Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
What's the point of putting a TV show from the '60s in hi-def? Is that even possible? And why would you even want it? It just doesn't make any sense to me. The two seem incongruous. What's next? THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW IN HI-DEF EXTREME EDITION!!!!

Considering that most of those shows would have been shot on 16mm, which it appears is the case with ST, there indeed is quite a reason to make HD transfers of it.

As for the original point of this thread: you know, i can kind of understand the complaining. The point of the new FX, etc was to bring the show into the new millennium, to make it compete with modern shows--and it really requires quite a lot of changes to do that, more than is being done to the new revisions IMO, and i think a lot of the suggestions are quite valid. But this brings me to a new point: the original show can't possibly be made "modern." No matter how much CG, no matter how many changes--it still has cardboard sets, incredibly cheesy acting, bee-hive hairdoos, tons of 1960's culture artifacts and a general vintage ambiance. At a certain point you have to accept that the series was made in the 60's and the only way to make it look like it was shot today is to actually re-make it. Its a lost cause. The original Star Trek was never "timeless"--its an incredibly dated show, as much as Lost In Space or Time Tunnel. Just let it be what it is.

On the other hand its great to get the original series in HD in its original unaltered form.