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Yes, but most people AREN’T CGI artists and are far less likely to notice such things.
It’s not like the original 1960’s effects look that wonderful these days, either.
I thought some of the effects looked pretty good, especially the planets they show the Enterprise orbiting in establishing shots. Better than how planets looked in any past Trek, anyway.
They now release the original Doctor Who series with updated effects. As long as the option is there to see the original shots, I have no problem with the concept. Some of the shots are rather well done, and remain in keeping with the vibe of the original show. I thought the same of the TOS effects shots I saw.
Now they just need to clean up ST:TNG. I’ve been revisiting the series one disc at a time via Netflix, and even basic things like chroma-keying “outside” visuals into the ship’s windows are chunky-monkey when seen on a large TV.
Phase II looks to be about five years behind Babylon 5’s first season. Fun stuff, but it certainly does not look better than the remastered original series.
FYI, you can watch the Remastered versions of ST:TOS: Season One (as well as the original version of all three seasons) free on CBS.com. You have to navigate to “Video” and then “TV classics” and then select Star Trek and choose to list “Full Episodes”. The remastered versions are several pages back.
I’m a big fan of the remastered episodes - especially since they took such care to make them mostly shot-for-shot identical to the original so the storyline wasn’t modified. No CGI walkie-talkies replacing phasers…
It’s true that the CGi isn’t perfect. But you have to remember the constraints the team was operating under here - They had to supply CGI material for 72 hours of programming, in a short period of time and I’m guessing that they had a budget lower than the CGI budget for most 2-hour movies today. I think they did a great job of refreshing the show and making it more accessible to a new audience without changing anything that made the original great.
As a bonus, for someone like me who has watched Star Trek since the original series was on the air in its original run and who has seen every episode a dozen times, it’s nice to see something new.
So long as they don’t make Greedo shoot at Kirk, it’s okay with me.
I rented a few eps on DVD, and my biggest complaint was that on my surround-sound system I could hear the plywood set floors creaking as the actors walked. I don’t think duranium is supposed to make sounds like that.
There are rumors of TNG getting the treatment soon. The problem is that even though it was recorded on 35mm film, the special effects were mastered on low-res tape. All special effects would have to be redone.
Redoing the special effects was the whole point, I thought.
Could they replace Wesley?
I’m thinking everything was edited on tape too. They have it all on film, but it’s all out of order. For the TOS episdoes, it sounds like they took finished episodes and covered over the old the effects. For TNG, they have to find all of the film, put it in order, then completely redo the special effects for all seven seasons. They’ve done it before though, Generations used a scene from the series and Enterprise used HD footage from a TNG episode.
That’s correct. TOS was shot and edited on film old-skool style, but TNG was all edited on video. They’d have to reassemble every episode from the original 35mm film shoots, then redo all the effects, most of which were created on video (so there’s no film to start with on the effects shots.) A Herculean effort, but it would be totally, totally rad. Especially if they did DS9 as well.
Yes, but they’ll be replacing him with Jar Jar Binks.
Sounds like a Poll question. 
“Is Jar-Jar Binks an improvement over Wesley Crusher?”
My fanboy head just asploded.
I remember a Season 1 episode where Wesley “grew up” or something. The actor playing adult Wesley should be erased from the film and a modern Wil Wheaton should be edited in. There’s only about 5 episodes from S1 that I care to ever see again though…
You should email that idea to him.