Trekkie fans everywhere will rejoice.  It was just announced that all 79 episodes of the original “captain Kirk and Spock” episodes of the cult favorite Star Trek will be digitally remastered and re-released. 

The series, when it first aired in the seventies, was actually considered a dismal failure, and only ran for a few seasons due to low viewership, but instead gained a cult following in the eighties followed by a series of popular Star Trek feature movies. 

Even the stars of the show have enjoyed a unique sense of celebrity, with the popularity of Star Trek conventions, movies and a unique brand of quirkiness enjoyed by most science fiction fans.  The series creator Gene Rodenberry, a retired policeman who has since passed on probably wouldn’t like it though. 

He reportedly was somewhat displeased with most of the Star Trek movies and had a definite, specific idea of how the show and movies should look and feel.  Treksters will get to enjoy a new looking Enterprise ship, redigitized to come up more with the times rather than look like an obvious model as it did in the original series. 

Rest assured that the originals will still also be available though, for the true Star Trek officianados whose feathers might be ruffled by any messing with the original.  The new digital remastering is aimed at the younger audience, who has more of an appreciation and affinity for sleeker, more professional looking special effects.