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Duel of the Nerds

This weekend will see not ONE re-do of Star Trek's The Doomsday Machine (aka The Cornucopia of DOOM) but TWO. Somewhere on your local dial (Sunday at 3pm here) will be the official CBS/Paramount Star Trek: Remastered. This will have startling new FX and be missing 10-15 unnecessary minutes (*cough*). (The full version will be on DVD in 2008.)

Trailer.
Pictures.

In the competing corner will be FX genius Darren Dochterman. Darren, in many people's minds, kind of got the ball rolling on the whole "remastered" idea by pitching the idea of updated FX with a demo reel of The Doomsday Machine. Then CBS went with another team. Well now Darren is doing the "put up or shut up" routine by getting his complete version posted before the CBS one airs. (A much more concise and accurate version of these events is on his page.)

Here's Darren's trailer.

It'll be a good weekend.

(CBS' "Journey to Babel" was pretty darn good last week. Butchered for time, but that's not the FX team's fault.)