diyan55 wrote:
> I just read that the 'new' Star Trek movie release has been changed
> from Dec. 25th, 2008 to May, 2009, according to Paramount.
> 
> Thought some of you might like to know.

'Sfunny. I really hadn't seen TOS since the 60s, but I decided to break 
in our new DISH DVR by catching the series from the beginning on TVLand. 
They're obviously showing the non-improved version (though the prints 
are good), and I've noticed quite a few things.

1) The f/x are much worse than I remembered. It's not that the models or 
the matting are bad, but there are scads of perspective problems, and 
the Enterprise frequently seems to be caught in a bad crosswind.

2) The preproduction universe building was bloody awful. In the early 
days, neither the United Federation of Planets nor Starfleet had been 
invented, and Spock's human blood came from the marriage of "one of 
[his] ancestors".

3) A good many classic episodes were written by freelancers.

4) It took a while to find Kirk's fingerprints.

On the other hand, the show holds up pretty well, and and I still agree, 
as I did then, with John W. Campbell's decision that "Star Trek" was the 
Real Thing.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
   -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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