Star Trek: Next Generation The Best Of

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Do you remember the good old days when a tv season was 20+ episodes? If you can believe it, the first season of Star Trek: Next Generation had 26 episodes! I have the complete DVD collection and I've wondered why they look relatively crappy and have hoped for a Blu Ray version of the collection. Here is why it currently does not exist and explains why the DVDs don't look very good:

Blu Ray of Star Trek The Next Generation A Possibility:

During a presentation at the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas (Aug 2010), a question was asked about a Blu-ray release of the Star Trek: The Next Generation series. CBS Consumer Products VP John Van Citters replied that an HD remaster of TNG is "incredibly difficult without making them look awful." However, there are conversations going on within CBS on the issue, and Van Citters expected it to happen eventually.

The Digital Bits goes into further detail as to why a high-definition remaster of The Next Generation is much more problematic than of the older Star Trek: The Original Series. TNG was shot on film, but all post-production and visual effects were done on standard-definition analog video. As Bits editor Bill Hunt states, "if they just simply digitally upconverted from 480i to 1080p, there's NOBODY who would want to buy that on Blu-ray". Therefore, the only solution left is to scan all the original camera negatives, edit it again in HD, and redo all FX using computer graphics, like CBS did with the remastered versions of The Original Series.

In depth espisode list info located here:
* Memory Alpha Next Generation Episode List- easier to navigate then the Startrek.com link.
* Star Trek.com Episode List



Best of SEASON ONE

* Encounter At Farpoint, Part 1 and 2: Series Launch Episodes. Q challenges Human Being's worthiness.
* The Naked Now- As a result of a contagion, the crew becomes uninhibited and among other events, Tasha Yar and Data get it on.
* The Last Outpost- Meet the Ferengi.
* Justice- The perfect un-inhibited planet full of hot babes. Just don't break any rules as Wesley Crusher finds out the hard way even though it's an accident.
* Hide and Q- All Q episodes are mandatory.
* Haven- Deanna Troi is expected to marry and her mother takes a shine to Picard.
* The Big Goodbye- First Dixon Hill holodeck episode.
* Datalore- Data meets his evil brother Lore.
* Angel One- Women rule and men look pretty.
* 11001001- Bynars try to steal from the Enterprise while supposedly fixing it.
* When the Bough Breaks- When your defenses are killing you.
* Home Soil- Terraformers meet micro intelligence.
* Coming of Age- Wesley tries for Starfleet Academy. Related to another episode Conspiracy.
* Heart of Glory- Klingon fugitives.
* Skin of Evil- A prominent crew member dies.
* We'll Always Have Paris- Time loops.
* Conspiracy- Aliens try to infiltrate and take over Starfleet.
* The Neutral Zone- Romulans and hint of the Crystiline Entity, the raveger of planets.

 

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I would be ecstatic if they could pull off remastering it and re-doing the effects to release it on Blu-Ray. Unfortunately, I don't really see that happening.

 

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I would be ecstatic if they could pull off remastering it and re-doing the effects to release it on Blu-Ray. Unfortunately, I don't really see that happening.

Let's say we won't be holding our breaths?

 

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Indeed... but it is somewhat encouraging to hear that it's a possibility rather than flat out saying it isn't going to happen like I was hearing when I first found out about the issue.

 

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Still working On Season 2 but here goes:
Best of Season Two
*Elementary, Dear Data- Holodeck episode with Dr. Moriarty!
*The Schizoid Man- Ira Graves takes over Data!
*A Matter of Honor- Riker serves on a Klingon Ship!
*Contagion- Neutral Zone and Romulans- what's not to love?
*Q Who?- A miffed Q who has been ejected from the Q Continuum and is not allowed to join the Enterprise crew, sends the Enterprise 7000 light years into uncharted reaches to meet... THE BORG! Yes THE BORG!
*Samaritan Snare- The slow Pakled are pretty cagey. but still on the slow side. It is revealed that Picard has a heart replacement based on an event while he was a cadet when he picked a fight with some Nausicaans.
*Up The Long Ladder- Two dissimilar groups of colonists have to mix and learn to live together. I love this episode.
*Man Hunt- An outstanding episode with the Enterprise bringing Antedeans (fishy people) to a conference on Pacifica along with Diana Troi's mother Lwaxana Troi who just happens to be 'in-heat' a betazoid midlife event that raises her sexual drive exponentially, hence the name of the episode. Lwaxana pursues Picard who seeks shelter in the Holodeck as Dixon Hill. This is STNG at it's finest.