Title: Star Trek Generations
ken1701e - June 19, 2004 08:26 AM (GMT)
FROM TREK TODAY
The Star Trek: Generations special edition DVD release will include deleted scenes and commentary by writers Brannon Braga and Ron Moore among its features.
The Digital Bits has reported that the two-disc set, which will be released in the US on September 7th, will include an alternate ending, presumably the controversial original climax which was changed after negative test audience response to the ending seen in the theatrical version.
The film Generations, in anamorphic widescreen video (1.85:1) with Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 audio, will take up the first disc in the set, accompanied by audio commentary by Braga and Moore and text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda. The bulk of the special features, however, will be on the second disc, in sections entitled The Star Trek Universe, Production, Visual Effects, Scene Deconstruction, Deleted Scenes and Archives.
The Star Trek Universe will include a tribute to designer Matt Jeffries, a segment on 24th Century Weapons and "Captain Picard's Family Album." The highlight of the Production section will be "Uniting Two Legends", presumably Kirk and Picard, and a featurette on stellar cartography.
ILM's models will be spotlighted in the Visual Effects area, along with a demonstration of how the crash of the Enterprise was accomplished. Deconstructed scenes will include the Nexus ribbon and the crash of the saucer section. But the highlight for many fans will undoubtedly be the deleted scenes, which includes "Christmas with the Picards", an orbital skydiving sequence and "Walking the Plank."
The complete official details may be found at The Digital Bits. The most recent Star Trek special edition DVD release, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, is available from Amazon.com.
Number Six - June 19, 2004 09:16 AM (GMT)
Something to look forward to.I've never seen the alternate ending but it has to be better than the one we've got. I hate that ending with a passion :angry:
Crichton Kicks - June 19, 2004 10:02 AM (GMT)
It should have the original opening "sky-diving" scene as well by the sounds of it, that was quite good.
Can't wait for this one, even the audio commentary with Braga won't seem quite as bad if Ron Moore's there as well.
Number Six - June 19, 2004 10:08 AM (GMT)
So what was the original ending? :unsure:
Crichton Kicks - June 19, 2004 10:46 AM (GMT)
Can't remember offhand, something to do with an even more downbeat Kirk death if memory serves, but don't hold me to it :)
Phillip Culley - July 27, 2004 07:26 AM (GMT)
The extras are as such:
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Four deleted scenes -Orbital Skydiving / Walking The Plank / Christmas With The Picards / Alternative Ending;
A Tribute To Matt Jefferies - The Art Director who Designed the Original U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
The Enterprise Lineage
Captain Picard's Family Album
Creating 24th Century Weapons
Uniting Two Legends
Stellar Cartography: Creating The Illusion
ST Range New Worlds: The Valley Of Fire
Inside ILM: Models and Miniatures
Crashing The Enterprise
Scene Deconstruction - Main Title Sequence / The Nexus Ribbon / Saucer Crash Sequence
Storyboards
Production Gallery. |
ken1701e - July 27, 2004 06:39 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Angel @ Jun 19 2004, 12:46 PM) |
| Can't remember offhand, something to do with an even more downbeat Kirk death if memory serves, but don't hold me to it :) |
The original ending just had Kirk shot in the back and not dying trying to save the day,
They should have never killed Kirk off - one of the biggest single mistakes B+B have ever done!!!
Crichton Kicks - July 28, 2004 03:09 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (ken1701e @ Jul 27 2004, 07:39 PM) |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Jun 19 2004, 12:46 PM) | | Can't remember offhand, something to do with an even more downbeat Kirk death if memory serves, but don't hold me to it :) |
The original ending just had Kirk shot in the back and not dying trying to save the day,
They should have never killed Kirk off - one of the biggest single mistakes B+B have ever done!!!
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Berman alone should take the brunt on that one. Back then Braga was a writer still, he and Ron Moore wrote Generations.