From the comments in the initial love-fest above, it’s easy to see that there’s a limit beyond which aficionados are going to start bristling. There were so many little things in the original which were tacky, and thus could in principle be redone and made ‘better’. But at some point the show then loses its original touch and feel. All this is obvious, as is the fact that each fan places the threshold in a slightly different position. Net: perhaps the time and money limitations being imposed on the team are a blessing in disguise, as they force the focus onto just the most pressing matters and keep things from going overboard. Perhaps a second version with all the stops pulled out and all the fix-up ideas implemented could also be produced, though this might really confuse the H out of everybody.

With that said, I hope by the time they get to TNG they’ll be able to entrirely get rid of the silly vertical flash of light when the ship goes into warp (a really awful idea to begin with) and write Wesley The Boy Wonder out of most of the episodes where he saves the day. :> JMO.

Too late … already been done (in Star Trek The Motion Picture) … and it sux there, too!

A terrified Brazilian fan.

Eventually, I would hope that CBC Digital will be able to take many of the on planet scenes, and digitally remove the cycloramas, and add more realistic skies ( at least, blend away the wash from the lights at the top visible in some shots). Ideally, but probably very difficult and/or expensive, would be to also add some atmospheric haze to those shots so that the background hills and rocks have a realistic distance. One disappointment I’ve had so far is that there were no enhancements/extensions to the ruins of the cities in Miri, and in City On the Edge of Forever. Seeing more of the colony in Arena would have been nice also. I have to say I was impressed with the fact that the Gorn could blink.

I am really looking forward to seeing the Fesarius, the Doomsday machine itself, the energy web of the Tholians, and I am eagerly anticpating what they will possible be able to do with the “space ameoba”.

I agree with an above post that on DVD, let the episodes run to whatever length works best for each episode, with additional enhancements and shots where appropriate.

As to The Menagerie, Part 1, I have to say the shot from The Cage with the move into the Bridge was pretty amazing, expecially the way the bridge cap became transparent. On the down side, this is one episode in which it seems the present has caught up to the present. I can no longer believe in Captain Pike’s total disabilitiy. Even with today’s technology, a person can communicate better with eye movements, and so forth. In the 23rd century, I can only imagine what will be possible. However, this isn’t a complaint about the work of CBS Digital, I guess It is more a fact that we are dealing with a series created 40 years ago.

As to the controversy I’ve noticed in many of the above posts, I do have to say that I would enjoy seeing something similar to Darin Dochterman’s transporter enhancements in the remastered episodes, or something to soften up the matte outlines. I thought the transporter shots from the Cage were enhanced with a bit of a nod toward the effect from Enterprise.