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The OFFICIAL STNG-R general discussion thread!

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I am sure the other planets will be replaced (just like Qo'noS in "Sins of the father"). Deneb IV however was a painting, and as you can see, keeping it was the right choice because all the tiny details can finally be fully seen.

The first planet seen after Deneb IV is Ligon II in "Code of honor". I'm sure it will be redone and will look spectacular.

You'll get no argument from me. I think the painting of Deneb IV looks great in HD!
 
My personal stance on the originals vs. new shots issue: I have no problems with new shots if they're necessary to achieve the same quality level as the rest of the material has, but otherwise prefer the originals to be retained, simply because I find it interesting in itself to "uncover" the originals in all their details. I.e. for me it's less about "don't alter the originals because that's morally wrong!", and more "if you throw away the original I'll never get to see how it really looked". I want to learn more about the shots I already know. That said, I do also sympathize with the "preserve the hard labor of the original production" POV.
 
Now that we are free of Rick Berman perhaps they will rescore seasons 5,6 and 7 and rid us of the sonic wallpaper forever!

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bNPp-ZDJ2w[/yt]

1:27 onwards!
 
Lol, I have heard from production sources that Peter Lauritson was the real culprit, when it came to sound in particular, and his nickname was Peter "Lower-It-Some" :)
 
Now that we are free of Rick Berman perhaps they will rescore seasons 5,6 and 7 and rid us of the sonic wallpaper forever!

1:27 onwards!


Unlikely.

And can anyone give me an example of the sonic wallpaper everyone talks about?

I haven't watched TNG for a long time, but I have watched DS9, and I can remember a lot of noticable music scores for the episodes.
 
The music is noticeably neutered from Season 5 onward; The composers seem to have been restrained to the same monotonous tones over and over. Gone are the lavish scores like the one I posted above..
 
Jarod, i assume you were referring to Flake and not me. I can assure you that little bit of inside TNG production trivia is true :)
 
I was reading the comments at TrekMovie and it really annoyed me at the complaining over this being pillarboxed. Reminds me of folks who complained about letterboxing back in the old days. The idea is to preserve the original broadcast - artificially widescreening removes part of the image (or worse distorts what's there). It's just as odious as pan-and-scan. if you don't like it, don't buy it and let serious fans enjoy it.

Alex

Seems silly to be okay with them replacing effects shots but then belly-aching because some folks would like to have a 16:9 option.

I've recently watched two sitcoms that were cropped from 4:3 source to 16:9 and both looked fine.
 
You know what, I would find a change in music completely acceptable. TNG's music after season two is so mind numbingly low key. It's like someone humming variations on a song they're not sure they know that well.

It's funny that you don't notice how important music is until you watch to only scene in all of TNG cut to a soundtrack: The symphony scene in Sarek. It's moving because the music is telling us how to feel about the images we're seeing. The crew must have had a blast with that as it would be the first and only time they did it.
 
You know what, I would find a change in music completely acceptable. TNG's music after season two is so mind numbingly low key. It's like someone humming variations on a song they're not sure they know that well.

It's funny that you don't notice how important music is until you watch to only scene in all of TNG cut to a soundtrack: The symphony scene in Sarek. It's moving because the music is telling us how to feel about the images we're seeing. The crew must have had a blast with that as it would be the first and only time they did it.

There are lots of scores from Season 2 through the end of Season 4 that are great! Its after Ron Jones got fired that there must have been some form of production meeting that resulted in the musical score being neutered from then on.
 
There are lots of scores from Season 2 through the end of Season 4 that are great! Its after Ron Jones got fired that there must have been some form of production meeting that resulted in the musical score being neutered from then on.

To be honest, though, TNG was never as operatic as TOS where the music was a character in the room. Other than some of the stuff in EAF and BoBW I really can't remember any TNG music.
 
There are lots of scores from Season 2 through the end of Season 4 that are great! Its after Ron Jones got fired that there must have been some form of production meeting that resulted in the musical score being neutered from then on.

To be honest, though, TNG was never as operatic as TOS where the music was a character in the room. Other than some of the stuff in EAF and BoBW I really can't remember any TNG music.

Well the best advice I can give is to 'keep an ear out' whilst watching the TNG blu-rays and maybe you will be pleasantly surprised? :)
 
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