Just watched the “first” episode of the newly digitally-enhanced Star Trek episodes.
I’m impressed. I watched it on the HD feed and the picture quality was vibrant. (So vibrant that it’s no wonder “red shirts” were always getting killed – they positively glowed with color.)
The new space shots were clean and faithful to the original. The digital ship still had just a slight touch of a cartoonish 2-dimensional feel.
My main complaint was that, despite being listed as “Balance of Terror”, a cracking episode featuring a full hour of tense space warfare, instead we got “Miri” a mundane and mostly planet-bound episode.
One thing I noticed (and now I have to pull out the DVDs to check) I think they digitally improved the disease fading away from McCoy’s cheek. I think I could detect that the transition was isolated to just his cheek and not the whole frame. It made it look a lot better than it used to where, no matter how hard they try, the actor moves a little during the time they remove the makeup.
Darn, now I have to stay at home at 9:00PM on Saturdays and watch Star Trek all over again.
I am NOT buying the new DVDs, I am NOT buying the new DVDs, I am NOT buying the new DVDs, I am NOT buying the new DVDs, I am NOT buying the new DVDs!
But I sure as heck will buy the soundtrack of the re-recorded music if they make that available. It sounded great.