"BREAKING NEWS: Re-mastering Star Trek"

Great news all!... CBS (which now owns all five Star Trek television series') has officially announced that they are releasing digitally remastered episodes of the Original Trek, with all new special effects and music, to celebrate the franchise's 40th anniversary.

The most noticeable change will be redoing many of the special effects, created with 1960s technology, and replacing them with 21st century CGI. Upgrades include: replacing all ship exteriors (models in the 1960's) with state-of-the-art digital renders, all graphics (and planets) of the galaxy will be digitally redone, the show opening will be digitally recreated (and re-recorded), and many of the iconic matte paintings and backdrops will get complete computer make-overs.

They will begin airing all 79 of these remastered Original Series episodes on September 16. For a look at the full news article, visit StarTrek.com.

Ok, so if there's an eleventh Star Trek film coming out in 2008, and the Original Series is being re-mastered and re-broadcast on network television, then I think the nay-sayers should go take a seat. Trek is not dead... and us life-long fans have something to cheer about again!

Long live Star Trek (even moreso since Rick Berman is gone)!

Have a blessed weekend all, enjoy the news, and until the morrow,

Your happily blogging friend,
-Jon
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