Star Trek TOS - Season 2 (with DS9 Episode)

[Cap.T]

According to this press release the second Season of TOS is also going to contain the DS9-Episode "Trials And Tribble-ations" in HD. I thought DS9 had it's postproduction done on video like TNG and that a Blu-Ray release was therefore very unlikley. Interesting.


Star Trek - Season 2 Sept 22

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[SleeperAgent]

EPIC NEWS! This could mean that the TNG movies coming out will be heralds for The Next Generation seasons!!!!!

Best news ever!!!!!

[aggienader08]

Great news, but what exactly does this mean? And, what is the relevance of having a DS9 episode on ST:TOS Season 2?

[SleeperAgent]

Originally Posted by aggienader08

Great news, but what exactly does this mean? And, what is the relevance of having a DS9 episode on ST:TOS Season 2?

Hopefully it proves that DS9 and TNG will look amazing on blu. There was a lot of question of this due to how they were filmed.

[koontz1973]

Originally Posted by aggienader08

Great news, but what exactly does this mean? And, what is the relevance of having a DS9 episode on ST:TOS Season 2?

Season 2 has the episode Trials and Tribulations. The DS9 episode is tied to it because of the 25th anniversary.

Originally Posted by Cap.T

According to this press release the second Season of TOS is also going to contain the DS9-Episode "Trials And Tribble-ations" in HD. I thought DS9 had it's postproduction done on video like TNG and that a Blu-Ray release was therefore very unlikley. Interesting.

We are bound to see TNG and DS9 on Blu sooner or later, no matter how they were filmed. This is to big a franchise not to put out there on Blu, no matter the cost.

[AikonEnt]

I enjoyed that episode. I liked how they integrated the DS9 crew into the original crew (Sisko talking to a young Kirk ). They even made Worf cover his forehead because Klingons of that time didn't have knobbly foreheads (obviously because of budgets/fx of the time) and a jokey reference is made, if I remember correctly Worf says he doesn't want to talk about it

[Rik1138]

Originally Posted by monkeyjb1988

If they're going to the trouble to remix the audio to 7.1 in a lossless codec, why would they not make the video true HD. I'm going to hold out hope for a true HD DS9 and Animated episode until I see them myself.

Personally, CBS may get in trouble if they say the two are in HD and they're really just upconverted. I mean, people have an expectation when they see HD. Things could get ugly if CBS doesn't go through the DS9 and Animated film archives and reedit the episode.

Well, it's probably a lot cheaper to remix an audio than it is to re-create all the special effects in HD... And encoding lossless is just a process... You have to encode the audio into something, so why not lossless?

The Animated episode is a true HD master, but the DS9 ep is upconverted. It's still, technically, HD though. I would like to see at least the film elements be re-scanned in HD, and just upconvert the special effects. They may not look as nice, but I think that would be better than upconverting the entire episode... That might be an option for a full release of TNG or DS9 at some point, you never know...