So, you bought all of the episodes of Star Trek on VHS at the rate of one a month for $20 each. Then they released it again, with two episodes on each tape. Or was it the other way around? Didn’t matter, you bought them all over again.

Then they went to DVD, and you bought all the episodes on DVDs, with each DVD costing $20 with 2 episodes on each DVD.

Then, after you’d bought them all, only then did they release three season sets of the Original Series of Star Trek with a honkin’ huge price tag (though nowhere near as much as buying them individually). And you bought them all over again.

If you’re one of these Trekkies, get ready.

Now they’re digitally remastering the whole series for the 40th Anniversary of Star Trek. Why they didn’t do this just a couple years ago before issuing the season sets is beyo-

What am I saying? It’s obvious why.

Double Dip City.

Anyway, yes, the whole Star Trek show is being redone with CGI starships, enhanced backgrounds, new galaxy shots through the viewscreen, a redone opening title with an all-new version of the theme song…and it’s all in HD.

NOTE: They are NOT adding in CGI characters that never existed before, nor mucking about with the story like Lucas did by making Greedo fire at Han. Still, I stand by my subject line. Maybe I need to make that into a T-shirt.

Now, the good news: Star Trek is coming back to television syndication, so you don’t HAVE to buy it on DVD. Though you will.

Hat tip: Libertas. Libertas’ article also has this link to a preview video, though I haven’t been able to get it to work right in Firefox. I opened it in IE and it works

Still hungry for more? Well, back in the 1990s an enterprising (sorry) CGI company named Digital Stream pitched “special edition” episodes to Paramount (or perhaps they were approached by Paramount; not certain) with test footage for the episode Doomsday Machine. Want to see it? Here it is, on YouTube courtesy of our old friends at The Agony Booth!

Frankly, this test footage was right to be rejected, unless the final version would have been much better.