Season TWO OFFICIAL TNG Blu-Ray Discussion Thread

[TheSeeker]

Another great interview! I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the work you do to get us this stuff FrontierTrek. Thanks!

 

[FrontierTrek]

The Phase II stuff could be interesting if it has stuff like a table read of a script or test scenes that feature the main actors.

If anything like that actually exists...

TNG owes much of its structure to the groundwork laid by Phase II.

I'm pretty sure the Phase II material will not be an independent feature, but rather interwoven into the main documentary. Additionally, I wouldn't expect anything more than the footage we saw on Star Trek: The Motion Picture's Directors Edition bonus features: http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=265&page=6

Another great interview! I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the work you do to get us this stuff FrontierTrek. Thanks!

Really glad you are enjoying it! It's a lot of work, but totally worth it if it helps promote such a wonderful project and all the talented people involved. Part 2 and 3 of David and Ryan's interview are very exciting indeed

 

[FrontierTrek]

Part 2 of our interview with Ryan Adams & David S. Grant:
http://tng.trekcore.com/bluray/cbs_adamsgrant2.html

Read, absorb, get excited and ENJOY!

 

[MikeS]

I'm enjoying reading your interviews, thanks for puting in the time.

This special feature you were talking about... Has it already been revealed? It's just that an interview with Muldaur, An extended version of Measure of a Man and commentaries to both that episode and Q Who? already feel like a feast of goodies and I'm left scratching my head as to what more there could be. I'm worried that I may be missing the "clues" in your interviews that you keep refering to.

 

[Chris2005]

Well, Season 2 is being released on December 4th of this year...

With 2 season's per year, from my understanding...

So...

Season's 1 and 2 - 2012
Season's 3 and 4 - 2013
Season's 5 and 6 - 2014
Season 7 - 2015

 

[TheSeeker]

Wow! They're scanning ALL the negatives, not just what's required to reconstruct the episodes! This should yield some pretty cool special features!

 

[FrontierTrek]

Wow! They're scanning ALL the negatives, not just what's required to reconstruct the episodes! This should yield some pretty cool special features!

 

[MikeS]

So HD bloopers?

 

[Cap.T]

Well, Season 2 is being released on December 4th of this year...

With 2 season's per year, from my understanding...

So...

Season's 1 and 2 - 2012
Season's 3 and 4 - 2013
Season's 5 and 6 - 2014
Season 7 - 2015

In the Interview David Grant says:
It was really the corporation that told us what they wanted out, it wasn’t us telling them. They decided they wanted to do 2, 3 and 2.

So I would think that means Season 1 and 2 in 2012, Seasons 3, 4 and 5 in 2013 and Seasons 6 and 7 in 2014.

 

[MikeS]

Wow! They're scanning ALL the negatives, not just what's required to reconstruct the episodes! This should yield some pretty cool special features!

So HD bloopers?

I've really been racking my brain for weeks over this (I hope I'm not wating my time) and I've just had a crazy thought...

An alternative cut of Shades Of Grey featuring scenes we've never seen before but that Riker would have "seen" from his perspective?!

It fits in with what you (FrontierTrek) said about really blowing our minds and something that the fan community had been asking for for years!

 

[TheSeeker]

So HD bloopers?

I've really been racking my brain for weeks over this (I hope I'm not wating my time) and I've just had a crazy thought...

An alternative cut of Shades Of Grey featuring scenes we've never seen before but that Riker would have "seen" from his perspective?!

It fits in with what you (FrontierTrek) said about really blowing our minds and something that the fan community had been asking for for years!

I had the same thought. It might actually make that episode watchable!

 

[davejames]

Ha, yeah it would be kind of cool to see slightly different versions of those flashbacks. Either additional footage, or different angles and cuts.

 

[davejames]

I'm pretty sure the Phase II material will not be an independent feature, but rather interwoven into the main documentary. Additionally, I wouldn't expect anything more than the footage we saw on Star Trek: The Motion Picture's Directors Edition bonus features: http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=265&page=6

Lol. I know it's just test footage, but that really DOES look like something out of the 70s Galaxy Quest TV show.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I'm guessing new bloopers / outtakes. Which is pretty awesome.

 

[Dream]

I'm pretty sure the Phase II material will not be an independent feature, but rather interwoven into the main documentary. Additionally, I wouldn't expect anything more than the footage we saw on Star Trek: The Motion Picture's Directors Edition bonus features: http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=265&page=6

Lol. I know it's just test footage, but that really DOES look like something out of the 70s Galaxy Quest TV show.

I'm actually REALLY glad we never got a Trek show made in the 70s. Can you imagine how embrassing it would look to us these days?

 

[Grant]

Today Oct 4, the BBFC listed two supplements for season two---audio commentaries for 'Q Who' And 'Measure of a man'

'Measure runs 57min in the UK speeded video system, so right about 60 minutes in length (or 15 min longer than the standard episodes.

'Q Who' was the usual 45 min.

More supplements will no doubt be added to their site in coming days.

Thanks for pointing that out. Though, I suspect that the actual running time of the extended "Measure" is exactly what the BBFC states -- that is, 57:31 -- even though they have that proviso about a 4% PAL speedup at the bottom of the page. The reason I think this is because the Star Trek: TNG Blu-ray's are the same 24fps everywhere in the world... so PAL speed isn't an issue.

So it's almost exactly 12 minutes longer than the broadcast version. I'm sure the "hybrid extended cut" is longer, however.

Interesting. The movies usually ARE sped up by 4%--wonder why the TV show is not.

 

[StewMc]

Today Oct 4, the BBFC listed two supplements for season two---audio commentaries for 'Q Who' And 'Measure of a man'

'Measure runs 57min in the UK speeded video system, so right about 60 minutes in length (or 15 min longer than the standard episodes.

'Q Who' was the usual 45 min.

More supplements will no doubt be added to their site in coming days.

Thanks for pointing that out. Though, I suspect that the actual running time of the extended "Measure" is exactly what the BBFC states -- that is, 57:31 -- even though they have that proviso about a 4% PAL speedup at the bottom of the page. The reason I think this is because the Star Trek: TNG Blu-ray's are the same 24fps everywhere in the world... so PAL speed isn't an issue.

So it's almost exactly 12 minutes longer than the broadcast version. I'm sure the "hybrid extended cut" is longer, however.

Interesting. The movies usually ARE sped up by 4%--wonder why the TV show is not.

With bluray there is no PAL or NTSC any more. Because the format supports multiple frame rates in all regions, there is no need for any speed up, in most cases the tv show or movie can be presented in its original format (as long as the TV supports it).

 

[SoM]

Today Oct 4, the BBFC listed two supplements for season two---audio commentaries for 'Q Who' And 'Measure of a man'

'Measure runs 57min in the UK speeded video system, so right about 60 minutes in length (or 15 min longer than the standard episodes.

'Q Who' was the usual 45 min.

More supplements will no doubt be added to their site in coming days.

Thanks for pointing that out. Though, I suspect that the actual running time of the extended "Measure" is exactly what the BBFC states -- that is, 57:31 -- even though they have that proviso about a 4% PAL speedup at the bottom of the page. The reason I think this is because the Star Trek: TNG Blu-ray's are the same 24fps everywhere in the world... so PAL speed isn't an issue.

So it's almost exactly 12 minutes longer than the broadcast version. I'm sure the "hybrid extended cut" is longer, however.

Interesting. The movies usually ARE sped up by 4%--wonder why the TV show is not.

Blu-Ray. The international Blu-Ray spec includes 24p, so they don't change it (annoyingly, it doesn't include *25p* or 50i. The latter's basically UK-only, and I don't think there's a 25p spec at all. This leads to some badly smeared standards-converted Blu-Rays of UK material like Doctor Who to make them 24p so they only need one worldwide version...).

OTOH, a DVD release *would* be sped up.

 

[davejames]

I'm actually REALLY glad we never got a Trek show made in the 70s. Can you imagine how embrassing it would look to us these days?

No kidding. All those shaggy 70s hairstyles, drab colors, and cheap looking sets...

And I have a feeling hackneyed episodes like Code of Honor, Justice, and Angel One would have been the norm instead of just the exception.

 

[Grant]

Thanks for pointing that out. Though, I suspect that the actual running time of the extended "Measure" is exactly what the BBFC states -- that is, 57:31 -- even though they have that proviso about a 4% PAL speedup at the bottom of the page. The reason I think this is because the Star Trek: TNG Blu-ray's are the same 24fps everywhere in the world... so PAL speed isn't an issue.

So it's almost exactly 12 minutes longer than the broadcast version. I'm sure the "hybrid extended cut" is longer, however.

Interesting. The movies usually ARE sped up by 4%--wonder why the TV show is not.

With bluray there is no PAL or NTSC any more. Because the format supports multiple frame rates in all regions, there is no need for any speed up, in most cases the tv show or movie can be presented in its original format (as long as the TV supports it).

I see, but for releases that are on both formats such as the 2009 TOS movie re-releases they listed times that did indicate a speed-up.