They are showing remastered Star Trek on the armed forces network at the time I am in front of the TV, so this is jogging all my memories and giving me new insights and I'd like to share them here, thanks. Corbomite Maneuver is a childhood memory for me. Not when it was first shown as I was only 2 1/2 then, but later when I watched it in reruns after school when I was probably between 7 and 9 in the early 70's. It is a great episode to watch as a child because it is not in the typical sci fi mode of all sides having similar strength, here I witnessed a scene that blew my very youthful mind and expanded the way I thought odf possibilities that for many like myself we never would havce thought of unless something like this made us aware of them. I'm talking about the scene where the alien ship comes against the Enterprise and dwarfs it in size, this scene would be replayed to great effect in season two's The Immunity Syndrome but is very rarely seen in science fiction in general in regards to spacecraft, it shows some awesome creativity from those who wrote Star Trek, and it's what helped make it so great. I have not seen this in several years but I was hooked to see the "enhanced" new effects in the remastered edition and I noticed that in the beginning that this was obviously a very early episode, which was confirmed by the trivia at IMDb.com (the internet and this site are great!), as a matter of fact, this was the first filmed episode after the two pilots. Everyone is explained very nicely as an introduction for our cast of characters, still some refinement to come, I noticed Spock expresses his Father and Mother in the past tense as if they were deceased, McCoy is using the Captain word a lot instead of Jim, Sulu is the time keeper instead of Spock, etc etc.
In the 90's you could get a Star Trek video made at Universal Studios (as seen in many youtube posts), I made one myself and it always brings back great memories even though it was made with my ex wife, lol. In that video they pull a Corbomite type bluff against the Klingon's, its a great plot twist and I don't recall many if any other TV shows I've seen it on! I also keep seeing in some posts about Star Trek, "Why didn't they have seat-belts?" Well Star Trek is based on 20th century naval drama, that is why the Captain is a Captain and not a Colonel. I thought of my time on a ship and very few if any seats have seat belts, I wondered why and it must be so you can move about quickly to assist others that may need it. Now the scene where everyone of the crew is kind of line dancing in the corridors is stupid as they would be at their battle station's but we can acknowledge that when you are at sea on a smaller ship in heavy seas that you will move from bulkhead to bulkhead that way. But in case anyone was interested since this was the first regular filmed episode I think they were relying a lot on the naval element for the show, it would get refined for space as we went along, it still woks pretty good even early on.
I get the idea of the "remastered" treatment now. It gives people like me who have seen Trek TOS repeatedly over 365 tears a reason to revist it, but more importantly it gives the Gen X and Gen Y's a chance to watch without totally dismissing it because of the 1966 TV effect's which although were excellent compared to what else was out there (the best?), are easy to nitpick and will get nit picked by younger viewers. I understand all that and think overall now that its great that the effects were redone, god job! My overall rating was when I first saw this episode as young tot, 10 of 10 all time best, now as an adult after double digit viewings, still a 10 of 10 (not the best but still great), a great episode and a great introduction for anyone new to the series to watch. Makes a great pilot if you wish to show it to your kids as a first episode.
In the 90's you could get a Star Trek video made at Universal Studios (as seen in many youtube posts), I made one myself and it always brings back great memories even though it was made with my ex wife, lol. In that video they pull a Corbomite type bluff against the Klingon's, its a great plot twist and I don't recall many if any other TV shows I've seen it on! I also keep seeing in some posts about Star Trek, "Why didn't they have seat-belts?" Well Star Trek is based on 20th century naval drama, that is why the Captain is a Captain and not a Colonel. I thought of my time on a ship and very few if any seats have seat belts, I wondered why and it must be so you can move about quickly to assist others that may need it. Now the scene where everyone of the crew is kind of line dancing in the corridors is stupid as they would be at their battle station's but we can acknowledge that when you are at sea on a smaller ship in heavy seas that you will move from bulkhead to bulkhead that way. But in case anyone was interested since this was the first regular filmed episode I think they were relying a lot on the naval element for the show, it would get refined for space as we went along, it still woks pretty good even early on.
I get the idea of the "remastered" treatment now. It gives people like me who have seen Trek TOS repeatedly over 365 tears a reason to revist it, but more importantly it gives the Gen X and Gen Y's a chance to watch without totally dismissing it because of the 1966 TV effect's which although were excellent compared to what else was out there (the best?), are easy to nitpick and will get nit picked by younger viewers. I understand all that and think overall now that its great that the effects were redone, god job! My overall rating was when I first saw this episode as young tot, 10 of 10 all time best, now as an adult after double digit viewings, still a 10 of 10 (not the best but still great), a great episode and a great introduction for anyone new to the series to watch. Makes a great pilot if you wish to show it to your kids as a first episode.