Star Trek TMP: First Viewing Opinion and Queries

[Tallguy]

I know the Director's Edition is revered around here, but I find many of the things they did to be unnecessary.

I appreciate Wise's better edit and the glorious finished sound mix.

 

[CoveTom]

I appreciate Wise's better edit and the glorious finished sound mix.

The sound mix is one of the things that drives me nuts in the DE. It is so much more bland and less interesting than the theatrical sound mix, IMHO. I also don't like how they did stuff just for the sake of doing it. The mantra was supposedly that they were just finishing the film the way it would have been done in 1979 if they'd had the time. No one in 1979 was looking to insert a TOS shuttlecraft into the film.