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Some Before/After Restoration Comparisons From The STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Season Two Blu-ray Set!!
The Blu-ray issuance of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION's second season is right around the corner (December 4 - preorder HERE!!) and we now have some lovely comparison shots demonstrating before meticulous restoration/ after meticulous restoration of a few choice episodes.
The first season Blu-ray set of the show was a truly astounding accomplishment - I believe I said it "set the Gold Standard for undertakings of this nature" - so I'm hugely excited to see what the TNG Blu-ray/restroation/extras gangs have in store for us this time around. TNG Season 2 features the intense introduction of The Borg (in Q Who) and an expanded version of the fan-favorite The Measure of a Man - I'm expecting these (and other) episodes will nicely uphold the lofty AV quality established by the Season One Blu set, and emerge as nothing short of breathtaking.
Here are a few shots. All images are EMBIGGENABLE...
Before restoration for Blu-ray...
After...
After...
That last image pretty much sums up my week. Quite nicely, actually. More in the coming weeks! Stay tuned...
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Nov. 8, 2012, 5:03 p.m. CST
Curse you broken links for not raping my eyeballs!
by Sumatran_Rat_Monkey
Seriously though, all the image links are broken. And you know none of us on the site can really read. We just look at the pretty pictures.
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How many times this week did you get poked by a Klingon pain stick? Did you get taken out to dinner at least? Probably felt like Romney did early Wednesday morning.
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>>> Did you get taken out to dinner at least? <<< Didn't even leave me flowers.
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move along, move along
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The third shot embiggens into the second shot. And there's no before shot for it.
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Nov. 8, 2012, 5:21 p.m. CST
That's how Disney should be auditioning potential Star Wars directors and writers
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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1) A staring contest with Guinan. 2) Klingon torture.
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First off it's Whoopi. Second, she has the advantage of that silly hat.
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Nov. 8, 2012, 5:45 p.m. CST
There's a klingon silly-hat rite of passage too, it was in the original script
by Hardboiled Wonderland
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Nov. 8, 2012, 5:49 p.m. CST
John Tesh played one of those Klingons in that scene
by Chuck_Chuckwalla
Sad that I know that but it's true.
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Oh please! Hardly!
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Also, a couple of them had to wear leftover boots from planet of the apes cause they didn't have enough. True.
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Nov. 8, 2012, 7:58 p.m. CST
Wow I adjusted the contrast and brightness and it looks just as good as the blu-ray . . .
by JMoe
Come on, there must be a better compare and contrast than that scene! How's about some F/X shots . . .
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I remember watching a lot of these episodes on TV around their original air dates. TNG is what introduced me to Trek. I love it. But my God (Or should "my Q"?) the Blu-rays are simply outstanding. Knowing what they had to do in order to properly bring TNG to HD, I just never thought it would happen. Too much money. But damn did they fucking do it. The re-composited effects are simply outstanding. Can't wait for season 2 and on.
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as is Lavar Burton's reading rainbow segment where he tours the set of STNG
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My friend, I've had years like the day you had. Praying for a better tomorrow for you, sir, and I thank you for sharing your love of the galaxy with us. Peace and Long Life!
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Mick Fleetwood as one of the fish in the transporter room.
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FUCK 4:3!
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My penis in Marina Sirtis mouth!! Make it so...
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Nov. 9, 2012, 3:24 a.m. CST
The no widescreen complaint is ridiculous, mostly because it's been explained a thousand times
by Jaka
The show was NOT filmed that way, converting it to that aspect ratio would do one of two things. First, show you all the people, equipment, undecorated sets, etc. that was out of frame, which would look completely ridiculous. Two, if the 4:3 was stretched or edited to a 16:9 ratio, you would actually LOSE huge sections of the image and/or have a weirdly stretched version of the show we know and love (exactly like what you get when it's on tv in 4:3 and you use your tv's settings to make it fullscreen). <p> Widescreen is a fairly new idea for home viewing. It's only just recently, like in the last few years, that everything was produced in that fashion. There will always be shows that were produced in years past that won't be converted, because to do so is either pointless or impossible. The first remastered season of TNG was a freakin' marvel! I was far more blown away than I ever expected I would be. In some cases it was like watching a new show. Like, I never realized some of the walls in the Enterprise corridors were lightly reflective. That completely freaked me out. Really looking forward to checking out the next six seasons as they're released.
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...and she did look pretty damn good (without your penis in her mouth).
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Nov. 9, 2012, 7:52 a.m. CST
The show was shot for 4:3 ratio and should stay that way
by performingmonkey
There's nothing more that needs to be said. If you crop to 16:9 you lose image.
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Nov. 9, 2012, 8:14 a.m. CST
Guinan's best episode was the Q Who one where her normally wise, cheerful demeanor changed to one of being just this harbinger of doom regarding the Borg.
by Dogmatic
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Nov. 9, 2012, 9:13 a.m. CST
Did Paramount ever correct the issue for the season 1 fucked up discs?
by fat_rancor_keeper
As I recall that audio problem really threw cold water on what was an exciting release.
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Some great fucking Trek right there.
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It wasn't shot in 16 x 9, jackwagon!
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Klingon bullying techniques are far more advanced than those used by the Federation.
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Nov. 9, 2012, 1:06 p.m. CST
@fat_rancor_keeper: yup, they issued replacement discs for that.
by Bill C.
There was also a minor VFX issue in one episode that got corrected as part of it, so good on them for being prompt about it.
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Nov. 9, 2012, 3 p.m. CST
Still exhorbitantly over-priced for a single season of a television show
by gruntybear
I'm not bothering until the inevitable full series boxset.
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Nov. 9, 2012, 3:05 p.m. CST
No need to put your penis in Marina Sirtis' mouth now, her belly folds nowadays could easily accommodate an entire football team
by gruntybear
She be large and in charge these days nerdlings. She Carrie Fisher-ed it, if you know what I mean.
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Nov. 9, 2012, 3:06 p.m. CST
No need to put your penis in Marina Sirtis' mouth now, her belly folds nowadays could easily accommodate an entire football team
by gruntybear
She be large and in charge these days nerdlings. She Carrie Fisher-ed it, if you know what I mean.
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or worse dialog.
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Guinan kinda lost me that episode where she was all "I know it wasn't rape-rape. It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape." Oh, right, that was The View.
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Nov. 9, 2012, 5:11 p.m. CST
I was VERY impressed with how paramount handled the disc replacement due to the sound issue
by Rebel Scumb
hotline set up within 24 hours, no hoops to jump through, no having to hold on the line when I called, just had to read the serial number and give my address, no charge, no having to send the defective discs back, they arrived in a couple of weeks Plus they gave out a free collectible postcard that is unique to the disc replacement program It was classy
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I had no intention of purchasing the single seasons (I was going to wait for the full run set, as well), but I received season one as a gift (think I'm getting S2 that was as well). I've watched every minute of the S1 set and had ZERO issues of any kind. So apparently they fixed everything pretty quickly.
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...if there wasn't a plethora of active Star Wars talkbacks right now.
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Nov. 9, 2012, 6:49 p.m. CST
how did remastering change the colors of the walls in ten forward?
by sunwukong86
this confuses me
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Nov. 9, 2012, 7:34 p.m. CST
Guinan was right here with Wesley as parts of the show that mostly
by brobdingnag
didn't work. Mostly.
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I'm not a Wesley Crusher hater, either. But where pretty much everything with Crusher seemed convenient and/or forced (which even I will admit), right up to and including his departure, which I always thought was a great F.U. to the complainers (we'll right him off the show for you, but we're making him a bad ass, time traveling, near omnipotent super hero guy in doing so), Guinan was just the chill ass bartender who was there when you needed a chill ass bartender. There are many episodes where she didn't even play a major role in the events moving the story forward. She was just there in ten forward, chillin', serving drinks. Even the way they worked her long lifespan/past into Generations never felt forced (in a movie that definitely had some forced elements). Guinan is one of the best reoccurring guest parts in a long running series that I can think of. I won't say the best, but definitely way up there.
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Or many revealed would be a better word. But there is no way all the things I noticed are different are new special effects. For whatever reason, the sets, set dressing and props just look incredibly different in certain shots, scenes or episodes.
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This show was terrible early on, and only got marginally better.
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This show was mostly a lost opportunity.
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CBS Action is txing TOS with the new 16:9 effects and cropped 4:3 series footage. Looks ok as USUALLY only 70-80 % of camera negative is used to make a 4:3 image - ie a decent cameraman will always allow "extra" height and width when shooting so there SHOULD be enough negative space to create a 16:9 image for most shots. Check out any movie these days and "tops of heads" are nearly alway cropped - usually for dramatic purpose. Just a thought!
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Nov. 10, 2012, 6:12 p.m. CST
garypleace, as I said, and as those involved have already explained...
by Jaka
...that extra space is filled with boom mics, unfinished sets/set dressing, non-acting, non-costumed people and just general stuff in regards to TNG. The only option with be to do cg special effects over everything in the shot that wasn't supposed to be there, which is cost prohibitive and couldn't be done for every episode anyway. And whoever it is at CBS Action who decided to do that with TOS should be shot. It looks fine the way it is, as does TNG. Drives me batty, ten years ago you had to explain wide screen to a majority of tv owners. We've all been watching out entire lives without it. Everything doesn't need to be in that format.
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Nov. 11, 2012, 6:16 a.m. CST
jaka I agree about Guinan, she was a great part of the show
by Rebel Scumb
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Thought she was a great part of the show, and as a new species represented a genuinely interesting and nuanced species (so often alien species were just caricatures of some single personality trait), and thought her dynamic with Picard was neat as well.
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Guinan was awesome. And she was pivotal to the series!!!! And Generations!!! And Whoopi Goldberg cant be held responsible for "Rascals".
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Nov. 12, 2012, 2:54 a.m. CST
So glad people agree about Guinan. Nothing against brobdingnag...
by Jaka
...to each their own and all. But when they posted that comment I was like, "wait, what?! I thought people loved Guinan."
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Nov. 12, 2012, 1:37 p.m. CST
Yeah I love Guinan too. And Jean Luc is the best starfleet captain.
by Autodidact
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