Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

OK, bear with me a bit here. I need to explain something. I am a Star Trek fan of long standing, 35+ years at this point. When I first heard that the original series was going to be re-released with all new effects, I was less than thrilled. Maybe this attitude is foreign to the younger people, but there is, for me, a certain charm in the original effects. While I acknowledge that the effects in the original Star Trek are sometimes not slick as you see in modern films, people need to realize and appreciate that they were working before the time of computer generated graphics -- and on a television budget. In short, the effects on the original series stand as an example of what dedicated, talented people could do when it all had to be done "the hard way". And it seemed disrespectful, at least, of that achievement to replace the hard work of those people. In fact, it seemed to me, at first, to really be just another way for more money to be milked out of both the fans and the series. Then I started thinking. And reading. And considering. And, finally, I decided to take a peek for myself. What I found is that the new effects are, as expected, as perfect as only a computer can make them. Perfect effects are, really, getting to be a ho-hum thing to me. I realize and recognize that it still takes talent and skill to create effects using a computer, but, honestly, when you can realize on the screen literally anything you want as easily as anything else... well, it just isn't the same. There just isn't that sense of "Wow, how did they DO that?" anymore. But... What I also found was that great and loving care was taken to preserve and actually enhance the original episodes through the use of this new technology. Regardless of any debate on the merits of doing it or not, it's done -- and the results are superb. The accompanying "bonus features" are also quite good.