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Original Star Trek Getting CGI Makeover

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-is-what-we-get-instead-of-firefly dept.

Tony Pascale writes "Star Trek is the latest sci-fi classic to get the CGI 'special edition' treatment. According to rumors picked up by TrekMovie.com, CBS and Paramount have been secretly working on a new version of Star Trek: The Original Series for HDTV. The shows will feature the original episodes with brand new state-of-the-art CGI visual effects, including a a redone title sequence (with re-recorded music). The effects are likely to be limited to the space scenes and not effect the live action scenes, so Edith Keeler will not shoot first. The HDTV Star Trek series will begin broadcasting this fall just in time for the 40th Anniversary of Star Trek."

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  1. history repeating itself by motorsabbath · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Morons. Guess they didn't learn from the Star Wars debacle. Never, ever, ever fool around with the originals.

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    1. Re:history repeating itself by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Morons. Guess they didn't learn from the Star Wars debacle.

      I'm guessing they learned that fans will line up to be fleeced even while they complain about the originals being spoilt.

      *sighs* if people put their money where their mouth was, we wouldn't have to put up with this shit.

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    2. Re:history repeating itself by supabeast! · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "Guess they didn't learn from the Star Wars debacle."

      Do you mean the Star Wars debacle that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in ticket sales and sold tens of millions of videocassettes and DVDs? If they're going to learn anything from that, it's that pissing off whiny SciFi geeks is an easy way to get free publicity.

  2. interesting idea, my favorite ... by boxlight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is an interesting idea. My favorite bits from the later Star Trek series were the times they showed the original enterprise in re-done FX -- the DS9 "tribbles" episode, the "mirror universe" episodes of ENTERPRISE.

    I love the original series as is, but this would be a neat reason to re-watch them.

    boxlight

  3. Six Words Of Warning: by Hellburner · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do NOT fuck with the Gorn.

    If I see anything other than that rubber suit with irridescent eyes that terrified me when I was eight, I swear I will burn my Starfleet Academy underpants.

    I don't want to see any crap like that goofy thing wrestling with mirror-Archer.

    And nobody crack wise about me burning the underpants with me in them.

    "Can you fashion a rudimentary lathe?"

  4. Leave. It. Alone. by Penguinisto · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Cripes - half the fun of watching old sci-fi (hell, half the fun of reading it too) involves the whole attempt at special effects given for that period in time. It gives an intelligent viewer as much insight into things at that time which are incidental --but just as important-- as how they thought about the future. The visuals are a vital part of that. Sure, it's cardboard and glue (and small plastic models on fishing line), but that's just as important to the stories, written right at the same time, as the story itself.

    Seriously - leave it alone so that anyone in the distant future who stumbles across it can actually learn about the ones who wrote it. While Trek isn't exactly a classic like, oh, something by H.G. Wells, it may someday become something akin to a classic, given its popularity. We can learn a lot about Wells' time and society from our century-plus future vantage point by reading the stories and seeing period sketches and prints illustrating it, if possible. Sure, it's not exactly eye candy, but it's worth it.

    /P

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  5. Re:And in other news... by GundamFan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's funny I was under the impression that all the blood and violence would be edited out and the shark would be replaced with a Radio taped to a flashlight.

    This new 8 disk box set will include the new 20 minute feature and 5 days of Spielberg rabling about various topics.

    Crushed childhoods not included for those under the age of 25.

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  6. Re:Obligatory by BVis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because new things aren't guaranteed box office. Rehashing previously marketable ideas is far safer.

    After all, it's about money, not entertainment.

    But don't blame the Hollywood establishment, blame the viewing public for paying over and over to see the same hackneyed ideas and insultingly shallow plots.

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  7. Re:Remakes? by Jerf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because the evidence suggests that they are incapable of a good new series.

  8. Re:Obligatory by arth1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One thing is whether the artist should have control over his works.
    Another thing entirely is whether the marketing company should have these rights.

    In some countries, certain rights of the artists are inalienable. I think this is a good thing.