{"id":1956,"date":"2006-08-29T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2006-08-29T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T14:54:00","slug":"from-the-department-of-what-were-they-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/from-the-department-of-what-were-they-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Department of &#8220;What were they thinking?!?!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite on the heels of the Star Wars debacle where Han Shooting first created a wealth of angry sales for the franchise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/08\/29\/1230213\">Paramount is alleged to release a CGI Update of the original Star Trek Series.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=195278&#038;threshold=1&#038;commentsort=0&#038;mode=thread&#038;cid=16000099\">I personally think<\/a> that this kind of thing misses the point entirely.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not without my resources. <\/p>\n<p>I have dug through my mighty powers as an internet search guru and found footage from the upcoming Star Trek retool. I&#8217;m impressed, they&#8217;ve even managed to make Shatner&#8217;s hair look more realistic.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Click through for the link... (It may be slow to load)--><img src=\"http:\/\/www.startrekanimated.com\/tas_gif\/tas_anim_kirk_magic.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\">With all due respect to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekanimated.com\/tas_main.html\">ST: The animated series<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1956\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/from-the-department-of-what-were-they-thinking\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1956\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/from-the-department-of-what-were-they-thinking\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1956\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/from-the-department-of-what-were-they-thinking\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/from-the-department-of-what-were-they-thinking\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite on the heels of the Star Wars debacle where Han Shooting first created a wealth of angry sales for the franchise. 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