Digitally remastering a classic

Thanks to a fellow employee and faithful Trekie I caught wind of this new development in the land of Klingons and sexy blue space vixens.

Apparently to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Star Trek they will be releasing the original show again, only in a digitally remastered form, showing the original episodes in High Definition with newly orchaestrated music (though using the original compositions of the songs).

It's like a dork's wet dream.

They are slightly updating all sections of the show, including trying to toss some modern day pizazz into some of the old special effects, but not obscuring the previous ones as to not insight the most heated and angry blog/forum spamming the internet has ever seen.

While I was always more of a Star Wars guy myself (see: pre-lucas shitting on the world... aka Star Wars Episode 1-3) I can see where the appeal in this is. There is the nostalgic feel one gets while watching a show that brought the mysteries of the universe to them as a child that cannot be overlooked. Assuming that they do a good job this is possibly a way for newer generations (see: upper middle-class emo children who are the "depths of all sorrows") to once again relive truly epic and timeless tales.

I could now digress into a heated debate with the readers over who the better captain was, Kirk or Picard *cough* Picard *cough* but I don't feel like hearing a rant about the finese of the Kirk drop kick. So I will simply say we should agree to disagree and vote for Scott Bakula (see: Enterprise) I mean come on, the guy played Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap, how cool is that?

Full article after the jump.

\\drew