Display in C&C. The top display shows Space Craft THX1138 (Circled) in the docking bay just before Captain Pierce is pictured, in a nod to George Lucas. The bottom display shows the aliens scanning the language banks in the station computer. The top word was supposed to be ORAC. They did get FORBIN, NOMAD and SKYNET correct. Acknowledging SCI FI computer systems that have gone rogue.
Colossus/Guardian has too many letters to fit on one line in the limited font available in 23rd century Earth Force computer systems.
Always consider the perspective. The Minbari have essentially been...I don't want to use the word "stagnant" but let's say "a plateaued trinary homogony" for going on a thousand years. They have what they feel is a perfectly elegant system: three castes. You pick your lane, you stay in it, you continue to do so until you die and always do what your elders tell you.
Interesting. I was watching on a phone, but I was noticing that on like Marcus’s moustache you can make out the individual hairs vs the original were it’s just a brown thing. So if they went to the film masters that Straczynski said they had to deliver at the end of each season, then it looks like Warner Brothers at least made a 480p scan, (maybe even a PAL 576p at 24 frames and then for NTSC converted from that) whereas the original 90’s transfers, even the widescreen versions were all done at 480i and 576i (the PAL masters, which are the source for the NTSC widescreen DVD’s and files would’ve been in 576i, which is PAL SD).
The Complete Remastered series is available on iTunes Canada for $59.99 CAD. Odd thing though, it appears that, according to the couple of episode trailers I checked, the main episodes are in 4x3, for all 5 seasons, but “The Gathering” is included and it’s been Remastered in 16x9 Anamorphic Widescreen!!! So on the DVD’s and for years on streaming “The Gathering” was in 4x3 for both versions while the rest were widescreen,, but now they’ve Remastered it in Widescreen and put the Rest of the Remasters in 4x3!
Well for Babylon 5 we know that there are Digital Betacam 4x3 NTSC & PAL masters from the 90’s, 4x3 35mm film masters that were last viewed in the 90’s and Digital Betacam 16x9 PAL masters. I’ve only looked at them on a phone but the remasters look like they came from a new film scan at 576p or 480p (Or they could’ve done a 4K or 1080 scan and only released the SD versions.). Even in SD, on a phone there was more detail than the old masters has. Of course if they did an HD scan of the film it would be nice if a Blu-Ray was released!
