Next Gen should get HD Remastering

[DumbDumb2007]

I watched part of Encounter at Farpoint the other night. That episode and teh rest of the First season as well as the rest of teh whole series would look terrific remastered into High Definition DVD.
The part at the begining of EAF involving Q and his interception of the Enterprise and it's escape at High speed with the Aft Torpedoes would look wild redone with sharper clarity.
How soon would the Next Gen get it's remastering treatment ? The whole show is looking dated and should get remastered to the Hilt. The planets the ship visited look blurry and out of focus and are not in proportion to the ship or screen.
The Enterprise-D when first seen is slightly crooked and looks like a model. It should be tweaked and have it's silvery finish toned down a bit.
It would look wild redone.

 

[nx1701g]

I believe Okuda said in interviews that they hope to redo TNG when they are finished with TOS.

 

[TeutonicNights]

I'm experiencing nIb'poH -the feeling I've done this before

 

[JJohnson]

And the planets look rear-projected onto a concave bowl to me. Looking at TOS-R, TNG would only improve from the treatment.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

I want to see medieval paintings with better perspective.

 

[toughlittleship]

I'm totally biased, so I want to see new effects in Birthright and Timescape first.

 

[trevanian]

I wish they'd redone some of the first couple years of TNG's fx and either left TOS alone or just recomp the original elements, rather than bring in the often-less-than-ideal CG stuff.

Replacing the TOS elements with new CG is the main reason I am not getting the HD-DVDs (tweaking the music bugs me too, but not anywhere near as much as messing with the visuals), and so I am fine with the old TOS season sets on DVD.

Then again, while I own a few years of DS9, I can't imagine buying TNG or the other ModernTrek series no matter what they do to change them.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Ironically, it will be more difficult to remaster TNG because, IIRC, many of the episodes were done in low-res NTSC video and not with film as a master like TOS. This will make it very difficult to pull out any real detailing, as it just isn't there in the source material. That may have changed later in the series and/or for DS9 and Voyager, but I still foresee quality issues down the road for that project.

 

[DumbDumb2007]

TOs should be remastered further, sanother overhaul. The special effects still look cartoon like.

How were the planets made tha tthe Enterprise orbited ? where they matte paintings ?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Moving to TNG

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

137th Gebirg said:
Ironically, it will be more difficult to remaster TNG because, IIRC, many of the episodes were done in low-res NTSC video and not with film as a master like TOS.

No, I believe all live-action shooting in TNG was done on film. And Paramount still has the original film footage safely stored away.

All of the effects and editing, however, were done on videotape. This is why TNG (along with DS9 and Voyager) must be remastered if it is ever to be shown in HD.

Enterprise is the only Trek series that was designed from the ground up to be shown in HD and thus requires no remastering.

 

[CoveTom]

^ The fact that TNG's effects were done on video, however, means that in order to remaster it for HD, the special effects would have to be entirely scrapped and entirely new effects would have to be created from scratch for every single scene. Not just big space shots, but any use of special effects what-so-ever.

Even in cases where an effect was composited into a live action shot, the original live action footage could be used, but they'd have to go back to the original film with no effects and composite in new effects from scratch.

That level of work, which is far above and beyond even what they are doing for TOS-R, would seem to me to be rather cost prohibitive. It also seems a shame to have to go to that extreme, since many of TNG's effects were quite decent.

 

[FalTorPan]

DumbDumb2007 said:
The Enterprise-D when first seen is slightly crooked and looks like a model. It should be tweaked and have it's silvery finish toned down a bit.

Crooked? Silvery? When?

 

[Spider]

There are already threads in here discussing the remastering of TNG.

Closing for duplication.