These are not state-of-the-art effects: they are computer game effects. The lighting and surface detail are very low resolution, but most of all everything, especially the Enterprise and shuttles, move unnaturally, as if they have no mass at all. And the lighting scales it to the appearance of a small model, not a ship the good part of 1000 feet long. Admittedly, the remastered Star Wars had the same problem: the Falcon has no mass when landing on Bespin either.

I made a HUGE mistake myself calling Daren of “David”… !

What a shame…!

I apologize….!

Some time ago, I saw David’s ST:Enhanced project version on YouTube… I found it spetacular…! This personal work-of-art was ALL I, for one, always thought it could be done to the old Classic Series to really “enhance” it… I was so delighted that I even got in touch with David to congratulate him.

Now, CBS/Paramount come with this ST:Remastered… I thought “Oh, my God! David got it…!!” but I finally found that David’s proposal had nothing to do with the studio intentions…

I have to say that what I saw of the new remastered Trek was good, was fine, was ok… but I saw only what is in the internet, with “web quality”, as ti say…

Here in Brazil HDTV is still in project to be implemented so I guess we have a long way here to the day we would e really able to wach this new version of Trek…

But, for what I saw of the remastered Trek, I must say that I’d much better prefer the “ST:Enhanced” version of David’s…! As I read commented here, the CBS internal-team CGI effects seem to lack “reality” – if one can say that…! The images are a blast, nice, perfect… but – just from what I saw – they seem to lack “soul”…!! There’s no “life” in there, it seems…!!

It’s a pity… It will be a success, of course (the preview videos an teasers are the best!), but the final result will be a step or three behind it could be (if it seemed more like Trek:Enhanced)…!

This is my opinion.

It appears that the answer to that is no. That is why I got when I contacted David Fein (producer on the DE). Apparently the team wanted to do the work but Paramount decided to focus on the immediate delivery for the DVD…here is an except from his message to me

“I\’m incredibly proud of the film\’s edit and effects; our team did a remarkable job. However, this job is not complete until we satisfy Bob\’s wish and a film resolution master completed… a step closer would be HD….While I\’ve insured that all of our production materials are available and ready for us to complete the Director\’s Edition in film or hidef resolution, there is no approved master of the Director\’s Edition for HD release.”
- David Fein
Producer, ST: TMP: DE

I could be wrong though.

The thinking behind the Remastered version of the series is that the original effects footage would not hold up at all at HD resolution, while the set elements held up better, not having been through so many damaging photochemical composits to destroy the quality.

By redoing the effects, and younger audience can see it without the ‘bad effects’ baggage.

I have the original series on DVD, and still hold this as the definitive item.

If they foul up Trek Remastered, it will matter little to me, since the originals are easily available.