However, though, I would rather they did release the other shows. I never liked “Enterprise.” It seemed to me that Paramount knew they had a turd on their hands, which was why they didn’t put the “Star Trek” name on it, then when it was about to be axed, they did in the hopes that its being a “Star Trek” series would save it.

I hope that if CBS DIgital takes the TNG project on, they will do a better job with it than they did with TOS. As good as it was, there were certainly some missed opportunities. I certainly hoped that the ships would have had greater detail, like “Aztec Panels.”

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They ruined TOS, now they’re going after TNG. What next DS9, VOY & ENT. Just to fit in with current TV standards.

But I have to say, good quality DVDs do look pretty good on an HD screen. They’re not HD, but there is plenty of resolution. They look distinctly better than broadcast quality digital TV. I haven’t seen HD on my own screen yet, but I’ve seen it in the shops and it doesn’t wow me THAT much. There isn’t a massive difference at normal viewing distance, in my opinion. But that is just my opinion, most people who have subscribed to HD channels say it’s loads better.

“Always when the Enterprise orbits Earth, we never see any spacedocks, orbital stations, drydocks, etc.”

To be visible around the earth, a space station would have to be hundreds of miles long, at the very least. All the Trek space stations we’ve seen are nowhere near that kind of size! They’re about a mile, at most.

There could be thousands of “DS9-size” space stations orbiting the Earth, but the chance of them happening to be visible in any particular shot of Earth is practically zero. There’s no way you’d see them. The only reason you see the Enterprise when it’s orbiting a planet is because the camera is looking in exactly the right place. If the camera moved a few hundred miles in any other direction, the Enterprise would just look like another star in space.

Think of it like this: if you stand in a big city, you can see all these huge buildings around you. Huge buildings the size of space stations. If you fly up over the city in a plane, those huge buildings start to get quite small. If you fly really high into space, those buildings will be no more than dots. And finally, if you fly 10,000 miles up so you can look at the Earth, there is absolutely no way you could see anything the size of a large building. You’d be able to make out small countries, and that’s it.

Or, imagine DS9 was sat on Earth and you were standing next to it. It would be huge. Then, imagine it flew up into the night sky. After a few hundred miles up, it would just be another dot among the stars. After 10,000 miles it would be utterly insignificant and possibly invisible.