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You have to ask yourself ... why change the original?
I can understand if it is to enhance the quality of the print but, seriously, you're never going to turn it into a show with "modern" production values.
If a viewer is seeing the "enhanced" series for the first time it's still going to look lackluster compared to modern shows.
And for the older viewers and fans of the original series - we're fans because of the plots, dialogue and characters. The extra effects aren't going to add much more to the show's appeal.
Fans will remain fans. And new viewers won't be impressed. The whole exercise just gives an excuse for the studios to charge TV networks $$$ for recycled material repackaged as "enhanced" instead of investing in developing new expensive programming.
As someone pointed out above it's not unlike Ted Turner's colorization of old B&W films to recycle all that celluloid as new and improved. But a colorized Casablanca will never be mistaken for a modern movie.
I have another prediction. In "Trouble with the Tribbles" they're going to alter or delete McCoy's line about Tribbles being "bisexual."
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