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."

Comments

I'm easy to please.

[nosredna]

As long as Kirk shoots first (or only, as applicable) I'll still be happy.

Re:I'm easy to please.

[rlp]

As long as Scotty throws the first punch at the Klingon for saying that the Enterprise should be hauled away as garbage, I'll be happy. :P

So where can I get the T-shirt?

Say it aint so

[QuantumG]

Next they'll be digitally editing Shatner's hair and waist lines.

Re:Next up for 'improvement'

[GungaDan]

"Where will it end?"

The moon, Alice.

Beam me up, Scotty

[BadAnalogyGuy]

There's no intelligent posts down here.

Re:Next up for 'improvement'

[nosredna]

Too late:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0373908/

Product placement

[Teresita]

They're going to digitally insert "Sprint" onto all the communicators to help recoup costs.

And to improve the acting.

[Kenja]

And to improve the acting, Kirk will now be played by Jar Jar Binks. Thanks to the wonders of digital compositing.

"Mesa shout, Kahn?"

Dupe, dupe, dupe

[mcmonkey]

dupe of url, url, url

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/29/123021 3

Re:How about...

[Rob T Firefly]

Still... if there was a phone on the market with stun/kill settings I'd probably get it.

They're all like that now, just slow-acting. The settings are "stun with bill" and "kill with brain tumor."

Re:Next up for 'improvement'

[ptomblin]

The only way to redirect this abberant behaviour is a) don't pay attention

Of course, your comment will sound better when Paul Anka's singing it.

Yes... but

[Kesch]

Are they ... going to ... fix up ... the choppy audio ... coming from ... Shatner's ... microphone?

"Special" edition?

[Aelcyx]

Does this mean they ride in the short Enterprise?

Re:Next up for 'improvement'

[PDXNerd]

It's time for another good idea/bad idea.

Good idea: Remastering old video and shows to a modern digital standard.

Bad idea: Mixing old video and new video while violating Roddenberry's standards.

(I have some old home movies of me as a child naked, perhaps I can digitally enhance certain elements of my naked body as a 2 year old. I just didn't have the capabilities back then to express my, uh, manhood and now that I do, let's DESTROY the old memory and create a new one!)

Re:Please God, NO!

[TubeSteak]

Aside from Shatner's bad acting what else will we have to cheer for?

The fact that he meets attractive alien cultures and inevitably sleeps with their women?

Re:How about...

[TubeSteak]

The settings are "stun with bill" and "kill with brain tumor."

You've obviously never dropped a bag phone on someone's head.

It has one setting: blunt force trauma

Special Shroedinger edition...

[Anonymous Coward]

Spock: "Jim...Edith Keeler must live."

Re:Klingon foreheads

[EGSonikku]

Khan...well, the 1990's were a tough period for us 10 years ago, what with the Eugenic wars, supermen, and launching of sleeper ships and all...