Chewtobacca said:
They seem to be taking great care to be true to the original.
Taking great care to be true to the original is still not the same as 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.
I'm aware of that, although I have to say that my opinion in this case would honestly be, "Well, it wasn't made to be seen in HD? Too bad. It is what it is." I certainly don't see it as at all necessary. Interesting, maybe, but no more necessary than a digital Yoda or a new CG Jabba every seven years. Because to me, that's what it comes down to: technology has superceded special effects/television resolution from a different era. I don't see it as necessary to make changes to force it to keep up. But I would be fine with it as long as the original effects were on there as well. They did it for TOS. There's no reason they shouldn't do it here. Hopefully they will.
It's not necessary for Star Wars to go through post production again to have a quality release.
Tell that to the people arguing in the General Star Wars section whether or not recomping the original effects digitally would count as the original or is something that needs to be done. Or tell it to the fandom at large, many of whom DID and DO feel that the CG updates were necessary for the films to exist in this modern world.
If you don't want that, then just buy the DVDs.
But is that always going to be a viable option? That's my point. Fifteen, twenty years from now, is that version of the show going to be readily available? Or will it just be the new effects?