If stations are treating this as more-or-less original programming, it's odd to get it after uncut versions come out on video. Also, considering that the season one stuff has likely been bumped to the start of the line for effects work so that it's done in time for the HD-DVD release, I'd...
I get it from my local ABC station in 720p, but I'm pretty sure that they're doing upconversion. Everything I've read says that there's not much infrastructure for syndicated HD content yet, and I think it would be news if Star Trek Remastered became available in HD. It generally looks pretty...
I read somewhere that leaving the "R" was deliberate - that the Okudas et al figured that their job was cleaning up what was there, not making it into something different. Fans have spent forty years reconciling that R, so why deprive them of their fun. :)
Heh. I have to admit, it would be hilarious if the bits with the DS9 characters were quietly edited in. Nothing with dialog, just seeing Sisko & O'Brien in the scenes where they were retroactively present. Something for them to think about for the eventual home video release. I'd be amused.
There were a few shots where the Gorn blinked, but that first shot was the longest. Since I gather the Okudas are trying to make as few changes as possible, I think they only had the Gorn blink when the camera lingered on him long enough for the audience to become uncomfortable with him not...
Grrr... Saturday and Sunday late-nights on WCVB-5 (ABC) here in Boston. You'd think that the Viacom-owned Channel 38 with a whole metric crapload of prime-time schedule to fill once UPN closes up shop would have had some interest.
See, that's one of the reasons I kind of like the idea. If "camp and nostalgia" are the lynchpins for something's appeal, that doesn't say much about it. If these shows can still be entertaining once those factors are reduced, I think that speaks highly of it.