The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series) - 40th Anniversary Remastering

40th Anniversary Remastering

This episode was remastered in 2006 and first aired February 10, 2007 as part of the remastered Original Series. It was preceded a week earlier by "Journey to Babel" and followed a week later by "Amok Time." Aside from remastered video and audio, and the all-CGI animation of the USS Enterprise that is standard among the revisions, specific changes to this episode also include:

• The planet killer and the wreck of the USS Constellation have been rendered in CGI. This included giving the planet killer a more battered, metallic appearance.

• The Enterprise, Constellation, and the shuttlecraft Decker stole are rendered in such a way that they are dwarfed by the planet killer, giving an enhanced sense of the machine's gigantic size.

• The debris from the planets destroyed by the planet killer is visible throughout the first half of the episode, even impacting on the hull of the Constellation.

• In keeping with other episodes of the original series, the television airing of "The Doomsday Machine" had several scenes cut to reduce the run-time for syndication. These include Kirk's decisive "Blast regulations ..." to Spock's "Vulcans never bluff" scene, much of the fighting between Commodore Decker and the security guard in the corridor, as well as truncating the scene involving the sacrifice and destruction of the Constellation. The DVD and Blu-ray releases include the complete episode.