Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 7 (1993-1994) / All Good Things (1994)

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Lava_Lander

Every Odo morph, however, IS CG. There's a lot of that in "Emissary," along with all of the wormhole stuff.

True, but that stuff would be no more difficult to pull off than what the team have already been doing on TNG. It's all that ship-to-ship stuff in the later seasons that's piling on the agony for the CBS bean counters.

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

True, but that stuff would be no more difficult to pull off than what the team have already been doing on TNG. It's all that ship-to-ship stuff in the later seasons that's piling on the agony for the CBS bean counters.

That's very true. Phasers, everyones favorite snowflake, etc were all early cgi so Odo isn't going to be a headache for them, it is going to be redoing those huge battles that is the problem. Even with the ship files, those all need to be re-rendered and that takes time and money. That's why I don't think it will be within a year but I am betting we will have them all within 5 years. Milk as much money as you can from the TNG releases, make sure there is an audience for this and wait a little more for the price to drop. TNG should be an eye opened to a lot of studios that remastering old shows can work - hopefully a few more get on board, the price drops and DS9 and Voyager get the benefit. I think though doing Emissary as a standalone disc soon would be smart to get people interested in this, especially if they did like the TNG ones and did some behind the scenes stuff.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Bolty

Wormhole was CGI in 1993?

Yep. It's a 3D object matter of fact.

Originally Posted by Geoff D

True, but that stuff would be no more difficult to pull off than what the team have already been doing on TNG. It's all that ship-to-ship stuff in the later seasons that's piling on the agony for the CBS bean counters.

Well, yes. But Season 1 has plenty of CG work with the transporters, phasers, animation, matte paintings, etc.

[trekcore]

Originally Posted by KaineKinetic

My rumour source said there would actually be one of 2 trailers...
one of which was TAS, while the other was DS9.
Depending on how the requests go for those series, would be the one we get. Then when it was released, we'd get the other.
Sorry about the way that is worded...

Sorry to rain on the parade, but there will be no trailers for either TAS or DS9. Neither project has been green-lit. The only trailers will be for existing TNG sets (and perhaps ENT).

Originally Posted by benbess

Hope it's true, but seems like wishful thinking.

I did hear, however, that when they rebuilt the Birthright TNG/DS9 crossover that the remaster team requested—and got—from the salt mine *all* of the reels of film for the first season of DS9. If they weren't shipped back after that, they are ready and waiting at CBS-D for a green light from the brass.

Nope, sorry. They grabbed the reels relevant for Birthright but certainly not the whole of DS9 Season 1.

They looked at a few additional reels to confirm some information about aspects of DS9's visual effects while they were first considering a DS9 remastering, but this was just for a cursory check. Nothing more. Everything has now been returned to deep storage.

[trekcore]

Originally Posted by Bolty

Wormhole was CGI in 1993?

It was actually a mix. Mostly CG, but there were some practical elements in there too. Took a heck of a lot of time and money to produce the effect back in '92.

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by trekcore

It was actually a mix. Mostly CG, but there were some practical elements in there too. Took a heck of a lot of time and money to produce the effect back in '92.

Weren't the transporters in TNG a mix too? I thought it was mentioned on one of the documentaries along with the phasers but without any real detail. I am assuming the sparkles were real but the rest were early cgi as well, plus the old school fading effect.

[djariya]

Finally!! Now my entire TNG collection will be complete.

Can't believe the money I spent on these. I spent an average of $50 per set and $13 each for the standalone movies. Probably one of the most expensive TV collections I own, but worth every penny.

[Tom Servo]

I wonder how All Good Things is going to benefit from a stand-alone release, since It's not a combined 2-parter, it's already a 2-hour episode. They could just have included whatever extras they had for it on the main release, and done the stand-alone disc for Descent instead.

[benji888578]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

They currently have no plans to do DS9 or VOY but that might change in the future but IMO its a grave mistake letting the team behind TNG-R disband as they have it down to an art after 7 seasons.

Originally Posted by DasRetroKid

...
While I know many of you are hoping for news of DS9 going Blu (and I would welcome that news as well), I'd love for CBS Digital to remaster the TNG movies next. Could you imagine a 4k remaster of First Contact!? I'd be in Star Trek heaven

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

That would be Paramount. I expect something in the anniversary year.

Originally Posted by Geoff D

True, but that stuff would be no more difficult to pull off than what the team have already been doing on TNG. It's all that ship-to-ship stuff in the later seasons that's piling on the agony for the CBS bean counters.

I don't know much about DS9, but, Voyager had 1/4 of the budget of STNG. I don't know if either one was shot & edited the same way, if so, then chances are very low they will give it the same treatment. I don't really know, but, I'm guessing that these two were shot & edited on professional video tape. I could be wrong. Either way, If anything, just to give it more airplay now that TV is going 720p & up and demand HD masters, they might just upscale the masters to 720p for airplay. ...I just don't think they will spend the money to remaster to 1080p. I was dumbfounded at Warehouse 13 being only released on DVDs when the show was likely mastered at 1080p (wikipedia says it aired at 1080i, which is the limit for most cable/sat TV, and the most I've seen for syfy.), so I don't see any DS9 or Voyager blus in the future. Despite the ones that want it, they just were not as popular, nor as well done as TNG. I'd like to see Voyager in HD, but, not expecting it. Just trying to be realistic here. (Voyager is my second fav. ST TV series. I've tried to get into DS9, but, it just doesn't work for me. Even so, I can rewatch TNG much more easily than V.)

4K TNG movies? Since Paramount has already released all of the Star Trek movies in 1080p on blu, I would be surprised to see this. Perhaps 2009/2013 ST movies will eventually be in 4K, but, I don't see them going back.

That being said, it would be nice to get director's cuts of the movies in 1080p BDs.

Originally Posted by BaerGriggs

I just keep stockpiling the seasons of this show but I don't think I've had the time to watch more than two or three episodes yet . I know it's probably ridiculous to even buy them right now but I got good deals on all of them and this is definitely in the top 3 for me for best TV shows of all-time. Can't wait to finally own the whole series on Blu! Sure beats watching on TNN/Spike/G4/BBC TV channels or renting the VHS tapes from the library!

Especially since these channels air versions of the episodes that have a couple/few minutes cut out to add more commercials. (Better to watch on Netflix, not cut there. Maybe not cut on HuluPlus either, plus, Hulu has some seasons in HD already.)

[Vandal Savage]

http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/05/dee...e-step-closer/

DS9 looks like it would be mind-blowing in HD. The sample image looks incredible.

[benji888578]

Originally Posted by trekcore

It was actually a mix. Mostly CG, but there were some practical elements in there too. Took a heck of a lot of time and money to produce the effect back in '92.

Since the art department spoke more on DS9 than on TNG (which really sucked for me) on the special feature on STNG s4 BDs, I think I recall that the wormhole effect was done by ILM, and that the first (2-hours/2-part?) episode had a lot more involvement or budget or something than the rest of the series. But, I'm not a good source, don't know a lot about DS9.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Well, yes. But Season 1 has plenty of CG work with the transporters, phasers, animation, matte paintings, etc.

Of course it does, but those aren't the obstacles to getting DS9 done. My point is that on the back of the work they did on TNG they should already have plenty of routines that can do all that 'regular' stuff, which would cost no more than what it does for TNG. Heck, even the Odo stuff always looked extremely fake so there's no need to drop too much $$$ to get him looking like the T-1000 for the HD version. It's the ship-based CG for the later seasons that's giving CBS kittens.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by benji888578

I don't know much about DS9, but, Voyager had 1/4 of the budget of STNG. I don't know if either one was shot & edited the same way, if so, then chances are very low they will give it the same treatment. I don't really know, but, I'm guessing that these two were shot & edited on professional video tape. I could be wrong.

All of STAR TREK (series, feature films) until the 4th season of ENTERPRISE was shot on 35MM film, including the Animates Series. ENTERPRISE Season 4 was done with HD cameras.

STAR TREK (2009) was shot 35MM anamorphic. INTO DARKNESS was shot with a combination of 35MM anamorphic and 70MM IMAX cameras.

[whbinder]

Originally Posted by Guydowood

now that this final season of TNG has been announced, I wonder if the Animated Series of the Original crew will ever get a high-def release.

It's HD on Netflix now.

[Maxwell Everett]

Originally Posted by benji888578

I think I recall that the wormhole effect was done by ILM.

Rhythm & Hues.

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by djariya

Finally!! Now my entire TNG collection will be complete.

Can't believe the money I spent on these. I spent an average of $50 per set and $13 each for the standalone movies. Probably one of the most expensive TV collections I own, but worth every penny.

All it needs is a nice case like this
Actually, that is what I am using. My sister found a set at a garage sale and bought it for me. Don't need the tapes so I replaced them with the blu-rays.

[benbess]

Originally Posted by trekcore

Sorry to rain on the parade, but there will be no trailers for either TAS or DS9. Neither project has been green-lit. The only trailers will be for existing TNG sets (and perhaps ENT).




Nope, sorry. They grabbed the reels relevant for Birthright but certainly not the whole of DS9 Season 1.

They looked at a few additional reels to confirm some information about aspects of DS9's visual effects while they were first considering a DS9 remastering, but this was just for a cursory check. Nothing more. Everything has now been returned to deep storage.

Thanks for letting us know. Bummer.

[LT.Schaffer]

Just Pre-ordered Season 7

[drn211]

Looks like we have a press release

" The Final Season Like You've Never Seen It! The intergalactic voyage reaches infinite new depths in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Seven. Featuring the crystal clarity of 1080p high-definition Blu-ray, digitally remastered 7.1 sound, and effects rebuilt from the original elements, you'll experience the mission of the USS Enterprise like never before. In this Emmy-nominated final season, Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) confronts an alliance between his sinister duplicate and the unstoppable Borg; Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn) guides his son in becoming a warrior; and Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) faces a time-shattering confrontation with the mysterious, god-like Q - in the landmark finale that won science fiction's prestigious Hugo Award.

Plus, discover unexpected secrets of the Star Trek universe with a rich array of special features. The FINAL season of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray for the first time ever! 6 disc-set includes all 25 episodes brilliantly remastered in high definition as well as exclusive, brand new, never before seen special features. Season Seven includes many noteworthy episodes: the 2-part "Gambit," the series finale "All Good Things," and episodes directed by cast members Levar Burton, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, and Patrick Stewart.

ALSO, sold separately, the SERIES FINALE of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray! Another epic feature-length presentation from Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this grand and far-reaching series finale, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) learns from Q that he is to be the cause of the annihilation of Humanity and begins an incredible journey through time from the present, to the past when he first took command of the Enterprise, to twenty-five years into the future. Remastered in glorious high definition, the single disc Blu-ray comes with exclusive, brand new special features that won't be available on the Season Seven Blu-ray set.

On December 2nd, CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution will release Blu-ray Disc versions of Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 7 ($129.99 SRP) and also separately the show's feature-length final episode, Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things... ($29.99 SRP), on Blu-ray as well. The single-disc All Good Things... BD will have these special features:

Audio Commentary By Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga
The Unknown Possibilities of Existence: Making "All Good Things…" (HD)
Episodic Promos (Parts 1 and 2)
Deleted Scenes (x6) (HD)

The Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 7 BD set comes on 6 discs, and covers a much longer list of extras:

Promos
Archival Mission Log: A Captain's Tribute (SD)
In Conversation: The Directors (HD)
Archival Mission Log: Starfleet Moments and Memories (SD)
Archival Mission Log: Special Profiles (SD)
Archival Mission Log: Mission Overview Year Seven (SD)
Archival Mission Log: Inside Starfleet Archives: Dressing The Future (SD)
Archival Mission Log: Departmental Briefing Year Seven: Production (SD)
THE SKY'S THE LIMIT: The Eclipse of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (HD)
Deleted Scenes x23 (HD)
Gag Reels (HD)
Archival Mission Log: The Making of "All Good Things..." (SD)
In Conversation: Lensing Star Trek: The Next Generation (HD)
Audio Commentary By Brannon Braga (2008)
Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation (SD)
Closed Set: A Tour of the Real Enterprise (SD)

Our thanks to all the MANY readers who emailed us with help for this story, including reader Charles Calvin (the first to send a note to us). At the top and bottom you can see package art and trailers for these items!"

More at the link
http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Star-Tr...#ixzz3COoU9TpL

[drn211]

Quick note:

While all the bonus features from the individual DVD season sets have been ported over the following three featurettes from the bonus disc in the complete series set haven't been

"The Next Generation Impact: 20 Years Later
The Next Generation's Legacy: 2007
Star Trek Visual Effects Magic: A Roundtable Discussion"