How do you look at trek?

[plynch]

^Can we take that to mean you don't care for the TOS remastered episodes?

Oh - I actually don't care for them, but not vehemently; I was just answering the OP literally because I had too much time on my hands.

Since you ask, I generally like things the way they were made by the makers. Changing the effects on Star Trek seems jarring -- the sets, music, dialog, stories are so mid-20th c. network tv, then bam, 2008 CGI. Cleaner sound and video quality I'm ok with.

I'd LOVE to hear the Beatles mono album mixes -- how they heard their mixes in the EMI control room. But you have to buy the whole box set to get 'em. And when there are extra bonus tracks at the ends of CD's I always program them out, or press 'stop' in time. Weird, I know, but in the day, albums were often planned and constructed, and meant to be experienced in a certain way with beginnings and endings.

Who cares, eh? Just a digression. Be well.

 

[RandyS]

^Can we take that to mean you don't care for the TOS remastered episodes?

Oh - I actually don't care for them, but not vehemently; I was just answering the OP literally because I had too much time on my hands.

Since you ask, I generally like things the way they were made by the makers. Changing the effects on Star Trek seems jarring -- the sets, music, dialog, stories are so mid-20th c. network tv, then bam, 2008 CGI. Cleaner sound and video quality I'm ok with.

I'd LOVE to hear the Beatles mono album mixes -- how they heard their mixes in the EMI control room. But you have to buy the whole box set to get 'em. And when there are extra bonus tracks at the ends of CD's I always program them out, or press 'stop' in time. Weird, I know, but in the day, albums were often planned and constructed, and meant to be experienced in a certain way with beginnings and endings.

Who cares, eh? Just a digression. Be well.

I actually agree with you (about TOS, I'm not a Beatles fan). I prefer the originals to the remastered episodes, but I own all three sets of each, and I do have to admit that the remastered work was pretty good in some areas, but no substitute for the classics.

 

[Caliburn24]

I like to look at Trek as Horatio Hornblower in space. My favorite episodes and movies are the ones that have more of that nautical military swashbuckling feel rather than less.

As to all the mythology, alien cultures, technobabble and future history, it is all just setting and background to tell interesting adventure stories in space.

A simplistic view perhaps, but it is the one I hold to. I hate when entertainment tries to hold some higher more enlightened view of itself.