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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Worf is very surprised when he meets the Klingon Kurn on the Enterprise. The new arrival confronts him with surprising news: He reveals himself as Worf's biological brother. Kurn asks him to return to his Klingon home planet to save his deceased father's honor. He is accused of being a traitor and being in bed with the Romulans. Wolf decides to help Kurn out and step in front of the Great Sanhedrin of the Klingons in order to disprove the accusations. But shortly after his arrival, he becomes a victim of politcal schemes...

 

 

 

 

 

 

00:00
The angle fromm the Bird of Prey has been changed. The stars in the background have been altered as well.

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15:47
The stars drifting by have been altered.

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16:22
The stars drifting by have been altered.

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16:35
The Enterprise in front of the digitally enhanced home planet of the Klingons, later on known as "Qo'noS". Then a cut to the surface. The clouds have been enhanced.

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24:56
The Enterprise in front of "Qo'noS".

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31:27
The clouds on "Qo'noS" have been enhanced.

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40:49
The sky is slightly altered.

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