remastering" has turned
> the Big E into a kind of X-Wing fighter, dogfighting with the Doomsday
> Machine, swooping back and forth around it. The basic choreography of
> the scene has changed.