Star Trek is a treasured franchise for Paramount and CBS? What ?
They forced the producers of Enterprise to switch from 35mm film to 1080p digital for the last year, and it looks like shit. A few months later they cancelled Enterprise. They seriously considered to release just DVD upscales for the TNG Blurays. They wanted to only reuse the shitty DVD bonus material instead of making the great new documentaries and restoring the deleted scenes. They refuse to do HD versions of TAS, DS9, and VOY. They refused to do new CG effects for the Blurays of Enterprise and instead insisted on using shitty looking upscales. They didn’t want to do any new VAM for the Enterprise Blurays. All the DVDs used the same shitty NTSC masters as the VHS tapes and laserdiscs, the only reason why TOS got later remastered for DVD was that a different company paid for the remastering. They refuse to do any Star Trek movies and instead of them they feed us with random crappy action flicks which have nothing to do with Star Trek except the title and some character names. They start a new TV show (but with a showrunner which is responsible for the shitty movies) only because they finally understood that the fans are still not dead and they’re watching the fan films.
Star Trek is in very bad hands. In hands of businessmen who know how to make money but have no idea why the original show and TNG became a part of modern culture. They say ST is a treasured franchise for them, but they behave like it’s that unwanted child they’re just tolerating because it’s useful for them.
