Danfun128 said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

...They only went the CGI route because the original negatives for the special effects shots were lost so those could not be restored and broadcast in HD like the rest of the content...

Explain the original shots being used in the blu-ray's then...

Those were not in HD. I never claimed that it wasn't possible to make copies of the copies but just because something is on a Bluray disc does not make it HD. I placed back up copies of all my classic DW episodes on several Bluray discs because it makes for easy storage, but that doesn't change the fact that the stories were shot on video tape and are only on HD.

The local stations wanted HD content so Paramount redid the special effects in HD for Tv but kept the original shots on home video. I really don't see anything wrong with that. I talked personally to some of the people who redid the effects and they had a lot of respect for the the people who did the original effects and were not out to destroy them, just to keep Star Trek on TV.

If they really were out to destroy all the old effects then why did they include the old effects shots on the home video release?

Also some of the effects in the first couple of years of TNG looked awful even for the time but they were not replaced and the reason was that the original negatives were found so HD prints of those shots could be made for TV and Bluray.

The people who did the work have said repeatedly that the only reason they touched the effects on TOS was because there were no negatives to make HD prints of and I see no reason to assume they are lying since when negatives could be found for TNG they used those and they went out of their way to include the old effects shots on the Blurays.

Again if you do some research you will find that Bluray discs to not have magical powers granted to them by wizards that make non HD content that is burned on to them HD.