Which TOS movie had the best color grading?

[Commander Kielbasa]

Which TOS film do you feel looked the best, in terms of color grading?

 

[Michael]

For me it's between the cool blues of The Motion Picture and the warm color palette of The Wrath of Khan. Both had exquisit vibrant color worlds!

 

[DeepSpaceYorks]

Yeah, TMP has a wonderful consistently beautiful colour palette. It looks very unlike the rest of the movies which are all quite muddy in my opinion.

 

[Michael]

 

[Hey Missy]

I wish someone would do that movie barcode thing for the first twelve Trek films.

 

[m.lp.ql.m]

I wish someone would do that movie barcode thing for the first twelve Trek films.

The index says they have. The index isn't hyperlinked tho.

 

[Tosk]

Most of the older movies have had multiple color gradings, so it all depends on which DVD or Blu-ray you watch. (Such as WOK, which gets a new look every release. And Generations, which has been smothered in green for the more recent releases for some reason.) So bear in mind that the chosen palette for the film when shot and the modern color grading may be two different things. That said...

The Motion Picture

Wrath of Khan

Search For Spock

The Voyage Home

The Final Frontier

The Undiscovered Country

Generations

First Contact

Insurrection

Nemesis

Star Trek

Into Darkness

 

[Hey Missy]

Jeez, I thought Into Darkness looked too blue but that's ridiculous

 

[Cγrano Mudd]

I think The Motion Picture had the most appealing color palette.