About That New & Improved STTOS Shatner
You know, we keed, we keed Bill (Hunt, not Shat), but we’re following up on his Star Trek: The Original Series being remastered article on “The Bits.” He doesn’t write us, doesn’t return our calls. Sob! Here’s much more details, including pictures, from TV Guide. No news on a DVD release, but they will be on-air shortly, on Sept 16th to be exact…
“We’re taking great pains to respect the integrity and style of the original,” says Michael Okuda, who spent 18 years as a scenic-art supervisor on Star Trek films and spin-offs. “Our goal is to always ask ourselves: What would Roddenberry have done with today’s technology?” Okuda’s teammates on the two-year project are his wife, Denise Okuda, with whom he’s authored several Trek reference books, and 14-year Trek production vet David Rossi.
The upgraded episodes — to be shown out of order and one per week — will kick off with “Balance of Terror,” a big fan favorite “that gives us a chance to really show off the ‘new’ Enterprise,” says Okuda. “The exterior of the ship now has depth and detail, and it will fly more dynamically.” Painted backdrops will also be brought to life: Once-empty star bases will have CGI people milling about, while static alien landscapes have been given slow-moving clouds and shimmering water. Okuda notes that a view of Earth in the 1966 episode “Miri” has been “replaced with a more accurate image, now that we’ve gone into deep space and looked back at ourselves.”
Source: TV Guide
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