Best of Both Worlds Remastered ; Battle of Wolf 359 shown..

[Computer]

Re: Best of Both Worlds Remastered ; Battle of Wolf 359 sho

I tend to agree with the idea of not showing the battle of Wolf359.

When the Admiral says "The battle does not go well" and the Enterprise arriving at the destroyed fleet worked very well dramatically.

However to please both camps they could always do a little something more with the Mars "Defense" Parimeter than 3 little drones racing to their obvious destruction.

Maybe a shot of squadrons of fighters being deployed from Mars (Futile I know but it would still be cool)

OR (while the Enterprise is enroute to intercept the Borg) we see a young couple walking along the bay in San Francisco when their attention is drawn to a reflection of a flash in the water coming from above, they both look up as we cut thrugh the clouds and atmosphere to the Borg blasting the hell out of Starbase 1.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Re: Best of Both Worlds Remastered ; Battle of Wolf 359 sho

gastrof said:
You can have widescreen that's Standard Def, and High Def that's not widescreen.

Actually, no, you can't have HD that isn't widescreen.

All HD material must, by definition, be widescreen. It's part of the spec.

TOS-R includes the black bars on the sides as part of the image. That's why it can be HD even though the source material is 4:3.

 

[BolianAuthor]

Re: Best of Both Worlds Remastered ; Battle of Wolf 359 sho

GalaxyX said:
I think pretty much everyone has seen the "aftermath" of the battle.

Personally I'd sacrifice a little of the "shock" factor to see a row of over 30 ships get their asses whooped by a single Borg cube. Can you imagine 10 mins of just pure insane fighting, with the Borg swatting the helpless Federation ships like tiny fruitflies?

Then afterward, show the Enterprise pass thru a "very detailed" version of the aftermath. I think it would still be quite shocking.

What TNG needs really is to spice up it's already current FX shots (make ship movements longer, more detailed, better backgrounds, more camera/panning/zooming, etc) AND it needs to add "implied" scenes (like the 20 ships that were going to form a "Tackyon Grid", I think we saw 3 ships of that armada? Show the full 20 this time. And for the scene with Data uncovering the Romulan ship, show a huge extended scene of the ship firing torpedoes and destabilizing the cloak, and have the Warbird pull these crazy maneubers to get out of dodge, and get it's ass back to Romulan space.

This is what to me would make me buy the entire TNG collection (You hear that Paramount????? Redo all the FX shots in TNG a'la TOS': "Doomsday Machine" and my wallet automatically becomes yours!!!!!

If they do as you say, it won't be quite shocking, it'll be quite boring... we'll have wasted 10 minutes of screen time to basically seeing 40 ships go down without a prayer of a chnace... so if we know that's going on, why would we want to sit through it? We did that during "First Contact"... we don't have to do it again. Besides, the Dominion War gave us enough "epic-scale, hopeless battles" to sit through.

I agree, that from a dramatic standpoint, it totally ruins the impact of the Enterprise going through the debris field, if they also show the battle. That scene was written purely for visual and emotional impact... to show us suddenly, and without preparation, just how much devastation the Borg were capable of visiting upon us... with ONE ship!

 

[RAMA]

Re: Best of Both Worlds Remastered ; Battle of Wolf 359 sho

I don't think they NEED to shoehorn the battle into BoBW, but new FX for the graveyard could add some clarity and scale to the scenes...the screen caps from it show how low rez it is.

RAMA

 

[SPCTRE]

The best we could hope for is more closeups of the wrecked space junk in the 'graveyard' scenes.

That would so awesome simply for the fact that Bernd over at Ex Astris Scientia would have a field day

My inner fanboi would sell his grandmother to get his hands on some Cheyenne and New Orleans class wreckages in HD

 

[seekertwo]

More wreckage....more destruction....maybe a warp core or two detonating as the E-D arrives on scene....

...and maybe some "enhancements" on the Mars battle...like more fighters and a few cadet training ships (like the Enterprise in TWOK) in the fray...