Comments on: Star Trek: The Next Generation In High-Def

By: B.

B. — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:09:00 +0000

“If it’s not broken, why fix it?”… I’m not sure enhancing Star Wars was an improvement… Then again, who would have moaned if Jar Jar Binks had vanished… Don’t jump to conclusions, I have never mentioned Star Wars! But I think some sequences of TNG are lacking – and if the original scenarios called for more than what financial resources allowed back then, then by all means make TNG look like what it was designed to be with today’s technology. That’s a hypothesis, I’ve never seen the scripts… But that’s what they’ve done -overdone perhaps – with TOS remastered -. I don’t mind, and that’s precedent: others will expect some kind of significant visual overhaul… One example: the battle of Wolf 359 could not be seen because it must have been too costly, but a few years after, DS9 showed us StarFleet’s armada combatting the Dominion in sequences that put anything TNG had done visually to shame… Make it glorious, as Worf would say… Make it so…

By: Mike DeLaney

Mike DeLaney — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:41:00 +0000

Ah… So your ilk is why we got Special Editions of Star Wars. Noted. Personally, I enjoyed them the way they were, so I’m pretty happy they’re staying fundamentally the same.

By: B.

B. — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:18:00 +0000

I was expecting updates FX of the kind we can see in the remastered TOS. Apparently the approach is much more conservative here – read rigourously faithfull to what was originally designed -. The FX will be top notch, but an exact reproduction of the original… A lot of battles in TNG were very static, slow and not very exciting… Much has changed in 25 years of TV and perhaps a faster pace for the space battles would have been a needed improvement (after all, in the TNG movies ships move quicker, turn tighter, fire at a more rapid pace, so why not adjusting the series to the rhythm of the movies? I was looking forward to this kind of improvement but we will only get visual enhancements, nothing else.. That’s a turn off – even for the purist that I think I am!