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 TOS-R Season 3 DVD: November 14
18 August 2008 - Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the third season of Star Trek Remastered will be hitting the shelves on November 14th, 2008. Like season two, this for now is a DVD-only release, with no Blu-ray companion set announced. The set will feature the same style packaging as the previous two seasons, just with a red color scheme (following that of the TOS crew uniforms - yellow, blue, and red). Just like the prior seasons, the DVD set will feature the full-length remastered episodes - broadcast episodes have been cut by several minutes for modern advertising requirements - and likely a myriad of special features.
|  CBS launches online HD player, TOS-R in the mix
23 July 2008 - While CBS has historically been resistant to putting content online without getting a direct payback (as is the case with iTunes), their online media viewer has enjoyed some success through its integrated advertisements. With the proliferation of broadband internet access, viewers have been begging for more. Well, CBS has stepped up to the plate, offering up a new website with streaming high definition television. And as a bonus to Star Trek fans, the new CBS HD Gallery also includes high definition episodes of Star Trek Remastered.
|  Star Trek Remastered work done
28 April 2008 - Twenty one months later, the work on Star Trek Remastered is now complte. Dave Rossi, Mike and Denise Okuda, and all the rest of the CBS digital team started work in early 2006 on the remastering of Star Trek as a way to mark the 40th anniversary of the original. They have created nearly 2,200 new effects shots and brought TOS into the world of high definition.
|  TOS-R Season 2 DVD confirmed, detailed
16 April 2008 - We first heard that the second season of Star Trek Remastered would be coming out on DVD only (no HD), now we have a date, details of the extras, and a shot of a very familiar looking box. The set will be 26 episodes on 8 discs, priced at $99.99, and released on August 5th, 2008. The Season 2 box set will also include more of Billy Blackburn's behind-the-scenes home movies, 9 special featurettes, and due to the inclusion of "The Trouble With Tribbles," the other two Star Trek tribble episodes, The Animated Series' "More Tribbles, More Trouble" and Deep Space Nine's "Trials and Tribble-ations."
|  TOS-R Season 2 on track for DVD-only release
22 March 2008 - Star Trek Remastered was dealt a blow when HD DVD collapsed in the face of overwhelming Blu-ray sales. The hybrid HD DVD/DVD Season 2 set was on track for release when Paramount cancelled all future HD DVD releases. With HD DVD out of the picture, we were left ot wonder when we would see a release of TOS-R S2, and if it would be in HD. Here's the answer: no HD, at least for now, and a date of August 5th.
| Journey to Andromeda in 'By Any Other Name' remastered
08 March 2008 - It's time for another edition of Star Trek Remastered. And airing this weekend across the United States is the second season episode 'By Any Other Name.' This classic features the Kelvans from the Andromeda Galaxy, and they're coming here for colonization. Click on through for two hi-res remastered images from this episode.
|  Toshiba throws in the HD DVD towel, future of HD Star Trek unknown
20 February 2008 - HD DVD suffered too many losses in the past few weeks. The Toshiba-backed HD disc format was dropped by Netflix and Wal-Mart and pushed to the back of the store at Best Buy. Combined with slumping sales after the loss of Warner Bros' support, HD DVD has been on its knees for some time now. Toshiba finally announced that it is shutting down its HD DVD production lines, marking the end of the HD format war that has waged for the past few years.
|  TOS-R Season 2 HD DVD delayed into the summer
13 February 2008 - Originally slated for a March 25th debut, we've now learned that the second season of Star Trek Remastered has been delayed by CBS Paramount Television to some point later in the summer of 2008. The second season HD DVD/DVD combo set of TOS-R is expected to have the same fancy packaging and extensive high definition extras as the first set. No exact date has been given for the season two release, but as soon as we know we'll let you know.
|  TOS-R Producers talk 'The Ultimate Computer'
07 February 2008 - Speaking with TrekMovie.com, Star Trek Remastered producers David Rossi, Mike Okuda, and Denise Okuda spoke talked about their 'big' episode for this season of TOS-R: 'The Ultimate Computer.' Pitting the Enterprise, outfitted with a new powerful M-5 computer, against three other Federation starships in simulated war games. At least they're supposed to be simulated. 'The Ulitmate Computer' will air in syndication this coming weekend across the United States. Images after the break.
|  'Day of The Dove' Remastered
05 January 2008 - Unfortunately, with Star Trek.com dead we can't bring you the preview for this week's Star Trek Remastered episode, but we can at least tell you about it. This week brings of 'Day of the Dove,' the seventh episode of the third season, places the Starship Enterprise into a battle with the Klingons, both serving as pawns of an entity that has taken control of the ship.
|  Teeter on the brink of annihilation: A Taste of Armageddon Remastered preview
11 December 2007 - As usual, it's a simple mission: pick up the Ambassador from a peaceful little planet. As usual, that planet isn't so peaceful. They've been at war for 500 years, and Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise just stepped into the middle of it. Nothing quite like being told by a computer that you've been selected for termination. Watch the preview for the remastered 'A Taste of Armageddon' (Quicktime required) after the break.
|  Know the peace of Landru: The Return of the Archons remastered
04 December 2007 - The Starship Enterprise is sent to investigate the dissapearance of the U.S.S. Archons more than 100 years ago. They come to the planet Beta III, where the vessel vanished, and find a quaint society bellow, completely lacking in any creative though (which as you can imagine is quite troubling for a crew that has thought their way out of many a tight spot). And they are all controlled by a guy named Landru, who knows all and only wants to bring you all peace. Yeah, right. Check out the preview (Quicktime required) after the break.
|  The 'Alternative Factor' Remastered
28 November 2007 - After a three week hiatus, Star Trek Remastered is back, this time bringing Lazarus(s) to the table. People are disappearing and Starfleet is panicking, so it's the Enterprise to the rescue! Really, who else would the send? Universes collide (quite literally) this week on Star Trek, so I'd recommend you watch the preview so you know what you're getting yourself into.
| Star Trek Remastered S1 HD DVD set on sale TODAY
20 November 2007 - The day is upon us: the Star Trek Remastered season one HD DVD/DVD set has been released upon the world. Using cutting edge scanning techniques and updated computer graphics, the original Star Trek (1966-1969) has been remastered in high definition and recieved a much needed modern facelift. And now, after airing in syndication nationwide, the first season of Star Trek Remastered is available for purchase in an unprecedented DVD / HD DVD combination set.
| ![\](http://tu.trekunited.com/frontpage/images/series/tos/deadlyyears.jpg "\") Watch "The Deadly Years" remastered preview
06 November 2007 - It's the impossible. Not only are there harassing Romulans and the crew is aging too quickly. but Captain Kirk is dead. What will Spock and Bones do with out our dear Captain to lead the way? Why, save the day, of course, because that's what we do on the Enterprise. Of course, the Romulans are all up in our faces because we ran through the Neutral Zone, but that's what you've got to do when your Vulcan starts going gray around the edges.
|  Discover "The Metamorphosis" remastered
31 October 2007 - Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, That started from the Enterprise, aboard this tiny ship. The Captain was a mighty Iowan, James Kirk brave and sure. Fourpassengers set off that day for a three hour tour. A three hour tour.
The weather started getting rough, the Galileo was ensnared. The anomaly put them all down on a big empty space rock. A big empty space rock. And on this rock they found a man that history thought lost.
With Vulcan Spock, the Captain too, our friend Doctor McCoy, the Commissioner that's fallen ill, and Zefram Cohrane, here on this space rock.
| Star Trek.com giving away HD DVD player and TOS Remastered HD set
27 October 2007 - The good folks over at Star Trek.com have seen it fit to not only give away a set of the upcoming Star Trek Remastered HD DVD season one (listing for $195, selling on Amazon for $133), but to also give the winner a Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD player, which retails at $299. This is easily one of the more expensive giveaways that Star Trek.com has put on. Though the HD DVD set will hit the streets on November 20th, the contest runs for three days after that, and participants are allowed to enter once per day (that's 28 chances to win from now until then). The grand prize also includes two HD DVD movies with the player (The Bourne Identity and 300); first prize gets the TOS-R HD DVD set, but no player.
|  'The Menagerie' coming to European theaters
25 October 2007 - Hot on the tail of Fathom Events adding an extra day to the 'The Menagerie' screenings across the US, they have added showing next month in countries across Europe. This one night only event will feature the full length two-part original Star Trek episode remastered with new effects in high definition and surround sound. Before the European theaters were added this was already the single largest screening of episodic Star Trek. This is as before still a promotion for the upcoming HD DVD/DVD release of the remastered Star Trek season one.
| Extra day added to The Menagerie showings
23 October 2007 - Due to overwhelming demand, Fathom Events - the company that organized the theatrical showings for the remastered version of The Menagerie, has added another date - Thursday, November 15th, with screenings at 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm. The two part remastered episode will be the first time a Star Trek episode has been screened at this level - more than 300 theaters nationwide.
|  "The Gamesters of Triskelion" remastered preview
16 October 2007 - Put on your collars and grab your voulges (those are the axes with really long handles), it's time for mortal combat! Captain Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov find themselves in the middle of a fight for the death light-years from the Enterprise, while the ship itself is placed on the betting table in a shirt-ripping fight with none other than Captain Kirk. Everything is on the line, in this week's remastered Star Trek - 'The Gamesters of Triskelion.'
|  Remastered 'Dagger of the Mind' preview
08 October 2007 - The Enterprise this week will take us to the Tantulus Penal Colony, and the crazy guy wants asylum. There's brainwashing love, mindmelds, and all manner of insanity taking place in this week's Star Trek Remastered: 'Dagger of the Mind.'
| 'The Menagerie' remastered to get theatrical showing
05 October 2007 - On Tuesday, November 13th, movie theaters around the United States and Canada will offer a special showing of the remastered Star Trek episode 'The Menagerie.' While Star Trek television has appeared in theaters before (the Enterprise season 4 premiere 'Storm Front' was screened by Paramount in a Hollywood movie theater), it has never done so on this scale: 300 theaters across the US and Canada.
|  Remaster team asks, "What are little girls made of?"
01 October 2007 - Circuits and servos and everything nice, it would seem. And android clones. Anyway, StarTrek.com has posted a preview for the first season Star Trek episode 'What Are Little Girls Made Of?' Just as they did 41 years ago, we're making copies of everybody's favorite Captain: Kirk. Click on through for the preview!
|  Preview for remastered "The Man Trap"
24 September 2007 - The salt sucker of M-113 cometh. It's another episode that isn't loaded with special effects, but the entire original Star Trek series is getting the digital treatment, and that includes "The Man Trap." The Enterprise is paying a visit to the world of M-113, a planet where the intelligent life that once lived was long ago lost, leaving behind cities of ruins. A pair of Federation scientists, Dr. Robert Crater and his wife Nancy are the only people on the planet, studying the ruins. And they want salt.
|  Preview for remastered "The Conscience of the King" posted
18 September 2007 - It is what Star Trek producers describe as a 'bubble show,' i.e. one where the story takes place almost exclusively on the ship. And they do it because it doesn't cost much to do (and because they blew their budget on the previous espisodes). That's what "The Conscience of the King" is. Don't get me wrong, here, bubble shows are very often among the best in Star Trek because they force the writers to focus on character development, take Enterprise's acclaimed "Shuttlepod One" for example. Regardless of the almost complete lack of effects in "The Conscience of the King," the Star Trek remastered team has done it anyway, and this episode serves as an example of the superior film scanning used for the remastering. Kodos the Executioner will strike.
|  First images from remastered "The Galileo Seven"
11 September 2007 - Airing starting this weekend is the second season of Star Trek Remastered, and leading the way is the classic "The Galileo Seven." Though technically the seventeenth episode of the first season, this will be the lead episode of the new televison season, after several months of reruns. The episode centers around Spock, Scotty, McCoy and four young crewman and their struggle to survive on and escape from a hostile world after a shuttle crash. Pictures after the break.
| TOS Remastered HD DVD available for pre-order from Amazon
30 August 2007 - The combination DVD and HD DVD Season One Star Trek Remastered we first showed you last month has cropped up on Amazon.com for pre-order - at a discounted price nonetheless. They are listing the retail price as being $198.99 (down from the $217.99 previously announced), and selling for $138.95. For comparison, the unremastered Season One DVD set sells for $67.49 on Amazon, and the Season One HD DVD set for NBC's Heroes sells for $69.95.
| Star Trek Remastered schedule for the next year unleashed
23 August 2007 - Starting September 15, and continuing throughout the coming TV year, CBS will deliver 40 new digitally remastered episodes from the original Star Trek series for syndication. The new season of episodes kicks off with "The Galileo Seven" and finishes with "Turnabout Intruder" in August 2008. The following list is a guide as to which episode is released each week, with the airtime in your city determined by the local affiliate station.
| TOS Remastered on HD DVD
26 July 2007 - CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment invite you to experience Star Trek: The Original Series as never before when the legendary first season arrives for the first time ever in a 10-disc HD DVD/DVD combo disc set on November 20, 2007. Meticulously remastered from the original camera negative specifically for this high-definition release, each classic episode is presented in pristine condition with state-of-the-art digital visual effects.
|  "Spock's Brain" remastered images
07 June 2007 - That's right, Spock's Brain. The campiested of campy episodes has gotten the remastered treatment. There's hardly been any contention about the fact that this one is one of the worst of Star Trek, but that hasn't stopped Mike and Denise Okuda and David Rossi from tackling Spock's Brain head-on.
| Work on TOS Remastered continues
30 May 2007 - The crackpot team of visual effects artists working on TOS Remastered is still pumping out the episodes. They’ve done over 25 thus far, and are steadily improving technique and artistry with each that goes by. Airing soon will be Errand of Mercy, Charlie X, Return to Tomorrow, and Squire of Gothos.
| Hi-res images from remastered "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
05 May 2007 - The remastered version of "Tomorrow is Yesterday," Star Trek's first real time-travel episode, premieres in nationwide syndication during the weekend of May 5, 2007. The episode, written by D.C. Fontana, features Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the Starship Enterprise accidentally thrown back to Earth in the 1960s, where the ship is spotted as a UFO.
| Interview with TOS Remastered team
05 May 2007 - AICN: We've been bringing you quite a bit of coverage from Star Trek Remastered, so I thought you might enjoy this discussion with TOS Remastered producers Dave Rossi, Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda.
It's an interesting insight into how the Remastered episodes are approached, and a fun look forward at what lies ahead in the upcoming weeks. AICN would like to warmly thank the trio for sharing their precious time and intriguing insight.
|  "Amok Time" Starts February 17th
17 February 2007 - The half-human Mister Spock (Leonard Nimoy) must return to his homeworld of Vulcan to take a mate, or die, in "Amok Time," a remastered episode of the original Star Trek series, premiering in national syndication during the weekend of February 17, 2007.
Enterprise captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) defies Starfleet orders to take his friend, Spock, to Vulcan. Once there, Kirk finds himself pitted against his friend in mortal combat. Celia Lovsky guest stars as T'Pau, the Vulcan matriarch who presides at Spock's wedding, and Arlene Martel guests as T'Pring, the beautiful Vulcan woman who is destined to become Spock's wife.
|  "The Doomsday Machine" arrives February 10, 2007
07 February 2007 - The remastered version of the fan-favorite Star Trek episode, "The Doomsday Machine" premieres in syndication nationwide during the weekend of February 10, 2007. The remastered "The Doomsday Machine" features over 100 all-new digital visual effects shots, the most of any episode of the original Star Trek series.
William Windom guest stars as Commodore Matt Decker, commander of the wrecked Starship Constellation. Decker tried desperately to save his crew from the doomsday machine, only to be forced to watch in horror as they were all killed by the alien robot.
|  "Journey to Babel" to air weekend of February 3, 2007
01 February 2007 - The Starship Enterprise hosts an explosive gathering of interstellar diplomats in "Journey to Babel," an episode of Star Trek Remastered, premiering nationwide during the weekend of February 3, 2007. "Journey to Babel" is regarded by many fans as a pivotal episode of the series, introducing Mark Lenard as Ambassador Sarek - Spock's father - and Jane Wyatt as Amanda, Spock's human mother.
| TOS Gets The Digital Treatment
31 August 2006 - That's right, the original Star Trek is being digitally remastered by CBS Paramount Domestic Television. Not only are they cracking open the film vault and rescanning everything in HD quality, they're also redoing many of the visual effects with CGI!
Doubtless, some purist fans won't take this news nicely, but according to an article posted on StarTrek.com, the newly remastered and edited series will be sold into syndication on more than 200 channels across the United States, starting on September 16, 2006. It is not likely that the episode will be aired in either first-aired or production order, as the first batch will be selected from the fan favorites.
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