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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Captain Picard gets abducted by alien life formes undetectedly and replaced by a doppelganger. Riker and the other crew members react distrustful because the impostor acts atypical. He gives the order to change the course and fly to a pulsar. If the Enterprise gets too close to the neutron star, the ship could get destroyed. Riker has to come up with something to keep the crew safe. Meanwhile, the real Picard attempts to break out of his jail cell. Along with the three strangers that are also in jail, Picard makes an escape plan...

 

 

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The Enterprise in front of the altered planet.

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00:37
The effect has been enhanced.

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06:16
The Enterprise in front of the altered planet.

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10:46
The beaming effect has been enhanced.

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19:54
The distress beam has been enhanced.

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19:57
The distress beam has been enhanced.

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20:16
The stars drifting by have been altered.

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24:12
The stars drifting by have been altered.

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31:36
The stars have been altered.

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34:16
The stars have been altered.

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34:45
The neutron star behind Picard has been altered.

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35:04
The neutron star behind Picard has been altered.

35:10
The stars have been altered.

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38:18
The dissolution effect has been enhanced.

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39:04
The beaming effect has been enhanced.

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39:12
The beaming effect has been enhanced.

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39:23
The beaming effect has been enhanced.

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40:12
The force field has been enhanced.

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40:19
The force field has been enhanced.

41:28
The beaming effect has been enhanced.

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