Sorry, but this thread is lacking in a lot of pertinent information. From the already posted article:
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"Nothing really has changed except for the fact that it's just prettier to look at," said John Nogawski, president of CBS Paramount Domestic Television, in a recent conference call with reporters. "Right down to placement of stars, it is being resimulated to be exactly what was there in the first place."
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They're not
changing anything in the episodes, only slightly updating it. I recommend checking out this promo trailer for one...
http://206.130.103.146/vid/strmpromo.wmv
A very important point which was not touched upon in the article starting this thread is that many of the people involved in this remastering are people who have been involved in Star Trek for quite some time. Among those people are Michael Okuda, who has worked on Star Trek since
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and his wife, Denise.
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There will be few digital alterations to live-action scenes. Some obvious, original errors will be fixed, such as one scene in which the usual beam effect is missing when a character uses a hand phaser, but alterations such as erasing visible costume zippers that were meant to be hidden or adding forehead ridges to Klingons will not be done.
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This is what Gene Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry (known for playing Nurse Chapel in TOS, Lwaxana Troi in TNG, and the computer voice throughout most of Star Trek), had to say about the Star Trek: Remastered project:
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[Gene] wouldn’t have been bothered by it at all. [He] did the best work he could at the time, but he was also all about the future. I think he’d have thought it was terrific that the show was being made to look better because of new technology.
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Finally, also from Wikipedia,
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Both the re-mastered and original versions of the series will be available when new DVDs are issued sometime after the two-year broadcast syndication run. There is no confirmation as yet when these episodes will eventually appear on DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray.
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I don't see anything wrong with the remastering and look forward to seeing what they come up with.
EDIT: Dark Horizons also has a good article about it:
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The remastering of the original "Star Trek" series, ever since it was announced last week, has drawn a lot of speculation and opinion among fans and online circles. Concerns over messing with the originals have gotten people worried - will it be a respectful update like the "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" Director's Cut DVD, or something more crass and stupid like the "Star Wars" Special Editions.
To answer the most common questions, the official site has compiled a list and presented them to the people actually overseeing the all-new and improved digital effects. The group confirmed they're working on the full length episodes (which will be cut for syndication purposes), though any DVDs with these episodes will be full-length.
All episodes are being remastered in high definition and all 79 episodes will have visual effects work done. The extent of that work will vary though between 15-70 shots per episode, which will mean ultimately a change of up to 90 seconds per episode at most.
Whilst space ship and landscape effects will be done, aliens and sets will have little to no retouching. Where it doesn't affect storytelling, they will be generating new model ships for episodes which reused old props.
Most telling are two points though - firstly the episodes are not being edited from their original full & syndicated cuts. This means there'll be no new FX shots randomly thrown in - each of the updated FX shots can only be as long as the original effects shot they're replacing.
Secondly they're very deliberately trying to fit the mold of the original series so the new effects won't leap out at you. Talking with IESB, the designers say "Right down to the placement of stars is being re-simulated to exactly what was there in the first place" and "The approach is that Star Trek is a period piece...so all the decisions are being made to honor the production styles and style of cinematography and style of editing. And that as our guidance, using the original decisions made by the directors and the editors".
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