ABC broadcast - Star Trek: First Contact (1 Viewer)

[Peter McM]

I had hoped it would have been padded with some extra scenes, as has been done with past Trek films for television. But I was instead disappointed by what they left out--including such classic lines as, "Don't you people in the 24th century ever pee?"

 

[TonyD]

also in the beginning they cut when the pointy thing went into the captains eye.

 

[Michael St. Clair]

I assume this was cropped from 2.40:1 OAR to make it fit 16:9 HDTV.

 

[Wayne Bundrick]

Of course they left out a lot. A 111 minute film plus commercials won't fit into a two hour timeslot.

 

[Peter McM]

But I was hoping to maybe get a peek of what we can expect with the eventual DVD re-release--just like we're about to with Wrath of Kahn, which will include scenes only seen in network broadcast.
Michael:
The full-frame was especially irritating during the drunk scene with Troi and Cochrane; Their reactions to them drinking that bad booze was ruined by the P&S, you couldn't quite see all of them.

 

[John Berggren]

So glad I have the DVD instead .
I would love to see networks start running films in widescreen. It wouldn't matter terribly though since I won't watch anything edited for content or with jarring commercial breaks.
I'm fairly surprised Paramount didn't sweetheart this one over to UPN.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Actually, they don't sweetheart anything to anyone. It's stupid, but I'm sure ABC was willing to pay a lot more. Don't forget, the movie has aired on TV before. Insurrection has also been on TV

And why was a good HTFer watching P&S? SHAME!

 

[Michael*K]

The full-frame was especially irritating during the drunk scene with Troi and Cochrane; Their reactions to them drinking that bad booze was ruined by the P&S, you couldn't quite see all of them.

I noticed that too! Same problem with Pulp Fiction. When Travolta and Thurman drive up to Jackrabbit Slim's, you only see Thurman in the P&S, while Travolta (who looks completely stoned...priceless) has been excised from the frame.