The Quantum Mechanic

The remastered Balance of Terror will air locally on Channel 5 at 02:05 on 18 September. Set your TiVos on stun!

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her five-year mission: to explore strange, new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

September 8, 1966.

It appears that Star Trek is going to be given the “Special Edition” treatment.

While it does sound cool at some level, what’s the point? And changing the music, noises, and SFX shots to be more modern? Won’t that create horrible mismatches with the rest of the footage?

The cynical part of me wonders if this isn’t a ploy on the part of the studios to push fans (who have seen the atrocities Lucas has committed on the original Star Wars films) to start buying DVDs now, so they can have the originals before they go out of print.

Actor Gary Lockwood has the distinction of being “killed” by two of the more iconic characters in SciFi — Captain James T. Kirk and HAL9000.

(Now if only we had the chance to see Kirk and HAL9000 face off directly…)

This guy, who has too much time on his hands, knows. :-)