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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Following a distress signal, the Enterprise encounters two little tribes descended from a small group of colonists that got seperated 300 years ago. In order to save the more advanced colony which by now only consists of several clones, they have to join forces with the primeval residents of the other colony.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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04:32
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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06:47
The stars passing by have been slightly altered.

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07:36
The stars passing by have been slightly altered.

10:36
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered asteroid, planet and star.

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10:59
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet and star.

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11:22
The digitally altered planet and star as seen from the bridge.

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12:11
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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15:47
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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16:18
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

23:15
The replicator effect has been enhanced.

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23:34
The replicator effect has been enhanced.

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24:53
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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25:08
The digitally altered planet as seen from the bridge.

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26:03
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet, followed by an enhanced beam effect.

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28:00
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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31:19
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

32:36
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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34:43
The phasor effect has been enhanced.

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35:06
The phasor effect has been enhanced.

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35:36
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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36:57
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

42:37
The Enterprise in front of the digitally altered planet.

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