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Star Trek: The Doomsday Machine (1967)
Great to see updated version in HD
"The Doomsday Machine" was always in my all-time top 10 list of original Trek episodes; just saw it again for the first time in several years -- luckily in HD. I first saw this episode as an 8-year old kid during the original NBC run and was just blown away. Even after sitting through the horribly "edited", after-school rerun version of this show many, many times, it still kicked ass! William Windom was great as the haggard, broken Commodore Decker and "The Doomsday Machine" has all the elements of the best Trek episodes: tight script, thinly-disguised references to 60's politics, self-sacrifice for the greater good, tactical improvisation under pressure, victory-snatched-from-jaws-of-defeat etc. etc. It just gets better with age! Hats off to all who participated in bringing this series back with updated FX - it looks great (new prints??). I'm sure it's close to what Gene Roddenberry might have done with the show way back in the day if he had access to all the modern CG bells and whistles...