Release: Mar 10, 2015 - Author: KoRn - Translator: DaxRider123
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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 will be illustrated only once. 00:10
The planet was digitally updated.
03:19 Shot of the planet from inside the bridge.
05:33 The Enterprise in front of the planet.
10:25 The decomposition effect was digitally enhanced.
10:48 The explosion effect was digitally enhanced.
11:10 The Enterprise in front of the planet.
13:11 The laser effect on the protective shield was enhanced. Subsequently there is a cut to the Enterprise in front of the planet.
13:28 The laser effect on the protective shield was enhanced.
14:32 The laser effect on the protective shield was enhanced. 14:50 The explosion effect was digitally enhanced.
16:26 The laser effect on the protective shield was enhanced.
16:34 The laser effect on the protective shield was enhanced. 17:14 The Enterprise is attacked in front of the planet.
18:04 The Enterprise in front of the planet.
18:59 The Enterprise is hit by a digitally enhanced laser beam.
20:58 The laser effect on the drone's protective shield was enhanced.
21:18 Data's laser beam was altered.
21:18 The laser effect on the drone's protective shield was enhanced.
21:25 The laser effect on the drone's protective shield as well as the explosion were digitally enhanced.
24:55 Die Enterprise vor dem Planet.
25:40 Der Lasereffekt auf das Schutzschild wurde verbessert.
26:34 The Enterprise in front of the planet.
26:58 The Enterprise is shown in front of the planet and then flies away.
33:58 The effect was slightly enhanced.
37:23 The Enterprise's lower part in front of the planet.
38:09 A shot of the planet from inside the bridge.
39:53 The effect was slightly enhanced.
38:09 A shot of the planet from inside the bridge. Subsequently, we see the Enterprise entering the planet's atmosphere.
41:01 The Enterprise enters the planet's atmosphere.
41:01 The Enterprise enters the planet's atmosphere and destroys the enemy ship.
41:48 The Enterprise's lower part in front of the planet.
42:26 The Enterprise's lower part in front of the planet when the Enterprise flies away.
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