New and Improved Star Trek Movie FAQ - v 2.2.4

[cardinal biggles]

***STAR TREK MOVIE FAQ***​

Originally compiled by Lord Garth
Revised by cardinal biggles

Version 1.0 — June 4, 2006
Version 1.1 — May 20, 2007
Version 1.2 — January 4, 2009
Version 1.2.5 — July 29, 2009
Version 2.0 — January 19, 2017
Version 2.1 — August 14, 2019
Version 2.1.1 — December 8, 2019
Version 2.1.2 — February 5, 2021
Version 2.1.3 — April 16, 2021
Version 2.2 — July 12, 2021
Version 2.2.1 — March 21, 2022
Version 2.2.2 — July 25, 2022
Version 2.2.3 — july 31, 2022
Version 2.2.4 — December 5, 2022
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Lord Garth offered special thanks to cardinal biggles for his encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek movies, Zeppster for the encouragement to type this, and Sir Rhosis who planted that insane idea into his head in the first place.

cardinal biggles offers special thanks to Lord Garth for doing the main grunt work on this FAQ all those years ago; I would never have had the patience to see it through.
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The purpose of this FAQ is to provide information about questions asked frequently. It's not intended to be comprehensive and assumes you're already familiar with the movies. Categories are divided by subject.

Discussion of the "Kelvinverse"/"Abramsverse" Star Trek films belongs in the Kelvin Universe Forum. This forum remains for discussion of the six TOS movies and four TNG movies.

Table of Contents

Part I. Khan
Part II. Saavik
Part III. Timeline
Part IV. Uniforms/Ranks
Part V. People
Part VI. Miscellaneous
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Part I. Khan (Ricardo Montalban)

1. Is that really Ricardo Montalban's chest?

Yes, believe it or not, it is. He was in pretty good shape.
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2. Khan had a baby?

There is a picture of a small child in the transporter room of the Reliant when Khan detonates the Genesis Device which has circulated around the Internet. The child was part of the film's shooting script, appearing twice: first, on Ceti Alpha V when Chekov and Terrell explore Khan's shelter (scene 18), and later in the Reliant's transporter room during the Genesis countdown (scene 213A). The scenes were filmed but cut (resulting in some jump cuts and looped dialogue between Chekov and Terrell), and the script was not clear who the child's parents were.
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3. How does Khan know about Klingon proverbs?

"Revenge is a dish that is best served cold" is actually a French proverb but, if the Klingons had a similar proverb, by coincidence, then it's possible that Khan got the information while he was reading the Enterprise's computer library in "Space Seed".
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4. How does Khan know Chekov in The Wrath of Khan?

Quite right. "Space Seed" was a first season episode and Chekov wasn't introduced until the second. Two common rationalizations are that Chekov was in the lowerdecks at the time or that he just wasn't seen. Any other rationalizations can be used as well. Although not canon, Greg Cox's 2005 novel To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh has a brief scene at the beginning of the book with Chekov assigned by Kirk to give supplies and a phaser to Khan and his followers before the Enterprise warps away.
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Part II. Saavik (Kirstie Alley, Robin Curtis)

1. Saavik is half-Romulan?!

That depends. It's written in the script for TWOK that she's half-Romulan but it's never mentioned on-screen. TSFS and TVH treat Saavik as a full-Vulcan. If you want to use the scripts to fill in gaps, then she's half-Romulan. If you only want to stick to canon (i.e. what's said onscreen), she's not.
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2. Why the change in actresses from TWOK to TSFS?

Blame Kirstie Alley's agent.
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3. Valeris was originally supposed to be Saavik in TUC?

Nick Meyer originally wanted to use Saavik in TUC and he wanted to use Kirstie Alley. There were two problems with that: Kirstie Alley had become too expensive (thanks to her co-starring role on Cheers), and Gene Roddenberry objected, feeling that Saavik was a beloved character and there would be fan backlash over her involvement with the conspiracy. So, to avoid having to cast Saavik a third time and to appease Roddenberry, he created the new character Valeris and cast Kim Cattrall (his first choice to play Saavik all the way back in 1981).
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4. Did young regenerating Spock and Saavik get it on?

"It is called pon farr."
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5. Saavik was pregnant with Spock's child?

That's what's in the commentary for TVH says and is what's implied in cut scenes from the script. Like the half-Romulan story, if you go by the script, then yes, if you go by canon, then no.
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Part III. Timeline

1. Wait a minute. Are you telling me a decade passed between TMP and TWOK?

Before I answer, TOS and TOS movie chronologies are among the most hotly debated subjects. Continuing on. TMP is said to take place only two-and-a-half years after the five-year mission. TWOK is stated to take place 15 years after "Space Seed". So imagine the 10-year break Star Trek had in real life as happening between TMP and TWOK instead of between TOS and TMP.
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2. What are the official dates of the TOS movies?

According to the Star Trek Chronology, written in 1993 by Michael & Denise Okuda, the conjectural dates are:

• TMP: 2271
• TWOK: 2285
• TSFS: 2285
• TVH: 2286
• TFF: 2287
• TUC: 2293

3. So what's the dispute?

• TMP taking place 2.5 years after the five-year mission is iron-clad, but the dispute was over whether or not TOS showed the first three years of the five-year mission, the middle three, the last three, or all five in three seasons. There was even debate over what calendar years TOS takes place. VOY's "Q2" states the five-year mission ended in 2270. So, the earliest TMP can take place, canonically, is 2272 or 2273.
• TWOK, TSFS, TVH, and TFF all take place one right after another, with the longest established gap being between TSFS and TVH (the latter includes Kirk's log entry "We are in the third month of our Vulcan exile"). There are arguments that TWOK takes place in the early-2280's, 2283 at the earliest (based on the vintage of Kirk's Romulan Ale), as well as arguments that TVH takes place in the mid-2280s, specifically 2286. What affects one movie affects all four. Other dates have been suggested as well, but they're all within the 2280s.
• In TUC, McCoy states he's served aboard the Enterprise for 27 years. It's assumed he's including time off. If the five-year mission started in 2265, then a case can made for 2292. 2291 if McCoy's rounding up and 2293 if McCoy's rounding down.

4. When do the TNG movies take place?

This one's much easier:

• GEN - 2293* and 2371
• FC - 2373
• INS - 2375
• NEM - 2379

* If you think of TUC as taking place in 2293 then one common thought that goes along with it is that TUC and the 23rd Century portion of GEN take place on opposite ends of the year.
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Part IV. Uniforms/Ranks

1. Is Scotty a Captain or Commander?

Scotty is promoted to "Captain of Engineering" in TSFS and wears a Captain's pin on his bomber jacket for most of the movie. He wears a Commander's pin again in TVH. From TFF on, he's back to Captain. Maybe Scotty thought he lost his promotion after stealing the Enterprise and was relieved to find out otherwise when the charges were dropped.
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2. Is Colonel West a marine?

According to Memory Alpha: "West was named after Lt. Colonel Oliver North, who participated in the Iran–Contra Affair. In fact, West was styled after North and was essentially a thinly veiled political jab made by [writer-director] Nick Meyer."

As to whether West was a Starfleet Marine, it remains uncertain. There's also the issue of West's uniform: West wears the rank insignia of a Vice Admiral, which would be equivalent to a Lt. General if there were Starfleet Marines and their ranks had the same parallels with Starfleet as the modern-day U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. If West were a Lt. Colonel or Colonel, he should be wearing the insignia of a Commander or Captain.
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3. Who was wearing a DS9 uniform on the set of GEN?

Riker, Data, Geordi, and then Picard switch over to DS9 uniforms. Since the uniform changes always went from TNG-style to DS9 and not the other way around (though Picard is wearing his TNG uniform in the final scene on the wrecked Enterprise bridge), it's speculated that GEN caught the Enterprise-D crew in the middle of a uniform switchover.

Only Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner had DS9 uniforms custom tailored for them; Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton borrowed costumes worn by Avery Brooks and Colm Meaney, which explains why theirs don't fit so well (especially the sleeves).
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4. Why was Worf back in a Starfleet uniform? Didn't John Logan bother to watch DS9?

In a cut line from NEM, Worf said he wasn't suited to life as an ambassador.
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Part V. People
For the actors who played Khan and Saavik, see their respective categories

1. List of major actors/production figures from the films who have passed away:

• Phillip Richard Allen (Captain Esteban, TSFS)
  
• Kirstie Alley (Saavik, TWOK)
  
• Dame Judith Anderson (T'Lar, TSFS)
• René Auberjonois (Colonel West, extended version of TUC)
  
• Majel Barrett (Christine Chapel in TMP & TVH; computer voice in GEN-NEM & ST '09)
• Harve Bennett (producer, TWOK-TFF; story, TWOK & TFF; writer/co-writer, TSFS & TVH; "Admiral Bob" in TFF)
• Bibi Besch (Carol Marcus)
• Merritt Buttrick (David Marcus)
• James Doohan (Scotty)
• Miguel Ferrer (Excelsior first officer/helmsman, TSFS)
• Robert Fletcher (costume designer, TMP-TVH)
  
• Denny Martin Flinn (co-writer, TUC)
• Jerry Goldsmith (composer, TMP, TFF, FC-NEM)
• James Horner (composer, TWOK & TSFS)
• Marty Hornstein (co-/executive producer & unit production manager, TUC, FC-NEM)
  
• Gregory Jein (model maker, TMP, TFF, INS; prop maker, TFF & TUC)
  
• DeForest Kelley (McCoy)
• Persis Khambatta (Ilia)
• Richard H. Kline (cinematographer, TMP)
  
• Mark Lenard (Sarek; Klingon commander in TMP)
• Harold Livingston (screenwriter, TMP)
  
• Barbara March (Lursa)
  
• Hal Michelson (production designer, TMP)
• Mike Minor (production illustrator, TMP; art director, TWOK)
• Ricardo Montalban (Khan)
• Nichelle Nichols (Uhura)
  
• Leonard Nimoy (Spock; director, TSFS & TVH; story, TVH & TUC; executive producer, TUC)
• Bob Peak (poster art, TMP-TFF)
• Brock Peters (Admiral Cartwright)
• Michael Piller (writer, INS)
• Christopher Plummer (General Chang)
  
• Gene Roddenberry (producer, TMP; executive consultant, TWOK-TUC)
• Leonard Rosenman (composer, TVH)
• Jack B. Sowards (writer, TWOK)
• David Warner (St. John Talbot, TFF; Chancellor Gorkon, TUC)
  
• Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand)
• Paul Winfield (Captain Terrell)
• Robert Wise (director, TMP)
• Jane Wyatt (Amanda Grayson, TVH)

2. Why was Judson Scott (a.k.a. "Joachim") uncredited in TWOK?

Blame it on his agent.
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Part VI. Miscellaneous

1. How did the Borg Queen survive Wolf 359?

Presumably every cube has a Borg Queen and, if the Borg have a hive mind, then the information from one Borg Queen would be known by another.
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2. Why is the Klingon blood purple in TUC?

So Colonel Worf could tell that Colonel West's blood wasn't Klingon. True story.
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3. What's with the Klingon under the toppling tree shot in TSFS?

It's called a blooper.
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4. Will the TMP Director's Edition ever be released in high-definition?

The Director's Edition of TMP, originally released on DVD and VHS in 2001, has been remastered in 4K with newly-rendered visual effects to replace the new VFX created in 2001. The film will make its debut on April 5, 2022 on Paramount+, with various 4K UHD and Blu-ray releases to come in September 2022.​

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Suggestions for future updates, though not promised, should be posted in this thread.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Thank you, Biggles! Stickying this thread now!

 

[gottacook]

2. What are the official dates of the TOS movies?
According to the Star Trek Chronology, written in 1993 by Michael & Denise Okuda, the conjectural dates are:

This in my opinion needs an edit, because its question-and-answer format implicitly suggests that the Okudas were the sources providing "official" dates, given their employment on several Trek series. All they did was to concoct a book that would, and did, sell to a publisher that was pretty confident that Trek fans would find it interesting.

Moreover, I would respectfully ask for acknowledgment of the fact that any effort to make a coherent chronology is futile. The originators of the series knew about the implications of relativity for interstellar spaceships traveling above light speed. Star dates were invented to get around the problem of episodes sometimes being shown "out of order" by NBC, and had the side benefit of obscuring the relativity problem and not needing to provide Earth years for present-day events. Quoting from Roddenberry in The Making of Star Trek:

Unfortunately, however, the episodes are not aired in the same order in which we filmed them. So we began to get complaints from the viewers, asking, "How come one week the star date is 2891, the next week it's 2337, and then the week after it's 3414?"

In answering these questions, I came up with the statement that "this time system adjusts for shifts in relative time which occur due to the vessel's speed and space warp capability. It has little relationship to Earth's time as we know it. One hour aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise at different times may equal as little as three Earth hours. The star dates specified in the log entry must be computed against the speed of the vessel, the space warp, and its position within our galaxy, in order to give a meaningful reading." Therefore star date would be one thing at one point in the galaxy and something else again at another point in the galaxy.

I'm not quite sure what I meant by that explanation, but a lot of people have indicated it makes sense. If so, I've been lucky again, and I'd just as soon forget the whole thing before I'm asked any further questions about it.​

Thinking of the passage of time in terms of "years" only became an issue starting with TMP, because that's when the Enterprise was first shown to visit present-day Earth. Yes, of course "years ago" appeared in dialogue in occasional episodes, but that's not the same thing as counting from a baseline number; also it would have been confusing to speak in terms of "star date units ago" and not worth the trouble to do so.

(partly adapted from my response to an early-2016 thread)

 

[cardinal biggles]

Thanks, I think we'll stick with what's there.

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

Will the TMP Director's Edition ever be released on Blu-ray?
So far, it's unlikely. The CGI visual effects created for the DE aren't up to high-definition quality. They were rendered at 480p, a level good enough for a DVD and VHS release in 2001, but not the 1080p required for Blu-ray, or the higher resolutions needed for the newer 4K UHD format. It would cost money to re-render the effects, and so far the sales of Paramount's previous Blu-ray releases of the TOS films haven't been strong enough to convince them to spend the money.

There was a recent post at a music forum I belong to from the producer of the TMP Director's Edition saying that Paramount only had to give the green light for a Blu-ray of this version of the film to go ahead. The gentleman, David C. Fein, added that "All of the shots in the film were created with HD in mind so the quality of the models and elements were much higher than the SD renderings. We have everything, and when the time is right, we'll use them. Again, there is no truth that anything is missing." The URL for his post is http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...is-not-on-blu-ray.542907/page-2#post-15841074 if you wish to read his extensive remarks.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Thank you for finding that. I've updated the answer accordingly.

 

[My Name Was Taken Twice]

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• TMP: 2271
• TWOK: 2285
• TSFS: 2285
• TVH: 2286
• TFF: 2287
• TUC: 2293

While it's possible TSFS was late 2285 and the three months on Vulcan put TVH into 2286 how would it be 2287 by TFF? Kirk said Scotty required 2 weeks to get the 'A' into shape however he was given 3. After Kirk was given the ship did it sit around for a while and all of a sudden Kirk tells Scotty he has three weeks to fix all it's issues?

 

[My Name Was Taken Twice]

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Since the uniform changes always went from TNG-style to DS9 and not the other way around, it's speculated that GEN caught the Enterprise-D crew in the middle of a uniform switchover.​

Picard switched back to TNG uniform for the closing scene, Riker was still in DS9.

4. Why was Worf back in a Starfleet uniform? Didn't John Logan bother to watch DS9?

In a cut line from NEM, Worf said he wasn't suited to life as an Ambassador.​

He should have been wearing gold though as he was stationed at tactical.

 

[FormerLurker]

While it's possible TSFS was late 2285 and the three months on Vulcan put TVH into 2286 how would it be 2287 by TFF? Kirk said Scotty required 2 weeks to get the 'A' into shape however he was given 3. After Kirk was given the ship did it sit around for a while and all of a sudden Kirk tells Scotty he has three weeks to fix all it's issues?

You're forgetting the shakedown cruise, which would have been anywhere from a week to six months, to figure out everything Scotty needed to fix. Remember, Kirk said "Let's see what she's got." They had to do that before Scotty could even begin to fix it.

 

[Lord Garth]

This in my opinion needs an edit, because its question-and-answer format implicitly suggests that the Okudas were the sources providing "official" dates, given their employment on several Trek series. All they did was to concoct a book that would, and did, sell to a publisher that was pretty confident that Trek fans would find it interesting.

That's the reason why I said "conjectural" in the answer to the question, even though it asked for an official one. There is no true answer so I had to use "conjectural" as a qualifier. "Official" is only what's said on-screen. Period. Wording is everything.

Even in 1993, when I bought the Star Trek Chronology, there were things in it where I myself disagreed with some of what they speculated.

Nevertheless, people on these boards referred back to those dates a lot, and probably still do (I haven't kept up as much in recent years) so I felt we should acknowledge the Star Trek Chronology but still include other opinions, then let the reader make their own decision.

Moreover, I would respectfully ask for acknowledgment of the fact that any effort to make a coherent chronology is futile. The originators of the series knew about the implications of relativity for interstellar spaceships traveling above light speed. Star dates were invented to get around the problem of episodes sometimes being shown "out of order" by NBC, and had the side benefit of obscuring the relativity problem and not needing to provide Earth years for present-day events.

This is true, but questions about when the movies took place kept coming up. I wrote an FAQ for TOS in 2004 and when cardinal biggles and I decided to do a Movie FAQ in 2006, it seemed foolish not to address it.

How many times can someone see a new "When does TWOK take place?" thread in a year, where everyone says the same thing over and over and over again, without going crazy?

 

[cardinal biggles]

Updated to add the news about a possible 4K UHD remaster of the TMP Director's Edition (announced in July at SDCC), and, sadly, to add actor Barbara March to the list of cast & crew who have passed on.

 

[Henoch]

While it's possible TSFS was late 2285 and the three months on Vulcan put TVH into 2286 how would it be 2287 by TFF?

Who says waiting around for Kirk's court martial then waiting around for the E-A to be finished and given to Kirk didn't take time? Six months to a year could have easily passed at the end of the TVH.

 

[FormerLurker]

Who says waiting around for Kirk's court martial then waiting around for the E-A to be finished and given to Kirk didn't take time? Six months to a year could have easily passed at the end of the TVH.

Once again, TFF occurred after the shakedown cruise, which itself could have taken six months. Three weeks was how long Kirk gave Scotty to fix it.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Updated to include the news about the 4K restoration of the TMP DE finally becoming an official thing!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I'm looking to replace my original 10 DVD set with blu rays. Problem is, I see so many different options for box sets, some of which may or may not be "official" releases, but rather allowed knockoffs similar to that 8 disc MCU set that a lot of people recommended against.

My question is, does anyone know of a single site that can sort this out? I've googled some UPC's to no particular avail.

I'm thinking there might be thin case sets with 4 or 6 discs, but the $15 to $20 price range makes me wonder about the quality.
The preference would be a set of all 10 movies. I also see some listed as "dub" and wonder if maybe they just replace captions with other languages dubbed as an option. There's also the "Stardate Collection", which is 10 movies, but some of these have the UK "15" on the package.

I do want Region A, not region free, since IDK what my blu ray player and blu ray drive may or may not play.

 

[cardinal biggles]

I'm looking to replace my original 10 DVD set with blu rays. Problem is, I see so many different options for box sets, some of which may or may not be "official" releases, but rather allowed knockoffs similar to that 8 disc MCU set that a lot of people recommended against.

My question is, does anyone know of a single site that can sort this out? I've googled some UPC's to no particular avail.

I'm thinking there might be thin case sets with 4 or 6 discs, but the $15 to $20 price range makes me wonder about the quality.
The preference would be a set of all 10 movies. I also see some listed as "dub" and wonder if maybe they just replace captions with other languages dubbed as an option. There's also the "Stardate Collection", which is 10 movies, but some of these have the UK "15" on the package.

I do want Region A, not region free, since IDK what my blu ray player and blu ray drive may or may not play.

I would hold off for now, because what you get in those boxed sets you linked to is pretty crappy; only the stand-alone TWOK Director's Cut Blu-ray has had a decent remaster.

New 4K remasters are in the pipeline for all of the TOS and TNG movies, with a boxed set of TMP (theatrical), TWOK (theatrical and director's cut), TSFS, and TVH due to drop on September 7. It will include both 4K UHD and Blu-ray copies of each film. No word yet on when the other six movies will be available in this format. And then there's the long-awaited remaster of the TMP Director's Edition, which should be out sometime in 2022.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I would hold off for now, because what you get in those boxed sets you linked to is pretty crappy; only the stand-alone TWOK Director's Cut Blu-ray has had a decent remaster.

New 4K remasters are in the pipeline for all of the TOS and TNG movies, with a boxed set of TMP (theatrical), TWOK (theatrical and director's cut), TSFS, and TVH due to drop on September 7. It will include both 4K UHD and Blu-ray copies of each film. No word yet on when the other six movies will be available in this format. And then there's the long-awaited remaster of the TMP Director's Edition, which should be out sometime in 2022.

I'm not set up for 4K yet. Not sure when I will be and I do want to get my hands on A set sooner rather than later. I'm terrible at waiting. Plus who knows if they decide halfway through that streaming is "teh future" and stop doing the 4K discs.

Are all the sets out there at the moment official Paramount releases? There are other sets besides those two original & TNG ones, tho also split between the two eras. Then the Stardate Collection which appears to be in two forms, a large box set or a thin box set.

 

[cardinal biggles]

I'm not set up for 4K yet. Not sure when I will be and I do want to get my hands on A set sooner rather than later. I'm terrible at waiting. Plus who knows if they decide halfway through that streaming is "teh future" and stop doing the 4K discs.

Even if you aren't set up for 4K, the set will also include Blu-rays of each film, as well as digital codes so you can stream them. And while the market for physical media continues to contract, you should never underestimate Paramount's desire to plunder our wallets yet again.

Are all the sets out there at the moment official Paramount releases? There are other sets besides those two original & TNG ones, tho also split between the two eras. Then the Stardate Collection which appears to be in two forms, a large box set or a thin box set.

They've repackaged the films numerous times since releasing them on Blu-ray. The ones you linked to above are both official releases; there's also another one of the first ten films in a single thin box set that I've seen at Walmart recently.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Even if you aren't set up for 4K, the set will also include Blu-rays of each film, as well as digital codes so you can stream them. And while the market for physical media continues to contract, you should never underestimate Paramount's desire to plunder our wallets yet again.


They've repackaged the films numerous times since releasing them on Blu-ray. The ones you linked to above are both official releases; there's also another one of the first ten films in a single thin box set that I've seen at Walmart recently.

I think as long as they're 1 movie:1 disc and they aren't any kind of knock-off, the quality should be there. I'm assuming they were still full remasters with the tech they had at the time, instead of any sort of upconversion?

The MCU movie set I mentioned is 23 movies on 8 discs, so they're crammed pretty tight. I ended up buying those individually, 20 of them for $200, plus the other 3 separately.

Are all the current releases more bluish in color? I seem to remember that discussion from several years ago, that they didn't have the warmer color of the DVD releases.

 

[cardinal biggles]

I think as long as they're 1 movie:1 disc and they aren't any kind of knock-off, the quality should be there. I'm assuming they were still full remasters with the tech they had at the time, instead of any sort of upconversion?

They were done as straightforward 2K (1080p) remasters of the original master prints except for Wrath of Khan, whose master print had deteriorated and required restoration. The 2009 TWOK HD restoration took on an inexplicably blue tint, but that was corrected when they remastered the TWOK director's cut in 4K back in 2016 (a stand-alone release; the version included with all currently available with all boxed sets is the 2009 restoration of the theatrical version). So they're not upscales, but neither did Paramount do anything special to prepare those remasters.

I'm in a Facebook group devoted to TMP, and the folks there are really excited about the new 4K remaster, even for just the theatrical version due out next month, and general consensus seems to be that the 2009 remaster of that film sucked out loud. But if you're fine with "good enough," knock yourself out.

The MCU movie set I mentioned is 23 movies on 8 discs, so they're crammed pretty tight. I ended up buying those individually, 20 of them for $200, plus the other 3 separately.

Yeah, no way that set is legit. First off, Disney hasn't released any sort of big MCU boxed set for Region A, and the Region B boxed sets they've released have each film on its own disc.

Are all the current releases more bluish in color? I seem to remember that discussion from several years ago, that they didn't have the warmer color of the DVD releases.

See my answer above; I believe that was only TWOK that ended up with a blue tint. I haven't heard that complaint about the other nine.