Spacelift: Transporting Trek Into the 21st Century (2011 Video) User Reviews

Spacelift: Transporting Trek Into the 21st Century

[Scarecrow-88 · 7/10 · 26 December 2016]

Quite the undertaking, the classic Star Trek show was about to go under the knife and get a nice facelift with its visual effects, print, and score going through some cleanups and updates with computer processes the 21st century afforded. However, sadly as it might be, even in five years technology of 2016 could have done *even more* to update the show that in 2011. Just the same, what I like about the blu-ray Star Trek series set is that if you want to remain mostly a purist, there's a feature that allows you to see the Enterprise and special effects as they were in 1966-69. If you like the changes made (and additional special effects here and there made according to the episodes in the series), then there's a feature that will let you watch the show's episodes "revamped". This little doc added to the first disc of the series blu set follows those involved in the process and cluing us in on what they did and how they were involved. Like the Enterprise, how they elaborated the ship and detailed it more. Or how the Gorn warrior in "Arena" (one of my all time favorite episodes) blinks. Or the way the Enterprise slingshots around the sun or its presence in the earth's sky. The additional design in "The Carbonate Maneuver", the orchestra gathered to enhance the Alexander Courage score, and the cleanup process of the flawed negatives of the show where plenty of color, scratch, and other surface damage were visible for improvement. More than likely when you watch the show now it would feature all the updates but if you have the blu set the special effects sequences of yesteryear remain intact so purists still can see the show almost as it once was. Win-win. As far as the special doc, if you like seeing geniuses speak on the cleanup process and provide an inside look at that very process this might be of certain interest. I especially enjoyed the orchestral inside look at juicing up the Courage score in the studio. The process was done in s loving respectful way with Roddenberry's memory and vision for the show in mind. It isn't all that long, though, and seems to kind of give us a brief peek inside what must have been a painstaking but joyous grind into jazzing up a show that deserved to be presented in a pristine form.