Yeah I remember there being a big stink about the Remaster work for Season 2 not being up to par with CBS Digital's work with Seasons 1, 3-7. Mainly because it was done by a different company.It is CG.
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They did make a few errors, and their work was criticised for being overlit compared with CBS Digital, resulting in the rest of the series being brought in-house.
I don't think that was completely fair personally - 'Q Who?' looks incredible. It probably just needed someone from CBS to keep a tighter watch on them to ensure quality control.
I don't think that was completely fair personally - 'Q Who?' looks incredible. It probably just needed someone from CBS to keep a tighter watch on them to ensure quality control.
Honestly, even if Geordi was restoring the ship solo, he would have used drones for most of the work... which would have repaired the ship shortly after he began restoring it (this kind of work they'd excel at and would have likely repaired most of the internal and external damage of the saucer in a month or two).
This idea he was doing it single handedly/manually with 0 help from any automation and that it took decades to do, is silly at best.
Then again, its possible he did it intentionally and considered it his favourite past time what with being in charge of the Fleet Museum.
I wonder if SF will return the Galaxy class to active service after this (aka, if we're going to see more Galaxy class ships running around)... or possibly even the Ent-D into active service? Aka, upgrading it (giving it all the modern perks and automation... minus perhaps networking it with the rest of the fleet) and just 'reset the Enterprise line of ships down back to D version assuming the F is destroyed or something?
I think there's a non-trivial chance that the show ends with the restored Enterprise-D recommissioned after the loss of the F, with La Forge Jnrs, Jack, and Raffi under Captain Seven's command.
Oh, and I've just realised that with a bunch of senior officers presumably killed, the flag officer positions can be filled by all the TNG/DS9/VGR vets.
Star Trek: Legacy is clear now.
Oh, and I've just realised that with a bunch of senior officers presumably killed, the flag officer positions can be filled by all the TNG/DS9/VGR vets.
Star Trek: Legacy is clear now.
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"Q Who"'s Borg ship is missing some texture detail, but it's not a huge issue, and most of it definitely looks justly great. A little more QC if not staff probably would have rendered season 2 a more polished set, without half the problems it had.
There were comments at the time about repatriation of f/x scenes being incomplete or poorly done, mattes not being used hence a blue glow around windows, and so on... After the care in season one's treatment and customers being told that there would be oversight and not to worry and so on, I'd say some discontent and reaction was not a surprise.
Note that season 4, also handed off to a (different!) company (save for TBOBW pt 2), still looked better than 2's when all was said and done - but still had enough issues that CBS changed their mind on offloading season 6's work and did it themselves. As I recall, the new delay didn't cause fans to flinch...
...The original intent was, of course, for the job to be done in-house for all seasons, but it was decided to expedite the releases - which, given the reputation of seasons 1 and 2, made a certain sensibility - and hence the even-numbered seasons would be farmed out, albeit under supervision. Add in tight deadlines, and how much could be changed?
Ironically, one season 2 episode that had a image cut-off fault in the SD mastering was fixed in the HD mastering - which was overlooked when everyone not-wrongly complained about a HD remaster screwing up and causing the same type of fault. I forgot the version that was done right for HD, the story that was paraded in the scifi news outlets was "The Schizoid Man" and I didn't even notice the cel cutoff problem on last rewatch. It's obscure and to the right. I no longer have the DVDs, so I don't remember which episode was goofed up for SD but fixed in HD.
All in all, the live action f/x look great, as do the new planets. The color grading is better than the SD original too (though a tweak could line it up with the other seasons, which I'm glad they didn't do.) But for the f/x film repatriation bits, that's where the real issues are.
I'm glad people complained, though; season 2 is often belittled in general, usually lumped into "just like season 1" when it clearly isn't (save for one if not two episodes), and needed the proverbial love.
All in all, as one of the detractors and having re-watched season 2 on blu, I wonder if we would have been so vocal if season 1 didn't get the f/x tweaks that it had.
Especially as none of the episodes had the SD quirks, including the TV color test pattern signal that was shrouded in some scenes of episodes like "The Arsenal of Freedom". With bunny ear antennas and so on, nobody would notice it in 1988. On DVD, it'd all get noticed. But I digress; the point is, even despite the issues on season 2's blu, it's still a net-positive. Even if the occasional scene is a drop (of admittedly varying quality) next to the other seasons. It's there, but I'm glad the films still existed. The fact all those film segments and layers were kept back in the day was a huge shocker, albeit a pleasant one, to read. Of all the vibes to get from the late-80s era, THAT wasn't one of them.
When the D crashed, I was really sad. It felt a little like I lost a friend. The E was great, and quickly grabbed the empty spot, but it took a while to get over never seeing the D again, and her lying on a random planet like a pile of trash, rotting away. Now little me is alright again 
Geordi: Rwrrrrah!
https://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-7/7x18/eye-beholder-hd286.jpg
And it would be great to see the Cerritos recovering it. The perfect job for lower deckers. Boims goes crazy about every piece he sees
Data: Geordi, we're home.
Geordi: Rwrrrrah!
The crash did that for him
Scanning everyone's biosigns to make sure they don't faint
It was mentioned on a screen in Eye of the Beholder:
https://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-7/7x18/eye-beholder-hd286.jpg
It was squished when it hit those trees
I just wanna say it's fucking *wild* that MA has the Enterprise-D listed as Active in 2401.
Things I never expected when this started:
Them to concede that.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)
Things I never expected when this started:
Them to concede that.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)
[Two Starfleet crewmembers fleeing from Borg drones]
Cadet Finn: What about that ship?
Ensign Rey: That's ship's garbage!
[Prometheus class gets blown up]
Ensign Rey: The garbage will do.
[Pans to the Enterprise-D]
Don't tempt me, Frodo!
I wouldn't have spent that much time debating the deflector, it's not the same stardrive anyway. Ships within a class have always been known for at least slight differences.
Exactly. It could have shown up with Venture style nacelles with the phaser strips and I'd be fine with it also
And he didn't say he was single handedly doing it.
The time it takes can easily be explained that he had to wait until other Galaxy class ships were decomissioned, scrapped or semi-destroyed before he could acquire the components to rebuild the D.
Some of you folks are just a little too quick to imagine a "silly plot contrievance" when there's a perfectly understandable alternative. Don't leap to the negative so fast.
The time it takes can easily be explained that he had to wait until other Galaxy class ships were decomissioned, scrapped or semi-destroyed before he could acquire the components to rebuild the D.
Some of you folks are just a little too quick to imagine a "silly plot contrievance" when there's a perfectly understandable alternative. Don't leap to the negative so fast.
Even the fully original Enterprise D herself had different deflector shapes thanks to the 6ft model vs 4ft model. This deflector being different makes more sense than that ever did! I'm not bothered.
The plaque we see here is the one from Generations, not from TNG. Geordi may have brought the bridge back to TNG spec but kept the newer dedication plaque.
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Yes yes yes.
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