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What We Left Behind - Documentary Update Confirms *Some* HD Remastering

Saw it last night. Best preordered purchase ever. It's very well worth the purchase for any DS9 fan (casual or hardcore), and I'd show it to any Trek fan who hasn't seen any 20th century Trek. The quality of the remastered footage blew me away as well, and I did not expect certain scenes to be included...
 
Amazon had my copy waiting on my doorstep this afternoon. Soon as the pizza gets here, will be popping this right into the Blu-ray player.
The movie that is... not the pizza.
 
The quality of the remastered footage blew me away as well, and I did not expect certain scenes to be included...
The richness of color inside the station blew me away. But, as a sucker for a good space battle - getting to see the Sacrifice of Angels sequence upgraded was ridiculously fun. I loved how they teased it. Ira was quite happy discussing what he wanted to discuss and then - show the damn space battle! :lol:
 
Yeah, they are very strong. That's why I shared a full size one with my wife. Here's a short clip of my buddy enjoying his mini and my wife sipping on our shared one. I really wish that place was still there. It was so fun having a drink at Quark's.

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Just watched this today.

What's left behind is a killer cliffhanger. The imagined opener for Season Eight is nothing short of exciting to watch and listen unfold. Love the storyboarding!
 
Just watched the Blu-Ray last night. It was interesting. But the real highlights are the HD scenes from DS9. The CGI from “Sacrifice of Angels” in 16:9, the destruction of the USS Odyssey From “The Jem’Hadar” (1:01:21 on the Blu-Ray) (Of course you can tell how great it looks in 16:9 HD since seconds later at 1:01:56 they cut to a upressed shot 4:3 from Voyager’s “Caretaker” Of Voyager leaving DS9 and the D2 Composite Videotape looks horrendous and Voyager even looks washed out, with very little hull detailing, compared to the Odyssey, and the station has a lot of rainbowing around Ops and the finer detailing indicating a Composite Video source). Does the original CGI ever hold up or what? Even in 16:9 it just adds to it (it’s not like the Babylon 5 DVD’s, since those were SD Videotape crops —-it does add the scale, but video quality isn’t there) and looks a lot better than the DVD’s or the Broadcast versions.

Come on CBS, DS9 and Voyager need to be seen in HD!
 
Yeah, that remastering is...masterful. The colors and depth of black are striking. It just gives solid texture to otherwise flat images. Wow. Just WOW!

I know it's a matter of money and manpower, but DS9 and Voyager seriously need upgrading to HD. I'd love to see "Emissary" and "Caretaker" in full High Definition. Would definitely reinforce how these adventures actually take place in deep space...
 
In the remastering The didn’t get the Odyssey destruction quit right. On the DVD after the Jem’Hadar ship crashes into the Odyssey, a piece of the ship flies out and strikes the Odyssey’s nacelle. The ship part is missing on the documentary—-maybe they couldn’t find it. But you do see the Reliant’s nacelle pretty good in HD.
 
^I noticed the lack of nacelle-hitting as well.

I hope if a full-blown HD restoration effort was made that it would include those sorts of little touches. The "Sacrifice of Angels" shots, as glorious as they were, seemed to have some inconsistencies with the original material as well.

It's hard to say how much of this sort of stuff constitutes a big deal, especially as that could vary by viewer. The first example bothers me a bit more than the second.
 
I love how Rene Auberjonois wryly commented how he was concerned he would be best remembered in his obituary as Clayton Endicott III from Benson (a show I loved) before he was cast as Odo. I always saw early Odo as an extension of Clayton...perhaps too much exposure to Benson's caustic barbs...
 
Interesting that, unlike TNG, the filmmakers for DS9 (and presumably VOYAGER) shot the series with widescreen protection in order to future proof it. The footage looks pretty amazing at 16:9! I believe THE X-FILES did the same filming method, as that premiered the same year as DS9.

A series remaster seems like a tall order, but if I could just get a full remaster of the “Emissary” pilot alone I’d be be ecstatic. DS9 always looked more visually interesting than TNG, and the HD footage really shows how intricate the sets were.
 
There was no "finding" going on, the shot in the doc was recreated in CGI.
Really? And in CG they would recreate the wrong nacelle (the original used the Reliant nacelle from Trek II) flying towards the screen rather than making it a Galaxy Class nacelle? The only CGI in that scene was the flames and dust cloud.
 
Yes. Fully CGI. The lighting is different, the Odyssey model is different, the camera shake is different, the explosion is different...
And in CG they would recreate the wrong nacelle (the original used the Reliant nacelle from Trek II) flying towards the screen rather than making it a Galaxy Class nacelle?
No, the CGI shot does not have a Miranda class nacelle, it replaces it with the correct Galaxy class nacelle.
The only CGI in that scene was the flames and dust cloud.
It's brand new, top to bottom. You don't have to take my word for it, compare them side by side for yourself.
 
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