{"id":276,"date":"2006-08-31T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T15:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/31\/star-trek-tos-seteh-meh\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T08:15:17","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T15:15:17","slug":"star-trek-tos-seteh-meh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: TOS: SE=Teh Meh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didja <a href=\"http:\/\/tvguide.com\/News\/Insider\/\" target=\"_blank\">see<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/display.cgi?id=24344\" target=\"_blank\">this?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lemme gist it for you: New FX in the OLD old episodes of Trek, supervised by Michael and Denise Okuda, who at this point are so enmeshed in Trek that I imagine Paramount keeps them locked up in a dirty cage somewhere deep beneath the lot on Melrose, tossing in laptop computers and DVDs and raw meat as needed to get the work done.<\/p>\n<p>I read this news, and I found I just don&#8217;t care. Why don&#8217;t I care? I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m more interested in not caring than the news itself.<\/p>\n<p>Am I getting old and mellow? Do I need to ingest more caffeine? Or has Star Trek really devolved to the point where they&#8217;d need to put a gun in Shatner&#8217;s mouth to get me to even give half of a shit?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are Trek fans someplace right now rallying petitions and organizing the picket line. I&#8217;m just sorta like, &#8220;Okay. Do it. Maybe I&#8217;ll watch it, as long as there&#8217;s none of that Star Trek 2.0 bullshit getting in the way of my TOS.&#8221; Cause that was pretty heinous.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, MEH.<\/p>\n<p>About the only flare of interest I can manage on this is that maybe it will result in another DVD release, which will drop the prices on the current TOS sets, which were like $100 but now are just about $70, which is still WAY outside the ballpark of a casual entertainment purchase for me, and requires some sort of holiday to initiate acquisition, such as a birthday or Xmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didja see this? Lemme gist it for you: New FX in the OLD old episodes of Trek, supervised by Michael and Denise Okuda, who at this point are so enmeshed in Trek that I imagine Paramount keeps them locked up in a dirty cage somewhere deep beneath the lot on Melrose, tossing in laptop computers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}