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It would be nice to see a decent theatrical re-release. But, please, not one of those Fathom events like what was done with ST-2 a few years back. Maybe it was the theater I saw it in, but the picture didn't even match the screen size (projected way smaller than it could have been). and I...

So, should the title be modified to include "UHD" in it now?

Oh, I don't know... the article seems to indicate possible revival - assuming all goes as planned. It sounds like Paramount is in somewhat better hands - at least better than what it had been in when Redstone had full control. Looks like we will know for sure over the next couple of years.

So, is there a way to get this commentary if you don't have (and refuse to ever get) iTunes?

Oh, even in 4x3, the stage scaffolding is definitely visible. For a while, all I had was the 4x3 VHS of TMP SLV to watch before getting the widescreen laserdisc in '91. And that shot was always a sore thumb stand-out.

Funny that the whole Somner Redstone issue only popped up this week - with several of his company directors getting fired, in what is apparently Redstone's daughter making a power play. The issue had been boiling for some time, but only became public with mainstream news stories hitting this...

I know Mr. Hoffman's forum and the member you speak of. Been there for years, but I just don't post as much lately as I used to over there. Too busy and my time is limited. I did just post in your thread, though... just to be nice... My user name there is "joeldf". Anyway, I think Vidiot is...

Totally agree. Looks like only one new TOS Movie Blu-ray for me this year.

Regardless of how they are done, I sure hope they release on Blu-ray too. I don't have, and am not in a position to do, UHD anytime soon. But, I'd get the Blu-rays as fast as I could. I don't have the current Blu-rays now except for TMP. All the rest are DVDs and Laserdiscs (and I can't play...

Back to seeing TMP in the theater... I was just happy to see something new with these characters on screen. I saw it with my mother and we were not in the best seats in the house - back left corner of the theater (one scene had Uhura's intercom voice come out right over my head). But, I...

I was 14. But, I don't remember if I saw it in December or later in early January. I'm sure we never got movies here in Baton Rouge until a week or so after the actual wider release back then.

Yeah, the complete SLV cut is only in 4x3. But, as Josh says, all the original filmed elements is all included on the DE DVD in the deleted scenes section - and in anamorphic widescreen. So, you can see it. Just not in completed SLV form. Unless you want to rip the video and make your own...

Wow... "Into Darkness" has been renamed "Into Dark". :)

I agree. This has gone off track about a movie not even released to theaters yet, much less "what we know so far" about Star Trek films on Blu-ray. Bring TMP back in properly restored and more film-like theatrical and Directors cuts (I'm just not feeling it for the the "Special Longer" TV...

I never directly compared, but the DC does trim a bit from one of the long cloud fly-through sequences - I think, fairly early on when they first go into the cloud. there is an edit in the music that I noticed the first time I watched it since I have been very familiar with the music. It...

Count me as another fan of the shuttle-around-the-Enterprise sequence in TMP. Seeing that on the big screen back in '79 was just awesome for the 14-year-old that I was at the time. It's still one of my favorite scenes - I'm glad Wise didn't decide to trim that. Although, to be honest, I...

Or on the widescreen laserdisc of ST3. Granted, Dame Anderson's name did get clipped a bit on my old Mitsubishi 27" tube TV back when I first got that LD. :)

The idea of de-militarizing Star Trek came from Roddenberry basically changing his mind on what Star Trek was. As Kevin says, the original series most definitely had militaristic undertones - even if it was more of the structural elements rather than an overt mission. After all, most of the...

Now that I looked it up, the initial LD release would have been the theatrical cut - released in 1981, one year after the VHS/Betamax release. The CED also came out in '81. The longer tossed together TV version was aired in Feb '83, and the "Special Longer Version" on LD (and VHS, I assume)...

The theatrical cut does need a new harvest because of two main problems - 1. Being an older initial HD transfer (done several years before the actual BD release), a bit too much grain reduction was used (although, I don't know if they still have the un-processed transfers on hand - not sure...

I don't know if you can catch it, but BBC America regularly airs TNG. On the HD feed, they like to do that partial zoom of material originally framed for 4x3 (and I hate when they, and other channels, do that). They do the same with "The X-Files". I'd say that they framed the majority of the...

On re-rendering the DE stuff for TMP: True, the producers of the DE have said that all model and setup files still exist. Re-rendering at a higher resolution is relatively easy to set up and do. But, being an Architect, and having done architectural model rendering myself (among personal...

Yes, now I understand what you meant.

As I understand it, Dykstra's Apogee was subcontracted by Trumbull and they worked together to finish the work that was originally started by Robert Able and Associates.

I'm with Nelson in remembering that a theatrical release of the TMP - DE was talked about for months leading up to the DVD release, but that it never happened. So a film print was never made. I think the decision to go with DVD 480 resolution is what killed the idea, but that info didn't get...

That's pretty much how I feel about the theatrical cut vs. the DE ("Director's Edition" as it's officially labeled). Although, I hope they do re-master the theatrical version at some point to correct some of the brief color issues (the red stripes down the side of the Enterprise in space dock...

I still have (almost) all of the Trek movies on widescreen LD myself - but I bought them individually, not part of the box. I say almost all, because I never got ST V on LD. I didn't get it until the original DVD release. The overture used on the DE DVD is the complete "Ilia's Theme" from the...

Is there any information we can get on what condition the films are actually in? What is it about 2 that required a "full restoration". Faded negatives? Physically damaged or faded interpositives? How are the other films faring? I understand that 2 was shot on film stock intended for use...

And I definitely WILL buy the theatrical cuts of those two - and thank goodness they are being made available... once again at least for Trek 1, and finally for 6.

at the same time - they kind of mumble it together. It actually took me several viewings to finally make out what they heck they said. Especially since you only hear that name only one other time earlier in the movie. But then once I got the name, it was no big deal and the flashbacks added...