Recently the newly created The CW network has begun airing digitally remastered episodes of the original Star Trek series.
For those of you who believed that this spelled doom for your cherished memories, be assured that everything has remained intact.
The new episodes of the Original Star Trek series are exactly the same as the ones that many will remember from long ago. Not a word of dialog has been altered. Not a single story has been reworked for our contemporary 21st Century world. The original stories were so carefully thought out that all which was needed to make the old episodes seem fresh and original was absolutely nothing. The people charged with bringing The Original Star Trek series back to its original glory have lovingly restored the original and resisted the temptation of adding state of the art Razzledazzle to enhance what was already there.
The major changes come in the special optical effects shots. When the series was originally created, the only way to achieve such visions was to photograph models and put the resulting images through an optical printing process that required them to be duplicated several times, acquiring dust, scratches, and tiny hair shadows with every step. Using current digital animation technology, these shots have been painstakingly recreated, as if the original work orders and storyboards were found in an archive and then faithfully duplicated.
Minor changes become noticeable when one examines the texture of the costumes, and the detail work on the sets, which were never quite clear to those of us who originally watched the series on a 19 inch General Electric Black And White Vacuum Tube Televisions.
If the future of Star Trek is buried in its past, then the future is looking very good in High Definition and Dolby Surround Sound.
Fascinating.
For those of you who believed that this spelled doom for your cherished memories, be assured that everything has remained intact.
The new episodes of the Original Star Trek series are exactly the same as the ones that many will remember from long ago. Not a word of dialog has been altered. Not a single story has been reworked for our contemporary 21st Century world. The original stories were so carefully thought out that all which was needed to make the old episodes seem fresh and original was absolutely nothing. The people charged with bringing The Original Star Trek series back to its original glory have lovingly restored the original and resisted the temptation of adding state of the art Razzledazzle to enhance what was already there.
The major changes come in the special optical effects shots. When the series was originally created, the only way to achieve such visions was to photograph models and put the resulting images through an optical printing process that required them to be duplicated several times, acquiring dust, scratches, and tiny hair shadows with every step. Using current digital animation technology, these shots have been painstakingly recreated, as if the original work orders and storyboards were found in an archive and then faithfully duplicated.
Minor changes become noticeable when one examines the texture of the costumes, and the detail work on the sets, which were never quite clear to those of us who originally watched the series on a 19 inch General Electric Black And White Vacuum Tube Televisions.
If the future of Star Trek is buried in its past, then the future is looking very good in High Definition and Dolby Surround Sound.
Fascinating.
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