Star Trek on VHS
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Are you planning on keeping a VHS machine in working order, or are you converting the tapes to digital files such as mp4 video?
Both actually. I always have a working VHS player on hand, but have converted the Laserdiscs to DVDs and digital files. I have done some of the VHS tapes as well, but only those that are different from the Laserdisc copies. For example, the LD copy of "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" has some edits in the teaser, but the Columbia House/CBS Video Library (CVL) VHS print does not. However, the CVL tapes have an edit in "All Our Yesterdays" that the LDs don't. Also, the CVL tape of "The Omega Glory" has the original Paramount Pictures Logo with the Desilu music on the end that isn't on the Laserdisc or the individual episode Paramount VHS copy.
And, of course, the previews are on the Laserdisc/black box VHS episodes (although not correct most of the time) and the Laserdisc of "Mirror Mirror" has a network billboard right after the main titles. No audio, just a still shot of the Enterprise in orbit with the Star Trek logo at the bottom half of the screen.
On my DVD-R transfers, I've put in the correct opening and closing theme music versions on the first season for the initial 10 aired episodes. Most of this stuff, plus the original sound mix, was lost when the series went to DVD and BD.
Probably more info than you really were looking for.
Probably more info than you really were looking for.
No, I'm impressed. I wish they'd had a guy like you at the studio when they were creating the DVD releases.
Edit: Regarding the CBS Digital remastered DVDs, I have it from another fan that only one episode used a Royal Philharmonic re-recording. He says a "Charlie X" cue was replaced in "The Menagerie Part II."
Do you know if that's right, if no other Royal Phil tracks were used in the DVDs?
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I wish they had a guy like me there, too. At the very least, the Blu-Rays would actually have the mono broadcast tracks as advertised. I would have been happy with that.
Regarding "The Menagerie" Part 2, yep, that's correct, there was one cue from "Charlie X" at the very start of the episode. However there was also a re-recorded cue from "Mudd's Woman" as the start of act 2 along with a cue from "The Doomsday Machine" at the start of act 1 (the original, not the re-recording). This episode is a mess... At least the BD mono track for this episode is correct. Not all of the first season mono tracks are actually correct and none of the second and third season episodes are.
As far as I recall, though, it was the only episode to use the Royal Philharmonic re-recordings. There were other episodes where the music was screwed with. For example, "The Deadly Years" DVD print used the teaser fade out music from "The Doomsday Machine" as Spock enters the turbolift after being ordered by Stocker to convene the hearing. This cue was not in the prior prints.
The added sound effects deserve a thread all to themselves...
Regarding "The Menagerie" Part 2, yep, that's correct, there was one cue from "Charlie X" at the very start of the episode. However there was also a re-recorded cue from "Mudd's Woman" as the start of act 2 along with a cue from "The Doomsday Machine" at the start of act 1 (the original, not the re-recording). This episode is a mess... At least the BD mono track for this episode is correct. Not all of the first season mono tracks are actually correct and none of the second and third season episodes are.
As far as I recall, though, it was the only episode to use the Royal Philharmonic re-recordings. There were other episodes where the music was screwed with. For example, "The Deadly Years" DVD print used the teaser fade out music from "The Doomsday Machine" as Spock enters the turbolift after being ordered by Stocker to convene the hearing. This cue was not in the prior prints.
The added sound effects deserve a thread all to themselves...
Thanks, Scott! I'm updating my notes accordingly.
Wish I had audio rips of all the original mono tracks like you have from laserdisc and such. I'm sure they'd clean up quite nicely to drop right in with the remastered original film.
Man, oh, man. I 'wish' I had grown up on them.
I didn't even find out they existed until 2001 or 2002. And I had watched the original Star Trek & Next Generation as they aired and every re-run I ever ran into. And Voyager on television for the first six seasons of re-runs and the seventh as it aired.
Early in this century I met my first Trek fan. (after all those decades of not knowing any
) I was invited over to the family home where they showed me their WALL of VHS Star Trek, Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine.I had no idea. I had never watched anything Trek without a commercial. It looked like a wall of bliss to me!
Early in this century I met my first Trek fan. (after all those decades of not knowing any
I had no idea. I had never watched anything Trek without a commercial. It looked like a wall of bliss to me!
Thankfully, DVD box sets don't take up that much space. My own bookcase of bliss is waiting for me now, of Star Trek and other DVDs, lots and lots, but I never have time to watch them.
That's the biggest thing I'm looking forward to when I retire, after being free to sleep at night again. I'll watch a DVD or Bluray during the day as a routine thing.
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