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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Dr. Beverly Crusher has left the Enterprise and got replaced by Dr. Katherine Pulaski. The Enterprise is supposed to take a lethal plasma epidemic broken out in the Rachelis system to the science station Tango Sierra where the attempt of making vaccine is being made. One night, Counselor Deanna Troi is being penetrated by a disembodied energy creature, she gets pregnant within a few hours.

 

 

 

 

00:02
Space has been enhanced.

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01:35
The cube has been digitally enhanced.

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12:30
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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13:19
Captain Picard in front of the digitally altered planet.

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14:06
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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15:20
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

20:42
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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21:45
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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25:02
The holograms have been slightly enhanced.

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28:38
Wesley Crusher in front of the digitally altered planet.

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29:20
Wesley and Guinan in front of the digitally altered planet.

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35:20
The stars rolling by have been slightly altered.

37:26
The boy dissolving into light has been slightly altered.

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