And now the same image in 16:9 crop cuz everyone hates those vertical black bars on either side of the screen (pillarboxing)... though thankfully that table/desk is pointless and adds nothing to this scene (where in other shows you'd see papers littered about the table/desk that can provide nonverbal cues, etc, and so on, to plotting):
That one's with manual height adjustment; most conversions people do just cut it along the middle since - unlike the 1950s - a typical TV show has hundreds of camera/POV shots and there's no way every last scene change is going to be re-calibrated, so the inevitable result is this:
Especially if the table/desk had plot-relevant tidbits on it, you'd be none the wiser... which, depending on genre or how complex and/or convoluted the script itself might otherwise be, is a good or bad thing...
I'll stick with pillarboxing, but it's all good. Well mostly, I could smooth out the window behind Geordi there... at least I took out the orange glow from the explosion... I could throw in a space clown hanging upside down-- well, maybe not...
Here’a an idea…on the Gary Seven episode, replace the moonshot on Scotty’s screen with Starship…maybe that as the first sketch in The Making of Star Trek.
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