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For the first time, you can now watch every star trek movie in 4k hdr, 13 star trek movies are available in 4k, dolby vision, and dolby atmos..

Samuel Axon - Apr 10, 2023 8:06 pm UTC

For the first time, you can now buy or rent every single Star Trek movie in the latest 4K and HDR standards. That includes all six movies based on the original series cast, all four featuring The Next Generation 's cast, and the more recent J.J. Abrams films.

On April 4, Paramount released an UltraHD Blu-ray set that included Star Trek: Generations , Star Trek: First Contact , Star Trek: Insurrection , and Star Trek: Nemesis along with several special features. The set marks the first time these films have been available in a 4K and HDR home video release. Alongside the Blu-rays, the films also became available on on-demand storefronts like Apple's TV app.

Further Reading

So as of this week, all 13 theatrically released Star Trek films are finally available in 4K and HDR. The latest releases also support the Dolby Atmos audio standard in addition to Dolby Vision HDR.

That said, large swaths of the classic Trek TV series aren't even available in HD, much less in 4K or HDR. All three seasons of  The Original Series and all seven of  The Next Generation got Blu-ray and digital HD releases in recent years, as well as Enterprise and The Animated Series , and all the new Paramount+ shows are in HD. But Deep Space Nine and Voyager  are still only available in standard definition.

A documentary about  Deep Space Nine released a couple of years ago featured small segments upscaled to HD to show what might be possible and there have been fan projects to do the same with AI, too. However, there hasn't been much movement on an official full series upscaling project.

Update : A previous version of this article failed to properly distinguish between the non-AI and AI techniques used in prior attempts to remaster portions Deep Space Nine . It was corrected in an update.

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Published Feb 21, 2023

All Four 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Films Arriving on 4K Ultra HD for First Time Ever

Relive the adventures of Captain Picard and his crew in time for First Contact Day!

StarTrek.com

StarTrek.com is thrilled to reveal all four big-screen adventures featuring fan-favorite Star Trek characters Picard , Riker , Data , La Forge , Worf , Troi , and Dr. Crusher arrive for the first time ever on 4K Ultra HD™ with Dolby Vision™* and HDR-10 on April 4, 2023 , just in time for First Contact Day (April 5, the day Vulcans first made contact with humans).

The journey begins with original cast members Kirk, Scott, and Chekov in a story that spans space and time in Star Trek Generations , continuing with a terrifying face off against the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact , a dangerous plot against a peaceful planet in Star Trek: Insurrection , and a familiar old foe returning in Star Trek Nemesis .

All four films will be available together in the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION 4-MOVIE COLLECTION . The 4-Movie Collection includes each film on 4K Ultra HD, as well as fully remastered on Blu-ray™, plus all legacy bonus content and access to Digital copies of each film.  The Collection is presented in a slipcase beautifully illustrated to complement the Star Trek : The Original 6-Movie Collection , making this a must-own set to complete every fan’s collection.

In addition, each film will be available individually on 4K Ultra HD with a bonus Blu-ray featuring the fully remastered film, along with all legacy bonus content and access to a Digital copy of the film.

Special features are detailed below.

STAR TREK GENERATIONS Bonus Content

• Commentary by director David Carson and Manny Coto
• Commentary by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore
• Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
• Library Computer
• Uniting Two Legends
• Stellar Cartography: Creating the Illusion
• Strange New Worlds: The Valley of Fire
• Scoring Trek
• Inside ILM: Models & Miniatures
• Crashing the Enterprise
• Main Title Sequence
• The Nexus Ribbon
• Saucer Crash Sequence
• A Tribute to Matt Jeffries
• The Enterprise Lineage
• Captain Picard’s Family Album
• Creating 24th Century Weapons
• Next Generation Designer Flashback Andrew Probert
• Stellar Cartography on Earth
• Brent Spiner - Data and Beyond Part 1
• Trek Roundtable: Generations
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 007: Trilithium
• Deleted Scenes

STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT Bonus Content

• Commentary by director and actor Jonathan Frakes
• Commentary by screenplay writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore
• Commentary by Damon Lindelof and Anthony Pascale
• Text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
• Making First Contact
• The Art of First Contact
• The Missile Silo
• The Deflector Dish
• From “ A ” to “ E ”
• Borg Queen Assembly
• Escape Pod Launch
• Borg Queen’s Demise
• Jerry Goldsmith: A Tribute
• The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane
• First Contact : The Possibilities
• Industrial Light & Magic - The Next Generation
• Greetings from the International Space Station
• SpaceShipOne’s Historic Flight
• Brent Spiner - Data and Beyond Part 2
• Trek Roundtable: First Contact
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 008: Temporal Vortex
• Unimatrix One
• Design Matrix

STAR TREK: INSURRECTION Bonus Content

• Commentary by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis
• It Takes a Village
• Location, Location, Location
• The Art of Insurrection
• Anatomy of a Stunt
• Making Star Trek: Insurrection
• Director’s Notebook
• Westmore’s Aliens
• Westmore’s Legacy
• Star Trek ’s Beautiful Alien Women
• Marina Sirtis - The Counselor Is In
• Brent Spiner - Data and Beyond Part 3
• Trek Roundtable: Insurrection
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 009: The Origins of the Ba’ku and Son’a Conflict
• Shuttle Chase
• Advertising

STAR TREK NEMESIS Bonus Content

• Commentary by director Stuart Baird
• Commentary by producer Rick Berman
• Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
• Nemesis Revisited
• New Frontiers – Stuart Baird on Directing Nemesis
• Storyboarding the Action
• Red Alert! Shooting the Action of Nemesis
• Build and Rebuild
• Four-Wheeling in the Final Frontier
• Screen Test: Shinzon
• A Star Trek Family’s Final Journey
• A Bold Vision of The Final Frontier
• The Enterprise-E
• Reunion with The Rikers
• Today’s Tech Tomorrow’s Data
• Robot Hall of Fame
• Brent Spiner - Data and Beyond Part 4
• Trek Roundtable: Nemesis
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 010: Thalaron Radiation
• Romulan Lore
• Shinzon & the Viceroy
• Romulan Design
• The Romulan Senate
• The Scimitar

* To experience Dolby Vision on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc, a Dolby Vision enabled TV is required with a Dolby Vision enabled 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player.

Stay tuned to StarTrek.com for more details! And be sure to follow @StarTrek on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

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Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection (4K UHD Review)

• Reviewed by: Bill Hunt
• Review Date: Apr 17, 2023
• Format: Blu-ray Disc

Release Date(s)

• Film/Program Grade: See Below
• Video Grade: See Below
• Audio Grade: See Below
• Extras Grade: B
• Overall Grade: B+

For as long as I’ve been the editor of The Digital Bits , I’ve found myself covering one Star Trek release after another, going all the way back to the LaserDisc format and the DVD release of First Contact in 1998—the very first Star Trek property of any kind to appear on the format. I’ve been to Paramount and CBS many times in the process, consulted with them on Trek releases over the years, and offered advice to studio executives on the subject whenever asked. But it’s no exaggeration to say that I—like many of you—have been waiting for properly-remastered Blu-ray and 4K versions of these films for as long as those formats have existed. So it’s no small thrill for me to see that the final four remastered feature films have now been released on Ultra HD and remastered Blu-ray. And I’m pleased to report that Paramount has delivered an experience that’s worthy of both these films and that lengthy wait.

I reviewed the Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection (which contained the Theatrical Version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ) in 4K Ultra HD here at The Bits back in 2021.

A year later, in 2022, I reviewed Paramount’s subsequent 4K UHD releases of the long-awaited Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition: Complete Adventure Limited Edition box set , as well as the wide-release 4K version of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition , Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country .

And now, we finally have the new Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection , which includes Star Trek: Generations , Star Trek: First Contact , Star Trek: Insurrection , and Star Trek: First Contact on both 4K Ultra HD and remastered Blu-ray.

As you might expect, I’ve reviewed each of these TNG films individually in 4K here at The Bits recently, so here are links to each of those reviews for more detailed reading…

Star Trek: Generations (4K UHD Review)

Star trek: first contact (4k uhd review), star trek: insurrection (4k uhd review), star trek: nemesis (4k uhd review).

For the record, here are my grades for each title…

Star Trek: Generations (Film/Video/Audio/Extras): B/A-/A-/B

Star Trek: First Contact: B/A/A/B+

Star Trek: Insurrection: C/A/B+/B-

Star Trek: Nemesis: C+/A-/A/A-

Each of the four titles listed above is a 2-disc set that includes the film in 4K UHD and remastered Blu-ray. In terms of special features, they each carry over all of the previous Blu-ray and DVD special features, including the original DVD Easter eggs (which are no longer hidden in the menus, but rather listed as a menu selection). This package also includes Digital Copy codes for all four films on a paper insert. And if you purchase this 4-Movie Collection rather than the single-film SKUS, the discs all come packaged in a single multi-disc Amaray case with a cardboard slipcover that features new artwork. (The single-film SKUs use variations of the original poster artwork for each film.)

One thing worth noting: Neither the 4K/Blu-ray singles reviewed above or this new 4-Movie Collection include the Evolutions bonus disc found in the 2009 Star Trek: The Next Generation Movie Collection Blu-ray box , so you may wish to hang onto that disc if you have it. For the record, it featured:

• The Evolution of the Enterprise (HD – 14:23)
• Villains of Star Trek (HD – 14:04)
• I Love the Star Trek Movies (HD – 4:34)
• Farewell to Star Trek: The Experience (HD – 28:06)
• Klingon Encounter (HD – 3:29)
• Borg Invasion 4D* (HD – 5:12)
• Charting the Final Frontier (HD ≈ 10:00)

* This feature is different than the Borg Invasion Trailer included on the remastered First Contact , Insurrection , and Nemesis Blu-rays.

The 3-part The Captains’ Summit roundtable discussion (with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, and Jonathan Frakes, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg) from the 2009 Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray bonus disc is also not included in any of these new 4K or remastered Blu-ray releases.

Whether you purchase this new Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection or buy the films individually, Trek fans should be very pleased at the overall quality of the viewing experience. It’s safe to say that these four films have never looked better than they do here. And at long last, we finally have all ten of the original Star Trek feature films on 4K Ultra HD and remastered Blu-ray. And if they sell well, there’s a good chance that CBS and Paramount might deliver Star Trek: Picard – Season Three —which continues the Next Generation crew’s story in fine fashion—in 4K Ultra HD as well. (Make it so, Paramount!) In the meantime, this new 4K set is highly recommended for Trek fans.

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Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection

For the past year, fans have enjoyed the first four Star Trek films on 4K in high-dynamic range (HDR) thanks to The Original 4-Movie Collection . That release marked the first time those movies were available on the top-tier home media format that is 4K/HDR, and we called it the definitive way to watch those movies. But, as they say, good things come to those who wait. One year to the day after that four-movie collection was released, Paramount Home Entertainment has unleashed what is now, for sure, without a doubt, the definitive Original Series movie collection: Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection.

What’s in the box?

Forgetting the wordy name, bundled in this impressive box set are the first six Star Trek feature films. Excitingly, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country marks their debut in 4K/HDR with this release. Fans everywhere will be overjoyed at seeing some of the most important moments in Star Trek , such as Spock toasting a marshmellen or Kirk wrestling with himself, in all the fidelity 4K/HDR offers!

Let’s get the main contents of the box set out of the way:

• Additional Blu-ray with bonus content
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Theatrical Cut)  – Ultra HD & Blu-ray
• Includes  Director’s Cut (as released in 2016)
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock  – Ultra HD & Blu-ray
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home  – Ultra HD & Blu-ray
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier  – Ultra HD & Blu-ray
• Includes  Director’s Cut (as released in 2004)

Importantly, The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition included in this release is the remastered version that was released earlier this year only on Paramount+. You can check out our interview with producer David C. Fein about what it took to bring this impressive version of the classic movie to life.

This box set also includes digital copies of all six films, as well as 1080p Blu-ray counterparts. Remember, you can only watch these movies in 4K/HDR if you have a 4K/HDR-capable TV and a 4K/HDR Blu-ray player. Game consoles such as the Xbox One X, Xbox Series S/X, and PlayStation 5 will play 4K/HDR discs.

(A side note: what did Walter Koenig or George Takai ever do to Paramount? Theirs are the only faces not seen on the covers of both the four-movie and six-movie collections outside the case!)

Special Features

Yes, there are also a plethora of extras – basically all the previously released special features, and a few new items – so please get comfy as we list them all.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition 

4K Ultra HD Disc

• Audio Commentary featuring David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren Dochterman
• Audio Commentary featuring Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Jerry Goldsmith, and Stephen Collins
• Text Commentary featuring Michael and Denise Okuda
• Isolated Score Track (found in the settings menu)

Blu-ray Disc

Bonus Blu-ray Disc

• Preparing the Future
• A Wise Choice
• Refitting the Enterprise
• Sounding Off
• Return to Tomorrow
• A Grand Theme
• The Grand Vision
• Ilia & Decker in Engineering
• Security Guard
• Three Casualties
• NEW Effects Tests (HD 3:30)
• NEW Costume Tests (HD 4:40)
• NEW Computer Display Graphics (HD 3:10)
• Phase II: The Lost Enterprise (SD 12:39)
• A Bold New Enterprise (SD 29:41)
• Redirecting the Future (SD 14:06)
• The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture (HD 10:44)
• Special Star Trek Reunion (HD 9:37)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 001: The Mystery Behind V’Ger (HD 4:24)
• The New Frontier: Resurrecting Star Trek (HD 30:01)
• Maiden Voyage: Making Star Trek: The Motion Picture (HD 29:13)
• Vulcan 
• Enterprise Departure 
• V’Ger Revealed 
• Trims (SD 6:08)
• Outtakes/Memory Wall (SD 2:49)
• Vulcan and Starfleet (SD 4:15)
• Attack on the Enterprise (SD 2:36)
• Cloud Journey (SD 3:31)
• V’Ger Flyover (SD 5:04)
• Wing Walk (SD 4:48)
• Sulu and Ilia 1 (SD 1:06)
• Sulu and Ilia 2 (SD 00:27)
• Kirk’s Quarters (SD 00:21)
• Officer’s Lounge (SD 00:13)
• Attack on the Enterprise (SD 1:08)
• Intruder Transformation (SD 00:32)
• A Huge Vessel (SD 00:47)
• Kirk Follows Spock (SD 1:13)
• Ilia’s Quarters 1 (SD 1:05)
• Ilia’s Quarters 2 (SD 1:20)
• Its Creator Is a Machine (SD 00:17)
• Teaser Trailer 
• Theatrical Trailer 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Theatrical Cut

• NEW Isolated Score in legacy Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Audio Commentary featuring Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Daren Dochterman
• Audio Commentary featuring Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Daren Dochterman
• Library Computer Viewing Mode
• Production: The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture (HD, 11 min)
• Special Star Trek Reunion  (10 min)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 001: The Mystery Behind V’Ger  (4 min)
• Deleted Scenes (SD, 8 min)
• Storyboards (HD)
• Trailers (HD, SD, 8 min): a teaser is joined by the theatrical preview and seven TV spots. Star 

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 

• Audio Commentary featuring Nicholas Meyer
• Audio Commentary (Theatrical Cut Only) featuring Nicholas Meyer & Manny Coto
• Text Commentary (Director’s Cut Only) featuring Michael and Denise Okuda 
• Library Computer Viewing Mode (Theatrical Cut)
• The Genesis Effect: Engineering The Wrath of Khan (HD, 28 min)
• Captain’s Log  (27 min)
• Designing Khan  (24 min)
• Interviews  (11 min) with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and Ricardo Montalbán
• Where No Man Has Gone Before: The Visual Effects of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan  (18 min)
• James Horner: Composing Genesis  (10 min)
• Collecting Star Trek’s Movie Relics  (11 min)
• A Novel Approach  (29 min)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 002: Mystery Behind Ceti Alpha VI  (3 min)
• Farewell: A Tribute to Ricardo Montalbán (HD, 5 min)
• Trailer (HD)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

• Audio Commentary featuring Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Charles Correll, & Robin Curtis
• Audio Commentary featuring Ronald D. Moore & Michael Taylor
• Library Computer Viewing Mode 
• EASTER EGG! Ken Ralston on Models and Creature Effects  (7 min)
• Captain’s Log  (26 min)
• Terraforming and the Prime Directive  (26 min)
• Industry Light & Magic: The Visual Effects of Star Trek  (14 min)
• Spock: The Early Years  (6 min)
• Space Docks and Birds-of-Prey  (28 min)
• Speaking Klingon  (21 min)
• Klingon and Vulcan Costumes  (12 min)
• Star Trek and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame  (17 min)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 003: Mystery Behind the Vulcan Katra Transfer  (3 min)
• Photo Galleries (HD) contains two sets of BTS photos and publicity stills

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 

• Audio Commentary featuring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
• Audio Commentary featuring Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman
• Future’s Past: A Look Back  (28 min)
• On Location  (7 min)
• Dailies Deconstruction  (4 min)
• Below-the-Line: Sound Design  (12 min)
• Pavel Chekov’s Screen Moments  (6 min)
• Time Travel: The Art of the Possible  (11 min)
• The Language of Whales  (6 min)
• A Vulcan Primer  (8 min)
• Kirk’s Women  (8 min)
• Star Trek: The Three-Picture Saga  (10 min)
• Star Trek for a Cause  (6 min)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 004: The Whale Probe  (4 min)
• From Outer Space to the Ocean  (15 min)
• The Bird-of-Prey  (3 min)
• William Shatner  (15 min)
• Leonard Nimoy  (16)
• DeForest Kelley  (13 min)
• Roddenberry Scrapbook  (8 min)
• Featured Artist: Mark Lenard  (13 min)
• Production Gallery (SD)
• Storyboards Galleries (HD)
• Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 

• Audio Commentary by William Shatner and Liz Shatner
• Audio Commentary by Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Daren Dochterman
• Library Computer
• Harve Bennett’s Pitch to Sales Team (SD 1:42)
• The Journey: A Behind-The-Scenes Documentary (SD 28:55)
• Makeup Tests (SD 9:50)
• Pre-Visualization Models (SD 1:41)
• Rockman in the Raw (SD 5:37)
• Star Trek V Press Conference (SD 13:42)
• Herman Zimmerman: A Tribute (SD 19:09)
• Original Interview: William Shatner (SD 14:37)
• Cosmic Thoughts (SD 13:05)
• That Klingon Couple (SD 13:05)
• A Green Future? (SD 9:24)
• Star Trek Honors NASA (HD 9:57)
• Hollywood Walk of Fame: James Doohan (SD 3:07)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 005: Nimbus III (HD 3:02)
• Mount Rushmore (SD 00:18)
• Insults (SD 2:03)
• Behold Paradise (SD 00:52)
• Spock’s Pain (SD 1:02)
• Production Gallery (SD 4:04)
• The Gag Reel (SD 1:08)
• The Face of God
• Theatrical Trailers

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 

• Theatrical Cut Audio Commentary featuring Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn
• Theatrical Cut Audio Commentary featuring Larry Nemecek and Ira Steven Behr 
• Director’s Cut Text Commentary featuring Michael and Denise Okuda 
• Audio Commentary by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn
• Audio Commentary by Larry Nemecek and Ira Steven Behr
• Library Computer 
• The Perils of Peacemaking (SD 26:30)
• It Started with a Story (SD 9:46)
• Prejudice (SD 5:02)
• Director Nicholas Meyer (SD 5:57)
• Shakespeare & General Chang (SD 5:53)
• Bring It to Life (SD 23:26)
• Farewell & Goodbye (SD 7:04)
• Conversations with Nicholas Meyer (SD 9:33)
• Klingons: Conjuring the Legend (SD 20:43)
• Federation Operatives (SD 4:53)
• Penny’s Toy Box (SD 6:06)
• Together Again (SD 4:56)
• Tom Morga: Alien Stuntman (HD 4:57)
• To Be or Not to Be: Klingons and Shakespeare (HD 23:04)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 006: Praxis (HD 2:38)
• DeForest Kelley: A Tribute (SD 13:19)
• William Shatner (SD 5:05)
• Leonard Nimoy (SD 6:26)
• DeForest Kelley (SD 5:00)
• James Doohan (SD 5:33)
• Nichelle Nichols (SD 5:39)
• George Takei (SD 5:28)
• Walter Koenig (SD 5:28)
• Iman (SD 5:04)
• Production Gallery (SD 3:24)
• Rura Penthe
• Leaving Spacedock (Omitted)
• 1991 Convention Presentation by Nicholas Meyer (SD 4:43)
• Teaser Trailer
• Theatrical Trailer

Video Quality

Does the video quality of these movies stand up to high expectations? They sure do! (For context, we watched these movies on an LG C2 OLED television). We already know the theatrical cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan look fantastic in 4K/HDR thanks to last year’s release, and it’s safe to say the transfers of Star Trek V and VI from 1080p, which was the highest resolution available before today, to 4K is striking. It’s four times the number of pixels, after all. And the addition of color-boosting high dynamic range, which resolves a film’s colors in more natural quality, is the icing on the cake. If you haven’t seen these movies in a while, now is the perfect time to rewatch them. Likewise, newer fans who haven’t had the opportunity to see these classic movies now can do so in the most modern way possible.

A major attraction of this set is the inclusion of the recently released The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition, which is itself a thorough remaster of 2001’s The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition, which added new VFX and trimmed scenes to make the movie flow more nicely. Before today, this remastered The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition was only available via Paramount+. No more! The inherent visual benefits of on-disc playback compared to streaming make this disc-based The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition an incredible treat for fans. We already knew an astonishing amount of time and effort went into making the 2022 version of The Motion Picture , and now the work of David C. Fein and his team can be seen in all its glory. Watch this one on the biggest screen possible.

(If you’re a Motion Picture superfan, there is a special, more elaborate release dedicated solely to this movie that includes a multitude of extras, including the first-ever widescreen presentation of the Special Longer Version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , originally created for broadcast television in 1983.)

We want to take a moment to note our experience with The Final Frontier. That movie, released in 1989, is famous (or infamous) for less-than-ideal visual effects, even compared to its predecessors. If you see this movie in 4K/HDR, some scenes, like the journey across the Great Barrier or Sybok’s introduction in the desert, will look fabulous, with bright, vivid colors that show off landscapes and the creative but lower-budget visual effects done by Associates and Ferren.

On the flip side, some of the bad VFX, like some orbiting shots of the Enterprise or Kirk battling God, will look particularly bad thanks to the higher resolution and lack of any remastering work like The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition. Of course, that’s not a reason to skip what’s objectively the best Star Trek movie (especially considering Strange New Worlds seems to be inspired by the film ), just a heads-up that you should expect to see some ugliness. Star Trek V is really the only TOS film with this problem, as the beautiful model-heavy VFX done by Industrial Light and Magic for every other Star Trek movie other than The Motion Picture look fantastic in this collection. You’ll want to sell your old Star Trek movie discs, that’s for sure.

But I bought the Four-Movie Collection last year!

A quick note for those a little angsty about buying the four-movie collection last year, only for the six-movie collection to come out this year: we understand your pain. But just know each of these movies has its own standalone release. So, if you have the four-movie collection, you could buy Star Trek V and Star Trek IV individually to complete your TOS -era movie collection. Just know The Motion Picture included in last year’s collection was the theatrical cut only, and not the recently remastered Director’s Edition. You can get the remastered Director’s Edition individually here .

The fact that Paramount Home Entertainment is double-dipping with releasing a partial Star Trek movie collection last year only to release a complete collection this year is understandably frustrating for consumers. (The salt on the wound is that the six-movie collection and the four-movie collection share almost the same box art, albeit with a dark background for the newer collection along with a few new elements to reflect the additional movies.) The individual Blu-ray releases help soften the blow a bit, but we still must question why the back-to-back releases. Sure, they were probably trying to hit a sales mark by releasing the incomplete TOS movie collection last year, and perhaps the Star Trek V and VI transfers weren’t completed yet, but this release schedule likely just makes fans weary of any future movie collections Paramount wants to sell. We would have liked to see a discount given to verified owners of the four-movie collection, but alas…

What does a Star Trek fan need with this box set?

There’s no beating around the bush: if you are someone who values the disc-based video quality upgrade over streaming, and the ownership stability that comes with home media, there’s no reason not to get this collection. Not only does this set include every TOS movie and all available director’s editions, along with every extra feature under the sun, but these decades-old films will look as best they can if you have the necessary hardware. It’ll make the perfect addition to your home media cabinet, and the Star Trek fan in your life will thank you. It’ll certainly satisfy us media hounds until Paramount releases a TNG movie collection, which surely must be in the works.

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Review: ‘Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection’ 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Is A Big Upgrade

| September 7, 2021 | By: Matt Wright 68 comments so far

The first four original series movies have been newly restored and released in Ultra High Definition; here’s our review of the 4K UltraHD Blu-ray boxed set.

The classic Trek movies hold a special place in the hearts of many Trekkies—this was the only Star Trek we had until 1987, when  The Next Generation premiered.  This boxed set features the theatrical editions of The Motion Picture , The Search For Spock, and The Voyage Home . The Wrath Of Khan disc follows the blueprint of the excellent 2016 standard Blu-ray of the Director’s Cut , and includes both the theatrical and director’s cut on the disc, thanks to seamless branching.

The  Wrath of Khan ,  Search for Spock , and  The Voyage Home  making an unofficial “Genesis Trilogy,” are considered by many to be fan favorites. From the return of Khan to the loss of Spock, the crew stealing the Enterprise and getting Spock back, and finally redeeming themselves by saving the future by going to the past to get a pair of humpback whales, the three movies are filled with action, adventure, and a lot of heart, which helped the films cross over to include mainstream audiences.

The Motion Picture  of course started it all in 1979, and while it’s cerebral style and more quiet pacing make it stand apart from the three Genesis Trilogy movies, it also has its admirers, myself included. And due to the grand scale and scope of Robert Wise’s film, it probably benefits the most from this new 4K transfer. It should be noted again that this set includes only the  theatrical edition  of TMP. There’s a  separate project  by Paramount+ and the folks who worked with Wise back in 2001 to make a new 4K version of the Director’s Edition that is expected to be released for streaming in 2022.

The Ultra HD Blu-ray set

The boxed set comes with two 4-disc cases inside of it. One has the Ultra HD Blu-ray versions of the movies, and one has standard HD Blu-ray discs. The Blu-ray discs feature the same newly restored versions of the films, just in 1080p. These new versions of the 1080p Blu-ray movies will also be sold separately for those who haven’t made the leap to 4K/HDR.

Video Quality

The short version: These four movies look amazing. They look like films again, far less processed than the previous releases, and that alone makes the set worth getting. The wider color gamut of Ultra HD allows for richer colors; for example, the “monster maroons” are a shade of rich deep red. The films also benefit from a restrained HDR grade that helps retain details in the brighter scenes.

Nitty-gritty details: Without a doubt the films look much better than they ever have on home video. The previous versions of the films which were released back in 2009 and then repackaged ever since had a number of shortcomings. They were overly processed, which meant the natural look of film was often scrubbed out. The biggest symptom of this over-processing is that faces looked waxy: The Voyage Home was one of the worst offenders. So these new versions of the films may at first appear “soft,” but that’s not correct; what this new scan of the movies did was restore a natural filmic look to the movies (film grain), and finer details are more visible now.

The crew looking waxy in 1986 from the 2009 Blu-ray

The crew looks much more natural in 1986 from the 2021 release

2009 zoom, notice how Uhura’s and Sulu’s face are especially “etched” looking.

Zoom on the 2021 version, shadows blend naturally on the faces and everyone’s jaw lines aren’t traced out like a bad drawing.

NOTE: The screenshots included in this article are from the standard Blu-ray 1080p release. The 4k HDR versions look even better. Staring at still frames of a motion picture isn’t exactly how a film is intended to be watched, so take these as general demonstration of the changes.

Another noticeable aspect that has been corrected with this new set is that the 2009 versions fell prey to the popular style at the time of making everything more steely blue (or teal). This has been corrected, and the films now look much like they used to (on DVD releases, theatrical prints, etc.).

The 2009 version of the transporter room scene in TMP has everyone looking very lavender.

Now in 2021, skins tones are more natural and the walls and Kirk’s uniform are blue.

Another flaw the 2009 releases had was that bright scenes were blown out, which was never supposed to be the case. This is fixed in this new release.

The Enterprise bridge explodes in TSFS, 2009 version.

The Enterprise bridge explodes in the 2021 version. Notice the details behind the Klingons can be seen, including smoke, sparks, and parts of the bridge.

There is one notable oddity with TMP and it must be called out: The drydock sequence appears to have been sloppily edited to try and “fix” something that really didn’t need fixing. There is a support arm for the Enterprise model that is briefly seen. It was covered in black fabric and quite frankly is hard to see, I’ve never once found it distracting in all my years of watching TMP and TWOK (where the footage is reused); it didn’t need fixing. The “fix” has been detailed by the Twitter account TMP Visual Comparisons for readers who want more details and includes a video. What may be most irksome is that this is the theatrical version and should be preserved as-is; any changes should be left to the Director’s Edition team that’s working on a new version right now. Ultimately, this amounts of about five seconds of the movie, so it can be overlooked, but one wonders why it was done at all.

The TMP blurry shot with small “fix” errors in the left of the drydock and deflector dish of the Enterprise.

The same footage is reused in TWOK without digital tinkering.

Audio Quality

The audio mixes are the same excellent lossless 7.1 Dolby TrueHD mixes released with the Blu-rays previously. I will say I’m slightly disappointed they didn’t remix the movies in Dolby Atmos, but that isn’t a deal killer by any means. The mixes are great and sound really good on a modern surround system. I’m going to quote myself from previous reviews.

From the 2009 boxed set review:

The Motion Picture benefits the most from a new mix. Finally TMP feels like the big epic movie it is. The dialogue intelligibility is good and is better than any other version. Surround use is plentiful: the excellent Jerry Goldsmith musical score fills the room, transporter sound effects swirl around you, the engine room throbs with power, etc.

And from The Wrath of Khan DC:

This time around I have a Dolby Atmos enabled setup (5.1.4 for those interested), so I was able to hear how the standard surround mix was “up-mixed” into a pseudo-Atmos height enhanced version. The results are generally quite good, the classic James Horner soundtrack swells to fill all around as expected. Other atmospheric noise (ex: bridge noises, ships warping by, and the stormy Mutara nebula) is often heard from the heights giving a bigger more natural/fuller sense of the environments.

Special Features

As is common practice, the Ultra HD Blu-ray discs have minimal special features to allow maximum space for the 4K video. The majority of the extras are found on the standard Blu-ray discs.

This set carries over pretty much all of the special features from the 2009 versions of the movies, which in turn carried over most of the DVD features from before. I recommend you check out our review for more .

Rather than recap all the extras, I’m going to point out what’s new and what’s missing from this set.

What’s new

The only new feature for this set is for The Motion Picture , both the UHD and standard Blu-ray feature an isolated score track in stereo. Goldsmith’s music is iconic, so it seems fitting to offer this as a new option.

What’s missing

There are two features worth mentioning that aren’t included. The first is “The Captain’s Summit,” made for the original 2009 boxed set and not released again. We can hope that since the summit includes the Next Generation cast, this might re-appear in a hypothetical future boxed set of 4K TNG movies.

The other feature that would have been great to see is the multi-part documentary by Roger Lay Jr. (who did the excellent documentaries on the TNG-R and ENT Blu-ray sets) commissioned for the 50th anniversary boxed set in 2016.

It’s understandable why these two features aren’t there, as they were separate documentaries that were included as a separate disc in their respective boxed sets, but it would be nice to get them into a new set at some point.

Full list of features:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture  4K Ultra HD

• Isolated score in Dolby 2.0—NEW
• Commentary by Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Daren Dochterman

Star Trek: The Motion Picture  Blu-ray

• Library Computer (HD)
• The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture (HD)
• Special Star Trek Reunion (HD)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 001: The Mystery Behind V’ger
• Deleted Scenes
• Storyboards
• Trailers (HD)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan  4K Ultra HD

• Commentary by Director Nicholas Meyer (Director’s Cut and Theatrical Version)
• Commentary by Director Nicholas Meyer and Manny Coto (Theatrical Version)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan  Blu-ray

• Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda (Director’s Cut)
• Captain’s Log
• Designing Khan
• Original Interviews with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and Ricardo Montalbán
• Where No Man Has Gone Before: The Visual Effects of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• James Horner: Composing Genesis (HD)
• Collecting Star Trek’s Movie Relics (HD)
• A Novel Approach
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 002: Mystery Behind Ceti Alpha VI (HD)
• A Tribute to Ricardo Montalbán (HD)
• Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock  4K Ultra HD

• Commentary by director Leonard Nimoy, writer/producer Harve Bennett, director of photography Charles Correll and Robin Curtis
• Commentary by Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock  Blu-ray

• Terraforming and the Prime Directive
• Industry Light & Magic: The Visual Effects of Star Trek
• Spock: The Early Years (HD)
• Space Docks and Birds of Prey
• Speaking Klingon
• Klingon and Vulcan Costumes
• Star Trek and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (HD)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 003: Mystery Behind the Vulcan Katra Transfer

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home  4K Ultra HD

• Commentary by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
• Commentary by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home  Blu-ray

• Future’s Past: A Look Back
• On Location
• Dailies Deconstruction
• Below-the-Line: Sound Design
• Pavel Chekov’s Screen Moments (HD)
• Time Travel: The Art of the Possible
• The Language of Whales
• A Vulcan Primer
• Kirk’s Women
• The Three-Picture Saga (HD)
• Star Trek for a Cause (HD)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 004: The Whale Probe (HD)
• From Outer Space to the Ocean
• The Bird of Prey
• Leonard Nimoy
• William Shatner
• DeForest Kelley
• Roddenberry Scrapbook
• Featured Artist: Mark Lenard
• Production Gallery

Final thoughts

The first four movies have never looked better. Is this set perfect? No. But it’s pretty darn close. As fans who enjoy these films and want to have them in the best possible format, this is a must buy . Fans need to vote with their wallets. Remember, there’s more at stake here than just these four movies. If we want the rest of the Trek movie franchise available on disc, the studio needs proof that there’s a demand for it.

Releasing the movies only to digital is relatively easy and low cost for Paramount, but physical media requires time and effort since it is a physical product. Many of us are anxiously awaiting the new 4K version of The Motion Picture: Director’s Edition , but as of right now it has only been announced for streaming on Paramount+ next year. There’s no word yet on if or when there will be a release on disc. So showing the studio that fans want Trek movies on physical media is important.

If people don’t buy these on disc, it sends the message that streaming-only is okay. Streaming rights come and go and vary by region, so the only surefire way to collect these movies in 4K to keep as your own is on disc. And at least for the US version of the set, it comes with a code for a digital copy of each movie, so you can have your handy digital version while also showing your support for the disc format.

Available now in the USA (and Canada)

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International dates seem to have slipped a week. From what we can know currently, it will be released Monday, September 13 in the UK, and it should also be available around that time in Germany and France as well.

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Can’t wait!

I agree with Matt — restorations of films shouldn’t concern themselves with fixing “bloopers” in the SFX — they should be concerned with restoring the film as it was shot. Save that kind of thing for Director’s Editions, etc.

I’m curious as to why Kirk and Spock are wearing the TMP uniforms and McCoy is wearing the TWOK-and-after uniform.

There’s also a Phase II Enterprise in there and the background is the primary hull of the 1701-A, so clearly not a whole lot of research was done.

I like the more character based collage, I am just glad they are starting to release the films in 4K and I hope the content outweighs the aesthetics when it comes to getting the rest of the movies, I want the rest in 4 K as well.

Has Sulu’s Kobayashi Maru scene been corrected in the TWOK DE? Or does he still face front the whole time?

That was fixed right away in 2016. https://trekmovie.com/2016/06/22/wrath-of-khan-directors-edition-recall-information/

Tons of stock of the uncorrected version are still out there. The only thing that was different was a sticker on it to tell them apart. They had the same cover.

And one of those landed at my house.

Thank you for the link. I was not aware.

Edit: never mind!

Regarding TMP, I’m wondering if they went to the original 65mm VFX elements as the source material as opposed to upscaling a print of the movie. I was reading a July ’21 interview with Doug Trumbull where he says he was involved with 2001’s and Blade Runner’s transfers as he knew where they were (the 65mm vfx elements) having worked on them.

My memory of the theatrical release in theaters was the vibrant burnt orange fabric material used in the crew corridor scene and the sparking blue eyes Stephen Collins had when he had his close ups. Vulcan had a hue to it that gave it a hell-ish appearance. In my mind, it was like a visualization of Jupiter’s Io moon’s surface(sans active volcanos). The color vibrancy and scene contrasts, for me anyway, made the movie special and memorable.

I’m recalling Michele Small’s comments in the recent TMP Making of book where she claims much detail in the Vger cloud drawings done with 70mm in mind but diminished in the final print.

As many times I have seen the movie, I can’t believe I found something ‘new’ or didn’t realize before. On a recent tv viewings and in one of the later scenes, the Alien Boy, was in a corner shot that I didn’t remember from before. It could’ve been the way the movie was cropped for tv but it definitely wasn’t pan and scan.

For the Director Edition 4K release, I hope they get the surviving cast for NEW reflections on this movie while they are still around. Although, I’m hearing Nichelle Nichols may be suffering from dementia. All we have left are Shatner, Takei, Koenig, Nichols and Collins. I say, get them now before they’re gone. :)

I doubt anyone will be offering an interview invite to Collins, but agree – our time with these people is brief. We need to be capturing their thoughts and recollections while we can!

I did an interview with Trumbull a couple of years ago where he talks about the 65mm elements. https://trekmovie.com/2019/07/26/interview-vfx-pioneer-douglas-trumbull-on-how-it-took-a-miracle-to-complete-star-trek-the-motion-picture/

Yeah he was very vague. He never mentioned if what he wanted to do was recomposite the original 65mm negative, which of course would now be done digitally. But it still would be crossing into Star Wars Special Edition territory. You would get much sharper images from the larger size negative. But you’d also get more grain. I’d still like to see it.

I reread your article. Great job. I found I made the same comments back then. I guess we need to hear from the current restoration production team as to how they are proceeding for the 4K DE. I would hope for some kind of Trumbull consultation. Trumbull is right to ask if Paramount kept the original source material. It would be horrible if they didn’t.

As an aside, Trumbull reportedly underbid for the VFX for TWOK but Paramount chose ILM. While not to detract from ILM, one would think Paramount really owed it to Trumbull for helping the production make TMP and deliver it on time. TWOK done by Trumbull would’ve maintained consistency with its visuals and look far superior in 70mm assuming they used the 65mm elements in the final print without reducing and blowing it up again. Having seen TWOK in 70mm its original theatrical run, I can remember detractable grain in the print but the soundtrack was quite spatial, full and dramatic!

The shot of the Enterprise approaching Spacedock is better, the composite plates were visible on the 2009 blu rays but not on these new transfers. It was great to see this thing fixed up.

There’s a weird black dot crawling leftward across the neck of the Enterprise from about 1:17 to 1:29. I’ve never noticed that before on this movie.

Can I ask why it’s the first four and not all six? What’s the point??

It takes time to do the remasters for one, so putting them out in sets as they are done allows the initial ones to be released. The other reason given is that putting them all out in one massive set would have been an expensive box for folks to buy all at once. By splitting them up (3 sets total I believe plus the separate TMP DE) it makes it affordable to buy over time.

Nicely explained.

Because they can sell you the rest separately…. and then release them as a set yet again of all 6 in 2023 with a bonus collector’s pin or some crap. For sale again, and again and again.

It was fun buying each TNG season re-release at $70 each… and then all 7 seasons were released as a box set 2 years later for 1/10th the price.

Since you’re the first person to make this kind of comment, I’ll reply to you. Hopefully others read this too.

What you’re referring to is the behavior of companies at the height of the DVD format (which as it turned out was also the height of all home video discs). DVD was a gold mine. This is not the case today. Physical media sales have been in slow decline for about 10 years. The realities of that have taken quite a toll on the home video departments of the studios. The home entertainment division of most studios exists in name only. A skeleton staff is usually folded up into a marketing department. There is now a single replication plant (the factory that stamps out the optical discs for all studios/labels) for all of North America. Discs have to be scheduled out well in advance and there’s still often stock issues. For example, many people are getting shipment delayed messages for this TOS movies set because of the limited disc production capacity.

Today studios are much more inclined to do fewer, but significant, releases, knowing that this may very well be the final disc version. So yes, these four movies may eventually get re-packaged into a new boxed set in a few years, but it also may not. If these initial waves of movies don’t sell well enough, you won’t see the rest of the Trek films released on disc to make that hypothetical “double-dip” boxed set.

I’m well aware of the changes on the media landscape, likely the same as everyone else here. My snarky comment stands.

Paramount has double dipped ten fold with these movies. And now there is the balls to suggest that consumers purchased a *substandard* visual release on Blu-Ray ten years ago due to trendy colour timing and over-zealous grain reduction?

This is not to suggest a 4K release isn’t welcome. It’s going back to the well over and over in a way to soak every last cent out of paying fans. And that’s capitalism, and that’s fine. But it’s not being done as a “favour” to fans or consumers.

Your comments suggest that consumers should be taking *pity* on the home video departments? The studios have cannabalized themselves in favour of embracing streaming.

Studios have bent over backwards competing to make streaming services as lucrative to consumers as possible…. and consumers should feel BAD that physical media sales take massive hits? Ridiculous.

“So yes, these four movies may eventually get re-packaged into a new boxed set in a few years, but it also may not.”

Would you like to make a friendly bet that they absolutely… without question… will be re-packaged together as a complete set? We’ll both obviously be here in the next 36 months.

And why physical media releases at all? Why not 4K with direct access only through Paramount+ like the upcoming TMP release?

fans waiting to buy the TNG seasons in one cheap box set is why Deep Space Nine and Voyager will never be in HD.

But whose fault is that? The consumer? No. The producer? Yes. If media companies spend the last 40 years keeping consumers accustomed to that type of product release, what is expected to happen?

That’s completely unsubstantiated since it’s not 2014 anymore.

The tired argument parroted from many years ago that VOY and DS9 won’t be updated to HD because of sales of TNG BD which ENDED in 2014, does not hold water in 2021.

Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ has proven that sales of physical media has no bearing on future projects directed for streaming services only.

The 4K releases of pre-existing Star Wars and Marvel content on Disney+ would clearly suggest their is a huge financial model to investigate (or clearly already being investigated) for projects like VOY and DS9 being revitalized for the new world of streaming.

Fixing vfx is not changing the creators intent, so it’s absolutely ok with me. I even love it, because every time I see mistakes in vfx/movies in general, it takes me out and destroys the “in-movie-realism”. I ordered the box first day! Can’t wait to get the TNG movies on 4k Blu-ray!!!!

It also depends on if people could see these mistakes on original 35mm prints. I don’t think the wires holding Superman up were as visible on general release prints, or you could see the Cowardly Lions tail where it was sewn or pinned on. But when you do an HD scan every little thing you never noticed is very visible like Qui Gon’s fake pasted on beard. Every little stitch in clothes is revealed, every pore on a person’s face. There is removing something that isn’t intended to be seen like the matte lines and garbage mattes in Star Wars, or complete revisionism where does one draw a line.

I still can’t begin to care about TMP. Rewatched it again after nearly 20 years for my grand rewatch and can wait for another 20 years to watch it again. Maybe it will be 16000 K by then…but still just as dull and bland for me.

I agree Tiger. I will use the disc as a coaster when I get around buying this set lol

The next set based on the rumors we have to buy the coasters Final Frontier and Generations to get Star Trek VI. And finally for the last one two more coasters to get First Contact we have to buy Insurrection and Nemesis.

You are repeating yourself dude, you said this in another thread.

I’m with you. The last 15 minutes are when the movie really gets into gear when they discover the true nature of Vger. It’s a long slog until that point though.

Revisionist critics praise the film as a visionary cerebral film on the level of 2001. No.

Reivisionists Time Travellers?

“The Enterprise, perhaps deliberately, looks a lot like other spaceships we’ve seen in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Silent Running,” “Star Wars,” and “Alien.” Kubrick’s space odyssey set a visual style for the genre that still seems to be serviceable. But the look of the other spaceship in “Star Trek” is more awesome and original. It seems to reach indefinitely in all directions, the Enterprise is a mere speck inside of it, and the contents of the alien vessel include images of the stars and planets it has passed en route, as well as enormous rooms or spaces that seem to be states of a computer-mind. This is terrific stuff. … Such reservations aside, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE is probably about as good as we could have expected. It lacks the dazzling brilliance and originality of 2001 (which was an extraordinary one-of-a-kind film). But on its own terms it’s a very well-made piece of work, with an interesting premise. The alien spaceship turns out to come from a mechanical or computer civilization, one produced by artificial intelligence and yet poignantly “human” in the sense that it has come all this way to seek out the secrets of its own origins, as we might.

There is, I suspect, a sense in which you can be too sophisticated for your own good when you see a movie like this. Some of the early reviews seemed pretty blase, as if the critics didn’t allow themselves to relish the film before racing out to pigeonhole it. My inclination, as I slid down in my seat and the stereo sound surrounded me, was to relax and let the movie give me a good time. I did and it did.” — Roger Ebert, December 7,1979

I’m still happy with my DVD Special Collectors Edition. But, interesting review.

I wish Star Trek VI had been remastered but i’ll take the first 4 films. Its better than nothing. Just wish it had the original theatrical audio. Where someone else wants an Atmos mix i want the original stereo audio track that was seen in the general theatrical release. TMP stereo mix hasn’t been available since Laserdisc and VHS. Since the first dvd was the directors cut which was a remix and the theatrical dvd also a 5.1 remix of allegedly the 70mm mix, but i can’t speak if that is accurate.

Trek VI will be in the next set. Hang in there.

Thanks for the review , Matt Wright . The extras look impressive . And I’m sure the Original Movie Series latter 5+ Set will be coming soon enough too . Hopefully something in there for the stereophiles as well ? Not everyone can run an expensive 5.1 + sound system , without losing household power . To run these sound systems ($3000-$10K+) , you need to put in a $30K-$50K Solar backup ?!

These are actually only the same extras that have been available for years , only the isolated score is new.

Thanks DataLore ! It looked new , maybe I’m wrong .

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but for TVH photos shown here, I actually find the 2009 comparisons looking like a sharper, better picture. For example, look at the better details on the background office buildings. But thanks for the work on this article.

Yeah. I agree. It’s weird though isn’t? I don’t understand why that would be the case.

At the end of the day I suppose It’s best to see the film in motion for a definite conclusion.

I actually agree with this to a certain degree, I will say watching the actual movies makes it slightly different, these are cases where the latest transfer looks better and then other times where 2009 looks more impressive.

Is the new release od TWOK the same master as the 2016 release? I’m sticking with standard Blu ray and have ordered the standalone discs for the others.

Its the same transfer only available in 4K UHD disc for the first time with HDR. The blu ray will be the same transfer as the 2016 corrected disc. The ones that are new are Star Trek I which is the theatrical only, Star Trek III and IV.

Thanks bud.

For the Trek II Blu-ray, that’d be not just the same transfer, but the same whole actual disc, right (with the same menus, extras, etc.), differing only in the packaging and the label printed on the disc?

It’s not exactly the same disc. The menus are different. And the 2016 version includes part of the Roger Lay documentary I mentioned in my review titled “The Genesis Effect: Engineering The Wrath of Khan”, this new version drops that.

So there is not the Directors Cut of the 1st Movie included?

No. That is going to be reserved for Paramount+ in 2022. I’m deeply disappointed that there will be no 4K relase of that to 4k dvd.

As I mentioned in my review, keep voting with your wallet. Show Paramount you want physical copies on disc. It’s likely that after an exclusive window on Paramount+ the new Director’s Edition will be released on disc, but fans have to demonstrate they want it.

I wonder if the 4K release is a good opportunity to do the original Home video edit of Star Trek VI that had always been released up till the DVD release, which included Rene Auberjonois as Colonel West as well as a few other extra scenes along with the original theatrical version. Given the aspect ratio difference prob not as easy for seamless branching but if both cuts of Wrath of Khan are available, then maybe they can do both for The Undiscovered Country, is it possible?

I ordered this from Amazon, but it hasn’t shipped and seems to be in some kind of limbo. Must be selling well!

Its backordered everywhere i’ve tried to get it from two different retailers and no dice. Even had it preordered on Amazon for months. Its a travesty they shouldn’t allow a preorder if they don’t have the actual item.

I ordered a new one through Walmart. They say I will have it by 9/15. We’ll see!

Personally – didn’t want to wait for a shipment. Drove down to my local BestBuy today – 11 copies on the shelf. Any big box stores near you?

Yeah, and I’m thinking I might shoulda done that same thing — no sign of this thing shipping. But I don’t even have a 4K television yet (that’ll change next week), so I’m not in that big a rush.

Have been watching these, often they look really good , other times there are cases where the 2009 looks better.

Personally II-IV look fantastic, The Motion Picture , I really love The Motion Picture by the way, the effects, sets, and costumes look really great but it is too dark at several points.

Thanks for the review. Does TVH set contain the “International Prolog” that was attached to the film outside of the US and appears just before the dedication to the Challenger crew? I’m sure most will have seen it; a collection of clips from TWOK and TSS with narration from William Shatner. This is the version that played in UK cinemas and later on home video and for me, the movie always seems incomplete without it.

As far as I know, no. It’s the US theatrical version. They stopped including that prolog with the 2009 Blu-ray version.

Thanks Matt. I had hoped it might have been included in the extras.

no dolby atmos? which penny pinching exec made this stupid decision? what a wasted opportunity. Im so disappointed. Wont be buying this set after all. Having gone to all the effort of upgrading to 4k and not upgrading the sound to the latest and best format is just a travesty imho.

Sadly, shipping is taking a hit right now. Don’t know when I’ll receive my pre-order.

Star Trek Genesis Arc = Star Trek looking its best, at its best. For those who love that series check out the DC comics at the time with lots of movie era adventures. Will make you long for ST:TNG to have been a movie era series.

Not me. But I do love those movies.

Not yet available in Canada. Or in scarce quantitites if any.

I finally had a chance to drive to my local BestBuy – they had multiple copies on the shelf.

That said, I hope you were able to find yourself a copy!

It be cool if the next set was out for Christmas, but will probably be early next year.

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„Hey, bist du Trekkie oder Star-Warsianer?“ – Die Frage, die die Film, bzw. SciFi-Welt spaltet. In etwa so wie jene, ob man Hosen- oder Ärzte-Fan ist; ob man aus Köln oder Düsseldorf kommt. Beide Lager haben unzählige Argumente, warum  ihr  Kosmos der spannendere, tiefgründigere … ja, einfach der bessere ist. Es soll aber auch Leute geben, die stehen auf keiner der beiden Seiten. Oder auf beiden – je nachdem, wie man es sehen möchte. Dazu gehört der Autor dieser Zeilen. Ohne in beide Universen bis ins Tiefste eingedrungen zu sein, sind mir Figuren wie Spock (oder später) Data, Picard und der Holo-Doc sehr ans Herz gewachsen. Genauso wie Han Solo, Obi Wan oder Yoda.

Abseits des heutigen Kultstatus der Original-Star-Trek-Serie war sie zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Erstausstrahlung zunächst gar nicht so erfolgreich. Abgesehen von der etwas holprigen Startphase, in der Gene Roddenberry ein etwas anderes Drehbuch mit anderer Crew verwirklichen wollte, lief die erste Staffel bei NBC nicht wirklich gut. Es ist den Fans und ihrem vehementen Briefeschreiben zu verdanken, dass eine zweite Staffel überhaupt produziert wurde. Das geschah dann doch, allerdings lief auch diese nicht sonderlich gut. Was auch daran liegen könnte, dass der Sendeplatz nach hinten gerückt wurde. Nur etwas widerwillig ließ NBC eine dritte Staffel produzieren, nach der dann endgültig Schluss war. Der Erfolg kam erst im Nachgang, als mehrere lokale Sender die Show einkauften und zu besseren Zeiten ausstrahlte. Gleichzeitig pushte Roddenberry mit der Veröffentlichung eines Buchs das Universum rund um die eigentliche Serie. Das Buch rissen ihm die Fans aus den Händen – der Star-Trek-Kult war geboren.

Nach dem Ende der Serie, 1969, trat Roddenberry zudem an Paramount heran, um das Franchise eventuell im Kino weiter zu führen. Während Paramount zunächst Interesse bekundete, cancelte man die Idee 1975 und wollte mit Star Trek Phase II  eine neue Serie innerhalb des Kosmos etablieren. Ein Grund für die vorläufige Beerdigung der Kinofilm-Idee lag auch darin, dass (wer hätte es gedacht) Star Wars die Messlatte für SciFi im Kino weit nach oben gelegt hatte und man in dessen Fahrwasser einen Flop fürchtete. Erst als mit Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art ein SciFi-Film abseits von Star Wars Erfolg hatte, machte man auf dem Absatz kehrt.

Paramount begrub die „Phase II“ wieder und gab das Budget für einen Kinofilm frei. Dass dieser mit 40 Mio. Dollar weit teurer als zunächst geplant wurde, lag auch an massiven Nacharbeiten am Drehbuch und vor allem an den Special Effects. Gerade einmal 15 Mio. Dollar Budget waren ursprünglich geplant. Dass am Ende mit einem weltweiten Einspiel von etwas über 150 Mio. Dollar auch ein bescheidener Erfolg dabei rum kam, ist umso erstaunlicher, weil Star Trek: Der Film auch noch mit zahlreichen negativen Kritiken zu kämpfen hatte. Vor allem die Lauflänge mit dem Fehlen an entsprechenden Actionszenen lastete man Regisseur Robert Wise an.

Tatsächlich geriet der erste Kinoausflug verhältnismäßig zäh. Bis heute gibt es berechtigte Kritik am Drehbuch, das (ehrlichweise) nicht sonderlich filmisch geriet und auch in einer 45-minütigen Serienfolge hätte abgehandelt werden können. Das Fehlen eines echten Antagonisten – immerhin ist der „Gegner“ hier eine Wolke – trug ebenfalls zu leisem Spott bei. Dass trotz des hohen Budgets (seinerzeit eine Rekordsumme) nur wenig Spektakuläres passiert und man hauptsächlich Schauspielern in Uniformen dabei zusieht, wie sie Dingen zusehen, die auf Monitoren passieren, wirkt dann doch etwas ungelenk.

Zugute halten kann man Star Trek: Der Film jedoch seine philosophischen Ansätze über das Spannungsverhältnis der Grenze zwischen Mensch und Maschine. Wie sehr die fortschreitende Technologie dazu führt oder führen kann, dass die Menschen ihr Wesen verändern; dass die Maschinen uns in Wissenskraft und Intelligenz bald weit voraus sein könnten. Gleichzeitig stellt der Film die Frage, was uns Menschen denn überhaupt noch ausmacht, wenn die Maschine in ihrer Entwicklung derjenigen des Menschen gleicht. Wenn V’Ger mit den Worten beschrieben wird, er „verhalte sich wie ein Baby“ und habe Wutanfälle, verschwimmen diese Grenzen immer mehr. Und wenn V’Ger sich am Ende nach Emotionen sehnt, droht der Mensch endgültig, sein Monopol zu verlieren.

Und dabei müssen wir uns vor Augen halten: Star Trek: Der Film stammt aus dem Jahr 1979! Man muss sich auf die langsame Erzählstruktur einlassen und die philosophischen Subtexte umarmen, um den Film schätzen zu können. Und um darüber hinwegzusehen, dass die einst so augenzwinkernd agierenden Schauspieler der klassischen Star-Trek-Serie müde und desinteressiert wirken. Vor allem Shatners Kirk ist kaum wiederzuerkennen. Wie ein Möchtegern-Diktator reißt er das Kommando der Enterprise wieder an sich und agiert auch ansonsten bierernst. Ironischerweise hat Stephen Collins als von Kirk geschasster Captain Decker die Sympathien (und den Humor) auf seiner Seite – was leider auch nicht kaschieren kann, dass die zweite (eigentlich interessante) „neue“ Figur, Ilia, von einer Persis Khambatta gespielt wird, die arg hölzern agiert.

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Vorabinfo: Wer gehofft hatte, auch der erste Star-Trek-Film würde im Director’s Cut auf die 4K-Scheibe kommen, der wurde im Vorfeld leider enttäuscht. Offenbar hat sich dessen Restauration deutlich länger hingezogen (bisher gab es ihn meines Wissens nach lediglich in SD-Qualität), sodass man lediglich in den Genuss der Kinofassung kommt. Paramount hat den Dir. Cut aber in 4K angekündigt – mit dem bitteren Beigeschmack, ihn möglicherweise lediglich auf dem hauseigenen Streamingkanal anzubieten, der hierzulande noch nicht mal gestartet ist. Natürlich kann es aber sein, dass man den Film noch mal einzeln auf 4K-Disk nachschieben wird.

Nun aber zur Kinofassung: Star Trek: Der Film wurde damals natürlich analog auf 35 mm Film aufgenommen. Zum Einsatz kamen Kameras vom Typ Panavision Panaflex sowie eine Panavision PSR R-200. Für die neuen Blu-rays und 4K UHD Blu-rays wurde nun ein neuer 4K-Scan des Filmmaterials vorgenommen, um die Scheibe im Nachgang mit erweitertem Farbraum im Rahmen von Rec.2020 sowie mit HDR10 und Dolby Vision zu versehen. Spannend war für einige sicher die Frage, ob man der Kinofassung auch eine digitale Bearbeitung der Tricks hat angedeihen lassen. Die Antwort lautet „nein“. Jene CGI-Elemente des Dir. Cut sind hier nicht zu sehen. Auch die teils deutlich zu erkennenden Trickeffekte wurden nicht kaschiert. Traditionalisten dürfen also aufatmen.

Was man für die 4K-Disk ebenfalls nicht (mehr) gemacht hat, ist eine flächendeckende Rauschfilterung einzusetzen. Das macht aus unscharfen Shots wie jenem bei 6’52 zwar immer noch keine toll aufgelösten Bilder, aber man erkennt die Körnung wieder, was subjektiv schon mal für etwas mehr Schärfe sorgt. Ein Glück, dass man hier das ursprüngliche Filmkorn wieder erkennen kann und nicht mehr auf die teils extrem wachsigen Gesichter der bisherigen Blu-ray schauen muss. In jeder Einstellung mit den Darstellern wird das augenblicklich erkennbar und man erfreut sich an einer viel höheren Lebendigkeit des Gezeigten. Plötzlich wirkt alles wieder organisch und nicht wie eine billige Videoproduktion mit schlechtem Make-up.

Herausragend sind HDR-Grading und erweiterter Farbraum, die den Planeten Vulkan nun mit roter Lava von höchster Intensität beglücken, was über die alte Blu-ray eher aussah wie ein blasses Rostrot. Auch die Nebelschwaden, die hier emporsteigen, wirken nun authentischer. Schon alleine dadurch, dass sie nicht mehr unter dem Rauschfilter leiden und dadurch viel mehr Nuancen bieten. Dazu kommt eine durchweg wärmere Bildgestaltung, die dem Film besser steht als das Kühle der alten Blu-ray. Optisch liegen Galaxien zwischen der alten BD und der UHD Blu-ray. In puncto Spitzenhelligkeit hätte man aber noch ein wenig mehr Punch bieten können. Zwar kommen Sterne nun etwas intensiver und vor allem nicht mehr farblich verfälscht rüber (über die alte BD wirkten sie im Vergleich etwas grünlich), aber es verschwinden auch einige weniger hell leuchtende im Schwarz. Davon ab ist das Bild der UHD Blu-ray aber viel schöner anzuschauen und ein ziemlich deutlicher Sprung gegenüber der bisherigen Blu-ray. Dolby Vision kann sich gegenüber HDR10 hier kaum absetzen – selbst bei Grenzsituationen im Kontrast nicht.

Tonqualität (75%)

Gegenüber der alten Blu-ray hat die UHD-BD zwar immer noch einen 2.0-Sound, dieser liegt nun allerdings in Dolby-True-HD-Kodierung vor, nicht mehr nur in 2.0 Dolby Surround. Jetzt könnte man meinen, dass der True-HD-kodierte 2.0-Sound „nur“ etwas unkomprimierter klingt und sich ansonsten nicht vom alten 2.0-Surround-Ton unterscheidet. Doch damit liegt man daneben. Klar ist: Auch mit True-HD-Codec wird’s kein Surroundspektakel. Aber schon die ersten Töne des Orchesters nach der kurzen Ouvertüre klingen so deutlich anders, dass man erstaunt aufmerkt. Während der DD-2.0-Sound der alten BD im Vergleich 50 Meter weiter entfernt spielt, baut der True-HD-Ton der UHD Blu-ray die Bühne viel näher und direkter auf. Und das liegt nicht nur an einer Anhebung der Lautstärke, sondern durchaus einer besseren Klarheit und an mehr Dynamik. Die Instrumente scheinen nun Luft zum Atmen zu haben, wo man vorher eine Decke über ihnen wähnte.

Das Gleiche gilt auch für die Dialoge, deren Muffigkeit nun zu den Akten gelegt werden kann. Sämtliche Synchronstimmen sind nun klarer, fester und kräftiger. Sie haben mehr Hochtonanteile und klingen ausgewogener. Das mag zwar immer noch kein Highlight-Sound sein und es fehlt ihm schlicht auch etwas an Druck, aber im Gegensatz zur alten Blu-ray liegen hier durchaus „unendliche Weiten“ dazwischen. Während der englische Ton bei True HD in 7.1 bleibt und von der reinen Abmischung her nicht anders klingt, ist er einen Hauch leiser eingepegelt als bei der alten Blu-ray. Zirka 2 dB spuckt das Messgerät während der Dynamikspitzen vom Score weniger raus als über die alte Blu-ray. Aber, wie gesagt: Das betrifft rein die Lautstärke, nicht die generelle Dynamik und Atmosphäre, die hier nicht anders klingt als über die bisherige Blu-ray. Die UHD-BD hält überdies noch eine isolierte Tonspur des Jerry-Goldsmith-Soundtracks parat, die allerdings nur in DD 2.0 vorliegt und ziemlich dünn klingt.

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Bis auf den Audiokommentar von Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens und Daren Dochterman liegen alle anderen (zumeist bekannten Extras) auf der Blu-ray. Da uns diese nicht zur Verfügung gestellt wurde, entfallen weitere Beschreibungen an dieser Stelle.

Gesamtbewertung Star Trek: Der Film  (72%)

Star Trek: Der Film ist wahrlich nicht das beste Kinowerk innerhalb der Kultreihe. Eines jedoch muss man ihm lassen: Ohne ihn wäre das Franchise nicht wiederbelebt worden und ohne ihn gäbe es auch nicht weitere zwölf Filme, von denen einige wirklich großartig sind. Seine Fans hat der Erstling natürlich dennoch und die philosophischen Töne im Subtext sind für ihre Zeit ziemlich aktuell gewesen.

Die 4K UHD-BD liefert den Film nun in seiner bisher höchstwertigen Präsentation ab. Vor allem die Wiederherstellung der analogen Körnung sorgt bei Filmfans für Freudestrahlen, denn die vorherige Blu-ray war eine totgefilterte Matschkatastrophe. Davon ab ist die Farbgebung authentisch-wärmer und Vulcan war noch nie so kräftig rot. Schön, dass auch der deutsche Ton deutlich besser geworden ist – selbst wenn er immer noch bei 2.0 verharrt.

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Kirk & Co. kehren auf die Brücke zurück. Und in 4K kann man die Monitore dort jetzt noch besser ablesen.

Die Klingonen kann ja so schnell nichts aus der Bahn werfen. Umso erstaunter ist ein Trio von K’t’inga-Kriegsschiffen, als sie von einer seltsamen Wolke geschluckt und vernichtet werden. Auch die Raumstation Epsilon 9 wird von dem bunten Nebelgebilde zerstört. Da die Föderation fürchtet, die Wolke könnte auf die Erde zusteuern und dort für Zerstörung sorgen, schickt sie die Enterprise, um das Gebilde abzufangen. Der frisch gebackene Admiral Kirk schnappt sich kurzerhand das Kommando vom derzeitigen Captain Decker und gibt Befehl, den noch im Versuchsstadium befindlichen Warp-Antrieb zu nutzen. Während die Durchführung beinahe zur Katastrophe führt, kommt Spock wieder an Bord der Enterprise und kann sie erneut manövrierfähig machen. Bei der Wolke angekommen, attackiert eine Sonde die Navigatorin Ilia. Doch das ist erst der Anfang, denn die Crew der Enterprise wird bald ihr blaues Wunder erleben …

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Bis auf den Audiokommentar von Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens und Daren Dochterman liegen alle anderen (zumeist bekannten Extras) auf der Blu-ray. Da mir diese nicht zur Verfügung gestellt wurde, entfallen weitere Beschreibungen an dieser Stelle.

Star Trek: Der Film ist wahrlich nicht das beste Kinowerk innerhalb der Kultreihe. Eines jedoch muss man ihm lassen: Ohne ihn wäre das Franchise nicht wiederbelebt worden und ohne ihn gäbe es auch nicht weitere zwölf Filme, von denen einige wirklich großartig sind. Seine Fans hat der Erstling natürlich dennoch und die philosophischen Töne im Subtext sind für ihre Zeit ziemlich aktuell gewesen. Die 4K UHD-BD liefert den Film nun in seiner bisher höchstwertigen Präsentation ab. Vor allem die Wiederherstellung der analogen Körnung sorgt bei Filmfans für Freudestrahlen, denn die vorherige Blu-ray war eine totgefilterte Matschkatastrophe. Davon ab ist die Farbgebung authentisch-wärmer und Vulcan war noch nie so kräftig rot. Schön, dass auch der deutsche Ton deutlich besser geworden ist – selbst wenn er immer noch bei 2.0 verharrt. Timo Wolters

Bildqualität BD (2013): 60% Bildqualität UHD: 85% Tonqualität BD (2013): 55% Tonqualität UHD (dt. Fassung): 75% Tonqualität UHD (Originalversion): 85% Bonusmaterial: keine Wertung möglich Film: 60%

Anbieter: Paramount Pictures Land/Jahr: USA 1979 Regie: Robert Wise Darsteller: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins Tonformate BD/UHD: Dolby True HD 7.1: en // Dolby True HD 2.0 Bildformat: 2,35:1 Laufzeit: 132 Codec BD: AVC Codec UHD: HEVC Disk-Kapazität: BD-100 Real 4K: Ja (4K DI vom 35-mm-Film) High Dynamic Range: HDR10, Dolby Vision Maximale Lichtstärke: keine Angabe FSK: 12

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Die Grundlage für die Bild- und Tonbewertung von Blu-rays und Ultra-HD-Blu-rays bildet sich aus der jahrelangen Expertise im Bereich von Rezensionen zu DVDs, Blu-rays und Ultra-HD-Blu-rays sowie Tests im Bereich der Hardware von Unterhaltungselektronik-Komponenten. Gut zehn Jahre lang beschäftigte ich mich professionell mit den technischen Aspekten von Heimkino-Projektoren, Blu-ray-Playern und TVs als Redakteur für die Magazine HEIMKINO, HIFI TEST TV VIDEO, PLAYER oder BLU-RAY-WELT. Während dieser Zeit partizipierte ich an Lehrgängen zum Thema professioneller Bildkalibrierung mit Color Facts und erlangte ein Zertifikat in ISF-Kalibrierung. Wer mehr über meinen Werdegang lesen möchte, kann dies hier tun —> Klick . Die technische Expertise ist aber lediglich eine Seite der Medaille. Um stets auf der Basis von aktuellem technischen Wiedergabegerät zu bleiben, wird das Testequipment regelmäßig auf dem aktuellen Stand gehalten – sowohl in puncto Hardware (also der Neuanschaffung von TV-Displays, Playern oder ähnlichem, wenn es der technische Fortschritt verlangt) als auch in puncto Firmware-Updates. Dazu werden die Tests stets im komplett verdunkelbaren, dedizierten Heimkino angefertigt. Den Aufbau des Heimkinos könnt ihr hier nachlesen —> Klick .

Dort findet ihr auch das aktuelle Referenz-Gerät für die Bewertung der Tonqualität, das aus folgenden Geräten besteht:

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• Center: Canton Vento 858.2
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• Heights: 4 x Canton Plus X.3
• AV-Receiver: Denon AVR-X4500H
• AV-Receiver: Pioneer SC-LX59
• Mini-DSP 2x4HD Boxed

Das Referenz-Equipment fürs Bild findet ihr wiederum hier aufgelistet . Dort steht auch, wie die Bildgeräte auf Norm kalibriert wurden. Denn selbstverständlich finden die Bildbewertungen ausschließlich mit möglichst perfekt kalibriertem Gerät statt, um den Eindruck nicht durch falsche Farbtemperaturen, -intensitäten oder irrigerweise aktivierten Bild“verbesserern“ zu verfälschen.

• Panasonic DMP-UB900
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schöne Rezension, aber den Teil mit Vulcan finde ich hier recht unkontrovers mit „jetzt ist es durchgehend rot und damit besser“ abgehandelt. Der Unterschied ist ja schon sehr krass, oder sieht das nur auf den Screenshots so aus? Vorher konnte man die Lava in den Kratern und das Gestein farblich unterschieden, jetzt ist einfach alles rot. Ja, die originale Komposition war etwas trashig, aber besser dazu stehen, als den monochrom-Joker zu ziehen, mit dem angeblich alles stylish und modern aussieht.

Die Szenen auf Vulcan werden die Fangemeinde sicherlich spalten. Es bleiben zwar die einzigen, die so drastisch unterschiedlich ausfallen, aber das wird nicht jedem zusagen. Ich hielt mich mit einer Aussage „besser“ hier (zumindest in der Farbgebung) aber zurück. Was wirklich besser/authentischer ist, habe ich entsprechend beschrieben (weniger Rauschfilter und damit mehr Objektdifferenzierung sowie nun wirklich erkennbare Nebelschwaden). Aber, wie gesagt: Hier spalten sich die Meinungen auch deutlich.

Die Tatsache, dass jetzt viele beklagen, dass es der Director’s cut nicht in die Box geschafft hat (Was aufgrund der nur in SD Auflösung gerenderten Effekte eben erst geht wenn diese komplett neu erstellt worden sind, deswegen gibt es eben aktuell noch keine Version, die man doch ruhig mal eben mit drauf packen kann), lässt mich fragen, wieviele jetzt nach den „legendären “ Special Editions der Star Wars Filmen rufen würde, wenn man sie seit der DVD-Auswertung nie mehr veröffentlicht hätte aufgrund der schlechten Auflösung der neuen CGI-Effekte…. nur so ein Gedanke. Bin heute durch mit dem ersten Teil und mit der Qualität erstmals sehr glücklich!

@ Timo: Ach so! Den Inhalt habe ich nur überflogen, weil ich den Film ja gut kenne (und er rangiert bei mir sogar vor „Khaaaaaaaaan!“, weil, wie Du oben schon so schön geschrieben hast, der philosophische Ansatz einfach toll war. „Star Trek“ brauchte nie einen Antagonisten, wenn es darum ging ein Weltraumrätsel zu lösen und „Star Trek-Der Film“ ist „Star Trek“ pur. Ich fand ihn nie langweilig, besonders nicht beim ersten Anschauen. Der Director’s Cut, obwohl noch etwas länger, macht den Film erzählerisch noch „flüssiger“. Bei der Kinoversion hatte ich immer irgendwie den Eindruck, daß manche Szenen arg abrupt endeten, wie ein Musikstück, daß mittendrin abgebrochen wird. Schade, daß man nicht das Optimum auf die Scheibe gepreßt hat. Der Ton ist mir schon wichtig, aber irgendwie brauche ich kein Stereo, wenn es eine gute 5.1. Spur gibt. Vielleicht fügt Paramount die für eine eventuelle UHD-Director’s Cut-Version ein. So oder so, die zehn Filme werden irgendwann gekauft.

Da sich einige über den Ton aufregen, fiel mir plötzlich ein, daß die alte Director’s Cut DVD in 5.1 Surround war und wenn ich mich recht erinnere auch ziemlich gut klang. Mich würde interessieren, warum die UHD nur 2.0 gefahren wird? @ Timo: kleine Berichtigung: die klingonischen Schiffe am Beginn des Filmes sind keine Birds of Prey, sondern Schiffe der D7-Klasse, später auch K’tinga genannt. Einen Bird of Prey sieht man erstmal in „Star Trek III“.

Hi Weyoun. Verdammt. Bei meinen Recherchen habe ich das mit dem K’Tinga doch gelesen. Dachte, ich hätte es i Review entsprechend korrekt gemacht. War so stolz. Und hab dann offenbar doch das zuerst geschriebene Birds of Prey stehen lassen. Damn. Wird sofort korrigiert. Warum der gute 5.1 Ton der DVD nicht drauf kam, kann den Grund haben, dass die Filme von Paramount oftmals in den USA aufgesetzt und entschieden werden. Da hat das Ganze dann den Stellenwert wie jedes andere Land, dessen Ton mit auf der Scheibe ist. Oder man erinnert sich schlicht nicht mehr an den guten Ton von vor 15 Jahren. Leider hat man solche Nachlässigkeiten oft.

Hab gerade noch mal geschaut. Hatte K’tinga in der Inhaltsbeschreibung schon korrekt geschrieben, nur beim Kapitel Bild und Ton nicht.

Als die Würste soll es heißen:-)

SCHADE nur, das Teil 1+2 extremst gecropped sind. Teil 3 ist ok – da ist das Cropping sehr minimal.

Ich würde mich aber auch auf die Rezensionen der anderen drei Filme freuen, vor allem da mir diese schon immer sehr viel besser gefielen als der langatmige Erstling.

PS.: ich vermisse auch Rezensionen zum zweiten und dritten Rambo Film. Gerade zu Teil 2, da dort Kameramann Jack Cardiff eine tolle Arbeit verichtete.

Oh, die anderen Star Trek Filme sind auch drin. Wird mir bloß nicht über die Hauptseite angezeigt. Über Rambo II würde ich mich dennoch freuen 🙂

Hallo Oliver. Die anderen drei Teile kommen natürlich. Da so eine Rezension bis zu 20 Stunden Arbeit erfordert, bitte ich um etwas Geduld. Bis zum WoEnde werden aber alle vier online sein. Rambo II und III wird’s nicht mehr geben. Das liegt aber daran, dass ich die Filme einfach überhaupt nicht mag – ganz unabhängig von ihren technischen Gegebenheiten.

Star Trek Teile 2 und 3 habe ich gelesen. Bei Rambo III verstehe ich es, aber Teil 2 ist doch knackig und spannend und hat eben nicht so nervige Nebendarsteller, sogar ganz fähige (Berkoff, Julia Nickson, Martin Kove, Charles Napier) wie die Würste im dritten Film. Und besser als die Gurke Last Blood sind sie allemal 😉

Teil 2 ist für mich (ähnlich wie Teil 3) einfach zu weit vom Original entfernt. Mich ärgert da die komplette Abkehr von der Kritik am Umgang mit den Veteranen und der kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Verhalten gegenüber gebrochenen Ex-Soldaten. Prinzipiell ist Rambo 2 ein „Opfer“ der veränderten Sichtweise auf den Vietnamkrieg, der Mitte der 80er stattfand und Tatsachen schlicht verdreht hat. Technisch und schauspielerisch mag das gut anschaubar sein, inhaltlich stießen mir Teil II und III schon bei der Erstsichtung Anfang der 90er übel auf. Teil IV macht wenigstens keinen großen Hehl mehr daraus, dass Rambo nur noch eine reine Tötungsmaschine ist und versucht sich (wenn überhaupt) nur sehr oberflächlich an eine politische Aussage. Und Teil V stolpert einfach darüber, die guten Ansätze und die angedeutete Rückkehr zum Tenor des ersten Teils in üble Stereotypen und Pauschalisierungen den Mexikanern gegenüber zu ersaufen.

Für mich gehören alle drei Rambos zu den besten Filmen aller Zeiten. Teil 2 und 3 machen einfach Spaß, auch ohne den Tiefgang des ersten Teils. Wenn ich die Wahl habe zwischen einem der neuen Actionfilme a la Fast and Furious oder zum x-ten mal Rambo 2, dann lieber Rambo 2. Anyway. Hat ja nix mit Star Trek zu tun.

Ich sehe Teil 2 immer etwas anders. Nur weil Ronald Reagan den Film mochte, bedeutet es nicht, dass dies ein reiner US-Propaganda Film ist. Nein, der Bürokrat, der Sesselpupser entpuppt sich doch als eigentlicher „Bösewicht“, als einer, der für die Verschleierung alles tut und Menschenleben opfert. Alles im Sinne der US-Amerikanischen Bürokratie/Regierung. Die Soldaten und Rambo sind dagegen die einfachen Männer, die im Stich gelassen werden. Ob der Gegner im Dschungel Vietnamesen oder Sowjets sind, ist dabei schon zweitrangig. Anders dagegen tatsächlich Teil 3, der drehbuchtechnisch wirklich nur noch plump ist. Der Sowjet Hauptgegner ist nur noch 08/15 und hat überhaupt nicht die bedrohliche Aura eines Steven Berkoff. Die Afghanen..lassen wir er lieber. Selbst Col. Trautmann stößt mir, drehbuchbedingt, sauer auf. Ist er es doch, der den Krieg nicht sein lassen kann.

Beim dritten Teil ist’s noch auffälliger und ärgerlicher, das ist richtig. Dass RR den zweiten Teil mochte, konnte ich damals noch gar nicht in meine Empfindungen einbeziehen, weil ich das damals gar nicht wusste. Aber es war mir einfach so weit weg vom ersten Teil, dass mir das sauer aufstieß. Die Personifizierung des Vietcong als gesichtslose Anarcho-Krieger ohne Gewissen und (scheinbar) ohne Hirn. Die Personifizierung der beiden russischen Antagonisten, die so perfekt ins damalige US-Feindbild passten. Die Umkehrung von historischen Fakten (so waren es ja in der Realität die über-ausgerüsteten US-Amerikaner, die in Vietnam gegen einen unterlegen ausgerüsteten Gegner den Kürzeren zogen, während hier ein unterbewaffneter US-Soldat gegen den angeblich über-ausgerüsteten Vietcong siegreich ist) – all das übertönt die vielleicht im Subtext vorhandene Kritik an den Bürokraten und Schreibtischtätern, die ihren Krieg erneut auf dem Rücken der (bzw. hier DES) Soldaten austragen. War Rambo im ersten Teil ein gebrochener Veteran, der in die Enge getrieben wird, ist er im zweiten Film eine Comic-Figur, die (mit Steroiden aufgepumpt) zu nicht viel mehr taugt als martialisch vom Cover des Filmplakats zu schauen – Oberkörper frei und mit der Panzerfaust in der Hand. Ich kann nachvollziehen, wenn man den Film aufgrund der von dir genannten Aspekte mag und seine Priorität etwas anders legt. Aber für mich sind Rambo II und III einfach keine Filme, die ich gerne schaue.

Erstmal danke für das Review, macht Lust darauf den Film mal wieder neu anzuschauen. Der erste Kinofilm ist einer meiner Lieblings Filme dieser Serie. Es war damals schon toll was die da gemacht haben, im Gegensatz zu heute. Ich habe den Film auch im Kino gesehen, einfach toll.

Würde heute ein solcher Film produziert, würde die Generation Playstation vermutlich verstört vor der Leinwand einpennen – aber zum Glück stamme ich ja noch aus einer Generation, in der echte Filmkunst herrschte und zum Glück noch niemand nach „Fast and Furious“ gelüstete. Star Trek 1 ist in jeder Hinsicht anders. Endlich darf man den Film aber wieder relativ unverfälscht gucken und dazu noch in einer echt schönen 4K Fassung. Dennoch erstaunlich, dass es viele sehr unscharfe Szenen im Originalmaterial gibt – es wirkt manchmal, als hätte man die B-Roll nutzen müssen, weil vielleicht das Hauptnegativ kaputt war? Nicht schlimm. Ich freu mich jetzt auf Teil 2 bis 4 und hoffe, dass man auch den weiteren Filmen eine hochwerte 4K Fassung zukommen lässt.

Danke lieber Björn, dass du meine gesamte Generation über einen Kamm scherst. Liebhaber von wahrer Filmkunst hat es immer gegeben und wird es auch immer geben. Genauso wie dumme Mainstreamblockbuster auch schon immer ihr Publikum gefunden haben und es auch immer werden. Es gibt auch in meinem Alter (Anfang 20) jede Menge Filmbegeisterte, die die Nase voll von Fast and Furious, Transformers & Co haben. Die Arthousekinos sind voller begeisterter junger Menschen, die wenigen Plätze auf Filmhochschulen begehrt wie nie. Liebe für den Film hat nichts mit der Generation oder dem Alter zu tun. Mit einem meiner absoluten Lieblingsfilme, Metropolis von Fritz Lang, können heutzutage die wenigsten etwas anfangen, egal ob sie 15, 30 oder 60 Jahre alt sind.

Ah, da kann der Trekkie in mir mal mitreden 😉 Ich hielt den ersten Kinofilm immer für etwas besonderes, auch weil er in vielerlei Hinsicht besonders war. Zum Einen versuchte man etwas zu sehr, in psychedelische Sphären eines „2001“ aufzuschließen, was bei Star Trek nur bedingt funktionierte. Dann recycelte man für den ersten großen Kinofilm relativ plump eine der schwächeren Episoden der Classic-Reihe namens „The Changeling“, und irgendwie verhalten sich nahezu alle Hauptcharaktere (ganz besonders Kirk) ganz anders als in der Serie. Fast hat man den Eindruck, als wäre sich die Crew in dem Film das erste Mal begegnet und hätte nicht schon jahrelang gemeinsam das Weltall mit genügend romulanischem Ale im Regal erkundet. Und trotzdem mag ich ihn gern, weil er sich Zeit nimmt. VIEL Zeit. Und das war selbst damals nicht selbstverständlich. Das ist so ein Film, in den man wirklich eintauchen kann, wenn man das will. Hoffentlich gibts die Box mal zu einem Schnäppchenpreis 😉

Danke für den aufschlussreichen Vergleich mit der alten Blu-ray. Obgleich ich es normalerweise an UHD-BDs schätze, dass sie den ursprünglichen Filmlook zurückholen und farblich natürlicher bzw. ursprünglicher abgestimmt sind, bin ich bei Star Trek I zwiegespalten. Die 2009er Blu-ray war aus meiner Sicht gegenüber den früheren Veröffentlichungen eine Offenbarung. Die kühlere und hellere Farbabstimmung wie auch die Schärfefilter ließen den Film im Gesamteindruck wesentlich moderner wirken. Die Muffigkeit der 70er-Jahre-Farbgebung war damit bewusst beseitigt worden. Auch die – in diesem Film noch maßvoll eingesetzten – Rauschfilter trugen dazu bei, während der 4K-Scan mit Filmkorn anscheinend keinen Auflösungsvorteil bietet. Die Rückkehr zu den wärmeren Farben lässt das Innere der Enterprise und die Uniformen der Crew wieder wie einen 70er-Jahre-Einrichtungskatalog wirken.

Ich konnte mir noch kein eigenes Bild machen, vermute aufgrund der hier veröffentlichten Screenshots aber, dass mir vom Gesamteindruck die 2009er Abstimmung besser gefallen wird. Auch sie war schließlich kein technischer Unfall, sondern eine bewusste Entscheidung.

Die neuen BDs in Einzelamaray werden ja mit „neu remastert“ angepriesen. Dann werden die alten Scheiben wohl nicht dabei sein. Ich freue mich auf die 4Ks.

‚Schön, dass auch der deutsche Ton deutlich besser geworden ist – selbst wenn er immer noch bei 2.0 verharrt.‘

Sehr schade. Ich hätte mir wirklich zumindestens einen deutschen 5.1 Ton gewünscht. 🙁

Ich gehe beim deutschen Ton lieber den aufgepeppten 2.0-Ton in der Synchro mit, als mir einen künstlichen MEHRKANALTON MIT NEUER SYNCHRO anzutun, die dann zwingend notwendig wird 😉 Die älteren Filme haben meist keine isolierte Dialogspur.

Star Trek: Insurrection - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

Coming off the high of First Contact , the Next Generation crew stumbles hard with the unfortunately uneventful Star Trek: Insurrection . What might have passed as a semi-interesting one-off episode of the series is stretched thinner than F. Murray Abraham’s face with undercooked plot machinations and cringe-inducing stabs at humor. But it makes for a fine 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with a quite lovely Dolby Vision transfer, great audio, and another fine package of bonus features. Worth A Look

The ninth big-screen adventure in the STAR TREK movie franchise comes to 4K Ultra-HD with HDR-10 and Dolby Vision, boldly remastered from the original film elements. When the crew of the Enterprise learn of a Federation plot against the inhabitants of a unique planet, Captain Picard begins an open rebellion.

STAR TREK: INSURRECTION Bonus Content

• Commentary by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis
• Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
• Library Computer
• It Takes a Village
• Location, Location, Location
• The Art of Insurrection
• Anatomy of a Stunt
• Making Star Trek: Insurrection
• Director’s Notebook
• The Star Trek Universe
• Westmore’s Aliens
• Westmore’s Legacy
• Star Trek’s Beautiful Alien Women
• Marina Sirtis - The Counselor Is In
• Brent Spiner - Data and Beyond Part 3
• Trek Roundtable: Insurrection
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 009: The Origins of the Ba’ku and Son’a Conflict
• Creating the Illusion
• Shuttle Chase
• Deleted Scenes
• Advertising

Storyline: Our Reviewer's Take

Tasked with introducing a new race into the Federation, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the Enterprise-E are due for some low-stakes missions after their recent victory over the Borg. Only nothing stays low-stakes in the service of the Federation for very long. Commander Data (Brent Spinner) has been assigned to assist Admiral Dougherty (Anthony Zerbe) and the skin-stretched Ru’afo (F. Murray Abraham) and the Son’a to peacefully and strategically observe the primitive Ba’ku peoples inside the mysterious Briar Patch. When Data malfunctions and endangers that mission, Picard, Riker (Jonathan Frakes), and the rest of the Enterprise-E crew come to rescue their android comrade only to discover a far more sinister plot is afoot. 

Star Trek has always been a show and film franchise about big ideas. From the first episode of the original series to Star Trek: The Motion Picture , big thoughtful ideas, and themes are what separate the various series and films from other “pew-pew laser blast” science fiction franchises. Even with the most action-packed entries like Star Trek II , Star Trek: VI , or Star Trek: First Contact - themes of mortality, legacy, revenge, and forgiveness have been explored in meaningful ways. It helps, but constant action isn’t always necessary for a good Trek film. But a lack of exciting action and undercooked mildly thoughtful ideas are what inevitably doom the franchise’s ninth film, Star Trek: Insurrection . 

Much like the maligned Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , this is a film that thinks it has big ideas and themes to explore, but only enough plot and interesting action to sustain your average series episode. Insurrection has some thoughts about mortality and humanity’s use and abuse of natural resources without consequence, but its plot doesn’t justly service these notions. Like the people in  The Village , the Ba’ku are too simple and primitive to be interesting while the Son’a are too cartoonish to be menacing or threatening. After the thrilling pulse-pounding First Contact , this film feels like it chugged down a Valium with a whiskey chaser and settled in for the night.

Action sequences are relatively sparse and when the film could use a kick in the pants, it frustratingly falls back on humor - which isn’t this Crew’s strong point. Data’s singing show tunes, Worf’s gorch, Picard dancing the Mombo, discussions about breasticalboobical firmness between Crusher and Troi… all gags meant to give a chuckle just make you want to squint, curl up in your seat and pretend it didn’t happen. Even classic bad-guy actors like F. Murray Abraham and Anthony Zerbe stumble leaving their meaty scenery-chewing steaks untouched. 

That isn’t to say the whole film is without merit, there are some strong emotional pieces that show that meaningful attempts were made. LeVar Burton scores one of the most poignant moments of the film as the rejuvenating elements on the planet allow him to see the sunrise with his actual eyes for the first time. That’s the kind of thoughtful meaningful content I love to see in a Star Trek film or series episode. There are a few other fine moments, but not enough to completely salvage this operation.

I remember getting excited when the plot for this film was announced and billed as Picard essentially going to war against the Federation with Frakes returning to direct. I expected to see the Enterprise-E flying solo against a fleet of starships to protect a peaceful race from being exploited. I didn't expect to see Riker using a PC joystick to steer the Enterprise into gathering what was essentially a giant space fart and blowing it into the bad guys' ships for them to light on fire. Star Trek has always been its most exciting whenever whichever Captain at the helm of whatever starship stands on principal and motivates the action. That sadly doesn’t really happen here. Sure, Picard holds firm in his beliefs, but any reprocutions for his actions would be minimal. There's no immediate urgency to this languidly-paced outing.

Ultimately Star Trek: Insurrection is a film with a couple of ideas worth exploring but the script just meanders around. It’s been said many times and I echo the sentiment that this probably would have been a better series episode instead of a feature film. The stakes are too low, the villains too simple to be threatening, and the film is just too silly for its own good. There’s lighthearted fun entertainment and then there’s lightweight. Simply put, this film stacks as one of the worst Trek films alongside the inept Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and the woeful Star Trek: Into Darkness .

Vital Disc Stats: The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray  The third cinematic adventure of the Next Generation crew, Star Trek: Insurrection , beams down to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with a two-disc 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital set from Paramount. Housed in a standard sturdy case, the 4K is pressed on a BD-66 with a BD-50 saved for the remastered 1080p presentation and bonus features. Both discs load to static-image main menus.

Video Review

With the want for a lighter cheerier adventure, Star Trek: Insurrection manages to deliver an often beautiful 2160p HDR (Dolby Vision and HDR10) transfer. Much of this film is brightly lit with lovely exterior locations and it’s quite often stunning to look at. Details for the Ba’ku homes and village, the Son’a’s stretched faces, and your average human, android, or Klingon look terrific. Fine film grain is apparent throughout and looks appropriately cinematic without appearing smoothed over or modulated like some other Paramount catalog titles. 

Dolby Vision aids this film’s visual appeal allowing for a better range of colors, better black levels, with bright bold whites. The outdoor scenes generally look the best with a great sense of depth to the image. Night sequences look better this outing than past discs with nice inky black levels and much-improved shadows - especially when Picard is leading the Ba'ku through the caves. Whites are nice and crisp without blooming issues. This film had a bit more CGI effects to it but there are still plenty of practical effects working to give the bigger action sequences some weight. A couple of the effects shots can look a bit dated, Data pealing off his Invisibility Cloak early in the film is an example, but for the most part, there aren’t any serious offenders. All around another worthwhile upgrade.

Audio Review

Continuing the trend, Star Trek: Insurrection beams down with an active and often impressive Dolby TrueHD 7.1 track. While not as active as First Contact , there’s plenty of surround immersion to enjoy. The last half of the film picks up offering a nice soundstage to play in with plenty of front/center, side, and rear activity. The assault on the Ba’ku with the teleporting drones and laser blasts is a solid sequence giving the mix a full range to play with while rumbling the low end. Given the number of quiet conversational moments, there’s not a lot of big explosive material to highlight, but even the simple activity of the Ba’ku village is enough to keep the channels working. Dialog is clean and clear without issue. Once again Goldsmith’s score gets ample opportunity to shine with another all-around solid audio mix. Maybe not the best of these latest Trek releases, but certainly an improvement over the old TrueHD 5.1 tracks

Special Features

Once again, Paramount doesn’t add anything new to the mix for this release of Star Trek: Insurrection but instead sits on a nice archive of content. The Commentary track with Sirtis and Frakes isn’t the most informative listen, but it’s entertaining with Frakes now that he's been given someone to work with versus his solo commentary for First Contact . There are some interesting tidbits, but the Text Commentary is much more informative if that’s what you’re after. After that, we get a similar assortment of production and behind-the-scenes featurettes we’ve enjoyed with previous releases. All interesting stuff if you’ve never picked through it before. 

4K UHD Disc 

• Audio Commentary by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis

Blu-ray Disc

• Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda 
• Library Computer Viewing Mode
• Location, Location, Location 
• Anatomy of a Stunt 
• The Story 
• Director’s Notebook 
• Westmore’s Legacy 
• Marina Sirtis: The Counselor Is In 
• Brent Spiner: Data and Beyond – Part Three
• Trek Roundtable: Insurrection 
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 009: The Origins of the Ba’ku and Son’a Conflict 
• Shuttle Chase 
• Drones 
• Peter Lauritson Introduction
• Ru’afo’s Facelift
• Working Lunch
• Flirting 
• Status: Precarious 
• Disabling the Injector
• Alternate Ending
• Storyboards: Secondary Protocols 
• Photo Gallery
• Worf and Troi (Easter Egg)
• Tom Morello (Easter Egg)
• Marina/Craft Services (Easter Egg)
• Original Promo Featurette

After a high note, it’s difficult for any franchise to follow up a great success so a small stumble or misstep is to be expected, if even forgivable. Star Trek: Insurrection was just a blunder. After the big stage of First Contact , this ninth franchise film falls back on small-screen ideas for a plot that would only feel at home as a one-off episode of the series and not a major multi-million dollar feature film production. As great as it is to see our Next Generation cast back in action, this is easily the weakest entry of their films and one of the weakest in the cinematic franchise as a whole. But for fans looking to upgrade their old Blu-ray, Paramount delivers another excellent Dolby Vision transfer with another strong Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio mix and a nice archive of bonus features to pick through. The disc is great but the movie itself is just difficult to recommend so on its own I'm calling it Worth A Look

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The seventh big-screen adventure in the STAR TREK movie franchise comes to 4K Ultra-HD with HDR-10 and Dolby Vision, boldly remastered from the original film elements. Retired Starfleet officers James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) and Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) are guests of honor aboard the newly christened Enterprise-B, but a test run takes an unexpected turn and Kirk is swept out into a mysterious energy ribbon known as the Nexus. Seven decades later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of Enterprise-D face a deadly villain named Soran (Malcolm McDowell). Picard's only hope for a future rests within the Nexus...and a legendary captain from the past.

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• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
• Director ‏ : ‎ David Carson
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Sir Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner
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The now-tossed Star Trek 4 went through many iterations since the first announcement in July 2016 , including a story by legendary Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino, a surprise 2022 Kelvin cast announcement that apparently Chris Pine and company only learned about through the press, and prequel story set “decades before the 2009 film.”

Following the new Star Trek 5 announcement, star Chris Pine reportedly reacted “with a deep sigh” according to Deadline . “Chris is excited learn about this new film through today’s studio announcement,” said a representative for the actor, “because it went really well the last time this happened, right?”

Also expected for the Trek 5 reunion are co-stars Zachary Quinto (Spock), Zoe Saldana (Uhura), Simon Pegg (Scotty), Karl Urban (“Bones” McCoy), and John Cho (Sulu). Actor Anton Yelchin, who portrayed Chekov in the first three films, passed away in 2016.

While little is known about the planned story of this new film, sources close to Trek 5 development hear that Paramount is pursuing  Dune and  Wonka star Timothée Chalamet for the role of “Sybok,” half-brother of Spock, originated by actor Laurence Luckinbill in 1989.

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