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Published Feb 21, 2023

All Four 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Films Arriving on 4K Ultra HD for First Time Ever

Relive the adventures of Captain Picard and his crew in time for First Contact Day!

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StarTrek.com is thrilled to reveal all four big-screen adventures featuring fan-favorite Star Trek characters Picard , Riker , Data , La Forge , Worf , Troi , and Dr. Crusher arrive for the first time ever on 4K Ultra HD™ with Dolby Vision™* and HDR-10 on April 4, 2023 , just in time for First Contact Day (April 5, the day Vulcans first made contact with humans).

The journey begins with original cast members Kirk, Scott, and Chekov in a story that spans space and time in Star Trek Generations , continuing with a terrifying face off against the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact , a dangerous plot against a peaceful planet in Star Trek: Insurrection , and a familiar old foe returning in Star Trek Nemesis .

All four films will be available together in the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION 4-MOVIE COLLECTION . The 4-Movie Collection includes each film on 4K Ultra HD, as well as fully remastered on Blu-ray™, plus all legacy bonus content and access to Digital copies of each film.  The Collection is presented in a slipcase beautifully illustrated to complement the Star Trek : The Original 6-Movie Collection , making this a must-own set to complete every fan’s collection.

In addition, each film will be available individually on 4K Ultra HD with a bonus Blu-ray featuring the fully remastered film, along with all legacy bonus content and access to a Digital copy of the film.

Special features are detailed below.

STAR TREK GENERATIONS Bonus Content

• Commentary by director David Carson and Manny Coto
• Commentary by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore
• Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
• Library Computer
• Uniting Two Legends
• Stellar Cartography: Creating the Illusion
• Strange New Worlds: The Valley of Fire
• Scoring Trek
• Inside ILM: Models & Miniatures
• Crashing the Enterprise
• Main Title Sequence
• The Nexus Ribbon
• Saucer Crash Sequence
• A Tribute to Matt Jeffries
• The Enterprise Lineage
• Captain Picard’s Family Album
• Creating 24th Century Weapons
• Next Generation Designer Flashback Andrew Probert
• Stellar Cartography on Earth
• Brent Spiner - Data and Beyond Part 1
• Trek Roundtable: Generations
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 007: Trilithium
• Deleted Scenes

STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT Bonus Content

• Commentary by director and actor Jonathan Frakes
• Commentary by screenplay writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore
• Commentary by Damon Lindelof and Anthony Pascale
• Text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
• Making First Contact
• The Art of First Contact
• The Missile Silo
• The Deflector Dish
• From “ A ” to “ E ”
• Borg Queen Assembly
• Escape Pod Launch
• Borg Queen’s Demise
• Jerry Goldsmith: A Tribute
• The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane
• First Contact : The Possibilities
• Industrial Light & Magic - The Next Generation
• Greetings from the International Space Station
• SpaceShipOne’s Historic Flight
• Brent Spiner - Data and Beyond Part 2
• Trek Roundtable: First Contact
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 008: Temporal Vortex
• Unimatrix One
• Design Matrix

STAR TREK: INSURRECTION Bonus Content

• Commentary by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis
• It Takes a Village
• Location, Location, Location
• The Art of Insurrection
• Anatomy of a Stunt
• Making Star Trek: Insurrection
• Director’s Notebook
• Westmore’s Aliens
• Westmore’s Legacy
• Star Trek ’s Beautiful Alien Women
• Marina Sirtis - The Counselor Is In
• Brent Spiner - Data and Beyond Part 3
• Trek Roundtable: Insurrection
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 009: The Origins of the Ba’ku and Son’a Conflict
• Shuttle Chase
• Advertising

STAR TREK NEMESIS Bonus Content

• Commentary by director Stuart Baird
• Commentary by producer Rick Berman
• Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
• Nemesis Revisited
• New Frontiers – Stuart Baird on Directing Nemesis
• Storyboarding the Action
• Red Alert! Shooting the Action of Nemesis
• Build and Rebuild
• Four-Wheeling in the Final Frontier
• Screen Test: Shinzon
• A Star Trek Family’s Final Journey
• A Bold Vision of The Final Frontier
• The Enterprise-E
• Reunion with The Rikers
• Today’s Tech Tomorrow’s Data
• Robot Hall of Fame
• Brent Spiner - Data and Beyond Part 4
• Trek Roundtable: Nemesis
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 010: Thalaron Radiation
• Romulan Lore
• Shinzon & the Viceroy
• Romulan Design
• The Romulan Senate
• The Scimitar

* To experience Dolby Vision on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc, a Dolby Vision enabled TV is required with a Dolby Vision enabled 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player.

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Review: ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection’ 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Is An Engaging Upgrade

| April 4, 2023 | By: Matt Wright 67 comments so far

Just in time for First Contact Day on Wednesday, the four Star Trek: Next Generation movies have been newly rescanned and released in 4K Ultra High Definition. The films are being released today in a new boxed set edition as well as individual releases. This review covers the new boxed set.

Seeing The Next Generation crew “graduate” to the silver screen, like The Original Series crew did before them, was a momentous occasion for a Trek fan in 1994. Generations didn’t quite live up to the hype, but it sure did look nice, showing just how great the Enterprise-D sets could appear with more cinematic lighting. The new 4K HDR transfer gives the moody Enterprise interiors a bit more room to breathe, and the harsh sunlight of Veridian III looks a little bit more natural than before.

The Enterprise-D bridge in the new 4K remaster

The Enterprise-D bridge in the 2009 HD version

The sophomore outing for the crew, First Contact was an instant success, setting a high bar for future Trek movies. The next film, Insurrection , is enjoyable in the spirit of an expanded episode of TNG, but not exactly blockbuster status. (Screenwriter Michael Piller’s Fade In: The Making of Star Trek Insurrection documents all the changes the plot went through to get to the average outing we ended up with.)

Geordi looks over Ba’ku with real eyes in the 4k restoration

Geordi looks over Ba’ku with real eyes in 2009 HD

First Contact and Insurrection were both directed by Jonathan Frakes with cinematographer Matthew Leonetti. Both films look great and both have similar gains in this new 4K transfer. Arguably, First Contact is the best-looking of the 4 films. Insurrection started to use more CGI, so it has a few softer or less convincing shots here and there. Where the two films really shine (pun intended) is in the natural lighting when our characters get off the ship. The new HDR dynamic range also helps with small things like the specular highlights from sweat beads in the hot and humid (39.1ºC) Borgified sections of the Enterprise-E.

The detail and gleam from the sweat elevate the feeling of being there to a new level

Picard and Borg Queen (2009)

After Insurrection didn’t reach the heights of First Contact , the future of the TNG film franchise was mulled over by Paramount leadership, stalling the cadence of Trek film releases. Eventually, Nemesis was released in 2002. The film desperately wanted to say something about roads not taken, age, mortality, and sacrifice for comrades, but it just didn’t land (for a number of reasons that are well-known to Trek fans). Sadly, this ended the TNG cast’s time on the silver screen. Nemesis comes to 4K looking as good as it ever has. The darkly lit throne room scenes are a bit better refined in HDR, but it’s not a massive difference. For those wondering, the dune buggy chase on Kolarus III is just as blown out as ever since that was an intentional style choice.

Captain Picard bids farewell to newly promoted Captain Riker in Nemesis (4K)

Captain Picard bids farewell to newly promoted Captain Riker in Nemesis (HD)

The Ultra HD Blu-ray set

The boxed set comes with a large 8-disc flipper case inside. The four Ultra HD Blu-ray versions of the movies are in the front half, and then in the back half are the four movies on standard HD Blu-ray discs. The Blu-ray discs are based on the same newly restored versions of the films, just in 1080p. The Ultra HD movies are also sold individually. And new versions of the 1080p Blu-ray movies are also available, sold individually, for those who haven’t made the leap to 4K/HDR.

Video Quality

The short version: These four movies look great. The wider color gamut of Ultra HD allows for richer colors; for example, the deep shades of the departmental colors in the uniforms. It’s especially noticeable in Generations , where the later season TNG uniform is still used. The films also benefit from a restrained HDR grade that helps retain details in the extremes (dark/light) of a scene.

Geordi and Data discuss Data’s emotion chip (2023)

Geordi and Data discuss Data’s emotion chip (2009)

Unlike the TOS movies, the TNG movies fared a bit better in their older 2009 versions. The older versions still leave quite a bit to desired, with too much grain reduction at times and certainly too much sharpening applied, which makes them look a bit too digital. Those versions might have looked pretty good in the early 2000s when they were first created, but as TVs have gotten larger and better quality, they’ve started to look pretty ragged. Thankfully, the new 4K scans of the original 35mm films freshen them up and make them as engaging as ever, with skin tones and skin texture looking noticeably more natural now.

Data and the Borg Queen (2023)

Data and the Borg Queen (2009)

Audio Quality

The audio mixes are effectively the same excellent lossless 5.1 Dolby TrueHD mixes that were released with the previous Blu-rays; however, this time it’s presented in 7.1 format. I will say I’m slightly disappointed they didn’t remix the movies in Dolby Atmos, but that isn’t a deal-killer by any means. The mixes were great in 2009 and still sound great on a modern surround system.

Having a 5.1.4 Dolby Atmos system, I can attest that the audio tracks work very nicely via Dolby Surround Upmixer (DSU) to fill out a room (this is a technology to extrapolate Dolby Atmos-like sound from a traditional surround soundtrack). Doing a rewatch of the four films, I was quite engaged by both the video and audio.

Special Features

As is common practice, the Ultra HD Blu-ray discs have minimal special features to allow maximum space for the 4K video. The majority of the extras are found on the standard Blu-ray discs. This set carries over pretty much all of the special features from the  2009 versions  of the movies, which in turn carried over most of the DVD features from before. I recommend you check out  our review for more . (A full list of special features can be seen below)

There’s only one noteworthy feature missing: “The Captain’s Summit,” made for the original series 2009 boxed set and not released again. The summit included the Next Generation cast, so I had some small hope it might be included in this TNG boxed set. It’s understandable why “The Captain’s Summit” feature isn’t there, as it was a specially commissioned documentary that was included as a separate bonus disc, but it sure would be nice to make it available to people who don’t have the 2009 set.

Final thoughts

The four Next Gen movies have never looked better. For fans who enjoy these films and want to have them in the best possible format, this is a must-buy. Fans need to vote with their wallets. Releasing the movies only to digital is relatively easy and low cost for Paramount (the remastered First Contact has quietly been available in digital for a year now), but physical media requires time and effort since it is a physical product. Showing the studio that fans want Trek movies on physical media is important.

Streaming rights come and go and vary by region, so the only surefire way to collect these movies in 4K to keep as your own is on disc. And at least for the US version of the set, it comes with a code for a digital copy of each movie, so you can have your handy digital version while also showing your support for the disc format.

Available today

Standard Blu-ray

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Full list of features

Star Trek Generations  4K Ultra HD

• Commentary by director David Carson and Manny Coto
• Commentary by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore
• Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda

Star Trek Generations Blu-ray

• Text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
• Library Computer
• Uniting Two Legends
• Stellar Cartography: Creating the Illusion
• Strange New Worlds: The Valley of Fire
• Scoring Trek
• Inside ILM: Models & Miniatures
• Crashing the Enterprise
• Main Title Sequence
• The Nexus Ribbon
• Saucer Crash Sequence
• A Tribute to Matt Jeffries 
• The Enterprise Lineage
• Captain Picard’s Family Album
• Creating 24 th  Century Weapons
• Next Generation Designer Flashback Andrew Probert
• Stellar Cartography on Earth
• Brent Spiner – Data and Beyond Part 1
• Trek Roundtable:  Generations
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 007: Trilithium
• Deleted Scenes

Star Trek: First Contact  4K Ultra HD

• Commentary by director and actor Jonathan Frakes
• Commentary by screenplay writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore
• Commentary by Damon Lindelof and Anthony Pascale

Star Trek: First Contact  Blu-ray

• Making  First Contact
• The Art of  First Contact
• The Missile Silo
• The Deflector Dish
• From “A” to “E”
• Borg Queen Assembly
• Escape Pod Launch
• Borg Queen’s Demise
• Jerry Goldsmith: A Tribute
• The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane
• First Contact: The Possibilities
• Industrial Light & Magic – The Next Generation
• Greetings from the International Space Station
• SpaceShipOne’s Historic Flight
• Brent Spiner – Data and Beyond Part 2
• Trek Roundtable: First Contact
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 008: Temporal Vortex
• Unimatrix One
• Design Matrix

Star Trek: Insurrection  4K Ultra HD

• Commentary by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis

Star Trek: Insurrection Blu-ray

• It Takes a Village
• Location, Location, Location
• The Art of Insurrection
• Anatomy of a Stunt
• Making  Star Trek: Insurrection
• Director’s Notebook
• Westmore’s Aliens
• Westmore’s Legacy
• Star Trek’s Beautiful Alien Women
• Marina Sirtis – The Counselor Is In
• Brent Spiner – Data and Beyond Part 3
• Trek Roundtable: Insurrection
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 009: The Origins of the Ba’ku and Son’a Conflict
• Shuttle Chase
• Advertising

Star Trek Nemesis 4K Ultra HD

• Commentary by director Stuart Baird
• Commentary by producer Rick Berman
• Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda

Star Trek Nemesis Blu-ray

• Nemesis Revisited
• New Frontiers – Stuart Baird on Directing Nemesis
• Storyboarding the Action
• Red Alert! Shooting the Action of Nemesis
• Build and Rebuild
• Four-Wheeling in the Final Frontier
• Screen Test: Shinzon
• A Star Trek Family’s Final Journey
• A Bold Vision of The Final Frontier
• The Enterprise E
• Reunion with The Rikers
• Today’s Tech Tomorrow’s Data
• Robot Hall of Fame
• Brent Spiner – Data and Beyond Part 4
• Trek Roundtable: Nemesis
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 010: Thalaron Radiation
• Romulan Lore
• Shinzon & the Viceroy
• Romulan Design
• The Romulan Senate
• The Scimitar

More images

Captain Kirk in Generations (2023)

Captain Kirk in Generations (2009)

Picard pursues the Borg (2023)

Picard pursues the Borg (2009)

Riker and Geordi on Earth (2023)

Riker and Geordi on Earth (2009)

The landing party beams down to Ba’ku (2023)

The landing party beams down to Ba’ku (2009)

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Is it me, or are these 4K Shots a bit Darker then their HD counterparts? Is this some HDR thing?

I was wondering the same thing. The HD version looks better than the 4K shots.

NOTE: The screenshots included in this article are down-converted from 4K and HDR, so they’re not a perfect representation—they may appear darker on your screen than they will when watching the movie on a proper HDR display—but still give a good idea of the subtle improvements that give these latest editions a more filmic quality. Staring at still frames of a motion picture isn’t exactly how a film is intended to be watched, so take these as a general demonstration of the changes.

That note appeared after my Comment, so it’s all good

Ah! I didn’t catch the note.

Same here; thanks for clarifying :)

I agree and thought it was just me; the 2009 HD’s all look crisper and brighter than 2023, I don’t understand…

It’s like Star Trek :) They are so used to their Scanners and View Screens, that most forgotten to look outside the Window.

(aka Silent Run of the Normandy – Mass Effect)

That’s artificial sharpening. Look at the images full screen, there’s much more natural skin textures.

I own all of these already. Remaster Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and I’ll make it rain.

But according to this article things won’t happen unless everyone buys more physical media! Buy it all! Again and again!

some kind of Idol industry

no, “some kind of star trek”

Same here. How many times am I supposed to buy the same films, for God’s sake.

Nice to see Riker, as a character, getting his due on the promo art.

Alt TNG movies:

Generations – Tomorrows Enterprise (Ent D in 23rd Century) First Contact Insurrection – Into The Mirrorverse Nemesis – The Resurrection of Khan

Not sure how these stills were grabbed, but the brightness levels look far too low in the new version examples. Hopefully that’s due to how they were obtained.

I’m incredibly disappointed. I was expecting a dynamic new transfer that improved upon the original Blu ray release. Sure, there will obviously be greater resolution for the 4K, but these screen grabs look like a downgrade in terms of overall visual quality. Meh.

As the disclaimer says, these screenshots were made with an algorithm that adjusted the HDR for standard displays, it’s an art not a science, I targeted them for a bit brighter screen (200 nits) than it seems most people have, if you view it on a high quality display at higher brightness you can see they look just fine. I will re-do them at some point soon for 100 nits.

In person they look great.

Cool, good to know.

What about the included regular 1080p HD Blu-rays? I plan to get these, but although we do have a 4K display we don’t yet have a 4K player, and it may be a whole, during which time I’ll just be watching the “regular” 1080p Blus in these packages (where so many of the extras live anyway).

The same basic comments apply since they come from the same source. They look more natural/filmic and the color timing has been redone for the films, I think again, they look more natural, and in some cases a little warmer. Generations and First Contact are the most noticeable. In the older versions, Generations had a yellow cast to it, and First Contact was a little bit colder (bluer) in places.

I updated the images in the article, so you should be able to get a better idea of how the movies look now.

Super cool, but seriously; why are they all darker than the 2009 versions? WTHeck?

There’s a note right there in the article.

Yes, I see; but, like, every commenter is asking the same question. :)

Have to admit the screen-captures aren’t doing a good job convincing me. They look softer and darker.

Got my set in the mail today. Nice sturdy case for them. Cover art could be better but the price was very good for digital/blu/4k combo for 4 movies. Now i have all 13 features in combo packs except for VI and TMP those weren’t offered. VI directors cut was 4K only, TMP directors only available in limited box set no standard combo was offered. You could get the 4K and blu separately now for what they should have offered a combo for in the first place but that isn’t my point.

I’ve bought each of these 3 times already – on VHS, then DVD, then Blu-Ray. Nemesis, 4 times (the initial bare-bones DVD edition, then the two disc special edition). I’m sure these will look better than the 2009 edition, but I can’t justify buying them again. (Yes, I bought the TOS movies on 4K – but there we got the remastered TMP, and Director’s cut of TWOK.) But I’ll be there for Picard Season 3 in 4K!

I will probably just buy First Contact.

If they stick the landing I’ll be picking up PIC s3 as well. Big time rewatch value, here.

I’ll get FC and Insurrection. I love those two films!

Cool. Interesting to see that Star Trek has actually been too dark since 1994!

Ha! Good one!

I’m never sure what to do with these kind of reviews. The 4K images always look worse than the 2009 editions and you give us a NOTE as to why that is. So what exactly are we to take from this? Why provide us with screen grabs if they don’t actually show us what we would see on screen? If you (Paramount) want us to vote with our wallets, this won’t achieve that to be honest, because based on this review, I don’t need this set.

You’re right — the images with the review are completely unhelpful. It would have been better not to include them at all.

The thing is, I picked it up earlier today and just finished watching “Generations. Trust me when I say that it looks an order of magnitude better than the previous blu-rays. This is as crisp and clear and beautiful as that film has ever looked, and I every reason to expect the other three will be just as remarkable.

The other thing is, when you have a good TV/home theatre system these days, it’s somewhat pointless to debate things like “It’s too dark” since TVs have so many customizable settings. Before-and-after pictures just aren’t that helpful when any person can make their TV display a film any way they want…

Count me as one of the people who doesn’t understand all the “It’s too dark” people, for what it’s worth. Those people obviously don’t have their TVs set up properly. Or even if they do, and they still legit just think it’s darker than they would prefer, it would be a simple matter to go in and bump up the brightness 10% or something.

Thanks for the reply. This was really helpful. Would love to hear your thoughts on the other 3 films once you’ve seen them.

Surely someone has these image descriptions the wrong way around??

7 episodes into (Picard season 3) darkness and everyone is like: “second one, second one, second one!”

“If people don’t buy these on disc, it sends the message that streaming-only is okay.”

Sir, respectfully, this is your own narrative.

Sometimes… if people don’t buy new released on disc… it’s more often because the releases are lazy, overpriced or do not add any specific extra value. ie: no Atmos remixes.

That last part is certainly true for me. I’ll buy any new updated edition IF it’s worth it (price, content, quality), but only then. You can only spend your money once (this might be a Dutch expression).

Also that whole “buy now to send the right message” is kinda consumerist. But then again, he didn’t say WHEN to buy it. ;) You could wait till the price goes down haha.

It goes beyond being consumerist. I enjoy reading reviews of new products, and unbiased recommendations are useful. That statement is not.

My biggest problem with physical media releases are the mind-boggling attempts that studios make to DARE me to not make future purchases…

• Forced movie trailers / advertisements when I insert the disc in the player.
• Painful navigation menu animations.
• A closing title screen / copyright paragraph at the end of EVERY single special feature segment or deleted scene. To the point of sometimes the end title copyright paragraph is longer than the deleted scene clip.
• The sheer laziness and disdain of special features ported over from previous releases not converted to 16:9 so that the formatting goes screwy on your TV…. or not doing a simple upscale to HD of old SD special features.

I found that statement incredibly distasteful. Because 1) what if we think streaming-only is okay. 2) what if we just don’t want to buy these discs.

It might be fine for someone to say in the comment section, but for the site to peddle that message is bad form, and hardly any kind of journalism. At best it essentially paints those who don’t buy the discs as bad fans, and at worst, it comes across as a paid endorsement, and makes me wonder if they were told to push that message — or some “go buy this” message — in exchange for free copies.

We get it. You think streaming only is just fine, which you’ve said all over our comments any time a physical media release comes up. So then you’ve made your choice, and you’re voting with your wallet. Which is really what my point was, vote with your wallet. I encourage people to support physical media, and in the current business climate of physical media becoming a niche, this is what we’re going to get, and it’s not a bad upgrade for $18/movie that you own forever. You’ve made your choice. Now please move on.

“Showing the studio that fans want Trek movies on physical media is important…If people don’t buy these on disc, it sends the message that streaming-only is okay.”

I disagree with this (and I’m a big supporter of physical media). These need to be in 4K HDR anyway because that future-proofs them for streaming in the future when the public will prefer 4k HDR streaming (and the future bandwidth will support it for most homes/locations).

Besides, they’re not going to use the expensive physical methods to eventually upgrade DS9 and Voyager to 4K. Instead, they’re going to use AI/deep learning software remastering tools — once these tools mature in the next three to five years — to remaster them to 4K via software/AI.

That all being said, I’m still going to pick this up for my collection. I just don’t believe in this rationale that’s all

Yup. This does not look like a great product, so the message it sends if everyone buys it isn’t “they want high quality physical media,” it’s “wow, they’ll buy lackluster products.”

Every single one of the 2009 screencaps looks better to me. Hopefully the movies will look better to me in motion.

As the disclaimer says, these screenshots were made with an algorithm that adjusted the HDR for standard displays, it’s an art not a science, I targeted them for a bit brighter screen (200 nits) than it seems most people have, if you view it on a high quality display at higher brightness you can see they look just fine. I will re-do them at some point soon for 100 nits.

They look great in person.

Just don’t understand why they’re Not in Atmos, and the same for 2,3,4 and 5 when The Motion Picture is. So I don’t think I’ll be buying. Pointless

I care more about the lack of original theatrical audio. It wasn’t a deal breaker i bought the 4K/blu set. But wish i could retire my DVD’s and Laserdiscs. I have no idea why all the studios now never include the original mix. Even Disney just released Cinderella in 4K its mono mix was left off, ridiculous. Its the original audio.

Surely it would be better to compare remastered blu ray to the older blu ray. Then you’d see the difference. I have the 4k remaster and in 4k her dolby vision is much brighter than these screenshot which do a dis service to the release.

I typically do Blu-ray to Blu-ray (apple to apples), this was an experiment with this review. I will re-do the screenshots at some point soon to better match the standard Blu-ray shots.

I found these screenshot comparisons perfect. I know the brightness will be different on my TV – it’s the detail and colour I’m interested in and these screenshots you provided show it all perfectly. Thanks to your review I am very excited to own this box set once it is available in my country.

Thank you, that was my hope when I first posted the shots, but it became clear I needed to re-do them since people were really distracted by the brightness differences.

I haven’t seen any announcements for release dates in other countries, which is disappointing.

Not everyone understands how HDR and 4K generally works. It’s not easy to capture in a computer screenshot. The fact you got it as clear and useful as you did deserves applause in my book! You’re doing great work for us Trek (and physical media) fans.

I agree, too. Please do not take it wrong @Matt Wright.

The New 4K Update Pictures looks now more fuller then their HD Counterparts

Much more filmic and natural looking over the overly-sharpened 2009 versions, can’t wait to see them in person (minus Nemesis, the worst Trek movie)

Hard pass. Especially Generations which was a real missed opportunity. TNG is great…. when done as a TOS movie era movie series!

Watched the 4K discs over the last couple of days, they are a MONUMENTAL upgrade over the excessively sharpened & DNR-laden 2009 Blu-rays.

(IMO) You must be half crazy (in the most innocent sense..) to pay those prices for what in essence is a product offering a different, but arguably marginal difference, in picture quality, no dolby atmos, and no new special features compared to the blu-ray 2009 edition. Paramount will not have worked especially hard with ‘remastering these’ because if they did, why wouldn’t they have upgraded the sound, and included at least one or two new features offering an up to date perspective on the film/s? These should be premium products but what are you actually paying for here? A somewhat different picture and that’s about it really.. seems extraordinarily expensive to me. But, if some find that worth it that’s OK. Maybe just a bit jealous I don’t have that sort of money to burn (lol).

I loved the lighting in Generations. The Bridge actually looked great dimly lit with the industrial lighting in the door alcoves… I also loved the warm orange from the Veridian star and wished more episodes considered how the external environment would effect the lighting in the ship. Overall, childhood fond memories made me love this movie no matter its faults (which I will agree is many)

Great review Matt. Lovin’ your work. It’s not easy to capture 4K screenshots (most reviewers don’t bother) and so it’s been great to see comparisons that are helpful. The detail and colours are an incredible upgrade. Also, the 7.1 mix is a draw for me.

I was always going to buy this box set, but this review has convinced me to pay top dollar for it instead of waiting like I sometimes do with these things!

I agree with the review’s comment on physical media. I love streaming, and it definitely has its place, but I’ve lost access to so many films and TV shows too many times. If I love something (as I do with these films and TV shows) I’ll always get them on disc if I can. Also, if my internet goes down – I can keep on Trekkin’! ;)

Are the included digital codes for upgraded versions of the movies on iTunes, or are the same releases? I already have the existing ones purchased, so don’t want to waste the codes.

The newer 4K versions of the TNG movies are on iTunes.

Typically (but not always) with digital purchases on iTunes you get access to the latest version of a movie. If you’ve already bought the TNG movies previously iTunes should offer up the newer version when you go back to it in the store. If the details say it’s available in 4K and Dolby Vision, you know it’s the new version.

A shame for Paramount these films aren’t worthy enough to do a Dolby Atmos 3D sound mix!

Rather disappointingly, there is less exposed frame on these 4K scans isn’t there? I’m watching Insurrection for instance, which had a geometric distortion corrected on the 2009 Blu-ray. By which I mean some shots the actors’ faces are heading towards an oval squashing. Coupled with the loss of picture at the edge of frame – cropping essentially – and I have to say there’s a difference here in the attention to detail applied to the original six films, and gleaning every last mm of picture information out of the frame.. that seems somewhat lacking in remastering First Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis. Generations is the best I think I’ve ever seen it, but that’s a small consolation.

Actually disregard my above post. Double checking – by playing the 2009 Blu-ray side-by-side with the UHD and I find no loss in the frame. There’s actually slightly more to either side of the picture.What I’m seeing might be just an effect of the over-sharpening on the old standard HD disc.

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Review: Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection

Watching Star Trek movies in the best currently available display options – 4K and high dynamic range (HDR) – has been a long time coming. 4K Blu-ray discs have been around for a few years now, but classic Star Trek movies have lacked any 4K presentations, save for the Director’s Cut of The Wrath of Khan from 2016. Now in time for the franchise’s 55 th anniversary, Paramount Home Entertainment is gracing us with 4K/HDR versions of the first four Star Trek movies, meaning this is the first time you can watch The Motion Picture, The Search for Spock , and The Voyage Home in 4K.

It’s a great milestone to celebrate, but what’s equally worth celebrating is that these transfers do a remarkable service to these movies.

What’s in the box?

Let’s start with what’s in the package. The Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection includes three ways to watch these movies:

• Four 4K/HDR Blu-ray discs (you’ll want to make sure you have an 4K/HDR-compatible TV and Blu-ray player)
• Four Blu-ray discs (meaning these movies are displayed in 1080p with no HDR)
• Digital copies of these movies

It’s worth noting that The Motion Picture in this collection is the theatrical cut, not the Director’s Edition. You’ll have to wait for the upcoming remastered Director’s Edition if you want to see that version in 4K. This collection does include the Director’s Cut of The Wrath of Khan as well as the theatrical version, so you get to choose which one you want to watch. Star Trek III and Star Trek IV are presented in their original theatrical cuts.

Our main question upon slipping these movies into our Blu-ray players: how does the visual quality of these releases compare to the existing versions of these movies? Well, we’re happy to report that these films look great . Of course, you expect a quality increase because you’re seeing more visual data than ever before, but the addition of HDR, assuming you have an HDR-capable TV, adds so much more depth to these movies. After all, you’re seeing a wider gamut of colors than previously possible. In our opinion, seeing these movies in HDR is just as important as seeing them in 4K.

Since we here at TrekNews.net have a soft spot for The Motion Picture , we’d like to point to that movie as a fantastic illustration of how these films have transferred to 4K/HDR. For example, we found ourselves enthralled watching some of the slower, previously nap-inducing V’Ger approach sequences because V’Ger’s model work and visual effects just look amazing . The surface detail on the ship itself is much sharper than we remember it being on the DVD or even the previously released 1080p Blu-ray, and the increase in color gamut really shows off the trippy 1970s, 2001: A Space Odyssey -esque sci-fi aesthetic.

Additionally, surface textures for the movie’s various sets and costumes stand out more than ever – rest assured that your eyes will be plenty busy absorbing all the movie’s detail, especially from some of the larger sets. While the increased resolution is overall a welcome improvement, it does mean that a staple of pre-CGI visual effects – matte lines – stand out a bit more. You’ll notice these lines as black outlines around ship models. We totally don’t mind the slightly distracting presence of these outlines, as they are a somewhat nostalgia staple of classic television, but don’t be surprised if you notice them a bit more.

The other perk of this release is that you can toggle the Dolby 2.0 isolated score at any time, which means you can watch the movie and hear only the soundtrack. Audiophiles will love this feature, and it’s a special treat in The Motion Picture thanks to Jeffrey Goldsmith’s classic, epic score. This feature is only available for The Motion Picture . We should note that this isolated score is the only new extra in this 2021 release for any of the included movies. Every other special feature was previously released (including the commentary, which is still super interesting if you haven’t listened to it), so if you’re looking for new special features, this package isn’t for you.

2009 vs. 2021 comparison

Please note: The 4K screencaps have not been captured

What about the extras?

Here’s a list of all the included special features in this collection, which you can see is pretty inclusive:

The Motion Picture 4K Blu-ray :

• Isolated Score (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• Commentary by Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Daren Dochterman

The Motion Picture Blu-ray :

• Library Computer Viewing Mode 
• Production: The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture 
• Special Star Trek Reunion 
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 001: The Mystery Behind V’Ger 
• Deleted Scenes 
• Storyboards: Vulcan; Enterprise Departure; V’Ger Revealed
• Teaser Trailer 
• Theatrical Trailer
• TV Spots 

The Wrath of Khan 4K Blu-ray:

• Commentary by Nicholas Meyer (Director’s Cut and Theatrical Version)
• Commentary by Nicholas Meyer and Manny Coto (Theatrical Version)

The Wrath of Khan Blu-ray :

• Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda (Director’s Cut)
• Library Computer Viewing Mode (Theatrical Version)
• The Genesis Effect: Engineering The Wrath of Khan  
• Production; Captain’s Log; Designing Khan; Original Interviews with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and Ricardo Montalbán; Where No Man Has Gone Before: The Visual Effects of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; James Horner: Composing Genesis 
• Collecting Star Trek’s Movie Relics
• A Novel Approach
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 002: Mystery Behind Ceti Alpha VI 
• A Tribute to Ricardo Montalbán 
• Main Title Concept
• Kobayashi Maru
• Ceti Alpha V
• Chekov and Terrell Find Khan
• Admiral’s Inspection
• Khan’s Revenge
• Kirk Strikes Back
• Finding the Genesis Cave
• The Mutara Nebula
• Sneak Attack
• Honored Dead
• Theatrical Trailer 

The Search for Spock 4K Blu-ray:

• Commentary by Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Charles Correll, and Robin Curtis
• Commentary by Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor

The Search for Spock Blu-ray:

• Ken Ralston on Models and Creature Effects Easter Egg 
• Captain’s Log 
• Terraforming and the Prime Directive 
• Industry Light & Magic: The Visual Effects of Star Trek 
• Spock: The Early Years 
• Space Docks and Birds-of-Prey 
• Speaking Klingon 
• Klingon and Vulcan Costumes 
• Star Trek and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame 
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 003: Mystery Behind the Vulcan Katra Transfer 
• Main Titles
• The Klingons Attack
• Entering Spacedock
• Search for Life
• Finding Spock
• The Destruction of the Grissom
• Stealing the Enterprise
• Self-Destruct
• Kirk Fights Kruge
• The Katra Ritual

The Voyage Home 4K Blu-ray

• Commentary by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
• Commentary by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman

The Voyage Home Blu-ray:

• Library Computer Viewing Mode (HD)
• Future’s Past: A Look Back 
• On Location 
• Dailies Deconstruction 
• Below-the-Line: Sound Design 
• Pavel Chekov’s Screen Moments 
• Time Travel: The Art of the Possible 
• The Language of Whales 
• A Vulcan Primer 
• Kirk’s Women 
• Star Trek: The Three-Picture Saga 
• Star Trek for a Cause 
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 004: The Whale Probe 
• From Outer Space to the Ocean 
• The Bird-of-Prey
• William Shatner 
• Leonard Nimoy 
• DeForest Kelley
• Roddenberry Scrapbook 
• Featured Artist: Mark Lenard 
• Production Gallery 
• Encounter with the Saratoga
• The Probe Approaches Earth
• The Whaling Ship
• Return to the 23rd Century
• Communication

While we’ve spoken highly of the first movie, it’s not just The Motion Picture that benefits from increased visual clarity (but it does perhaps benefit the most thanks to its age). Watching the classic The Wrath of Khan and seeing the Enterprise and Reliant fight in the Mutara Nebula is better than ever thanks to HDR; the escape sequence from Spacedock in The Search for Spock is even cooler to watch when both the Excelsior , Spacedock , and Enterprise are seen in such exquisite detail; and seeing 1986’s San Francisco in The Voyage Home in 4K pulls you more into the setting than ever before.

The release of these films also feature a strikingly different color grade than previous releases. If you compare the 2009 Blu-ray release of these movies with this new package, you’ll notice colors take on a more natural tone than before. Whoever mastered the 2009 discs clearly favored a more purplish and bluish color grade, leading to some scenes looking cold or out-of-place. A notable example we found when doing our watch-through was at the end of The Voyage Home when the Enterprise comes out of Spacedock . Do you remember the ship looking like it was almost totally cast in shadow, and the deflector dish looking a bit too acutely blue? That shot is totally different now thanks to the more normalized color grading. Rest assured that Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection presents these films’ colors in the best, most natural way we can hope for.

Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection does a great service to these classic movies and accomplishes admirably what the project set out to do: bring these films into the 4K-era. If you want the definitive way of watching these movies, this collection is for you. If you were picking this up hoping for a refreshed selection of special features, you’ll be disappointed, as the only new feature is the aforementioned isolated track for The Motion Picture . Moreover, if we’re waiting for Paramount to release a definitive collection of all the TOS -era films, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. While no announcement has been made about the last two TOS films getting the 4K/HDR treatment, we imagine that it has to happen at some point. After seeing the first four movies shine in 4K/HDR, it’s hard to imagine Paramount wouldn’t complete the collection. For now, definitely add this release to your home media collection.

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Available for preorder now, this set — billed as Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection, as we are expecting the later films to come in separate, follow-up sets — this new release will feature both improved picture quality with Dolby Vision mastering, along with an isolated score track for  The Motion Picture.   (This appears to be the only new bonus feature in the collection.)

The formal announcement:

For the first time ever, experience the original four Star Trek films in stunning 4K Ultra HD. Newly remastered from original elements for optimal picture quality, each film is presented with Dolby Vision® and HDR-10. This exceptional collection includes four Ultra HD discs, as well as four remastered Blu-ray discs with hours of previously released bonus content. Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (both the theatrical and director’s cut), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home are presented on both the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Discs, along with access to digital copies of the theatrical version of each film. 

While all of the other bonus features on the set are carried over from the previous Blu-ray editions ( fully detailed at the StarTrek.com announcement ), the standard Blu-ray discs in this new collection appear to contain the newly-remastered picture — which is great for those of you who haven’t yet made the leap to 4K but are interested in the upgraded visuals on each film.

Each of the original four  Star Trek films will also be available individually on Blu-ray…  Newly remastered versions of  Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan  (both the theatrical and director’s cut),  Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , and  Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home  are presented in high definition along with digital copies of the theatrical version of each film.

And good news, international fans — while this new collection arrives in the United States and Canada on September 7 , it’s not limited to North America!

The 4K  Star Trek film collection will make its way to the United Kingdom on September 6 , and then to France on September 8 , followed by Germany on September 9 . For those of you in other locations, no specific dates have been announced — but Paramount’s Blu-ray and 4K collections are typically region free so you may be able to import as needed.

As we mentioned above, this is the first four films only — and its quite likely that one follow-up set (featuring the six other films), or two follow-up sets (split between  V, VI, Generations and  First Contact / Insurrection / Nemesis ) will follow, however there’s no specific news on that front yet.

While we’ll take them all now, now, now! of course, this actually makes sense for a few reasons (if it occurs as we are speculating); it will be easier to ask fans to spend, say, $80 three times over a year, rather than one $300 price tag up front.

In addition, including one of the ‘premiere’  Trek films in each of our three hypothetical collections —  Wrath of Khan in the first one,  The Undiscovered Country in round two, and  First Contact in the third set — gives each collection a ‘draw’ for fans along the way.

The Digital Bits’ Bill Hunt also shared his insight into the situation on that site’s Facebook page:

For those wondering why this set only includes films 1-4, it’s because it takes time to remaster all these films and the studio is doing them in batches. You’ll get 4 on 9/7, and the others will follow next year. Besides, if Paramount released a 10-film 4K remastered box set first, people would b—- that it’s too expensive and they only wanted one or two of the films. The more of you who buy this first set now, the more comfortable Paramount will be in continuing to spend the money to release them all. Vote with your dollars and don’t get picky if you want them all. Fans who got picky with ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation – Remastered’ on Blu-ray essentially ensured that ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Remastered’ got cancelled.

The other question not yet answered: when will these remastered versions of the  Star Trek films land on streaming services? We know that the still-in-development  Director’s Edition of  The Motion Picture will arrive first as a Paramount+ exclusive, but there’s not yet any information on when we’ll see these other 4K editions outside of the Blu-ray format.

Fans in Europe have reported listings of  Star Trek: First Contact on the Rakuten streaming service in 4K UHD format, so it’s likely just a matter of time until the next round of  Star Trek films makes their way elsewhere.

While we wait for more information, you can preorder  Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection   today ahead of its September release.

We’ll continue to monitor this situation as things develop, so keep checking back to TrekCore for all the latest news!

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Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection (4K Ultra HD)

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Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection is a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc / Digital boxset, released on 3 April 2023 (UK), collecting the 4K UHD releases of Star Trek Generations , Star Trek: First Contact , Star Trek: Insurrection , and Star Trek Nemesis . As is currently usual with UHD/Blu-ray double releases, all special features (excepting the audio commentaries and isolated music score tracks) are only included on the Blu-ray version of the release.

The set constituted the completion of the remastering project to 4K HD 2160p resolution standards of the first ten Star Trek films which had started two years earlier with the Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection . All discs are in two Viva Elite cases (each containing the four respective 4K UHD and Blu-ray discs), packaged in a slipbox. As usual with these releases (geo-restricted to the US and British Canada only, as the – former Blu-ray Region B [1] – European releases do not have these) redeemable codes are included for the 4K resolution digital download versions of the films.

As is increasingly becoming commonplace, no DVD counterpart was issued for this release. Each of the four films though, saw an individual release in both a concurrent Blu-ray, and 4K UHD (without special features, save for the audio commentaries and isolated music scores) format version.

• 2 Background information
• 4 External links

Contents [ ]

For contents and special features, please refer to the individual entries for

• Star Trek Generations
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Star Trek: Insurrection
• Star Trek Nemesis

Background information [ ]

• Unlike the prior Original 4-Movie Collection , Australasia and Japan did not see their own set version releases, having to make do with imports, which was not much of an issue as the 4K UHD format was region-free with uniform contents for all territories, meaning that any import would do in those territories – or in any other territory elsewhere in the world for that matter. Both regions did see their own individual 4K UHD standalone releases though – albeit limited to three titles only in Japan's case.
• Germany on the other hand, saw the standalone versions released first before the set release six months later.
• While each of the four film titles have seen individual standalone Blu-ray releases, the box as a whole has not. Still, a corresponding Blu-ray box with identical cover art has seen a release later that year in November, though not as an individual standalone release, but rather as part of the Star Trek: The Picard Legacy Collection Blu-ray gift set release.

Footnote [ ]

• ↑ The Region geo-restricting encoding had, for all intent and purposes, been dispensed with all together by the industry upon the advent of the UHD format, even though that policy change has never been made public officially. This incidentally, has also applied for the Blu-ray disc format, whose region encoding was since late 2009 silently, but gradually, abandoned as well – which in Star Trek 's case started with the Blu-ray releases of TOS Season 2 and Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection [1] (X) – , only to pick up speed from the mid-2010s onward.

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• Review at TrekNews.net
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All six original STAR TREK big-screen adventures come to 4K UHD in one must-have collection. Starring the original series cast, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, and James Doohan, all have been remastered with HDR-10 and Dolby Vision for optimum picture quality from their original film elements. This new collection includes STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE—THE DIRECTOR’S EDITION, in addition to the original theatrical cut, as well as the Director’s Cut of STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN and STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. Packed with hours of special features, it is an essential STAR TREK collection for fans and beyond!

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• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.89 x 5.39 x 2.01 inches; 1.08 Pounds
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ 4K
• Release date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2022
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner
• Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Portuguese, Spanish, French
• Studio ‏ : ‎ PARAMOUNT
• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B4FV39M4
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 15
• #885 in Action & Adventure Blu-ray Discs

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