We Are Not Alone

[qoSagh]

I started to write this about only one genre but then had to add in another. Not that this is really all that new, but some recent movie ads made me think of this. We have debated the general lack of continuity in Klingon as well as general Trek shows and movies, but I recently found another long running set of movies that have taken a page from Paraborg's book. The new James Bond movie, which is actually the first book, and as such features a new actor playing a very early incarnation of 007, has the current M in it. Up until recently M was always played by a man, then a few movies ago M became female. Since I had always thought of M being a title or office and not a name, this wasn't all that much of an issue. But now that the new M is essentially the boss of the Old 007, we get into the continuity problem. I have yet to see if John Cleese will return as Q, to further cement this issue. While thinking of what became this post, my wife called out to me as she was watching a Star Wars marathon on TV, to tell me that Return of the Jedi had been altered to feature a ghostly image of the "new" younger Anikan instead of the older post Vader one we all remember. I remember when Jabba the Hut was changed, but since that was footage that had been edited out, we never really saw the original, so it didn't seem all that important.

With the upcoming release of Digitally Remastered Star Trek on DVD, can CGI Ridges be far behind? Will the Old Trek uniforms be made to look like TNG or even Enterprise? Does any of this really matter? Will this effect our enjoyment of movies and TV shows?

[Klythe]

    Yeah, I heard about the Hayden Christensen being added to that scene for the special special edition re-re-release of the DVDs when it was first leaked.   Because of all the revisions and the fan reaction against them, Lucas went and re-released the original theatrical release as a fourth release...  My head hurts, but at least I can confidently say now that Han shot first in the most recent release.   ||:P

    From what I understand about the TOS release to DVD, the characters and sets are not being digitally altered, but the space scenes(ships, stations and maybe planets) were redone in CG, using the very faithful electronic models used in "Trials and Tribble-ations".   If Paramont hadn't done Trials and Tribilations and Affliction, then you might have seen ridges as the "correction" to continuity.  Which I think would have been the cleanest solution, as it was what Roddenberrry wanted.   But because "Afflicion" is now part of continuity, they can't add digital ridges without breaking T&T and Affliciton.

[GTman05]

id like to see them Try to stick with the way things are instead of switching them all up like they have been doing, we know about the changes but what about the newer younger audience that is just starting to come into the sci-fi scene, the producers i belive are making it more appeling to the younger generation.

oh Ps: it wasnt John Cleese that plays Q, it is John de Lancie 

[qoSagh]

John Cleese is the most recent Q in the James Bond series, although he did play Q's assistant R at first. John De Lancie is of course the most common Q in Star Trek.