News Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director's Cut is being restored in 4K, launching first on Paramount+

Agreed!

 

I hope so. I still consider TMP a living document…a work in progress.

 

Also the lack of consistency bothers me. If you’re gonna use the chyron to orient the audience that you’re on Earth, why wouldn’t you also throw one noting “Klingon Space,” “Epsilon 9,” and “Vulcan?” Out of the 4 main locations we visit in the first 15 minutes of the movie, Earth is the one that needs the least amount of explanation to the audience. I mean, the Golden Gate Bridge is a dead giveaway…

 

Looks like the team handling the restoration work on the theatrical version of TMP that will be on the 4K UHD set decided to do their own 'fixes' to the film.

- Leaving Drydock
They attempted to fix the arm goof that causes portions of the Drydock to turn invisible. Problem is that they simply copied and pasted one frame of the portion that would disappear, so now the stars in that part are completely frozen in place.

- Wormhole
The blue screen bleed has been fixed and a star field has been added to the asteroid explosion.

Twitter Users StarTrekVisComp has pictures.
https://twitter.com/StarTrekVisComp/status/1421259854686171143?s=20

 

My guess would be Starfleet Command was specifically identified in the DE because the original “establishing shot” was the floor logo with the words “Starfleet Command” on it. There was probably a spirited debate on the subject.

 

Yeah that original logo was an idiot shot. Random shot of the logo on the floor. Is that something that's done? Can you go into CIA headquarters or FBI and they have their logo on the ground that everybody walks on?

 

I love the tight opening shot on that floor logo. That combined with the crashing Jerry Goldsmith score really helps make that scene.

 

Harrison Ford does in Patriot Games when he enters the CIA building.

 

It was also the first visible UFP "globe" logo in the franchise.

 

The center of the Student Union at my university had big tile version of the seal on the floor. It was surrounded by velvet ropes precisely so people wouldn't walk on it and scuff it up. It was a big enough room that the big ten-foot-wide no-man's-land in the exact center wasn't too much of an obstacle.

 

Well fortunately it's preserved in a later shot.
Maybe they should have had a shot where Spock was kneeling next to a symbol that said " Vulcan meditation spot". That way it would be real obvious that he wasn't on Earth.

 

Those fixes are worrying, if we aren’t getting the SLV version I was hoping we’d at least get an unaltered theatrical cut.

 

Yes very worrying.
Thankfully the theatrical version is already on Blu-ray

 

IIRC, the insert shot of the Starfleet Command logo was dropped into the original edit when they had to cut a matte shot that wasn’t going to be completed in time.

 

Bill Hunt says the drydock shot is as per the theatrical release, which is interesting.

https://twitter.com/BillHuntBits/status/1421884245706821634?s=19

 

Reminds me of how, when you get down to it, defining the "original" version of a movie isn't always easy. For instance, is the original version of Star Wars the one with the takes of Aunt Beru's dialogue from the stereo mix (which was used on all the home videos), or the one used for the mono audio, which more people would've seen in the theater in 1977? Or at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, there was an extra visual effects shot added to the end a couple weeks after the initial release to make it clearer that the Falcon was attached to the Medical Frigate. Never mind getting into the people who grew up with the SLV instead of the theatrical cut (or, after so long, there are people who only ever saw the DE) in the case of TMP itself.

 

And what's the original version of Star Trek The Wrath of Khan if you saw in 70 mm you didn't get the number included in the title but if you saw it in a regular screening you did. So I guess every single release of Wrath of Khan since beginning of Home Video has been altered for some people

 

And then there's the original test screening print of GEN wherein Dr. Soran kills Kirk by shooting him the back and Kirk dies in Picard's arms. We can see the original Kirk death scene but only Paramount and the test screening audience saw the original edit.

 

https://www.pri.org/file/cia01webjpg

 

Yes another poster already indicated that you can walk on the CIA logo if you want to.
I find it kind of weird. The US government has all kinds of protocols and procedures for treating the flag you can't let it touch the ground you can't throw them away they must be properly disposed of, Etc. But the CIA logo just go ahead and take a nice stroll right over it.