Star Trek - Special Edition

Deathlizard writes "Confirming rumours from last month, Trekkies will finally join their Star Wars brethren and get a taste of the 'George Lucas Treatment' this year. CBS will be rebroadcasting The Original Star Trek Series for it's 40th anniversary. The catch? New Digital Graphics." From the article: "Digitally created images will replace the miniature-scale models used for exterior shots of the various spacecraft on the show, including Kirk's Starship Enterprise and the enemy war vessels of the alien Klingons and Romulans. Shots of distant galaxies and planets also will be touched up with computer graphics to give them greater depth. The flat matte paintings used as backdrops on the surface of the strange new worlds visited by the Enterprise crew will be digitally enhanced to add texture, atmosphere and lighting."

Re:Klingon foreheads

[Sqwubbsy]

Depends on which forehead you adhere to (sorry for the pun): Episode TOS 3x11: Day of the Dove [memory-alpha.org] or TNG 4x15: First Contact [memory-alpha.org]? Doesn't it?

CBS?! *splutter*...

[alispguru]

Anyone who saw these episodes when they originally appeared (I was 10 at the time - I got a special dispensation from my parents to see the third season even though it was past my bedtime) knows they came out on NBC. How did CBS get to show them, much less get permission to tart them up?

Animated series

[Shimmer]

I think the bigger news is that they're finally releasing the animated series on DVD. I have good memories of these cartoons from when I was a kid, but I never had a chance to watch more than one or two. I'm looking forward to renting them - it's almost like having new episodes of the original series to watch.

Re:CBS raped my childhood!

[stoolpigeon]

I think the interview I saw with Shatner and Nemoy was the best perspective I've seen on any of this entertainment news.
 
  If you ask them what still gets them fired up about the late producer Gene Roddenberry's creation after all these years, you get an answer that -- underneath the glibness -- is very telling: [cnn.com]

SHATNER: Money.

NIMOY: Yeah. The big, the big bucks.

SHATNER: Money. The money gets you fired up.

TOGETHER: The biiiig bucks.

Seriously?

SHATNER: Yes, that was serious. We were very serious about that.

NIMOY: Yeah. But seriously, folks.

The R-r-r-omulans have r-r-r-idges!

[HTH NE1]

or calling the new version "the Star Trek we had always meant to make".

I remember Roddenberry's original explanation for the new look of Klingons in the movies was that Klingons were always intended to look this new way; they just didn't have the budget to do them right in the original series.

Or afford to pay for artists of sufficient skill capable of doing them that way for the animated series either, apparently.

("Heart rate too high, internal organs all wrong, pronounced ridges on the cranium-- Jim, this man's a Klingon!")

If it weren't for the retconning of DS9 and Enterprise, then I'd expect that in this remastered version, not only the Klingons, but also the R-r-r-omulans would have r-r-r-idges on their foreheads if these were "the Star Trek we had always meant to make".

Will they be fixing the flying pizza bats in "Operation: Annihilate!" as well?