blue ray - further extended cuts?

[Dac]

While I'm sure they have extra footage in the form of alternate takes, I highly doubt more than a handful of episodes had entire scenes cut from them, let alone multiples.

[Vanyel]

Dac wrote:

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While I'm sure they have extra footage in the form of alternate takes, I highly doubt more than a handful of episodes had entire scenes cut from them, let alone multiples.

No scenes do get cut short. Here's a made up example:
Full Scene:
Picard: Set a course for the Neutral Zone. Course 321 Mark 159. Warp 9. Engage.

Helm: Aye, Sir. Course Set. Engaging at Warp 9.

Riker: Red Alert! All hands to Battle Stations. Raise Shields. Ready Phaser. Load torpedo bays.

Worf: Shield up. Phasers and Photons ready.

What's shown:
Picard: Set a course for the Neutral Zone. Warp 9. Engage.

Ricker: Red Alert!

Worf: Shields up. Phasers and Photons ready.

See how the second versions tightens the scene?

Many scenes have a lot more dialogue than what's shown, editing out bits of it tightens the pace, while others keep in more of the shot scene to slow things down.

While yes there are alternate shots of the same scene, bits and pieces are cut or left depending on the directors vision of the episode and/or time constraints.

In The Measure of a Man the scenes added back did add some tension between Riker and Picard and showed more dimensions to Phillipa. At least I don't remember her acting like such a minx with Picard.

[Trekker4747]

Vanyel wrote:

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At least I don't remember her acting like such a minx with Picard.

It's there in the original episode but certainly more subtle.

[Doug Otte]

In anticipation of getting the Season 2 BD set, I've been re-re-re-reading the episode descriptions in Larry Nemecek's ST: TNG Companion. Here's what he wrote about A Matter of Honor:
"As usual, the show ran long and one cut scene used a miniature for the Bird-of-Prey's engineering room."

That would be interesting to see...

[Art Vandelay]

I remember reading that the original cut of Night Terrors was nine minutes too long. It's hardly a classic episode, but I have a soft spot for it and would like to see the original cut.

Oh, and it's Blu-ray, not blue ray.

[BillJ]

Not sure I want to see every episode having deleted scenes added back in just to be doing it.

[Dac]

Vanyel wrote:

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No scenes do get cut short. Here's a made up example:
Full Scene:
Picard: Set a course for the Neutral Zone. Course 321 Mark 159. Warp 9. Engage.

Helm: Aye, Sir. Course Set. Engaging at Warp 9.

Riker: Red Alert! All hands to Battle Stations. Raise Shields. Ready Phaser. Load torpedo bays.

Worf: Shield up. Phasers and Photons ready.

What's shown:
Picard: Set a course for the Neutral Zone. Warp 9. Engage.

Ricker: Red Alert!

Worf: Shields up. Phasers and Photons ready.

See how the second versions tightens the scene?

Many scenes have a lot more dialogue than what's shown, editing out bits of it tightens the pace, while others keep in more of the shot scene to slow things down.

While yes there are alternate shots of the same scene, bits and pieces are cut or left depending on the directors vision of the episode and/or time constraints.

In The Measure of a Man the scenes added back did add some tension between Riker and Picard and showed more dimensions to Phillipa. At least I don't remember her acting like such a minx with Picard.

That's hardly what happened with MoaM though. 12 extra minutes of multiple cut scenes is nothing compared to 12 cut seconds of dialogue from a scene.

[Vanyel]

Dac wrote:

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That's hardly what happened with MoaM though. 12 extra minutes of multiple cut scenes is nothing compared to 12 cut seconds of dialogue from a scene.

No but it does give an example of how things are cut to tighten the pace or slow it down or remove unneeded scenes to change a character a bit. As was mentioned earlier Phillipa was flirtatious with Picard in the final cut of The Measure of a Man, but was really a minx, tauntingly flirtatious, with the extra footage.

So yes some scenes are cut short, in every episode. Not just using one shot of the scene vs. another shot of the exact same scene. There is always more footage of completely removed scenes, scenes cut short, or dialogue removed than what is finally aired.

[FreddyE]

The great thing with MoM is that the "new" scenes fit so seamlessly that I had a hard time telling the old and "new" stuff appart. Often the added scenes felt almost as if they had always been there. Which only shows how great the writing of that epi actually was.