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He's talking about the TOS episode, Miri, in which the title character (a peri-pubescent girl) has a crush on Kirk.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article /25835.html

Preview is very limited. But what I see looks like this was done right.

Here is the trailer (QuickTime and Windows Media formats) for the remastered version.

Star Trek has a list of schedule of episodes and local affliates showing this remastered series. Also, note that there seems to be NO HDTV broadcast due to the hardwares not being ready as reported in my newsgroup thread.

A List of stations that is carrying this can be found here.

Alternatively, you can go to TVGuide, set up your local guide, and then punch in "Star Trek".

By the way, there's a video you can view from that URL I posted.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article /25055.html

Look for "Remastering Star Trek video preview."

I hear that it is indeed a labor of love.

The person I spoke with says they won't touch the plot or dialog. It's just to clean things up in a way of honoring it.

Also, the syndication episodes, he said, run about 43 minutes, while the whole episodes were originally 51-52 minutes.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article /25055.html

Rick Berman is co-creator and executive producer of Paramount Network Television's Star Trek: Enterprise for UPN.
Berman was previously the co-creator and executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager for UPN and was executive producer, since its inception in 1987, of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

I read this and thought of cycling.

Guess I must still be new here.

Who's the n00b here? Iced_773 is referring to this episode of DS9, which took place during "The Trouble with Tribbles". And both were pretty great episodes.

I'd like to see Star Trek Pr0n; the first mix of scifi (with a plot) and soft-core porn. Star Trek: Enterprise came close a couple of times. :-) BTW, Sci Fi channel has picked up the series: http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article /21155.html

This is old speculation and has already been refuted on startrek.com http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article /19115.html about halfway down the page

In case the young folk missed it - here is a synopsis.

The need for competition is best exemplified by the American automobile industry. The Ford Mustang of 2006 (after nearly 26 years of intense competition with Japanese automobiles like the Honda Prelude) is vastly superior in quality to the Ford Mustang of 1980.

Based on the 26 years of quality improvements in American automobiles due to Japanese competition, we can surmise that opening the NASA contracts to non-American Western companies will likely accelerate space-vehicle development to such an extent that, by 2032 (i.e., 26 years later), the Western allies will launch the first intersellar starship, powered by warp drive and armed with phase cannons. From 2032, the Western alliance has 31 years before first contact in 2063 -- with the Vulcans.

Ehm...what about ...Q?

You clearly have not watched enough Star Trek.

Go rent old Trek seasons 1 & 2 and pay particular attention to this episode.

"The I.T. chief controls the information architecture of the firm and can conceal a fraudulent transaction by circumventing controls and safeguards," says Joseph Anastasi

I'd like to hear your explanation of that statement. The Federation is likely a government unlike one we have ever seen before, but is probably closer to a republic democracy than anything else. The president and the council of the federation seem to be elected by some means. Starfleet is the military and scientific branch of the Federation (like rolling the marines and NASA into one branch). Starfleet is definately under the control of the Federation, so much so that Starfleet has even attempted a coup on ocasion (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/DS9/ episode/68250.html). We've seen federation life through a very limited perspective, through life on Starfleet vessels and stations. Trying to understand the intricacies of federation politics from watching Star Trek episodes would be like an alien trying to understand the US government by watching "JAG".

The closest thing I can remember was in an episode from TOS

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/e pisode/68790.html ... though that was an artificial and pilotable asteroid.

Until they come up with a better definition of planet, I say that was a great reference.

Guess you stopped watching before Enterprise. Here you go: Rogue Planet

See this FAQ:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article /16219.html

The ultrasafe transporter is in good condition but if you think it will never fail? Better don't wear that red shirt when using it !

Something like that, yes: http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/VOY/e pisode/104851.html

whether Kirk is better than Piccard

His name is spelled Picard, son. Jeez, talk about asking for a flamewar...

Am I the only one who finds humor in the name Harvey Mudd College?

An engineering school named after one of the funniest characters in the original Star Trek series? C'mon! What could be more natural?

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/char acter/bio/1071405.html

See you in 2063!

-Yoda

When "Star Trek: the Original Series" was the only available "Star Trek", it was like a rare, precious gem. After 9 films and 6 series (including the animated version), "Star Trek" is like the worthless, commonplace grains of sand on a beach.

"Star Wars I", "Star Wars II", and the animated Ewoks cartoon were dire warnings that the "Star Wars" franchise might degenerate into another "Star Trek". This new "Star Wars" TV show just might be the final nail in the coffin.

F_ck you, George Lucas. You sh_t on my childhood.

Mirror, Mirror?

Yah, forgot about that one. Wouldn't have remembered Sulu was security chief. I just remember he tried to kill Kirk because he intercepted Spock's orders and decided it was a good way for "everyone to move up".

>There goes 10 years of trying to prove I'm not a nerd.

Know what ya mean -- just tipped my hand big-time. :-)

As Star Trek fan you may want to read a bit about a Star Trek product at the official Star Trek web site startrek.com. That is what I tried. Now, if you do not enter startrek.com through the front door, you may find the FAQ for Star Trek Online at startrek.com.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/gaming/onlin e/article/6632.html

You mean this one? Yeah, very cool ep.

The USSR wants to get rid of its old ICBMs, and so undertook a program to convert them to satellite launch vehicles.

Soviet ICBM maintenance has been way underfunded (as previously mentioned, they don't want most of them), and so when you modify a poorly maintained launch vehicle, well... it's not too surprising if it fails. More simply, if you launch on any vehicle that doesn't have a very extensive flight record for the type of task that you want to use it for, you're taking a big risk.


It worked for Zefram Cochrane.

I was going to file my Warp Drive patent tomorrow. Now I guess I'll have to file my patent for the Varon-T Disruptor. Or even better, a phasing cloak. If they asked for a proof-of-concept, I'd simply say, "it's invisible!"

Just to throw this out there, there was a nice Star Trek: TNG episode (The Drumhead) about just this. It even had the nice additional issue of racism thrown in (well, that and lying about it). Of course it's just a replaying of the McCarthy era witch-hunts. The only real sad part is how some people seem to not learn from history; or perhaps they simply believe other people are stupid and haven't. In either case, I would say that such remarks are really a grounds for dismisal at minimal.

I'll throw in another sci-fi reference--this time from Stargate SG-1 (Between Two Fires)--to justify it, One crucial point to the episode is that a lack of transparency in government and further lying about it is considered even worse than murder. Now, one might at first think this to be silly, but one of the things that seems clear about witch-hunts as well as all other unconstitutional acts is that the courts in the USA rarely do more than announce the laws as void. In the span until that point, the government gets to abuse people however it pleases and very often not only does the whole act not fully become voided--it is, afterall, these repeated sorts of cases that have pressured more latitude to protecting against "eminent threats" at the expense of liberty--but new laws with altered language but similar effect are passed by the legislature--look no further than the many censorship laws aimed at stopping pornography on the internet.

It is sad that legislatures are not punished for writing unconstitutional law nor police or other executive branch individuals for following an unconstitutional law. It is also sad that people do not value liberty over life, disregarding that a life without liberty is not living at all. It is almost certainly this reason that the people of the USA do not consider a violation of government worse than murder. With great power comes great responsibility. Sadly, there doesn't seem great accountability, and so the most one can hope to obtain is an apology or possibly money. Neither of these punishments fit the crime.

You jest, but have you ever seen this episode of Star Trek.

This reminds me of an early episode of TNG: "Conspiracy". It's the one where these aliens take control of starfleet by living in the heads of the humans, leaving a telltale tail sticking out at the back of the neck... http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/e pisode/68356.html

But I thought the Worf hypothesis was his perception of honor as taught (but not always practiced by his native people) and that this is complicated by family relationships which echo his duality of culture in both his personal and public life?

Check out the FAQ. They expect the ship crew complement to be consistent with the series. I wonder how they are going to pull that off.
Ground combat is supposed to be real time.

Dude, you're scary, before reading this article i just finished watching the DS 9 episode Visionary

Last I heard Sulu was still patrolling the Cardassian border in the U.S.S. Excelsior.
Maybe he has moved on to seek out new worlds, but he is definitely still kicking butt at 113+ years old!

TOS is dead. TNG is maybe dead. ENT is certainly dead. But people like Star Trek, and a new series would be welcomed by the audience, if it was good enough. The problem is not that the world is tired of Star Trek, the problem is that the last Star Trek series were not that good as the first ones (TOS and TNG). I agree with those guys at startrek.com that it is time for a new Star Trek series, in the style of TNG, with new actors and a new ship, set 20-30 years after TNG. Most of the galaxy is still unexplored!

Look, we still can't go faster than light, ok guys?

If we could just contact Sigma Draconis VI we could skip past warp drive altogether!

Look, we still can't go faster than light, ok guys?

...Riker and Soren, a member of the J'naii race, begin preparing to rescue the craft, and the two strike up a friendship. Their relationship develops quickly as the pair question each other about mating habits, since the J'naii are androgynous and do not identify themselves as either male or female. Despite this difference, sparks begin to fly between them...

After the fearless heroics displayed by the enslaved mechazoid, the team nicknamed the bot Mighty Mouse (well actually, M^2). Obviously some old school nerds work at the White Sands Missile Range, and possibly because Mighty Mouse's arch rival was Oil Can Harry, an evil cat. Oil can, meet cobalt-60!

M^2 is not quite as compact as the nick would suggest (judging from the pic ITFA, it looks a bit like Number 5). Still smaller were the Exocomps, those self-aware bots that, given human liberty to choose, saved the day in TNG S6-E9, "The Quality of Life". I can't wait until robots can fly, and make decisions for us. Then I can sit around and read Slashdot all day while my Exocomp does all the unpleasant tasks I need done, like going to work every day, doing my laundry, cooking and cleaning for me.

After the fearless heroics displayed by the enslaved mechazoid, the team nicknamed the bot Mighty Mouse (well actually, M^2). Obviously some old school nerds work at the White Sands Missile Range, and possibly because Mighty Mouse's arch rival was Oil Can Harry, an evil cat. Oil can, meet cobalt-60!

M^2 is not quite as compact as the nick would suggest (judging from the pic ITFA, it looks a bit like Number 5). Still smaller were the Exocomps, those self-aware bots that, given human liberty to choose, saved the day in TNG S6-E9, "The Quality of Life". I can't wait until robots can fly, and make decisions for us. Then I can sit around and read Slashdot all day while my Exocomp does all the unpleasant tasks I need done, like going to work every day, doing my laundry, cooking and cleaning for me.

Talk of "Cyber Wars" makes me think of a certain Star Trek episode.

And you can't force every internet user in the world to install the "sentinel program".

True, most episodes of Star Trek (and a lot of other space sci-fi shows that involve alien races) have a universal translator, and those translators not only transform the words, but also the mouths speaking them, into perfect gramatically correct English.

Since this IS Slashdot, I'd be remiss in reminding you of the one episode of one Star Trek show that actually showed how the universal translator works on a brand new language: DS9 S2 E10, Sanctuary. This actually showed the universal translator needing a significant sample from the other race before it stated translating bits and pieces, like common words.

The other episode about learning languages, TNG S5 E02, Darmok, shows a big weakness of the universal translator... that of a race that doesn't follow similar grammar rules to existing Earth languages, but speaks in a totally different fashion (in this case, concepts and events relevant to that races own history.) Of course, this is a HORRIBLE example, as how does this race communicate their own history to their young? Or even start to talk! But it does show the good point that not all languages follow the same grammar rules as we on Earth have standardized on.

ERP

True, most episodes of Star Trek (and a lot of other space sci-fi shows that involve alien races) have a universal translator, and those translators not only transform the words, but also the mouths speaking them, into perfect gramatically correct English.

Since this IS Slashdot, I'd be remiss in reminding you of the one episode of one Star Trek show that actually showed how the universal translator works on a brand new language: DS9 S2 E10, Sanctuary. This actually showed the universal translator needing a significant sample from the other race before it stated translating bits and pieces, like common words.

The other episode about learning languages, TNG S5 E02, Darmok, shows a big weakness of the universal translator... that of a race that doesn't follow similar grammar rules to existing Earth languages, but speaks in a totally different fashion (in this case, concepts and events relevant to that races own history.) Of course, this is a HORRIBLE example, as how does this race communicate their own history to their young? Or even start to talk! But it does show the good point that not all languages follow the same grammar rules as we on Earth have standardized on.

ERP

"Assignment: Earth" aired in March of 1968. Production was in 1967 (I think). By that time, Teri Garr had appeared in many roles.