Gaffer Tape said:

It's not entirely analogous, but to say it's nothing like it is silly.

It's not silly to state that two things are nothing alike if one cannot see the similarity at all. (I can't.) TNG has received a release that essentially equals the quality of the original. Star Wars has not.

Isn't the point that the originals are not readily available, that they only exist in either unofficial fan preservations or as out-of-print rarities while a new version takes its official place? That history is being buried and rewritten?

Yes, and that's why TNG is nothing like Star Wars because the original is readily available. I see no evidence whatsoever that the people at Paramount are attempting to revise history as Lucas is. They seem to be taking great care to be true to the original. Recreating the effects is necessary for the conversion to true HD in the case of TNG because it was a TV show that went through post production in video, not a motion picture. It's not necessary for Star Wars to go through post production again to have a quality release.

Paramount can't keep making the same old DVDs indefinitely. There's no market for it. People that want them have already bought them. The only way that the studio can sell the show again is to convert it to HD with recreated effects. If you don't want that, then just buy the DVDs.