SilverWook said:
I thought the TOS remastering crossed the line a tad when they erased a statue that was part of the set in Wink of an Eye. Redoing a matte shot is one thing...
It would be really funny if the original TOS FX raw footage turned up someday. There were so many FX and optical houses involved, it was probably scattered to the winds after the show ended. One of the FX guys later worked on the horror classic Phantasm, and reused the transporter effect for when the mortuary dissolves at the end.
The funny thing was that the bigger changes they made were a reaction to fan complaints, I know because I was there on the sites when it happened.
The team doing the new effects asked for fan feedback and when it became clear the old effects would be kept on home video a lot of fans started complaining that the new effects were not worth seeing because all they were doing was reproducing the old effects with CGI. So after that the team started making changes like the one stated above and doing things like adding rocks impacting against the halls of a ship and stuff like that and at first the fans were happy and saying things along the lines of "If you are going to make changes you should go all the way" but then it didn't take long for a backlash to start.
I think it just goes to prove you can't listen to fans because fans are really just a group of people routing for this thing to fail. Even when you give them exactly what they ask for they will still attack you. Back in the 80s no one tried harder to get Doctor Who pulled off of the air then the show's so called "fans".
Organized fandom can really be an ugly thing some times and I don't really think there is a way for the producers of new content to win since every fan wants the show they watch to stay exactly the way it was when they first saw it and never try anything new, but the general public wants the show to try new things and take chances so there is no way to please both these groups.
If I were Paramount I think I would just ditch Star Trek and and burn everything related to it since it is clear there is no pleasing the fans so having anything to do with this franchise will just get you personally attack. Far better to just make it as if Star Trek never existed so people will forget about it and stop bugging you.
The only way to win with fans is to just stop producing anything they claim to "like" because fans are really just hate filled people looking for any excuse to complain and threaten the lives of people who produce the stuff they claim to like.