All right, trekkies, time to bust your best
Star Trek costume out of the mothballs! Not for Halloween, you Talosian smacktard, but for the big screen showing of the two-part classic Star Trek episode, "The Menagerie." On November
20th 13th, a week before the release of the DVD/HD DVD combo boxed set of "
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1", the episode will be shown in all its HD glory at 300 theaters nationwide. True fans demand more, though, so the theaters will also be showing a new introduction by Eugene Roddenberry and a "behind the scenes" feature. Follow the link for details on where you can catch 40-foot Kirk and how many bones it'll cost you.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dave @ Oct 11th 2007 8:48AM
Your date is wrong. The event is on November 13th.
Kumar @ Oct 11th 2007 9:32AM
I declare a nerdfest!!!!
(and of course I'll be there)
John B @ Oct 11th 2007 10:40AM
Am I the only one who thinks that this is all a load of shit? This is nothing more than Paramount taking after George Lucas -- "Star Trek: The Special Edition", where Paramount goes through and creates new special effects not because they should but because they can. And of course fellow Trekkies are lapping it up like a kitten to a fresh bowl of milk.
The Pepto Pimp @ Oct 11th 2007 3:35PM
Yeah, I'm working on this project and that's almost word for word what the execs say about Trekkies.
They plan to tweak and re-release Star Trek in every format they can.
Eric @ Oct 11th 2007 11:09AM
Paramount can take a flying leap for abandoning Blu-ray. Bunch of money-grubbing losers with no integrity.
JeffDM @ Oct 11th 2007 4:40PM
As far as I've heard from the people that watch it, it isn't a total Lucasification. They don't change lines or change the order of how things happen, which I think are the most significant of the wrongs that Lucas had perpetrated.
The biggest problem I have with Paramount's offering is the price. I have to think that the people willing to pay Paramount's pricing are probably even more people that won't buy it because of a purist bent - they did replace models with CG and I think they reframed all the footage to widescreen - from what I remember, cutting out part of the footage to make it widescreen.
gamedude420 @ Oct 11th 2007 5:11PM
no, all footage will be 4X3 not 16X9 stretchovision here :) the hddvd will also include a new un touched master (no new special cgi effects)
JeffDM @ Oct 11th 2007 11:33PM
gamedude420; That's all very good to know, I'm glad that my pessimism was unfounded. The HD version isn't aired in my area, I don't know why.
This theatrical promotion isn't going to help me much. The closest theater is 75 miles away. No thanks.