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   Paramount Releases Highly Anticipated Service Pack for Star Trek   
      
      
   Hollywood, CA - Paramount announced that it had released the long   
   awaited service pack for the original Star Trek series. Entitled Star   
   Trek: SP1, the patch includes fixes for technical goofs and other   
   errors, which have nagged fans for decades.   
      
   Paramount used the latest in digital editing technology to correct the   
   errors and scoured newsgroups and interviewed fans to find all the   
   problems they needed to correct. The service pack is available in DVD,   
   VHS or in digital format from the Paramount website.   
      
   Paramount President Franz Pike said, "We fixed everything, from   
   obvious errors like the glaring differences between Shatner and his   
   stunt double to more obscure fixes like removing Spock's 'third ear'   
   in 'The Immunity Syndrome.' We think fans will be pleased."   
      
   Most trekkers are happy with the upgrades. "Star Trek has always been   
   unwatchable to me before the service pack, but watching it now I can   
   almost stomach it," said one fan of The Next Generation.   
      
   "I was hoping they'd improve Shatner’s acting, but apparently that was   
   intentional overacting," said Sarah Jennings of the Star Fleet Command   
   Outpost based in Waukesha, Wisconsin.   
      
   However, the release has left some fans unimpressed. "This service   
   pack fixes several errors, but also creates some. Like in 'The Enemy   
   Within' they fix the problem with Kirk's phaser switching between a   
   Type 1 and a Type 2 phaser, but they give Kirk a mustache," said Devin   
   Halibut of Star Trek fan club #264. "I have to say I like the goofs in   
   the original series better than the ones introduced by the service   
   packs."   
      
   Other fans are even more upset. "Roddenberry left those mistakes in   
   there to show the frailty of society. I think it's blasphemous for   
   Paramount to go in and correct the master's work," said Matt Pyckard   
   of St. Louis.   
      
   A service pack for the films as well as for Star Trek: The Next   
   Generation will be released in November.   
      
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