Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) seemingly goes insane in the remastered version of “The Enterprise Incident,” premiering this weekend in nationwide syndication. Kirk orders the Enterprise across the Neutral Zone, where it is captured by Romulan forces. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) goes aboard a Romulan ship in a desperate bid to save his ship and his captain’s life, but the Vulcan officer finds himself strangely drawn to the beautiful commander of the Romulan fleet (Joanne Linville).
Episode highlights include one of Star Trek’s featured appearances of the feared Klingon Battle Cruiser, and the only time that it is seen commanded by Romulan forces. In the remastered version of the episode, the iconic Klingon ship now sports the signature Romulan bird-of-prey markings, first seen in “The Balance of Terror.” The remastered episode also reintroduces the original Romulan ship design, now flying alongside with its larger Klingon-styled brethren.
The remastered version of “The Enterprise Incident” features all-new visual effects by CBS Digital and premieres during the weekend of April 5, 2008. The original episode was first aired in September, 1968, and was written by D.C. Fontana and directed by John Meredyth Lucas. Star Trek was created by Gene Roddenberry and is distributed in nationwide syndication by CBS Paramount Television.
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Written by: Michael Okuda (Star Trek Remastered Line Producer; graphic artist, author)
Any idea how many more episodes are in the can? Since Toshiba was backing the HD updates, using Toshiba’s standards, made for HD-DVD (which is no more), and the Season 2 HD-DVD’s have already been canceled, I can’t think there are too many more that were complete prior to the funding being pulled.
That’s a great question for Michael O. I’ll write him and ask.
OK, I heard back from Michael Okuda and here was his response to your inquiry Mark:
“Thanks for the note. All of the episodes of the original series are being remastered.”
That’s Great!!! Now, for the next question: will they be coming to a “disc” format? Since HD-DVD is dead, I’ll guess that one is out, but Season 1 was of the duel format (HD on one side, standard DVD on the other), so will we at least see it in that format, if not Blu-Ray?
Since I was one of the few that actually bought Season 1, I’d love to have the final 2 seasons in my collection, even if they would be in a different format.
You really need to ask all these at one time 😉 Michael O comes on here from time to time and hopefully he will see and answer this one for you here so I don’t constantly pound his call box.