Posted by Derek Janssen on 09/23/07 23:32

Aaron J. Bossig wrote:
>
>>Unless you'd rather wait a year or two for the rumored HD-reconstituted
>>Next episodes, after they finish their last third of the Classic run?
>
> ... Not really. I'm pretty skeptical of any efforts to restore TNG that
> go beyond basic color-correction. The show was made in a very, very SD
> style, and they can't really make use of the original film elements
> without throwing away a huge chunk of the SFX. I view it as a
> baby/bathwater situation. TOS was pretty fortunate, in that both the
> standard shots and FX were both done in the film realm, which made the
> tweaks in the remastered edition so much cleaner.

The TOS 2.0 FX shots were fortunate enough to be newly created
insert-shots, since they never shared any scenes with the actors (except
for the monitor screens, which could be easily separated)--

As for Next 2.0, Paramount claims they still have the raw actor-footage
elements in the vault, and they *could* create new virtual-Enterprise
CGI sets if they needed to...And even then, the design would be so
consistent with current canon, it would just be a matter of new
definition levels for the CGI FX.

(Eg. the TOS 2.0 establishing ship-shots now have "Berman-style"
3/4-angle aerials of orbiting the planets, which the Nexts invented in
the first place.)

> OTOH, I'm not opposed to giving it a try... but when it comes time to
> get TNG again, I'll make sure to get the "pure" versions first. Like
> with TOS, the HD remasters may be fun, but I don't want to lose the
> look captured in the Red/Blue/Yellow boxes either.
>
> Now, the real question is, how long will we have to wait to get
> Enterprise in HD? That shouldn't take much effort at all, considering
> it was tailor-made for HD.

Think Voyager also had some widescreen delusions-of-grandeur near the
end of its run (not sure though, as you couldn't make me watch it
again), so the conversion gets easier past DS9.
It's just the first two series that're the major hurdles, and Paramount
seems to have passed the first one nice and clean.

Derek Janssen
ejanss1@verizon.net

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