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Remastered Matte Painting in "Wink of an Eye" Debuts This Weekend - Updated Photo

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By Steve Krutzler / 11:17, 10 January 2007 / General Star Trek

Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and security officer Compton investigate an abandoned city on planet Scalos in "Wink of an Eye," an episode of Star Trek: Remastered. Unfortunately, Compton, played by Geoffrey Binney, is about to learn why one should never wear a red shirt when beaming down to an alien planet.



The background of the decayed alien city was originally a recycled matte painting first used as planet Eminiar 7 in "A Taste of Armageddon." For the remastered version of "Wink of an Eye," CBS Digital artists created an all-new digital matte painting of the Scalosian city, home to the desperate Scalosians, led by the beautiful Deela (played by Kathie Brown). The remastered visual effects shots required each film frame to be painstakingly rotoscoped separate the actors from the original background. This allowed the characters to appear in front of the newly-created digital image.

The newly-remastered version of "Wink of an Eye" will premiere nationwide during the weekend of January 12, 2007. The original episode was first aired in 1968 and was written by Gene L. Coon and directed by Jud Taylor. Star Trek was created by Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek: Remastered is distributed in syndication by CBS Paramount Television.



"The long-abandoned alien city of Scalos, a matte painting from the Star Trek Remastered episode, "Wink of An Eye." The remastered episode premieres in national syndication during the weekend of Janaury 13, 2007."

Episodes and air dates for Star Trek Remastered:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/25835.html

US stations carrying Star Trek Remastered:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/25835.html?page=1



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By: Tupperfan (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:33:20 on Jan 10, 2007 | Edit History (1)

Strangely, there's a few buildings that look like futuristic versions of Montreal skyline. The most obvious is the Habitat 67 building on the bottom left and the Place Ville-Marie style building just above Kirk's head.

I guess similarities could be found with a lot of other cities, but I thought it was worth pointing out as Montreal is Shatner hometown...

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By: GabrielCKoerner (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 15:52:19 on Jan 10, 2007

Looks amazing. I'm always surprised at the rift in quality between the matte paintings they've been doing and the ship shots. So far everything they've done in the matte painting / environmental regard has been terrific.

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By: Ensign Yo! (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:23:53 on Jan 10, 2007

anyone got the original?

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RE: They had this up at AICN by hawke5150 @ 12:14:10 on Jan 13
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