When was star trek remastered

New shots are in keeping with the spirit of the show and only improving the quality of the effects, but no changes to the narrative.

CGI shots will be the same length and generally respect the directorial and editorial decisions made for the original version. Where can I download episodes? Both services offer entire seasons of Star Trek, with some remastered episodes mixed in with non-remastered episodes.

As more episodes are produced and aired, they are then added later to these services. The Xbox Live service offers the episodes in p HD. No Gary Seven series was ever produced, and Trek fans were left with a disappointing episode in return.

Far worse than that, though, is the biblically-inspired episode The Apple, which sees Kirk and crew arriving on a thinly-veiled Garden of Eden, with all the associated imagery lazily and dutifully included. Season 2 is made essential purely by the inclusion of several deservedly lauded episodes — the rest can merely be considered bonus material. The Season 2 DVD set includes all 26 episodes of the second series — 3 fewer than the original series — again spread over 8 discs.

The most impressive of these is Disc 5, which contains only one episode of the original series — The Trouble With Tribbles — but is then supplemented with addition Tribble-based material, even going so far as to include episodes of two other Star Trek series that featured the Tribbles! The first of these is an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series voiced by the original cast entitled More Tribbles, More Troubles , which additionally includes an audio commentary by writer David Gerrold.

The second is the Deep Space Nine episode Trials and Tribble-ations, which saw the DS9 cast retroactively inserted into the original Tribbles episode using advanced computer effects. Place those alongside some Tribble-based featurettes, and the disc is almost worth the price of entry itself.

The remaining extras, however, are little improvement over the Season 1 box set, with the same workmanlike featurettes available. Again, preview trailers for each episode are included, but aside from on the Animated episode itself an extra there are no episode commentaries or other supplemental material.

Even though the other extras are single-watch affairs at best, the features there will keep you going back again and again. Season 2 Episodes: Season 2 Extras:. While Star Trek survived the threat of cancellation after a fan-led campaign convinced network executives to keep the show alive, the pioneering series was given a fairly unconvincing stay of execution.

Roddenberry was already moving on after seeing the writing on the wall, and by this point, the cancellation of Star Trek was all but assured. However, before that fateful moment came, a third series was nevertheless produced. Disappointingly, budget cuts and poor on-set morale left this episode the worst series of Star Trek by some distance.

With 40 years between us and the original airing, only the most humourless Trekker could fail to find a soft spot for the sheer awfulness of this episode, but when examined in context, one can easily sympathise with those that rue its very existence. This is seen clearest the episode Turnabout: Intruder where, after rejection by Starfleet who will not accept female commanders Dr.

Janice Lester switches bodies with Kirk to assume his role as Captain. Paramount's Project Manager for the DVD release, Ron Smith, stated to the press at the time, " We have dutifully cleaned up the opticals, which have become predictably dirty. And part of the endearing charm of the original series are the cool opticals. Yet, despite his team's efforts, in the picture quality department their work was still inferior to the work done for the Japanese LaserDisc releases — especially where color vibrancy was concerned — as digital scanning techniques were at that time still somewhat in their infancy.

Nevertheless, a significant improvement was made in sound quality as a new Dolby Digital Surround Sound track was created for the release, and picture quality was markedly improved over the prior home media formats, including the US LaserDisc releases — having made use, unlike the Japanese version, of the original film masters.

Smith additionally intimated that it was for this occasion that the original pilot episode, " The Cage ", was restored to its full color version. While the production did not, strictly speaking, conform to the current understanding of remastering, i. Most notably, however, was that many scenes were digitally enhanced and visually changed with the addition of computer-generated imagery CGI.

Striking examples of these were the enhanced air tram station as well as the first and only full view of V'Ger , which was not there in the original version. The announced release date proved to be premature though, as it turned out that Paramount had failed to maintain ownership over the CGI elements that were added to the Director's Edition.

Former Foundation VFX Supervisor Adam Lebowitz has reported that all these elements were left on the company servers when they were auctioned off after the company went out of business shortly after having completed the Director's Edition commission, which would mean that the studio had to painstakingly recreate all these elements.

Bonchune's supervisor Dochterman had already indicated previously that the digital sequences were produced at a high definition resolution in a remark made in to DrexFiles X , " I sure wish we had had the time and resources [note: either for the remastering of the analog film footage, the home video production as the Blu-ray format was not marketed yet, or both] that Warner Brothers had allotted to the Blade Runner redux.

That would have been great. And it would be on p Blu-Ray as we speak In , it was one of the co-producers of the Director's Edition , David C. Fein , who came forward to substantiate Bonchune's claim — incidentally having already mentioned it in a podcast, produced for StarTrek.

Would I like a few more pieces But we have everything we need, " stated Fein, " All of the shots in the film were created with HD in mind so the quality of the models and elements were much higher than the SD renderings.

We have everything, and when the time is right, we'll use them. Again, there is no truth that anything is missing. We've had some discussions, " adding that " it'll happen, the only question is when are we going to go ahead with it ". Still, preliminary talks were reported to have resumed in July for a remastered release, albeit for a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release. Since the SD digital sequences do not hold up on the big screen, as explained below , this implied that the attendees were presented with a higher resolution print.

If so, then a HD ready master print already exists — further implying that the DVD release actually concerned a downscaled product, the technique still in its infancy at the time — , though its current whereabouts are either unknown, or that the print is unsuitable for other technical reasons as a Blu-ray master. On 31 August , CBS Paramount Television announced that, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series would return to broadcast syndication for the first time in sixteen years.

The refurbished episodes were converted from the original film to a high-definition format similar to that used on Star Trek: Enterprise. The opening theme was re-recorded in digital stereo with new vocals by Elin Carlson , and William Shatner 's opening monologue was remastered from the original elements. The opening credits sequence was revamped, several matte paintings received a CGI face-lift, and spaceship exteriors including the Romulan Bird-of-Prey and the Klingon battle cruiser were recreated using state-of-the-art digital effects.

However, for some reason, the credits at the end of the episode were not remastered and digitally enhanced. In an interview with TVGuide. Our goal is to always ask ourselves: What would Roddenberry have done with today's technology? While it was still featured, a video preview and interviews with people involved in the project could be viewed by clicking the link to the left of the page.

Planned to coincide with Star Trek 's 40th anniversary , the "new" Star Trek debuted 16 September See side-by-side comparisons of the new visual effects from the first episode broadcast, " Balance of Terror ". The first few episodes were rushed, as CBS only gave its team " one month to deliver the first two episodes with over new effects shots.

Members of the effects team have commented that they may go back to the earlier episodes and re-render the ship scenes with the new model, [11] [12] though that did not come to fruition. When TOS cast member Leonard Nimoy heard about these changes in special effects, Nimoy simply responded " Shame on them " for changing the effects, saying that it was "out-of-bounds" for them to do that.

However, after viewing a remastered episode, reportedly he was quoted saying, " I'm amazed. According to StarTrek. According to the official announcement on StarTrek. Fein, restoration supervisor Mike Matessino, and visual effects supervisor Daren R.

Dochterman, all of whom worked previously with director Robert Wise. Last ep of Season 1 starts shooting today. So much fun!