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Star Trek Gets Upgraded
Scifi.com ^ | 09/01/06

Posted on 09/03/2006 5:28:13 PM PDT by KevinDavis

The original 1960s Star Trek series will receive a high-tech makeover and return to broadcast syndication for the first time in 16 years, with digitally remastered episodes, Paramount announced. In honor of the show's 40th anniversary, CBS Domestic Television is releasing all 79 episodes with new special effects and music on 200 stations, beginning Sept. 16. The first batch of episodes will be chosen from a list of fan favorites.

The original special effects will be replaced with computer-generated images, including the exterior of the Starship Enterprise, based on the exact measurements of the original model, now resting in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The main title sequence will also be redone with new effects and a new digital stereo soundtrack re-recorded by an orchestra and a female singer. William Shatner's classic original recording of the 38-word "Space, the final frontier ..." monologue has been remastered and continues to open each episode.

All of the space scenes, alien landscapes and ships—including the Romulan Bird of Prey and Klingon Battle Cruisers—will be updated as well. The remastered episodes have been converted from the original film into a high-definition format, which gives viewers a clearer, crisper, more vibrant picture, even when viewed in standard definition.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: startrek; tos
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To: KevinDavis

Still have the old Klingons (you know, the ones who look like clones of Slim Whitman) or have they been upgraded as well?


21 posted on 09/03/2006 9:04:58 PM PDT by Calvinist_Dark_Lord (I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper)
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To: 12th_Monkey
Cool, but isn't this like colorizing a classic B&W movie?

Agreed. They should leave it alone. It's a part of history.

This smacks of George Lucas.

22 posted on 09/03/2006 9:14:12 PM PDT by Egon (We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
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To: KevinDavis
This is a still of the Enterprise from the revamp project that TVGuide posted this week...

Combine that with some of the video I've seen from sites like TrekEnhanced.com (look at the video uploaded at http://www.betafive.com/TREKENHANCED/VFXonly.html -- it's from a project to update the SFX in the 90s that didn't go forward), and it looks like it'll be pretty good....

23 posted on 09/03/2006 9:36:18 PM PDT by mhking (I make my livin' on the evening news....)
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To: Question_Assumptions
anti-Hippy ("Way to Eden"),

"Are you one, brother?" and "Crack my knuckles and jump for joy, got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy" are perhaps my favorite lines from any episode.

24 posted on 09/04/2006 7:05:10 AM PDT by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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To: mhking

Very Cool! Me, I can't wait........


25 posted on 09/04/2006 9:40:31 AM PDT by united1000 ("The price of greatness is responsibility. " Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: All
I realize this is off-topic, but has anyone seen the star trek episodes at newvoyages.com? Are they worth downloading?

Thanks,

manna
26 posted on 09/04/2006 3:54:35 PM PDT by manna
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To: KevinDavis

klingons will have ridges?


27 posted on 09/05/2006 11:17:16 AM PDT by hattend (Anytime you see a union building, think of it as a branch office of the Democratic Party. - Rush)
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To: mhking

"Look, Kirk...just don't bring any tribbles to B5, and we'll get along fine, okay?"

28 posted on 09/05/2006 11:29:17 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Smedley
No digital remastering necessary.


29 posted on 09/05/2006 11:40:33 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

"What? 'Remastered'? I don't know if Stella will like the sound of that..."

30 posted on 09/05/2006 1:30:08 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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