JohnChod wrote:

Personally, I didn't see the need for remastering any of the effects at all. It was certainly a way to make some extra cash off of the old girl and may even have mollified a few of the malcontents who claimed that they couldn't get into TOS because the effects were so "cheesy."
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Which has precisely nothing to do with why the VFX shots were actually redone: To keep the image/picture-quality of those shots on par with the live-action/on-set footage, which, because it wasn't run through optical printers again and again or was copied from copies, looks fantastic.