Good,bad, or who cares

Star Trek (as in TOS) is returning to syndication...with a difference.

Per TV guide Insider, (go there for a shot of the "new " look for the NCC 1701) The special effects available now have replaced original shots of planets and ships, and updated static alien landscapes with moving clouds and/or water and repaired some glitches.
Per the Insider article, there's also an episode where we never saw a phaser beam come out of a phaser Scotty fired, and that has been corrected. Also someone has said they will be syndicated out of their original performance order.

So are we:

1. Pleased, can't wait to see the new look.

2. Cynical: This was just a Lucas-esque ploy to make us re-buy the DVD's.

3. Sacrilege! This is an artifact of television history/brilliance that should *never* have been "updated" to please the mob hunger for current-style special effects. Are the Klignon's going to suddenly grow ridges on their heads? Romulans too? [Don't you dare spoil my Mark-Lenard-as-Romulan for me like that. Or the female commander either! They're *fine,* just the way they are. ]

4. Think the special effects update is quite cool, and in a way will show the episodes further idealized...as they "could have been," but in no way do you mess with the episode order like that! (That would mean a winner like "City" could be immediately followed up with "Spock's Brain!" Do we really need our Trek scrambled like a bad omelette?)

5. Couldn't care less.


Color me #4. The link above also has a great picture.

Shows how out of touch I am

Until tonights Emmy Broadcast I didn't know Michael Piller had passed away...