I saw this tonight — erm, this morning — on AICN. Three hundred theaters? There should be one close by. While I can think of remastered episodes of Classic Trek I’d rather see on the big screen — Day of the Dove, certainly — I think I’ll try to find time to go:

SPECIAL EVENT: Remastered “Menagerie” in Theatres!

“STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES” EPISODE “THE MENAGERIE” TO BE PRESENTED IN SPECIAL BIG SCREEN THEATRICAL EVENT

National CineMedia’s FATHOM, CBS Home Entertainment and STARTREK.COM Present Digitally Remastered Episodes Along With Never-Before-Seen Footage and Behind-the-Scenes Featurette in Nearly 300 Select Movie Theatres Nationwide on November 13

Complete First Season of “Star Trek: The Original Series”
Debuts in High-Definition on DVD One Week Later

Centennial, Colo. – Oct. 5, 2007 — “Star Trek” fans can now boldly go where no man has gone before to see two of the most famous episodes of the original television series — their local movie theatre. “Star Trek: The Original Series” is being beamed onto the big screen in a special one-night event in select movie theatres nationwide on Tuesday, Nov. 13th, featuring original Season 1 episodes “The Menagerie” Parts 1 and 2, digitally remastered in High-Definition and Cinema Surround Sound. Fans will also be greeted by an introduction from creator Gene Roddenberry’s son, Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, and given a behind-the-scenes look at how the episodes were digitally re-mastered from the original negatives — including the reinvention of the old TV show special effects using new CGI animation, and the orchestral re-recording of the show’s theme music — in a new 30-minute in-theatre exclusive featurette.

“Star Trek: The Original Series” special in-theatre event will be presented by NCM FATHOM, CBS Home Entertainment and STARTREK.COM on Tuesday, Nov. 13th at 7:30 p.m. local time in nearly 300 participating AMC, Cinemark, Georgia Theatre Company and Regal Entertainment Group movie theatres across the country. Tickets for this special one-time-only event are on-sale now for $12.50 at presenting theatre box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of presenting theatre locations, please visit the website (theatres are subject to change).

A week after the special screenings, the entire first season of “Star Trek: The Original Series,” from Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS Home Entertainment, will be available in High-Definition on DVD for the first time. The 10-disc boxed set offers the best of both worlds with each disc offering a Standard-Definition picture on one side and a High-Definition picture on the other. The set will be available on Nov. 20th.

The national in-theatre event leading up to the DVD launch will include an introduction by creator Gene Roddenberry’s son, Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, and the two-part episode “The Menagerie,” which features footage from the original “Star Trek” pilot episode titled “The Cage.” “The Cage” (first screened in 1965 and rejected by NBC — not airing on television until a full color print was discovered in the 1980s) featured Leonard Nimoy as Spock — the only character that made it from the pilot to the “Star Trek” series — as well as Jeffrey Hunter in the role of the original commander of the starship Enterprise, Captain Christopher Pike.

In the two-part episode “The Menagerie” (Season 1, Episode 11 — originally aired on television on November 17, 1966), we rejoin Spock and the new (and familiar) crew of the Enterprise including William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy, James Doohan as Scott, and Nichelle Nichols as Uhura. In this episode, Spock is on trial for hijacking the Enterprise, telling a strange tale of former Enterprise Captain Pike’s imprisonment on Talos IV 13 years earlier and the past crew’s attempts to rescue him — shown in “flashback” footage taken from the original pilot episode.