They had to redo the effects on star trek since all those years ago paramount dumpstered the original effects masters and elements. They could not recombine them with the HD remastered video like George lucas had done in 1997 since he saved everyone of the original elements.

I find it appaling paramount had those effects masters thrown away but they did that on almost every show and movie back in the day.

We should be thankful the original camera negatives were saved vaulted somewhere and untouched since they were shot.

Richard Edlund worked on the old star trek show so some of those effects that were dumpstered he actually worked on. He like a lot of people who worked on the show are not listed in the credits.

Darren Dochterman should have been the one to do the new effects work for trek purists, but they gave it over to cbs digital in house because that way they could streamline the process get them out quickly and on the cheap. Me personally i wanted those guys who did the effects on the enterprise show since there effects reel was the best. Not sure i think their name is edenfx.