In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the first broadcast, Paramount owner CBS started to restore the episodes for an HD release on Blu-ray but also for future broadcasts and the online distribution. A simple conversion of the final cuts was impossible because they only were available on video in SD. Consequently, the original negatives were scanned in HD. In order to do so, more than 25,000 reels had to be dug up from the Paramount archieves and cleaned. Also because the original visual effects had been made for an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, the aspect ratio of the new HD versions remains unchanged. Some visual effects such as phaser shots and beaming processes have been re-created instead of converted. Furthermore, perspective goofs in space and misguided shadows have been corrected and so have some paintings.


Compared are the Original Version and the Remastered Version.

In order to keep it simple, repeated effects do not have screenshots.

 

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A mission to contain an epidemic takes the Enterprise crew to Beta Agni IV. There is not much time left to get the required hytritium to the occupants. Vendor Kivas Fajo sells the rare antidote to them. Data gets the assignment to pick up all the hyterium with a space shuttle. At first, everything goes as planned but during the last flight, the shuttle explodes. Captain Picard expects the worst. The Enterprise crew can't imagine that the android made a mistake. In fact, he is not destroyed. Instead, Kivas Fajo, a passionate collector of rare items, has abducted Data...

 

 

 

 

 

 

01:04
The blue lightnings have been enhanced.

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01:45
The shuttle explosion has been enhanced.

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01:55
The shuttle explosion has been enhanced.

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08:33
The force field has been enhanced.

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08:40
The force field has been enhanced.

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17:29
The stars passing by have been enhanced.

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18:24
The stars passing by have been enhanced.

25:21
The space ship in front of the altered planet.

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28:25
The Enterprise and the new planet.

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31:51
The Enterprise in front of the new planet.

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38:00
The phaser has been enhanced.

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38:06
The dissolving effect has been enhanced.

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42:00
The force field has been enhanced.

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