Alternate Star Trek TOS Pilot Found 134
Raver32 sends news that the lost second pilot for Star Trek has been found, and will be released next month on Blu-ray. "Star Trek fans know there were two pilots for the original series. The first, 'The Cage,' was rejected by NBC for being 'too cerebral' (ah, some things never change). The second, 'Where No Man Has Gone Before,' replaced the actor who played the captain with William Shatner and was more action driven. That pilot had an alternate version which was largely lost and has never aired. Apparently, a film collector in Germany acquired the print and 'recently brought it to the attention' of CBS/Paramount. CBS is now releasing this version on Blu-ray Dec. 15."
Typical.. (Score:2, Insightful)
Its not you its me (Score:4, Insightful)
'Too cerebral' allows the network to break it off without hurting the feelings of the fans or the producers. It will be interesting to see which category this pilot falls into...Maybe if it does not turn out well the pilot and I can just be friends.
Re:Nice marketing (Score:3, Insightful)
If you can't Read The Fine Article, could you at least Read The Fine Summary? This is an *uncut* version of that pilot, containing a great deal of footage that wasn't aired.
Sounds like true Star Trek alright (Score:2, Insightful)
"The USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, receives a radio distress call from the fourth planet in the Talos star group. A landing party is assembled and beamed down to investigate. Tracking the distress signal to its source, the landing party discovers a camp of survivors from a scientific expedition that has been missing for 18 years. Among the survivors is a beautiful young woman named Vina.
Captivated by her beauty, Pike is caught off guard and is captured by the Talosians, a race of humanoids with bulbous heads who live beneath the planet's surface. It is revealed that the distress call, and the crash survivors, except for Vina, are just illusions created by the Talosians to lure the Enterprise to the planet. While imprisoned, Pike uncovers the Talosian's plans to repopulate their ravaged planet using himself and Vina as breeding stock for a race of slaves."
Yep, quality TOS here.
Re:What's the point of releasing old TV on Blu Ray (Score:2, Insightful)
not so, this is old TV that was on film, that film has a higher theoretical resolution.
had this been old TV on video tape, that would be different.
Blu-Ray you say? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What's the point of releasing old TV on Blu Ray (Score:5, Insightful)
the film that they used is higher resolution than HD.
That's true, but people forget that the production values will have been made with television in mind- and 1960s televisions at that. In other words, at high enough resolution you might (for example) be able to see the obvious limitations and crudeness of props that would have been less apparent at ordinary TV resolution.
Just because the source material was recorded at a high enough resolution, doesn't mean it was filmed with that in mind. Given the budgets of TV shows, they wouldn't have wasted money on extra detail that wouldn't have shown up on televisions of the time; but the lack of it will show if scanned at high enough resolution and shown on modern HD sets.
Re:They leave the galaxy? (Score:3, Insightful)
Have you not watched "Where No Man Has Gone Before"? Jesus christ, the entire plot is centered around them deliberately flying through the galactic barrier in order to find a lost ship.
Re:Good God!!! (Score:1, Insightful)
I can only assume you're referring to yourself. Reread what you replied to.
Re:Mad rush on Blu-ray predicted (Score:3, Insightful)
That was my thought, exactly. Even on lower quality DVD, you can see every pore, as well as the makeup Shatner and Nimoy are wearing.