Taking old stuff and adding new, better special effects doesn't strike me as an assault on our collective heritage or anything along those lines, as long as they don't alter elements of the original plot, characters, or setting.

I even grudgingly allow Lucas to do stupid crap like have Greedo shoot first. Star Wars is his creation. If he wants to turn Han into someone willing to bet his life on Greedo missing from a distance of three feet, rather than saving his own skin, it's your model railroad set to wreck, George. Of course, I'm still going to call it stupid crap. Hell, switch Boba Fett's "What if he doesn't survive?" to "I'm going to get him a thoughtful greeting card," you pussy. But I digress.

Howard sent me a pretty cool link to one of the re-edited Star Trek (I'm not going to add "TOS*" TOS is Star Trek) episodes, The Doomsday Machine. Here in Chicago it'll be on MeTV this weekend, which is too bad because we don't have cable. I'd call it a great improvement. Hope it comes out on DVD.

ETA: Well, whaddya know. Just found it on iTunes. I think. Just bought Balance of Terror, which I believe is the "re-imagined" version.


*The Original Series