Star Trek a la George Lucas

So, it seems Paramount Pictures is taking a page out of the George Lucas playbook and revamping the original series like Lucas did to the Star Wars trilogy. Paramount is going to remaster and enhance the whole 1960's run with up to date sounds and effects. I am not sure how this will work out. I would love to see what Gene Roddenberry would have created if he had been around today, but to many, the charm of the series is it's campiness and at times cheesiness. Lets cross are fingers, toes and anything else that they did the show and it's legacy justice.

Here is a blurb fron C-Net news.....

Four decades after Capt. Kirk and crew zoomed off at warp speed to "the final frontier," the iconic sci-fi series "Star Trek" returns to broadcast television this week with an extensive digital makeover.

CBS Paramount Domestic Television, a unit of CBS, is digitally remastering all 79 episodes of the original series to enhance the show's 1960s-era visual effects with 21st-century computer-gene rated graphics.

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.

Moreover, the music and sound for the show's opening sequence have been rerecorded in state-of-the-art digital stereo, and William Shatner's classic 38-word introduction, beginning with "Space, the final frontier," has been digitally remastered.