CBS is pulling a George Lucas move on Star Trek.
Apparently, the studio has decided to digitally enhance all 79 episodes of the original Star Trek television series with new special effects, new music and more.
I really don't know how I feel about that.
Yes, I'm you can accuse me of being a Star Trek "purist", and really, perhaps I am. But I grew up watching the original episodes in syndication and have a great love of that show and what they were able to do to put out quality science fiction in the late 60's (I should note, I wasn't around when the episodes originally aired). To mess with them just seems...wrong.
But I'm going to be two-faced about this as well. I look forward to seeing the remastered epsiodes--seeing what they've been able to do with modern techniques. It'll be interesting to see see a vision of what Gene Roddenberry might have done in today's world with Star Trek (as paraphrased from Michael Okuda).
I'll reserve final judgement until I see the episodes, of course.
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