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Published Jul 6, 2022

Fully Restored Director's Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture Arrives on 4K Ultra HD

The original six big-screen adventures also arrive on 4K Ultra HD September 6 in time for Star Trek Day.

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Set a course for the final frontier as the newly restored Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition arrives September 6, 2022 on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray™ with a bonus Blu-ray Disc™ filled with new and legacy special features from Paramount Home Entertainment. The film will also be released in a Limited-Edition Collector’s Set entitled “The Complete Adventure,” which includes the new Director’s Edition, the theatrical cut, and a special longer cut all on 4K Ultra HD along with special features on Blu-ray. In addition, Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture Collection will arrive on September 6 with all six big-screen adventures featuring the original series crew on 4K Ultra HD.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition Remastered Trailer

Originally released in 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture became the fourth highest grossing movie of the year and earned three Academy Award® nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, and Best Music, Original Score. The film successfully launched the Star Trek franchise beyond the original television series, despite having been rushed to theaters with incomplete special effects and forced editing choices.

In 2001, director Robert Wise revisited the film to refine the edit and enhance the visual effects. His updated vision was released on DVD in standard definition and embraced by fans but has never been available in higher definition until now.  Meticulously assembled and restored by producer David C. Fein with post-production supervisor Mike Matessino, both of whom originally collaborated with Wise, the film has been prepared for presentation in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision™ high dynamic range (HDR) and a new powerful and immersive Dolby Atmos® soundtrack. Fein and Matessino assembled a team of visual effects experts, led by returning visual effects supervisor Daren R. Dochterman, and utilized the extensive resources in the Paramount Archives to recreate the effects not just in HD, but in Ultra HD. After more than six months of painstaking work, the updated movie looks and sounds better than ever while staying true to Wise’s original intention.

“ The Director’s Edition on 4k Ultra HD delivers an experience that is far more intimate, engaging, and powerful thanks to the hard work of everyone involved,” said Fein.  “In building The Complete Adventure, we appreciated that many people who were first introduced to the film through the full frame release of the ‘Special Longer Version’ have missed it.  I’m excited that it will now be available for the first time in widescreen 4k Ultra HD. After so many years, it’s deeply rewarding to finally deliver Robert Wise’s definitive Director’s Edition for fans to enjoy at home.”

Following is an overview of the new product offerings:

Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition 4K Ultra HD

The newly restored, definitive version of the first big-screen adventure is presented in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision™ and HDR-10, as well as Dolby Atmos®.  Also includes access to a Digital copy of the film and the following new and legacy bonus content:

Ultra HD Disc bonus features:

• Audio Commentary with David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren R. Dochterman—NEW!
• Audio Commentary by Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Jerry Goldsmith, and Stephen Collins?
• Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda?

Blu-ray Disc™ bonus features:

• The Human Adventure —An all-new 8-part documentary detailing how the Director’s Edition came to life—NEW!
• Preparing the Future – How the remastering began
• A Wise Choice – The storied history of Robert Wise
• Refitting the Enterprise – How the Enterprise design shaped future federation starships
• Sounding Off – Exploring new dimensions of sound in Dolby Atmos
• V’ger - The conception and restoration of an iconic alien antagonist
• Return to Tomorrow – Reaching an already high bar with new CGI effects
• A Grand Theme – Behind the iconic, influential music score that shaped the franchise’s future
• The Grand Vision – The legacy and evolving reputation of this classic movie
• Deleted Scenes — NEW!
• Effects Tests — NEW!
• Costume Tests — NEW!
• Computer Display Graphics — NEW!
• Additional legacy bonus content

Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition—The Complete Adventure 4K Ultra HD

This Limited-Edition Collector’s Set includes all of the above, plus an additional 4K Ultra HD disc containing:

• The Theatrical Cut
• The first-ever widescreen presentation of the Special Longer Version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , originally created for broadcast television in 1983

The set is presented in deluxe packaging along with exclusive collectibles, including reproductions of original promotional material, a booklet with behind-the-scenes images, stickers, and more.

Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture Collection

This comprehensive 15-disc collection includes the first six big-screen adventures featuring the original series crew in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision and HDR-10. ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition also includes Dolby Atmos).  Both Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country are making their 4K Ultra HD debuts.  The set also includes access to Digital copies of each of the six films, as well as hours of new and legacy bonus content.  Below is a breakdown of disc contents:

• Additional Blu-ray with bonus content
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Theatrical Cut) – Ultra HD & Blu-ray
• Includes Director’s Cut
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – Ultra HD & Blu-ray
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Ultra HD & Blu-ray
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier – Ultra HD & Blu-ray

All six of the feature films listed above will also be available individually on 4K Ultra HD or Blu-ray.

In addition, in celebration of its 40th anniversary, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan will return to select theaters on September 4th, 5th and 8th. Tickets for this special engagement presented by Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies, and Paramount Pictures can be purchased at www.fathomevents.com or at participating theater box offices.

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Paramount has released a trailer for its long-awaited release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture —The Director’s Edition .

The 1979 Robert Wise film has been given a special effects makeover and an upgrade to 4K HDR with Dolby Atmos sound.

In 2001, Wise revisited the film to refine the edit and enhance the visual effects. The result was released on DVD in standard definition, but this is the first time the edit been made available in high def. Though Wise passed away in 2005, producer David C. Fein and preservationist Mike Matessino assembled a team of effects experts, led by Daren Dochterman, to spend six months re-creating the original effects in Ultra HD for the new release.

“I couldn’t be prouder and more thrilled to have completed the film in 4K,” said Fein. “Paramount offered unprecedented access to the original elements and exceptional support, and the results are stunning. Utilizing the latest discoveries and innovations of modern film production, the Director’s Edition delivers so much more today than was previously possible. It’s an adventure you’ll never forget!”

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The Motion Picture starred William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk and launched the Trek franchise onto the big screen, helping spawn a new generation of films. Critics were not impressed, however, with many panning the film for its slow pace (all those long tracking shots of the docked ship!) and a cerebral story (centered around the Enterprise crew investigating a mysterious destructive spacecraft headed toward Earth). Still, the film is often credited as one of the most attractive and cinematic of the Trek films. And the next entry in the series, 1982’s Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan , is widely considered the franchise’s best work.

The Director’s Edition will debut on Paramount+ on April 5 and will arrive on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in September.

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Review: ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition’ Stuns On 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

| September 7, 2022 | By: Matt Wright 51 comments so far

Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition has come home in three editions. A 2-disc Ultra HD Blu-ray set, a 2-disc standard Blu-ray set, and a special limited edition 3-disc Ultra HD Blu-ray set called “The Complete Adventure.” This review will focus on the Ultra HD Blu-ray set and the US version of the limited edition box set.

The Motion Picture

Before there was a movie franchise, there was simply Star Trek: The Motion Picture . As the name states, this was a film based on Star Trek: The Original Series , released 10 years after the series was canceled , it was an almost unheard idea to not only bring back a canceled TV show but do it on the silver screen. Rushed to theaters in December 1979, the cerebral style and more quiet pacing make it stand apart from the later Trek films. Yet TMP seems to have undergone a reevaluation in the last 10 years — more people seem to like it, with less complaints about it being the “motionless picture.” Due to the grand scale and scope of Robert Wise’s film, it is also the most fitting to have a near-total rework done to unleash the visual and aural splendor that was hiding underneath the hazy veneer of the rushed post-production. There’s much more that could be said of the The Motion Picture and this latest Director’s Edition , if you’re interested to read more I highly recommend reading my colleague Brian’s review when the 2022 DE was released on Paramount+ earlier this year.

Spock returns to the Enterprise.

The Director’s Edition in Ultra HD

This brand new for 2022 edition is based on the blueprint of the previous 2001 standard definition DVD Director’s Edition , but everything has been worked on with modern tools for 4K and HDR. Perhaps most importantly, this time the DE team was able to recover a significant amount of the original visual effects footage, and were thus able to re-composite a number of visual effects shots, making those shots look amazingly clear. No less importantly, the team also found a significant amount of original dialog replacement (ADR) recordings, and recordings of background audio that were to be used in comm chatter if time hadn’t run out in 1979. It’s hard to convey just how much is different and yet the same with this edition. It’s like the movie we all knew but it’s been heightened.

Spock goes rocketing into the heart of V’Ger

NOTE: Most of the screenshots included in this article are from the 1080p trailer video. The 4k HDR versions look even better. Staring at still frames of a motion picture isn’t exactly how a film is intended to be watched, so take these as general demonstration of the changes.

The Ultra HD Blu-ray set

The standard retail edition contains two discs: the main film, and a disc of bonus features.

Video Quality

The new 2022 Director’s Edition is a stunning film, using modern remastering tools, along with the re-composited original elements and new renders of the CGI scenes that were inserted for the DE. The film is gorgeous. The movie looks sharp and clean, with a level of detail and color (yes there’s rich saturated colors in the film, despite the ’70s color palette used for the costumes) that’s never been seen before. The film looks noticeably better in the extremes, like the dark blues of the V’Ger interior and the bright explosion as the Enterprise emerges. Thanks to HDR that brightness is quite bright, but never overwhelms the details inside the transformation. These high complexity, high brightness scenes are where the streaming version on Paramount+ started to break down (getting blockier), thanks to the high bitrate of being on disc, there aren’t any such issues here.

If I had to quibble, I would say things look perhaps a bit too clean for a movie from 1979. A lot of grain reduction was done to the 35mm elements, while not in a way that compromises image quality, it’s just a bit surprising to see very subtle film grain in a movie of the era. I assume the intent was to make everything match the fine grain 65mm visual effects elements that they were able to pull from the archives.

Audio Quality

Just as impressive as the remastered visuals is the brand new Dolby Atmos audio mix. As mentioned above, this isn’t just a new mix of the existing audio elements, there are a lot of new sounds/dialog thanks to the team finding director Wise’s preferred dialog takes, new background chatter recordings, etc. Jerry Goldsmith’s score really makes the film, and it has been lovingly crafted into the brand new Atmos mix by legendary music producer (and Goldsmith collaborator) Bruce Botnik. I’m going to quote Brian’s review since he described this new mix so deftly earlier this year:

Every environment is more sonically active. The Enterprise is full of many different sounds that really gives you the feel of being on starship, and V’Ger itself has far more of an auditory presence and feels more menacing and mysterious. The music cues from Jerry Goldsmith’s legendary score have been remixed under the supervision of engineer/producer Bruce Botnick, a longtime colleague of Goldsmith’s who was part of the original scoring sessions in 1979. Some of the cues feel like they’ve been remixed in a way that favors a particular instrument, but by and large the score remains the same and sounds better than ever.

The wormhole dissipates thanks to a well-placed photon torpedo.

Special Features

On the main feature disc you get a new audio commentary from the Director’s Edition crew along with legacy commentaries, and an isolated score feature. Here is the full breakdown:

• Audio Commentary by David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren R. Dochterman ( NEW )
• Audio Commentary by Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Jerry Goldsmith, and Stephen Collins
• Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda
• Isolated Score

Things get even better: no matter which version you buy, you get a second disc, a standard Blu-ray filled with new and legacy features.

New features

There’s a new 8-part documentary titled “The Human Adventure,” which runs about 48 minutes in total. This includes new interviews with the DE team, and others. Notably we hear from visual effects pioneer John Dykstra, who split duties with the late Douglass Trumbull on the visual effects for TMP.

Most exciting for hardcore TMP fans are going to be the deleted scenes the DE team was able to unearth. First and foremost is the long-assumed lost scene of Decker and the Ilia probe in engineering (a portion of which can be seen in the embedded promo video at the bottom of this review). Additionally, the team found the scene where the security guard is killed by the V’Ger probe — which frankly isn’t all that interesting. And video only of the corresponding scene at the end of the movie where the security guard is mentioned in the casualty list.

Scotty looks watches the Ilia probe examine engineering in a deleted scene.

Also neat are the little vignettes of the screen tests of the effects and costumes. For graphics nerds, there’s a very cool feature of all the bridge (and one or two sickbay) animated display graphics scanned from the original film sources that were looped behind the displays on set.

Here is a complete breakdown the new special features:

• Preparing the Future (HD – 4:13)
• A Wise Choice (HD – 4:04)
• Refitting the  Enterprise  (HD – 6:57)
• Sounding Off (HD – 6:47)
• V’ger (HD – 6:53)
• Return to Tomorrow (HD – 6:04)
• A Grand Theme (HD – 7:14)
• The Grand Vision (HD – 6:02)
• Ilia & Decker in Engineering (HD – 3:16)
• Security Guard (HD – :39)
• Three Casualties (HD – :35)
• Effects Tests (HD – 3:30)
• Costume Tests (HD – 4:40)
• Computer Display Graphics (HD – 3:10)

Legacy features

Notably, this includes the two TMP-centric parts of Roger Lay Jr’s excellent documentaries from the 50th anniversary boxed set.

• Phase II: The Lost Enterprise (SD – 12:39)
• A Bold New Enterprise (SD – 29:41)
• Redirecting the Future (SD – 14:06)
• The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture (HD – 10:44)
• Special Star Trek Reunion (HD – 9:37)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 001: The Mystery Behind V’Ger (HD – 4:24)
• The New Frontier: Resurrecting Star Trek (HD – 30:01)
• Maiden Voyage: Making Star Trek: The Motion Picture (HD – 29:13)
• Vulcan (HD)
• Enterprise Departure (HD)
• V’Ger Revealed (HD)
• Trims (SD – 6:08)
• Outtakes/Memory Wall (SD – 2:49)
• Vulcan and Starfleet (SD – 4:15)
• Attack on the Enterprise (SD – 2:36)
• Cloud Journey (SD – 3:31)
• V’Ger Flyover (SD – 5:04)
• Wing Walk (SD – 4:48)
• Sulu and Ilia 1 (SD – 1:06)
• Sulu and Ilia 2 (SD – :27)
• Kirk’s Quarters (SD – :21)
• Officer’s Lounge (SD – :13)
• Attack on the Enterprise (SD – 1:08)
• Intruder Transformation (SD – :32)
• A Huge Vessel (SD – :47)
• Kirk Follows Spock (SD – 1:13)
• Ilia’s Quarters 1 (SD – 1:05)
• Ilia’s Quarters 2 (SD – 1:20)
• Its Creator Is a Machine (SD – :17)
• Teaser Trailer (HD – 2:18)
• Theatrical Trailer (HD – 2:29)
• Startle Your Senses
• Cast/Human Adventure
• Spiritual Search
• Spiritual/Startle Your Senses
• Spiritual/Human Adventure
• Event/Common Experience

The Complete Adventure

“The Complete Adventure” limited edition has everything in the regular Ultra HD Blu-ray set and adds a lot of fun extras. It includes reproductions of stickers and mini lobby cards from 1979, along with a nice booklet of behind-the-scenes information showing concept art, costumes, makeup, and matte paintings from the making of The Motion Picture . The discs are contained in a recreation of the awesome refit Enterprise cutaway poster.

Most importantly, the set adds another Ultra HD Blu-ray disc with 4K versions of the Theatrical and, exclusive to this set, the Special Longer Version. The various small “longer version” scenes are inserted to the theatrical version via seamless branching. So it’s all on one disc, when you first insert the disc you choose which of the two versions to play.

Since this disc is based upon the Theatrical version previously released, it contains the same legacy commentary with Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and Daren Dochterman. The SLV has no commentary track available.

The Special Longer Version (SLV) was last released on LaserDisc. Since then it hasn’t been on home video. There’s good reason for this, considering its origins as a padded “special edition” made for ABC to broadcas t in 1983 for their “Sunday Night Movie” program. Basically, every viable deleted scene was thrown back into TMP, whether they added anything to the story, and in some cases whether they even made sense from a continuity perspective, for a special presentation of the movie on ABC. This version was then marketed on home video as the “Special Longer Version.”

If you grew up watching TMP on VHS as I did, then you probably know this version fairly well. In the USA for quite some time it was the only version of the film sold. It’s really rather amazing that Paramount agreed to have this alternate version put together in 4K. It’s really only for completists, but I do like the idea that I have every major version available to me.

The video quality is effectively the same as the standard theatrical 4K release from 2021 , since that’s what this is disc is built upon. The SLV bits seem to have been cleaned up to about the same level as the theatrical version.

Likewise, audio quality is the same for the theatrical version, with the same Dolby TrueHD lossless 7.1 audio as the 2021 disc. However, when you choose the Special Longer Version, it is limited to a more basic stereo track.

The SLV has a rather infamous scene that was reinserted that has a major continuity error, and was totally unfinished. The scene is of Kirk deciding to follow Spock in an EV suit. This scene is actually from the scrapped “Memory Wall” sequence, which featured different spacesuits. So Kirk is seen suiting up with a different EV suit than when he ends up catching Spock — which is from the final cut with the more familiar EV suit design (seen again in TWOK). Kirk is seen jetting out of a hatch with obvious scaffolding around the portion of the set that was built. If the scene has made it to the final cut, it would have been inserted into a matte painting of the hull of the Enterprise, since it was scrapped, no such shot was made. For this new 4K version of the SLV, as a surprise for fans, this was fixed by adding digital matte of the Enterprise hull. If you want to see the difference, the original unaltered version is offered as “deleted scene.”

The scaffolding is now hidden by a new digital matte in this version of the SLV.

Available now

Star Trek: The Motion Picture –  The Director’s Edition was released in the USA on Tuesday, September 6 and you can pick it up at Amazon for $25.96 . The standard Blu-ray edition is selling for $17.99 . The limited edition “Complete Adventure” boxed set goes in and out of stock at Amazon, there is also limited stock at local Best Buy stores for $83.99 , so check both sellers.

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Promo Video

Paramount has released a portion of the deleted scene where Kirk prepares to broadcast a message down to engineering in the hopes that it will sway the Ilia probe.

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My Blu Ray arrived today and I’m so delighted. This is my favourite Trek film and one of my favourite films full stop. I’ve been looking forward to this for years.

Calling it cerebral is being kind. IMO now as in 1979 it’s a rehash of “The Changeling”. I will admit the presentation is better and I’m glad they got rid of that annoying computer voice.

No, they took “The Changeling” script and remastered it. ;-)

Well, I’d rather watch this movie than that episode. At least we’re spared Uhura having to learn to read again. Yeesh.

Counterpoint: “The Changeling” involves a probe on killing spree and a case of mistake identity. V’Ger is literally on a quest to find its creator in hope that its creator can give it an answer to the only question it has left. It’s about evolution, and as basic as the answer winds up being (“love, connection to another being”) it’s one you do have to think about while watching it, and the script is structured very nicely where Spock’s journey parallels it. V’Ger wants what we all want.

Well stated. Certainly TMP and “The Changling” share some basic story DNA, but TMP elevates it well beyond the TOS episode.

Definitely. It’s legitimate to note the similarities, but calling one a remake of the other is pretty facile.

Well said. V’Ger is on a philosophical quest; Nomad just calls Kirk creator because it thinks he built it. There are elements that are similar, but you could say the same of Star Trek II, which is essentially a delayed continuation of “Space Seed,” with Kirk and co going up against the exact same character (much less capable) as in the TV show.

in the end nomad is seen as a threat and kirk destroys it. v’ger is a mystery to be solved, leading to kirk and co understanding its nature and finding out how to give it what it needs without any more loss of life.

Oh goodness, can you imagine if this movie ended with Kirk talking VGer into self destructing? What a thought… The ending as it is, is transcendent (perhaps more by luck than by design since they didn’t even have an ending when they began filming).

The mysterious ending left the future for Spock – having seen the universe through V’Ger – incredibly open to IDIC within himself. Perhaps this was even more clear in the Roddenberry/Foster novel.

In subsequent films, Spock could have, in fact, should have shown some kind of growth..

As a high school student, going through some spiritual questions of my own, I wrote a fanfic about V’Ger inspiring Spock to renouncing logic. It was published in a very edited form, which I totally resented – she changed my story considerably. The editor’s reason was basically “the characters wouldn’t do this.” After that, I soured to fanfic. But happily focused on my own new characters and writing.

Just Roddenberry on the novel, not Foster.

Oh, interesting. I looked it up – Wikipedia says hecontributed to the story, not the novel.

Aside from Foster, who’s still with us, who can really say for sure? Either way, it’s not a bad piece of writing — more interesting, in many ways, than the film itself.

Foster has a limited edition book of his experiences writing for media but I guess it is OOP and super-expensive. Would love to get hold of it sometime, for the SW stuff if nothing else.

Re: Foster book.

Could it be The Director Should’ve Shot You?

Yeah, I think that is the title. I thought I’d bookmarked a site discussing it, but evidently not.

Totally off-topic, but I remember you were a huge Matheson fan, was reading an old FILMFAX Richard Matheson interview. Apparenty he hoped for a big studio verwsion of HELL HOUSE with Dick and Liz as the psychics and Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom as scientiest and wife. Gist is that he didn’t think that Hough took HELL HOUSE far enough, and that if they’d just waited till after EXORCIST hit, there’d have been studio interest in the property.

Also read that Blatty did an uncredited rewrite on THE OMEGA MAN (different article and issue), losing an arbitration for credit. Apparently his stuff is all of the one-liners (my favorite parts of the movie, which you know I love dearly despite its many lapses.)

There’s a huge McFarland book with horror interviews featuring Matheson, Kathryn Victor and tons of other folks. I was thinking of picking it up, it is a silver trade paperback. Have you ever read it?

spock does grow over time in the films, more relaxed in ‘khan’ and then kind of starting over as a person from ‘voyage home’ onwards

Got mine on Tuesday around 12 noon, so my afternoon was the celebratory viewing. Magnificent!

I had no idea McCoy’s ‘all us machines’ line was found — am very excited about that, and will have to talk to some folks about what kinds of editing equipment are needed to make my own cut of TMP, which will include ZERO CG images. (ideally it would have the original discarded Yuricich painting of Vulcan, the one that wasn’t all junked up with worlds in the sky that appeared in STARLOG a couple of times, but I haven’t ever found a high-rez image of it.) Would definitely cut the little guy fleeing ep9 as well.

A friend has been finessing the drydock scene to make a pretty big cut in the approach to E that won’t butcher the music (I think he has the same idea I’ve had, which is to skip the whole side-look and do the reveal as the pod comes around from the front), so he probably has the tools.

I’ll take the CGI, and you can have that original matte at the end that made the Enterprise’s saucer look like it was about twenty feet tall.

No argument about the latter, but I’m pretty sure that was one of the shots that production finished right at the end, but it didn’t get into the final, so theoretically they could have put the fixed version into this. In my theoretical cut, you wouldn’t even include the shot, I always thought the first shot (which looks bad on blu and dvd but to my eye looked fine in theater, on vhs and laserdisc) was more than enough to tell the story.

It’s okay, in spite of the distorted perspective. But I still think the CG replacement is far superior, and ties-in much better with the miniature footage (not to mention the original storyboards of how that shot was supposed to look).

I remember making my own cut of TMP on VHS back around 1982-’83, which horrified some people and delighted others. The approximate running time was 70-75 minutes, lol. I enjoy the film a lot more now, as it’s not as awfully dark as it was at the Century Theater Dome in San Jose, back in ’79.

You got that right about the Cen 22. I don’t know if you remember me telling you, but it was playing at the Plaza in Campbell a couple months later and I saw it there and it was so much brighter!

The Plaza was a 2nd run theater, but I wonder if they had union projectionists because movies always looked better there. I saw LOST HIGHWAY there too and the level of detail present wasn’t visible even on the DVD (the blu-ray did ‘catch up’ with the theatrical print.)

My memories of those days in San Jose are fairly vague, but I remember going to the Century to see Logan’s Rin in I guess the summer of ’76 (a day off from film school for me), I remember nearly walking out (but wanting to do so, badly!) on Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and I can’t remember if you were there, but seeing the first show on the first day of ALIEN, which was missing the sound on the first reel! So they had to fly in another first reel, but did the long line of movie-goers want to see the film from the beginning anyway? Of course everyone in that insanely long line screamed “YEAH!” lol

So it was like 20 minutes or whatever of the people in the Century making up dialogue and sound effects for the early parts of ALIEN, lol.

The thing I remember most about TMP at the Century being dark, was the opening sequence of the Klingon/V’Ger battle where the Klingon cruiser moves in and the great up and over turn as it moves away from us. It was so d@*n dark at the Century that I couldn’t see much of anything except inky blackness!

The new Bluray DE is SO NICE because I can see so much more, I can hear a lot more, and some of the edits/corrections (such as the V’Ger probe moving around the bridge!) have been very well “fixed” to the point where it doesn’t look so awful any longer!

I think the *only* thing I don’t like in this DE is the opening title animated (?) letters.

All in all, one of top my five favorite DVDs/Blurays of the year,

I read someplace today that Dochterman claims the titles are supposed to reflect the vger moire look as seen in the bridge probe and the evolution at the end. If so, it’s not a very good reflection. I mean, Apogee did a crappy job of emuating the evolution/transcendence moire on the bridge probe, but these titles from what I’ve seen are just ghastly. (I hated the DE DVD ones, too — it’s like somebody decided it would be cool to emulate the colors and fonts from a Stephen King omnibus — I think it was THE BACHMAN BOOKS. Plus I think all these titles that go out of focus like ST-FC are real headache inducers, Superman being the exception.)

Yeah, I don’t know, but the opening title letters just annoy the bleep outta me.

I’m making a cheap one hour film now for giggles, it’s all simple as possible. The only way to make it look any cheaper would be to use the awful Comic Sans font for the titles. It’s a story based on a weird old UFO urban legend from the ’60s, thus cheap is the only way to go, even for my 100th micro-budget film.

Have to agree about the titles, which are just over-the-top-tacky, like the “beaming-in” effect of the VOYAGE HOME title.

Agreed. Not a fan of the new sparkly titles.

I thought it was going to be more hype than anything else, but I was seriously blown away by the AUDIO mix. It’s a completely different movie with the Atmos mix. The dialogue… for the first time ever… sound more in line with the audio quality of a late 80’s Star Trek movie. Much richer bottom end in the vocals that never existed before. Quite remarkable for the super-fan.

The audio mix had a lot of little things in it that I never picked up before. The pulsing sounds of the warp engines as they were spinning up was one of my favorites.

Hello, Is this new DE version included in the new 1-6 UHD box set? I’m very confused

No it is not. That’s one of the reasons why we reviewed it separately. The DE is a standalone release.

I got my 1-6 box set and it has the TMP DE included as well as the original theatrical in 4K.

Thanks for that. You’re right, I totally missed that the 6 movie boxed set includes both TMP theatrical and DE. I assumed it was the effectively same set as the 4 movie set from 2021, but with Star Trek V and VI thrown in.

It’s worth every freaking penny I spent on it !!!

FREAKING MAGNIFICENT

Still available on Amazon,$83.99.

You could watch this film on 8K it would still be a load of rubbish

Looking forward to my copy arriving. Coming from the UK to Canada so won’t be here for another week or so though.

Bought this for the special features and am really glad to see the security guard scene after all these years. They featured the scene on Topps cards back in ’79. Guess I’ll have to wait for a future release to see Spock save Kirk from those “crystals” in the Memory Wall trench. Supposedly they had a rough cut of the whole thing before they scrapped it.

It’s hardly a “rough cut of the whole thing.” They filmed some of the crazy trench stuff and then scrapped it all. Whatever survives of it has been included as a bonus feature since the 2001 DE release. https://www.forgottentrek.com/the-motion-picture/producing-the-memory-wall-sequence/

Yeah, I’ve seen that site. I have lots of stills from the scene. I read they assembled what footage they had to show Trumbull before they decided to change things. I believe the book Return to Tomorrow mentions this but don’t have the book out. There are shots of Wise directing parts of this. Supposedly the wire work on the crystals and Shatner and Nimoy (and their doubles) didn’t look right so they had to have stuff to look at.

So I know this article mentions it, but does anybody here know the differences between the Director’s Cut and the Special Longer Version? The fact that I don’t get all the versions of the first one is literally the only thing that’s holding me back from purchasing the 6 film set.

The best resource I’ve seen is this 2 part video that shows what’s been inserted compared to the Theatrical edition. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnvrjMke-HM Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J390phDjyfs

This looks really poor in places.

Starfleet SF base water & other parts of the new VFX look terrible really shoddy low quality work that does not even fit into the scene at all.

Loads of scenes with dodgy glitchy travelling matte’s or visibly shaking models still in place.

They wasted all the miniscule budget they had on redoing things which did not need doing & do CALL ATTENTION to themselves as they do not fit the 1979 look at all yet did not bother fixing all the many still broken parts of the picture………!

The TV-Version of the movie is not part of The Complete Adventure-Box in Europe……

It depends on the country. In the UK it is included. Apparently in the German version it is not.

Daniel R.? ;-) I bet this is gonna scare off a lot of german buyers…

Got the 4K Director’s Edition yesterday and watched it with my brother last night. It’s still our favorite Star Trek Movie and I think the pacing of this version is just about right. The movie whizzed by and held our attention even though we’ve seen it countless times.

The new 4K restoration really brings out the details to a level not seen before and the new sound mix really stands out, giving the movie a richer soundscape. The pulsing sound of the warp engines as they spin up was something I’d never really noticed before for example.

I’m a little disappointed that the standard edition just comes with the 4K disc, a disc of extras (largely legacy material) and the digital copy of only the movie. That’s a little bare bones as other studios will routinely include a 1080p BluRay of the film and digital access to the extras as well in the package. In that regard the Paramount comes across as a bit stingy here.

Still, it’s great to finally have a high-res edition of my favorite version of my favorite Star Trek movie. They really don’t make movies like this anymore.

I don’t want to repeat my comments, but I’d love to see a recut and “demastered” tv-version which shows how the proposed tv-pilot of Phase II “in the image” could have looked like.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director’s Cut (1979) 4K Ultra + Blu-Ray + Digital Review

“Bones, there’s a thing out there.”

Perfection in sound and vision looks like this.

If you don’t get goosebumps over hearing Jerry Goldsmith ’s epic preamble in the fully restored Director’s Cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture then you ARE dead, son. D. E. A. D. There is a MIGHT and a FURY to that sequence, which is then followed by his glorious Main Titles Theme as the credits roll in director Robert Wise ’s science fiction epic . . . AND THEN the Klingon Battle theme!! Holy crap. Now, Goldsmith might have been influenced by Vaughan Williams - specifically the Third movement of Williams's Fourth Symphony - but it matters little when his bombastic compositions are matched with the striking upgrade in the visuals thanks to the work of everyone involved in this release.

Truth be told, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director’s Cut , now fully restored and remastered, is like nothing previously seen. This is, to be quite honest, a whole new experience for me. I know every scene and can quote it as if it is poetry (it is), yet it is breathtakingly new in EVERY DAMN SCENE.

But, since this is the REMASTERED and RESTORED Director’s Cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture - the one we have all been jonesing for - we have to give credit where it is due and, simply put, the newly restored, definitive version of the first big-screen adventure, which is presented in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision and HDR-10, as well as Dolby Atmos, is a DAMN FINE way to celebrate the beauty of Star Trek. This release also includes access to a Digital copy of the film, complete with new and legacy bonus content.

Originally released in 1979, Robert Wise ’s film successfully took Trek off the small screen and set the original cast on an adventure which would span SIX more films. Wise’s film might have been rushed to release with unfortunate cuts and incomplete effects but that didn’t stop Star Trek: The Motion Picture from being the fourth highest grossing film of the year, as well as earning Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, and Best Music, Original Score for that year.

Now, those with only a casual interest in the franchise will probably shake their heads at my calling Star Trek: The Motion Picture not just a classic film, but a TRUE Science Fiction epic. There is no flaw in its function. True fans know it and feel it as the grand spectacle that TMP is - now fully restored and remastered in 4K thanks to producer David C. Fein with post-production supervisor Mike Matessino , both of whom originally collaborated with Wise in 2001 for the DVD Director’s Cut release of the film - washes over the screen.

Gloriously enough, this new 4K scan leaves me completely breathless with great jaw-dropping sequences which feel more engaging and more intimate than ever before. It’s dialogue-heavy and full of BIG IDEAS which continue to inspire the viewer as the classic crew of the newly refitted Enterprise faces down a powerful alien cloud known as V'Ger that is on a path toward Earth and is destroying everything standing in its way.

The “why” is pure poetry as Shatner, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy, James Doohan as Montgomery Scott, George Takei as Hikaru Sulu Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov, Nichelle Nichols as Uhura come face to face with humankind’s own invention. All it wants - like all of us - is to meet its creator and share its knowledge.

What’s the harm in that? Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director’s Cut has the answer and every minute wasted in your delay of purchasing this EPIC 4K release is another minute that the creature comes barrelling closer to earth.

Warp your way to that course correction immediately.

Home Video Distributor: Paramount Pictures Available on Blu-ray - September 6, 2022 Screen Formats: 2.39:1 Subtitles : English SDH, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish Audio: English: Dolby Atmos; English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1; German: Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1; French: Dolby Digital 5.1 Discs: 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc; Two-disc set Region Encoding: Region free

Director Robert Wise ’s definitive vision—eagerly anticipated by STAR TREK fans for over two decades—is now meticulously restored and remastered in 4K Ultra HD with HDR-10 and Dolby Vision for optimal picture and Dolby Atmos for immersive sound. This must-have release features a bonus Blu-ray disc with hours of new and legacy special features, including extensive behind the scenes footage, deleted scenes, and more. The adventure begins when an unidentified alien intruder destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers. Captain James T. Kirk boldly returns to the helm of a newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command. This bold adventure launched one of the longest running movie franchises of all time and features the cast of the original STAR TREK series, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig , and James Doohan .

Paramount ’s 4K restoration is fantastic in giving the film a clean look without sacrificing too much of the grain. The contrast and colors are restored to extenuate the muted color palette of the film, and the sparkles and other mystical elements really seem to pop out wonderfully. Overall, this is probably a perfect transfer and the best version of the film we will ever see. The organic depth of color leaves the previous blu ray releases in the dust. From opening to ending, the darks throughout these four films are inky black and the vibrant colors pop off the screen. There are almost imperceptible shots that are a touch on the soft side, and the optical effects stand out more so at this resolution, but this is completely faithful to the source, organic even, and the finest these films have ever looked.

The new Dolby TrueHD 7.1 mixes are also another massive upgrade over the previous release. With new overhead channels mixed in, a robust soundscape awaits your ears. Again, the start of these films waste no time in showing you the difference aurally as well as visually.

Supplements:

Commentary :

• There is a NEW commentary with David C. Fein, Mike Matessino , and Daren R. Dochterman , plus previous commentaries with Robert Wise, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Jerry Goldsmith , and Stephen Collins ​. There is also a text commentary from Michael and Denise Okuda which fans will appreciate.

Special Features:

This 3-disc set includes the Director's Cut on 4K Ultra-HD and Blu-ray and also includes a bonus Blu-ray disc filled with new and legacy special features.

• The Human Adventure - An all-new 8-part documentary detailing how the Director’s Edition came to life
• Preparing the Future - How the remastering began
• A Wise Choice - The storied history of Robert Wise
• Refitting the Enterprise - How the Enterprise design shaped future federation starships
• Sounding Off – Exploring new dimensions of sound in Dolby Atmos
• V’ger - The conception and restoration of an iconic alien antagonist
• Return to Tomorrow - Reaching an already high bar with new CGI effects
• A Grand Theme - Behind the iconic, influential music score that shaped the franchise’s future The Grand Vision - The legacy and evolving reputation of this classic movie
• Deleted Scenes - NEW!
• Effects Tests - NEW!
• Costume Tests - NEW!
• Computer Display Graphics - NEW!
• Additional legacy bonus content

MPAA Rating: G. Runtime: 143 mins Director : Robert Wise Writer: Harold Livingston Cast: William Shatner; Leonard Nimoy; DeForest Kelley Genre : Adventure | Sci-fi Tagline: There is no comparison. Memorable Movie Quote: "Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long... fortunately." Theatrical Distributor: Paramount Pictures Official Site: Release Date: December 8, 1979 DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: September 6, 2022. Synopsis : When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

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Review: Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Director’s Edition impresses with Dolby Atmos & New Bonus Material

Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Theatrical Cut was already available in 4k in The Original 4-Movie Collection released exactly a year ago on Ultra HD Blu-ray. The 4k video and Dolby Vision/HDR10 color specs are the same on the Director’s Edition, but the English audio was upgraded from Dolby TrueHD 7.1 to Dolby Atmos. What’s more, there are deleted scenes, production tests, and an 8-part documentary detailing how the Director’s Edition came to life all added as new extras along with legacy bonus material. 

Colors are extremely vibrant with HDR (expanding the color depth limits up to 10-bits) on the 4k Blu-ray edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Directors Edition . The bitrate averaged around 50-60Mbps with variations depending on the depth of color and detail in the scene. There are some shots that are somewhat blurry (like when the Klingons encounter the massive energy in the opening scene) but for the most part the restoration has delivered a vastly improved image in terms of both sharpness, highlighted by the U.S.S. Enterprise that had shots rebuilt using 3D software and the original scale model as reference.

As far as sound, Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Directors Edition offers object-based Dolby Atmos immersive audio. This is an upgrade from last year’s Theatrical Cut with Dolby TrueHD 7.1 and one of the main reasons, if not the main reason, we were excited to review this disc from Paramount. 

The introduction composition with credit is more crisp and detailed, with horns and instrumentals more focused in surround speakers. There are some bright chimes (a common thread throughout the soundtrack) in the front center speaker that are so crisp it’s as if the instruments are there in the room with you. Expectations were exceeded on the upgraded audio. The new Atmos mix doesn’t seem forced or gimmicky — it just seems like a great soundtrack to what some consider the best of the six original Star Trek films. 

It was said that Jerry Goldsmith created a score so good that the filmmakers wished they had made a film that was as good. The soundtrack to Star Trek: The Motion Picture is as iconic as the movie itself (the number of CDs sold can attest to this). With sweeping orchestral movements and a theme that’s so easy to remember it’s a soundtrack that can easily be enjoyed without any visuals. 

See scores and read the full review of Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Directors Edition on 4k Blu-ray Disc.

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The trailer for the new Director's Edition of Star Trek : The Motion Picture reveals the long-rumored 4K restoration of the classic sci-fi film. Originally released in 1979, ten years after the original series ended,  Star Trek: The Motion Picture  was the first cinematic outing of the Starship Enterprise and her crew. It saw the main cast return in an original story wherein Kirk, Spock, and the gang are tasked with confronting a mysterious alien known as V'Ger. Directed by Robert Wise and hastily adapted from the pilot of the scrapped series  Star Trek: Phase II , the film received mixed reviews upon release and performed short of studio expectations at the box office. Wise was himself critical of the film, describing the theatrical version as a rough cut of the picture he wanted to make.

In the years that followed,  Star Trek: The Motion Picture  saw numerous versions released in theaters and on home media. In 1983, an extended cut premiered on ABC, which included unfinished footage that was cut from the theatrical release. Then, in 2001, Wise oversaw a new restoration on DVD, with enhanced effects and a runtime that was 30 minutes longer than the original version. Known as the Director's Edition, it was far better received than the theatrical cut and saw re-releases on Blu-ray in 2009 to coincide with JJ Abrams'  Star Trek  reboot . Since then, rumors have circulated that a restoration of the Director's Edition was in the works, which were confirmed in July 2021 when it was announced that it would be premiering exclusively on Paramount+.

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Fans have now been treated to their first glimpse of the restored Director's Edition in a new   trailer , which shows off pristine effects and a crystal clear 4K image. Proudly announcing that it has been restored from the original negative, the restoration is preserving the original film while also drastically modernizing the effects. This is most evident when the trailer draws a direct comparison between an effects-heavy shot in the 2001 edition and the same shot in the new 4kKversion. It also announces that the film has been upgraded to feature Dolby Atmos sound. Watch the full trailer below:

While Wise passed away in 2005, work on this restoration has been carried out by producer David C Fein and Mike Matessino, both of whom worked with the director on the 2001 edition. It therefore wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that the new 4K version is as close to Wise's original vision for the film as possible. Similarly, the restoration has drawn from Paramount's archives to recreate the original effects in Ultra HD, further emphasizing how faithful it is to the spirit of the original  Star Trek .

What remains to be seen is if the 4K restoration of  Star Trek: The Motion Picture   manages to satiate the appetites of Trekkies who have been disappointed with the recent properties set in Gene Roddenberry's groundbreaking universe. While receiving critical acclaim and huge viewership figures, both  Star Trek:  Discovery  and  Star Trek: Picard have been divisive among hardcore Trek fans, with many outlining how the new shows aren't very faithful to the original. Let's hope then that this new version hits the right spot when it releases on Paramount+ on April 5th.

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Star Trek : The Motion Picture — the 1979 outing and the first film in the franchise — is coming to Paramount Plus on April 5 (known as First Contact Day in the Star Trek universe) with a new “Director’s Edition.”

For this new version, Paramount Pictures has remastered the film in 4K — an upgrade that even includes recreating the special effects in 4K. The Director’s Edition will eventually come to Blu-ray this September, and appear in theaters via Fathom Events on May 22 and May 25.

Star Trek : The Motion Picture sees the cast of the original series return to the U.S.S. Enterprise to investigate and pursue an alien ship that mysteriously destroyed multiple Klingon vessels. It was one of the top-grossing films in 1979 and earned itself three Oscar nominations, despite being “rushed to theaters” and ultimately earning a lackluster legacy among fans.

The Director’s Edition was restored by producer David C. Fein and preservationist Mike Matessino, both of whom have previously collaborated with Wise. In addition to the various visual improvements and 4K resolution, it also offers Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos.

“I couldn’t be prouder and more thrilled to have completed the film in 4K,” said Fein. “Paramount offered unprecedented access to the original elements and exceptional support and the results are stunning. Utilizing the latest discoveries and innovations of modern film production, The Director’s Edition delivers so much more today than was previously possible.”

Until its release on Blu-ray and its brief stint in theaters, Star Trek: The Motion Picture — The Director’s Edition will be exclusive to Paramount Plus.

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After much anticipation, Paramount finally revealed when fans of Star Trek can expect to see the newly restored version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture — The Director’s Edition . The modernized version of the 1979 classic film received the 4K UHD treatment, with high dynamic range (HDR), and a new powerful and immersive soundtrack. The movie will become available everywhere, starting with a Paramount+ release in early April.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture had already been revisited by director Robert Wise in 2001, when the filmmaker enhanced visual effects for a DVD release. Ever since then, however, the movie had never moved past standard image definition, a fact that is changing with this new release. The movie premieres exclusively on Paramount+ on April 5, in celebration of First Contact Day – in Star Trek mythology, the day Humans and Vulcans made contact in 2063.

The newly restored version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture will also be available for purchase: a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray edition is slated to hit shelves next September. Die-hard fans will also be able to experience the restoration in its full glory on the big screen: Paramount is teaming up with Fathom Events in order to bring together a special screening of the movie on May 22 and May 25.

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Since Academy Award-winning director Robert Wise died in 2005, the restoration was handled by producer David C. Fein and preservationist Mike Matessino , both of whom originally collaborated with the late filmmaker. In an official statement, Fein celebrated the restoration and teased new perceptions that can come with the revised experience:

“I couldn’t be prouder and more thrilled to have completed the film in 4K. Paramount offered unprecedented access to the original elements and exceptional support and the results are stunning. Utilizing the latest discoveries and innovations of modern film production, The Director’s Edition delivers so much more today than was previously possible. It’s an adventure you’ll never forget!”

Star Trek: The Motion Picture was the first film adaptation of the classic sci-fi series created by Gene Roddenberry and it follows the USS Enterprise crew on a path to save Earth from a mysterious alien cloud. The movie started a successful movie franchise that stretches until today, and helped catapult the success of the TV series.

The Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition 4K Ultra HD Disc and Digital releases will include extensive new and legacy bonus content, which are yet to be listed by Paramount Home Entertainment.

You can watch the new trailer below:

Check out the official synopsis for the new edition here:

The U.S.S. Enterprise boldly debuted on the big screen with the cast of the original Star Trek series, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, and James Doohan. Meticulously restored and remastered, with enhanced visual effects and state-of-the-art sound, this definitive vision of director Robert Wise has been optimized for a new generation of fans. When an unidentified alien intruder destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Admiral James T. Kirk (Shatner) returns to the helm of a newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command and confront an alien spacecraft of enormous power heading toward Earth.

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Some 44 years after it went into production, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is finally complete.

We don’t say that frivolously. Star Trek: The Motion Picture is one of Hollywood’s most famous “unfinished” films. Rushing to meet a December 7, 1979 release date, with many of the visual effects being completed right up until the last possible minute by Douglas Trumbull (who had replaced the previous VFX supervisor), director Robert Wise ( The Day the Earth Stood Still , The Sound of Music ) pretty much just stopped working on the film, carrying the first available print on a plane to the movie’s Washington D.C. premiere.

The complicated story of how ST: TMP – the first major motion picture based on an existing TV series — was developed, written, filmed, and released is a long, winding one that has been told before. It’s also well-known that the original theatrical version of the film – the one that Wise had to deliver finished or not – was not well-received by either fans or critics, although it became a sizable box office success.

Yet Star Trek: The Motion Picture steadily grew in stature over the years, gradually beginning to hold its own with fans even as later favorites like Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ascended to the top of the franchise.

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With fans and even critics constantly reappraising the original film, Paramount Pictures – with the encouragement of two members of Robert Wise’s production company, David C. Fein and Michael Matessino – allowed Wise and his team to revisit the movie in 2001, reconstructing it to finally adhere more closely to Wise’s original vision.

The release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition in November 2001 on home video (DVD and VHS) confirmed for many fans that there was a far better film after all hidden inside the “rough cut” (Wise’s own words) released in 1979. Scenes were excised or trimmed, a few were reinstated, and most importantly, the visuals were spruced up with the help of CGI. The legendary Wise, who passed away four years later in 2005, got the chance to finish the movie the way he wanted.

But the story wasn’t over yet.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Reborn

Earlier this year, Paramount+ premiered a 4K Ultra HD (high definition) version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition . Prepared over the course of six months by Fein, Matessino, and a visual effects team with access to Paramount’s archives, this iteration of ST: TMP stayed true to the vision established by Wise for The Director’s Edition in 2001, while doing a further, extensive, HD restoration and upgrade of the entire film.

Now the Ultra HD Director’s Edition , along with 4K Ultra HD versions of the original theatrical cut and the “Special Longer Version” that was created for broadcast television in 1983, are available in a newly released set called The Complete Adventure , which gives us a definitive document of Star Trek: The Motion Picture in all three versions, looking perhaps the best they’ll ever look ( The Director’s Edition is also available on its own or as part of a set containing Ultra HD upgrades of all six films starring the original Trek cast).

Having seen the film in its original theatrical release, then on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray, we were always put off by the seeming drabness of the image and the colors. To our eyes, Star Trek: The Motion Picture – despite the occasionally awe-inspiring visuals it did manage to pull off against all odds – never seemed to pop off any screen or medium we watched it on.

That problem is now solved, and overpoweringly so: the film in 4K Ultra HD looks absolutely magnificent, as if we’re truly seeing the film for the first time.

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Yes, many of the VFX have been digitally enhanced or even freshly recreated, but they’re integrated almost seamlessly into the original aesthetic of the film, while many of the rough spots in the original release have been repaired or replaced. Now the 4K image really does leap off the screen in amazing color and detail. To watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture in this way is to watch a 44-year-old science fiction movie that looks in many ways like it was made last year.

And now that all three versions of the movie are here in this beautiful, pristine form, which one holds up the best and do they differ?

The Original Theatrical Cut

It may look better than it ever has, but the original theatrical cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture still has all the issues it had when it first came out. It’s slow-moving to the point of being inert, it spends way too much time on endless visuals (the first sight of the refurbished Enterprise , the lengthy flyover of the massive V’Ger spacecraft – heck, even Spock’s neck-pinch of some poor slob guarding an airlock takes way too long), and it leaves certain plot information and character motivations ambiguous at best and absent at worst.

What ST: TMP does retain is a sense of grandeur, and occasionally a sense of wonder, that often marked the best of the original series and has been sadly lacking in so much filmed science fiction ever since, including later Trek movies and TV series.

So many of the later movies – especially the J.J. Abrams-conceived Kelvin trilogy , but some of the classic and Next Generation films have the same problem – revolve around fairly simple bad guy/revenge motifs.

The original series had its share of those simple action-adventure episodes, but so much more of it was dedicated to great ideas – whether it be truly alien encounters, mirror universes, or moral quandaries posed by the Enterprise sticking its saucer in a new planet’s business.

And yes, even though Star Trek: The Motion Picture is in some ways a rewrite of the original series episode “The Changeling,” it’s much more expansive and even cosmic in its implications. While several later Trek films are superior in many ways, few of them have matched ST: TMP in its ambitions and pure science fiction concepts.

The acting is inconsistent, to say the least, although all our old favorites each have a memorable moment or two, and the glacial pacing really is at odds with the imagination glimpsed in the storyline and the visuals. In many ways, the theatrical cut remains a slog, but it’s also a one-of-a-kind Trek movie.

The ‘Special Longer Version’

Star Trek: The Motion Picture premiered on American network television – ABC, to be exact – on February 20, 1983. Not only was this the first TV showing of the movie, but it also introduced a different cut of the film that came to be known as the “Special Longer Version.” Running for two hours and 24 minutes (without commercials), as opposed to the theatrical cut’s two hours and 12 minutes, the “SLV” essentially incorporated a number of scenes that were left unfinished and kept out of the picture by director Robert Wise in 1979 – who apparently did not approve of this version.

A lot of the scenes that were added back into the movie for the “SLV” were and are clearly extraneous, although in some cases amusing to watch.

There are a couple of exchanges between Sulu (George Takei) and the Deltan navigator Ilia (Persis Khambatta) – whose species is apparently quite sexually attractive and active – that are possibly meant to suggest Sulu is coming under her spell, although they were jettisoned to focus on Ilia and Decker’s (Stephen Collins) relationship (there is also more of that present in this cut).

Other sequences – like a moment in which Spock (Leonard Nimoy) weeps for V’Ger and a quick scene of Ilia helping to relieve Chekov’s (Walter Koenig) pain after he is injured – actually made it into the Director’s Cut and work well there as improved character moments.

Most infamously, the original release of the “SLV” contained a literally unfinished shot of Kirk (William Shatner) leaving the Enterprise airlock in a spacesuit to pursue Spock as the Vulcan himself spacewalks deeper into V’Ger’s interior. When the “SLV” was first shown, parts of the soundstage around the airlock set were still visible, as a result of the effects for the scene never being completed (the new 4K Ultra HD version of the “SLV” rectifies that, although the incomplete version is provided as a bonus feature).

Importantly, the new version of the “SLV” has restored it to its theatrical matting – the movie was cropped to the old TV screen ratio of 1.33: 1 for broadcast (and for several subsequent home video releases), turning Wise’s widescreen compositions into a nightmare of forced zooms and pan-and-scanning. At least now this version of the film is restored to its proper ratio.

That said, the “Special Longer Version” is in many ways the worst version of the film. While it’s always interesting for completists to see footage left out of a theatrical movie, this iteration simply pastes all that material back into the film – ostensibly to fill a three-hour “network movie premiere” slot, back in the day when such things mattered – without any consideration of whether it should be there. If the pacing of Star Trek: The Motion Picture has always been a bone of contention for you, the “SLV” doubles down on that.

The Director’s Edition

Ironically enough, the Robert Wise-supervised “Director’s Edition” of Star Trek: The Motion Picture runs for two hours and 16 minutes – four minutes longer than the theatrical release. It also includes some of the scenes Wise left out initially, which surfaced in the interim in the TV version of the movie (a detailed list of alterations and additions can be found here ).

But while it still suffers from pacing issues, they’re less of a detriment. The Director’s Edition still moves slowly, but doesn’t feel like it drags, and there’s more of a stateliness to it that is befitting the movie’s larger themes – which are also given more clarity in this version.

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Perhaps the most important edition in that sense is the scene in which Spock weeps for V’Ger – a scene that makes it much clearer what V’Ger is seeking as it returns to Earth, and why its quest has reached a potentially catastrophic dead end.

More importantly, the scene also brings Spock’s own character arc in the film into much better focus – he realizes that his desire to purge all remaining emotion from his own life (the kolinahr ritual) could lead him to the same cold, empty existence that V’Ger now faces, which he firmly rejects.

Also retained is Ilia’s healing of Chekov, adding a little more nuance to what is mostly a blank slate of a character, as well as some brief interactions between the supporting crew members.

What is left out are, most notably, the full-length travelogues along V’Ger’s exterior and interior (although we do get a neat shot of the entire V’Ger vessel emerging from its cloud above Earth). The scenes are still there, but this material – and a number of other visuals – is trimmed and sharpened to give the movie a little more forward motion. Along with that, so many subtle visual and audio touches have been added – whether it’s better matte or CG backgrounds or original sounds from the TV series – to create more ambiance and an overall more fulfilling cinematic Trek experience.

When Wise and his team took the movie back into the shop in 2001, they overhauled the visuals and the sound mix with the best available technology at the time – yet the limitations back then in terms of resolution meant that the Director’s Edition was only available on DVD for the next 20 years. With the new upgrade, all the visual and sonic enhancements (plus new ones) have been rendered so that they can now be seen in 4K Ultra HD – thus giving Star Trek: The Motion Picture the most up-to-date restoration possible.

The result is an often eye-popping science fiction spectacle that looks fresher and better than ever before. As rushed as the original production was, it’s a tribute to Wise, Trumbull, and the team that completed the film in 1979 that so much of their work still holds up and was able to mesh so well with the enhancements of both 2001 and 2021.

But just as importantly, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is now about as close as it will ever come to being the visionary sci-fi epic that it was first conceived as. The new version of The Director’s Edition retains all the narrative revisions that Wise made more than two decades ago, while adding the visual grandeur that such a cerebral story needed in the first place. Yes, there are still flaws in the film, and it may never replace, say, The Wrath of Khan at the top of Trek movie rankings, but more than four decades after it first came out, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is now finished.

This film’s journey is at last complete, but the human adventure is still just beginning.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition – The Complete Adventure is out now on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.

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The extensive restoration, which was announced last July , promises to substantially restore, redo, and/or remaster visual effects from the film’s original negative to a high-definition 4K/HDR presentation, and remaster the movie’s soundtrack with Dolby Atmos audio.

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There is no information yet on when this restoration will make it to physical home media but we anticipate the Paramount+ exclusivity to run through the end of 2022. For now, if you are looking for a 4K/HDR version of the theatrical cut of The Motion Picture , check out last year’s excellent Blu-ray release of the first four Star Trek movies.

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‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’s Long Journey to a Completed 4K Frontier

It’s been 43 years since Star Trek: The Motion Picture was first released, but  David Fein would argue that you haven’t truly seen the film in its completed form until now.

With a notably rushed production and post-production schedule to meet its promised release date, acclaimed director Robert Wise ( West Side Story , The Sound of Music ) was never happy with the original theatrical version of the first Star Trek movie. In 2001, he was able to revisit the film, working alongside Fein as producer and other collaborators, for a new, updated Director’s Cut  which included re-edited scenes and new effects that was released on DVD.

Now, the Director’s Cut has been released as a 4K Ultra HD version and it truly does look and sound better than ever, having gone through one more round of updates. Though Wise passed away in 2005, Fein – who collaborated with Wise for many years and has long been a champion of the film – returned alongside post-production supervisor Michael Matessino to oversee another go at all aspects of the film’s audio and visuals that would stand up to Ultra HD scrutiny.

Fein spoke to Fandom about this version of The Motion Picture and why he feels Wise’s vision is finally truly done justice.

THE DIRECTOR’S CUT REVISITED

Fein noted that when they first approached Paramount about doing a Director’s Cut more than 20 years ago, it was with the intention of it being for film. However, with the DVD market booming at the time, it was only greenlit for that Standard Definition release. Fein said given the circumstances, “It was wonderful that we were able to go back and at least complete it,” but for Wise, it still wasn’t fully what he wanted and that he had essentially described it, like the theatrical version and the longer cut made for broadcast TV, as “Work cuts. That was a proof of concept as well for us, meaning we present it back to the studio and say, ‘Okay, now let’s do it for film.’ The point is, though, that that was the format that made sense for the studio, was to have standard DVD, and we released it that way.”

Fein elaborated that by only having the Director’s Cut completed for Standard Definition DVD, “It created a limitation. If the film was going to be seen theatrically, it couldn’t really be the DVD. If the film was going to be in high def, it really wouldn’t be the DVD master. And then if it was going to be anything beyond that, it couldn’t be the DVD master. We saw the HD come out of the film and while Robert was ecstatic that his legacy would not be the theatrical version, it was required that it go back to what was the highest quality for film, which is the theatrical version.” Fein noted, “That ended up surpassing and supplanting the Director’s Edition DVD,” referring to how both subsequent theatrical revival screenings and the first release of The Motion Picture on 4K last year were only for the theatrical cut.

Fein recalled Wise asking him to promise that he would never give up on truly completing the film in a manner where it would be available in all formats as the ultimate version – a promise Fein said he happily made and intended to keep beyond Wise passing away.

As time went on, Fein said, “I knew I needed to go back to it. But more importantly, I knew that it required 4K to be successful and 4K masters to come out for there to be a practical reason for the studio to do the project. So I went back to them before the 40th anniversary and had a conversation about doing the master and said ‘I am here. I’m not doing a video. I am creating a new digital negative of the movie,’ so that now Bob’s history would be locked forever at the same quality as anything else for the studio. And that enabled all masters to be perfect for home entertainment for anything that it could be in the future. It took a little time for us to work out the details but we came back and thanks to brilliant technological advances and the many times that I spoke to Bob about the possibilities and him insisting that I never let anything hold back the story, here we are.”

NO MORE DISTRACTIONS

Fein noted that Star Trek: The Motion Picture has had quite an overhaul at this point, though some changes are far more subtle than others. “Going back to the original camera negative, practically every shot in the film has had some tweak or alteration. That was one of the greatest blessings of this was to have the full film available to go through shot by shot and adjust or tweak or get right, all focused on telling the story as powerfully as possible.”

This included shots or effects alternations that Fein said were done to take out what he referred to as distractions or moments that took you out of the film – such as a small unintended camera shake at the end of a shot that is now gone. As he put it, “The whole thing needed to flow to give you nothing but a perfected experience in enjoying the film. One that’s subtle that I don’t think I’ve heard anybody notice, but it’s there, was the travel pod scene, where Kirk and Scotty are going to the Enterprise ,” referring to one of the film’s most iconic scenes, when we see the classic ship return for the first time.

As Fein explained, originally, “The two of them were shot on film and projected into a dome-like front of the travel pod. That was like a screen there. So when you take the 2D and projected on it, they became flat against the screen. I had the effects guys pull them back and make them now look normal in there. So your mind doesn’t immediately go ‘That doesn’t look right.’ It’s about how nothing should distract you from your experience of just going in and loving the film and letting the story flow.”

He added, “I’m really proud of the subtleties that were in there across the board. And I’m sure no one’s ever gonna find them all. I mean, originally we did 1000 edits to get the original cut. This was 1500 and nobody should notice any of them.”

MUSIC TO VULCAN EARS

On the audio side, not only does the 4K release of The Motion Picture boast a new Dolby Atmos soundtrack, but some specific tweaks were done there as well – some thanks to the discovery of a lot of ADR material the cast had recorded for the film with alternate versions of dialogue Wise had preferred but were not used due how rushed The Motion Picture was initially.

Wise’s voice can be heard on the recordings giving direction and Fein remarked, “Just to sit there listening sent chills down my spine. I started crying, just to be able to listen to Bob directing them. And then to know that with all the rush, so many of the choice takes that he made, where he said, ‘Okay, perfect, we got the right inflection in your voice’ weren’t used….” Fein said that putting in these alternate audio takes that Wise had always wanted used was “One of the many, many joys of doing it this way.”

HELPING REDEEM TMP

Star Trek: The Motion Picture had a turbulent journey both in its production and audience perception. The main criticism it received upon release was that it was too slow-paced but its reputation has improved over time thanks in no small part to the Director’s Cut existing, which this new version will very likely only bolster.

Asked what it feels like to see this form of redemption for TMP , Fein said, “It’s the greatest feeling in the world. I have to tell you, we have so hit our goal. So surpassed it.” With the DVD version, Fein remarked, “I knew we were able to make a great film out of what we had but it still had some limitations. And it’s funny, there were still places in the DVD where people felt that it was a little slow. But the fact is that the edit hasn’t changed, but no one has that complaint anymore, because a great film has ups and downs, peaks and valleys as it goes. And now our peaks are so much higher because of the sound mix and because of the colors pulling you into the right place to look. And just so much is working in so many different ways that you need that down time.”

Fein added, “This is an epic film. The Enterprise is that big! You see it on a giant screen and it’s stunning. But what I love more than anything is that there’s new audiences today, there’s the teens and twentysomethings, who are seeing it for the first time. And I’ve had lifelong fans that have come to me and I keep getting these great stories that just touches my heart, where they brought their kid to the film who never expected to like the film, because ‘Oh, that’s Dad’s’ or ‘It’s older,’ but just come away with ‘Wow, I really enjoyed that,’ because it’s working now.”

Fein praised Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry as well as Robert Wise, saying, “Gene’s story was so ahead of its time in that technology without humanity is cold and limited. I’m amazed that he even came up with the storyline because at the time, the most advanced thing we had was touch tone phones. Today we have a cell phone. Today we’re talking on a pad, we’re talking on devices. It’s more relevant today. But the fact is all the problems, those distractions, the color that was off, the sound that didn’t work.. You know, all that stuff has been pushed away, because as Bob always said ‘Focus on the story. How you get there is just the tools to reach that point. Focus on telling the best story.’ And that’s what I wanted. I wanted to move away the distraction and give it to you and make you just have the best experience ever with the film. And I’m thrilled that we have a 2022 movie that people love. And it’s not me, it’s their film. It’s our gift and I get to experience it. And I’m excited when people love it, and people enjoy it.”

Fein summed it up by saying, “I couldn’t be happier and it’s gonna live on forever now. That’s what’s most important. It has its new negative. No matter what formats happen in the future, it has the same chance as every other film. That’s so amazing to me. And I’m so blessed and I hope Bob is watching it with Gene somewhere now.”

Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director’s Edition 4K Ultra HD is available on its own with a second disc containing special features, in a larger The Complete Adventure release that also includes both the theatrical cut and the Special Longer Version made for broadcast TV in 1983 (along with collectibles), and as part of the Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture Collection set, which also includes Star Trek II – VI .

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Comparison between the theatrical version (Blu-ray) and the Director's Cut (4K-UHD) - both included on Paramount's 4K/Blu-ray set.

- 11 differences - Difference: 206 sec (= 3:26 min)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture was re-released in 2002 with a really extensively reworked Director's Edition . Director Robert Wise was finally able to address many of the shortcomings of the then hastily completed theatrical version. Not as much could be corrected here as it was done again 20 years later in the again revised 4K version , but without question there are the most extensive differences between the two versions in this part of the series. In the same year, however, a "Director's Edition" of the sequel Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was also released, first in theaters and then on DVD - see our corresponding report .

Nicholas Meyer not only sat in the director's chair for Part 2, but was also allowed to take over this job in 1991 for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country . In this case, however, the studio beat him to the punch, because Paramount had already released a version of the film on VHS and laserdisc in the 90s that was slightly longer than the theatrical version. The difference in running time is mainly due to two additional scenes, which somewhat deepen a few side characters. For the Special Edition DVD in 2004, Meyer added a few short re-cuts to this already extended version during the interrogation of Lt. Valeris to people she mentioned, which gives a few more characters brief screentime. So basically, with or without these cuts, it's mostly fan service. One can also be satisfied with the theatrical version.

In this case, by the way, the scenes were, unlike the predecessors, not seen in advance during the broadcast of the US channel ABC. But, apart from the cuts in the interrogation scene, the version here was, as said, already available before the DVD era anyway. In many countries, on the other hand, it was not that easy to see the original theatrical version . The Blu-ray release in 2009 was surprising in this respect, because it only contained said theatrical version, so that some fans criticized that the additional material of the previously expanded version was suddenly missing from the film.

After the first films already received their UHD premiere in 2021, it was finally time for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Part 6 in September 2022. The 4K Blu-ray now contained the extended version for the first time again, including interrogation recuts and in massively improved picture quality compared to the old Blu-ray. The version is called Director's Cut here, but it corresponds to the previous Special Edition DVD. In addition, the theatrical version is also included in 4K, so this release is clearly recommended to every fan. The included Blu-ray, however, is again only equipped with the theatrical version.

Running time information is according to the scheme Theatrical Version Blu-ray / Director's Cut 4K-UHD

Star Trek: Der Film [Director’s Edition] [Complete Adventure] 4K UHD

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Vom unfertigen zum fertigen Film – mit der Director’s Edition von Star Trek: Der Film.

Die Klingonen kann ja so schnell nichts aus der Bahn werfen. Umso erstaunter ist ein Trio von K’t’inga-Kriegsschiffen, als sie von einer seltsamen Wolke geschluckt und vernichtet werden. Auch die Raumstation Epsilon 9 wird von dem bunten Nebelgebilde zerstört. Da die Föderation fürchtet, die Wolke könnte auf die Erde zusteuern und dort für Zerstörung sorgen, schickt sie die Enterprise, um das Gebilde abzufangen. Der frisch gebackene Admiral Kirk schnappt sich kurzerhand das Kommando vom derzeitigen Captain Decker und gibt Befehl, den noch im Versuchsstadium befindlichen Warp-Antrieb zu nutzen. Während die Durchführung beinahe zur Katastrophe führt, kommt Spock wieder an Bord der Enterprise und kann sie erneut manövrierfähig machen. Bei der Wolke angekommen, attackiert eine Sonde die Navigatorin Ilia. Doch das ist erst der Anfang, denn die Crew der Enterprise wird bald ihr blaues Wunder erleben …

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Bild- und Tonqualität BD Director’s Edition vs. Kinofassung

Bildqualität UHD Kinofassung vs. Director’s Edition

Beim Ton der UHD Blu-ray keine Änderung. Auch sie liefert die englische Fassung in Dolby Atmos und die deutsche Tonspur in 5.1 Dolby Digital.

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Star Trek: Der Film mag immer noch nicht der Liebling eines jeden SciFi-Fans und sogar Trekkies sein. Aber in der Director’s Edition ist er über weite Strecken ein ganz anderer, ja: ein besserer Film. Alles wirkt runder, etwas stimmiger und die verbesserten Effekte machen wirklich Spaß. Man kann die fünfminütige Trockendock-Sequenz ja gerne als überdehnt und schwelgerisch betrachten, das macht sie aber nicht weniger hübsch und beeindruckend, wenn man sich das Alter des Films vor Augen führt. Die 4K UHD Blu-ray ist über weite Strecken mit jener der Kinofassung qualitativ auf einem Level, hat aber eine leichte Rauschfilterung zu verkraften. Wer das nicht mag, könnte sich etwas ärgern. Auch wenn es dezent gemacht wurde und nicht zu völlig glatten Oberflächen führt. Die englische Atmos-Tonspur und der deutsche 5.1-Sound sind ein Gedicht, da gibt’s gar kein Vertun. Timo Wolters

Bildqualität BD (Kinofassung): 85% Bildqualität UHD (Kinofassung): 85% Bildqualität BD (Dir. Edition): 80% Bildqualität UHD (Dir. Edition): 80% Tonqualität BD/UHD Kinofassung: 75% Tonqualität BD/UHD (Director’s Edition): 90%

Tonqualität BD/UHD (Kinofassung) (Originalversion): 85% Tonqualität BD/UHD (Dir. Edition) 2D-Soundebene (Originalversion): 90% Tonqualität BD/UHD (Dir. Edition) 3D-Soundebene Quantität (Originalversion): 70% Tonqualität BD/UHD (Dir. Edition) 3D-Soundebene Qualität (Originalversion): 75%

Bonusmaterial: 100% Film: 80%

Anbieter: Paramount Pictures Land/Jahr: USA 1979 Regie: Robert Wise Darsteller: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins Tonformate BD/UHD (Kinofassung): Dolby True HD 7.1: en // Dolby True HD 2.0: de Tonformate BD/UHD (Dir. Edition): Dolby Atmos: en // Dolby Digital 5.1: de Bildformat: 2,35:1 Laufzeit: 132/137 Codec BD: AVC Codec UHD: HEVC Disk-Kapazität: BD-100 Real 4K: Ja (4K DI vom 35-mm-Film) High Dynamic Range: HDR10, Dolby Vision Maximale Lichtstärke: keine Angabe FSK: 12

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Die Grundlage für die Bild- und Tonbewertung von Blu-rays und Ultra-HD-Blu-rays bildet sich aus der jahrelangen Expertise im Bereich von Rezensionen zu DVDs, Blu-rays und Ultra-HD-Blu-rays sowie Tests im Bereich der Hardware von Unterhaltungselektronik-Komponenten. Gut zehn Jahre lang beschäftigte ich mich professionell mit den technischen Aspekten von Heimkino-Projektoren, Blu-ray-Playern und TVs als Redakteur für die Magazine HEIMKINO, HIFI TEST TV VIDEO, PLAYER oder BLU-RAY-WELT. Während dieser Zeit partizipierte ich an Lehrgängen zum Thema professioneller Bildkalibrierung mit Color Facts und erlangte ein Zertifikat in ISF-Kalibrierung. Wer mehr über meinen Werdegang lesen möchte, kann dies hier tun —> Klick . Die technische Expertise ist aber lediglich eine Seite der Medaille. Um stets auf der Basis von aktuellem technischen Wiedergabegerät zu bleiben, wird das Testequipment regelmäßig auf dem aktuellen Stand gehalten – sowohl in puncto Hardware (also der Neuanschaffung von TV-Displays, Playern oder ähnlichem, wenn es der technische Fortschritt verlangt) als auch in puncto Firmware-Updates. Dazu werden die Tests stets im komplett verdunkelbaren, dedizierten Heimkino angefertigt. Den Aufbau des Heimkinos könnt ihr hier nachlesen —> Klick .

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Das Referenz-Equipment fürs Bild findet ihr wiederum hier aufgelistet . Dort steht auch, wie die Bildgeräte auf Norm kalibriert wurden. Denn selbstverständlich finden die Bildbewertungen ausschließlich mit möglichst perfekt kalibriertem Gerät statt, um den Eindruck nicht durch falsche Farbtemperaturen, -intensitäten oder irrigerweise aktivierten Bild“verbesserern“ zu verfälschen.

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Was ich noch wissen wollte: gibt es die Regiefassung nur einzeln oder ist sie in einem Set mit den anderen Filmen (II-VI) dabei?

Die 6-Movie-Collection ist für eine dt. Veröffentlichung bisher nicht geplant, soweit ich weiß.

Das ist sehr schade. Dann hätte es vieleicht auch für die anderen einen ordentlichen deutschen Ton gegeben. Besteht eine Chance, dass das noch passiert?

Da musst du ganz tief in die Glaskugel schauen 😉 Ich weiß davon bisher nichts.

Na dann: Fingers crossed! 🙂

Ich bin wohl einer von wenigen, die Star Trek I mehr mögen, als die II, deshalb freue ich mich auch sehr, daß es die Regiefassung nun endlich als 4k gibt. Meine Frage an Dich, Timo: hier auf der Seite stehen zwei Werbebanner von amazon; in Angebot von 75,00 Euro und eines für 25,00 Euro. Was ist der Unterschied und wo ist die Regiefassung enthalten, denn nur die interessiert mich?

Die Dir. Edition ist auf BEIDEN Fassungen, die ich verlinkt habe. Die günstigere bietet den Dir. Cut als 4K-Blu-ray und auf Blu-ray, sowie die Bonus-Disk. Die teure Box enthält zusätzlich auch die Kinofassung, die es vor einem Jahr schon gab. Außerdem halt Poster, Artcards usw.

Leider muss man der dt. Veröffentlichung als Etikettenschwindel bezeichnen, sie ist ohne die Langfassung eben nicht „THE COMPLETE ADVENTURE“, welches international beworben und vorbestellt wurde.

Planst du auch noch ein Review von V u. VI? Ich schätze mal, dass man da eher von ähnlichen Transferen wie bei den Vorgängern ausgehen kann, also weniger DNR (Vor allem der ungeliebte 5. Teil ist sicher nicht wichtig genug, um ihn zu „verbessern „; der 6. Teil war auf Blu-ray damals offensichtlich im Einzelbildverfahren mit Wachskreide übermalt worden, das kann nur besser werden)

Hi Helmut, von Teil VI wird’s ein Review geben. Vermutlich aber erst im Laufe der nächsten Woche. Teil V spare ich mir 😉

Kann ich verstehen, hab mir auch nur VI bestellt. Vielleicht mal bei Ramschangeboten der Vollständigkeit halber…

Das Review von Teil VI wird interessant. Ich hab gelesen, dass auf Wunsch der Regisseurs das Bildformat von 2,00:1 auf 2:39:1 geändert wurde. Würde mich interessieren, ob dadurch viel Bildinformation verloren geht.

Teil V habe ich mir selber schon zugelegt. Bin gespannt ob das Bild jetzt heller ist als bei der BD-Erstauflage.

Im Prinzip war es umgekehrt. Der Film wurde nur für den Director’s cut auf DVD auf 2,00:1 geöffnet und lief im Kino 2,35:1; ich glaube so war es auch bei der DVD Erstauflage und sicher auch bei der alten Blu-ray. 2,35:1 ist also das ursprüngliche Originalformat, unabhängig davon, ob bei 2.00 mehr Bildinformationen sichtbar sind (das kann dann bei zu weiter Öffnung auch schon mal ein Mikro sein)

Danke für die Info. Gab es einen besonderen Grund für diesen Format-Wechsel? Vor allem weil das der einzige Film der Reihe ist mit diesem speziellen Format.

Vielleicht weil wir damals alle nur kleine Flimmerkisten hatten?(die Älteren werden sich erinnern). War aber vielleicht auch nur so ein Trend (wie bei Apocalypse Now Redux), wegen des Da Vinci Idealformats analog zum letzten Abendmahl, da fühlt sich der Kameramann gleich wie ein alter Meister

Dass es der einzige Film ist, liegt vermutlich daran, dass er als einziger im Super35 Verfahren hergestellt wurde ( So habe ich zumindest gelesen). Open Matte geht zumindest bei anamorph 35mm Cinemascope nicht, dh. Für 2:1 müsste man dann seitlich was abschneiden

Star Trek 6 ist der einzige Film der Reihe, der im „Super 35“ Format gedreht ist. Dabei wird der Film im Format 4:3 auf Film belichtet und der Kameramann hat während des Drehs einen Ausschnitt von 2,35:1 im Blick (ob das im Kamerasucher oder beim Überwachungsmonitor ist, weiß ich nicht). Somit wird der Film in 2,35:1 „komponiert“ und man konnte damals eine 4:3 Fassung fürs TV erstellen, ohne links und rechts etwas beschneiden zu müssen, man „öffnet“ das Bild einfach nach oben und unten.

Und somit konnte man damals eine DVD im Format 2:1 erstellen. Man hat einfach das Bild nach oben und unten geöffnet! Aber das Originalformat bleibt 2,35:1!

Für dein Review brauchst du nicht zufällig die DVD von 1999 (Teil 6) vom Directors Cut?

Nee, ich glaube, ich beziehe mich dann „ausnahmsweise“ mal nur auf die alte Blu-ray 😉

Dann bin ich mal gespannt

Bin ich irgendwie zu blöd zum Suchen? Gibt es das Revie zu Teil VI?

Hi Ronald, nee, deine Suchfähigkeiten sind gut. VI habe ich nicht rezensiert, bisher.

Danke für die Info. Na vielleicht taucht es mal den bei aktuellen Reviews auf. 🙂

Danke für die Bewertung. Im Vergleich zu den anderen Star-Trek-Filmen ist dieser Film ziemlich ruhig. Trotzdem finde ich ihn durchaus interessant. Vor allem durch die Musik von Jerry Goldsmith. Beim Bild ist mir auch aufgefallen, dass es irgendwie „blasser“ aussieht als bei der Neuauflage der Kinofassung. In dem neuen Audiokommentar wird erwähnt, dass das Filmkorn entfernt wurde.

Danke für das tolle Review. Frage: sind die 11 entfernten Szenen der Kinofassung Discs dieselben 11 wie auf der Dir.Edition?

Auf der Dir. Edition Blu-ray sind keine entfernten Szenen. Wenn du die elf entfernten Szene meinst, die auf DISK 5 sind und unter dem Label „entfernte Szenen 83er TV-Version“ laufen, dann ja. Das sind die gleichen Szenen wie auf der Blu-ray der Kinofassung.

Danke für die Antwort. Ich bezog mich auf die 2 Passagen im Review: „Die Blu-ray der Kinofassung weist dann zwei zusätzliche Featurettes sowie elf entfernte Szenen“ und „Unter dem alten Bonusmaterial finden sich dann auch elf entfernte Szenen, welche die 1983er TV-Version enthalten hatte, die aber wiederum nicht in die Director’s Edition integriert wurden“.

Sind das somit die selben?

Ich weiß nicht, ob wir aneinander vorbei reden: Die elf entfernten Szenen, die auf der Kinofassung Blu-ray sind, sind identisch mit den elf entfernten Szenen, die auf der einzelnen Bonusdisk (also auf Disk 5) sind. Das hatte ich ja so in meiner vorherigen Antwort geschrieben.

Ok, alles klar! Danke.

Ein wirklich gelungenes Review von dir. Die Ton und Effekt Überarbeitung ist wirklich fantastisch, aber was man sich bei der von dir angesprochen kuscheligen Couchzone gedacht hat ist mir ein Rätsel so unscharf ist dort nicht mal die DVD. Wie kann man sowas absegnen das sieht wirklich miserabel aus und trübt den Eindruck etwas.

Ich hoffe man kann die 6-Movie Collection auch bald mal bestellen. Donnerstag soll die ja schon erscheinen.

Für D ist eine solche Box nicht angekündigt. Es gibt sie teils im europäischen Ausland.

Ach so, ich habe die doch bei Amazon in meiner Wunschliste. Ich dachte das wäre die für Deutschland. Das ist ja blöd, dann kostet mich der Spaß ja 150 €.

Laut Amazon ist eine solche Box für D schon produziert. Anscheinend wurde sie nur noch nicht ausgeliefert.

Hallo Timo,

Wie dick ist die Hülle der Amaray? 15mm oder 11mm wie die restlichen 5 Einzel VÖ in 4K

Hi Alex, das kann ich dir leider nicht sagen. Ich hatte nur die Complete Adventure Box hier.

Ok, danke trotzdem 🙂

11mm ist die Hülle der DE dick

Herzlichen Dank für dieses Review! Dass man die Effekte neu digitalisiert hat, finde ich super. Ist in dem Vergleich gut zu erkennen, dass die „neue“ Qualität da besser ist. Etwas ärgerlich finde ich, dass man die Director’s Edition etwas gefiltert hat. Vielleicht wollte man ja so die in 4K geränderten CGI Effekte besser integrieren. Man hätte es natürlich auch „perfekter“ machen können, und bei den CGI Effekten einfach Rauschen hinzu fügen können. Aber ich vermute das alles nur.

Ich bin jedenfalls gespannt auf die 6-er Box. Gelistet ist sie schon bei Amazon. Aber bei einem anderen Händler kann man sie glaub ich schon vorbestellen. Dann müsse wir uns wohl noch etwas gedulden.

Danke Timo und viele Grüße Markus

Nun bin ich ein wenig hin und her gerissen zwischen kaufen und warten. Der erste Teil ist, wie von so vielen andern auch, nicht mein Favorit aber Lust auf den Directors Cut hätte ich jetzt schon. 25€ pro neuer UHD plus Blu Ray ist kein schlechter Preis aber ich würde lieber noch ein wenig mehr bezahlen und dafür eine komplett Box bekommen mit allen 10 Teilen. Von daher warte ich wohl ab bis eine Box kommt und es kommt hoffentlich sehr bald eine.

Seit ich meine Star Trek DVD’s damals verkauft habe habe ich die Filme nicht mehr gesehen und ich hätte große Lust sie mir mal wieder anzusehen.

Tja, Paramount hielt scheinbar die Kinofassung wieder für zu unwichtig, um sie durch Rauschfilterung zu „verbessern“. Das Studio zeigt leider hier wieder eine Tendenz zu ihren Jugendsünden. Ich hatte sowas schon befürchtet, trotz der Superlative aus den USA (vorneweg wieder Bill Hunt, der irgendwie immer unkritischer wird); war wohl auch im Stream so, aber es hätte ja für die Disc noch anders werden können. Vielleicht wollte man auch mehr Konsistenz mit den neuen digitalen Effekten erzielen… angeblich hat man aber auch alte Originaleffeke in bis zu 8k neu gescannt- und dann filtert man die Details wieder raus. Wirklich schade. Werde nicht stornieren, dafür scheinen die Vorteile zu überwiegen, aber echt ärgerlich!

Ach nö Paramount, du hast das doch bei den bisherigen Star Trek UHDs so gut gemacht. Wieso jetzt doch wieder Madame Tussauds-Visagen? Das trübt die Vorfreude jetzt leider ein wenig, auf der 4 Meter breiten Leinwand fallen Rauschfilter leider sehr stark negativ auf.

Danke Dir für das schöne Review. Ich verstehe das jetzt so (und somit als Bestätigung), dass die grosse Box im Gegensatz zum europäischen Ausland und den USA NICHT die verlängerte TV-Fassung enthält. In den USA kommt die Kinofassung auf UHD mit deutschem Ton und die TV-Fasssung ist (mit englischem Ton) via Seamless Branching integriert. In D ist die UHD der Kinofassung wohl identisch mit der bereits erhältlichen UHD aus der I-IV Box. Mal wieder ein schönes Beispiel, wie die Kunden in D für dumm verkauft werden. Habe also die 75€ Box mangels irgendeines Mehrwertes storniert und mich der Einzeldisc zugewendet. Besagte l-lV Box hab ich nämlich schon. In den USA kommt auch eine l-Vl Box, aber davon reden wir hierzulande ja auch nicht…

Ja aber eine Bestätigung, das die extra long version definitiv nicht dabei ist wäre super @timowolters

Bei der deutschen Box meinst du? Oder bei denen aus UK?

So wie es ausschaut, fehlt die TV Fassung nur bei der deutschen Box. In USA ist sie via Seamless Branching integriert und verfügt nur über englischen Ton, während die Kinofassung dort auch in Deutsch läuft. Dito wohl UK. Diese Disc der Kinofassung wird uns hier wohl vorenthalten.

Ja, korrekt. So ist es wohl.

Ein Blick auf die Rückseite der deutschen Box sollte Aufklärung bringen!

Auf der UK Box wird die Special Longer Version (SLV Cut) auf Disc 3 verortet. Disc 3 ist die Ultra HD Scheibe auf der auch die remasterte Kinoversion zu finden ist. (Quelle: YT Unboxing vom Kanal 4k CollectivE)

Alternativ einfach die dt. Disc 3 (UHD Blu-Ray) mit dem Kino-Cut in den Player legen. Nach der Auswahl der Sprache kommt die Auswahl zwischen der SLV und dem Theatrical Cut Version (Die Deleted Scenes vom Theatrical Cut sind separat unter gebracht!)

Sorry das hätte ich gestern dazu schreiben sollen. Aber nach 2,5 Stunden Internetrecherche rauchte mir etwas der Kopf.

Ähm, aber nur bei den Versionen aus dem Ausland, gelle 😉

Ja, das ist die große Frage die ich mir seit gestern stelle. Hat die dt. Veröffentlichung nun diese Auswahlmöglichkeit oder nicht. Ich hatte gehofft jemand mit einem dt. Rezensionsmuster könnte diese Frage beantworten.

Entweder haben wir in Deutschland ein Repack der alten UHD Blu-Ray (Kinofassung) oder eben diese neue Disc. Ich habe jetzt zur Sicherheit noch mal eine Bestellung der UK Box getätigt. Wenn ich vor Freitag Gewissheit habe wird eine Bestellung storniert.

Das steht aber doch genau in meinem Review drin 😉 (Edit: Es steht jetzt drin. Sorry, hatte es tatsächlich nicht explizit reingeschrieben) Die deutsche VÖ hat die Extra-Langfassung NICHT enthalten! Ich habe ja das deutsche Rezimuster und die Kinofassung sogar im englischen Modus gestartet, um auszuschließen, dass sie nur DANN angezeigt wird. Aber Fehlanzeige 😉 In Deutschland wird es die Extra-Langfassung über keine der möglichen Varianten (ob Complete Box oder Single UHD-BD) geben. Das ist mittlerweile auch so von Paramount kommuniziert. Wir bekommen hier lediglich die bereits bekannte Disk der Kinofassung.

Nichts für ungut, aber, lieber Timo, warum bewegst Du hier immer im Bereich des sprachlich ungefähren?

2 simple Fragen, Timo:

a) welche Box hast Du reviewt, die deutsche oder eine ausländische?

b) wenn die deutsche Box, hat diese die TV Fassung mit drauf oder nicht?

Oder möchte der Vertrieb die Infos solange zurückhalten, bis die Box physikalisch verfügbar ist (das böse Wort wäre „Maulkorb“)?

Ich merke gerade, woher das Missverständnis kommt. Im Vorfeld der Online-Schaltung des Reviews hatten mich bereits einige Leser per Mailanfrage kontaktiert, die gefragt haben, ob die lange TV-Fassung enthalten ist. Im Zuge meiner Antworten, dass sie nicht enthalten ist, war ich sicher, ich hätte das im Review deutlich vermerkt. Hatte ich aber nicht. Mein Fehler. Hab schlicht die Übersicht verloren, war ja auch kein ganz simples Review mit einigem an Fakten und Hintergründen. Das hat auch nichts mit Maulkorb zu tun, sondern schlicht damit, dass ich vergessen habe, das ins Review zu schreiben und ich während der Kommentare und Antworten auf die Kommentare dann auch dachte, dass das mittlerweile alle wissen. Ich hätte bspw. auch direkt auf die Frage von Dennis in den Kommentaren geantwortet, wenn ich sicher gewesen wäre, dass er die deutsche VÖ meint und nicht die UK-Fassung, da ich ja wusste, dass der TV-Cut in der UK-Fassung enthalten ist. Wie gesagt: Ich bin die ganze Zeit davon ausgegangen, dass es im Review steht und hatte es so in Erinnerung. Deshalb fragte ich mich eher, warum ständig die Frage neu auftaucht. Klassischer Fall von „aneinander vorbei geredet“.

Die simplen Antworten auf deine Fragen: Ich hatte die deutsche Complete Adventure Box und der TV-Long-Cut ist NICHT enthalten. Auch nicht, wenn man die Kinofassung (egal ob über BD oder UHD-BD) in englischer Sprache startet. Hoffe, jetzt ist alles klar. Keine deutsche VÖ wird die Special Longer Fassung enthalten! Das wurde von Paramount mittlerweile auch so kommuniziert und ich warte noch auf eine Rückmeldung auf meine Frage, warum das so ist. Habe das jetzt auch noch explizit ans Ende vom Bonusmaterial-Kapitel eingefügt.

P.S. Wenn dir das so vorkam, dass ich mich sprachlich im Bereich des „Ungefähren“ bewegt habe, tut’s mir leid. Ist an der Stelle aber das, was bei dir angekommen ist, ohne dass ich das bewusst getan habe. Eher war ich verwundert, dass es noch nicht alle wissen, was (wie jetzt festgestellt) daran lag, dass ich es eben im Review vergessen hatte, explizit zu beschreiben. Im Falle der Complete Adventure Box scheinen die Nerven bei den Fans allerdings auch etwas offen zu liegen, weil viele (durchaus verständlich) angesäuert sind über das Fehlen der Langfassung.

P.P.S.: Es gab bisher genau einmal einen „Maulkorb“ und dieser betraf den Ext. Cut von Jurassic World 3. Dass der enthalten sein würde, war längst über sämtliche Kanäle der sozialen Medien durchgesickert, aber hier musste von mir (und sämtlichen anderen Journalisten) ein NDA unterzeichnet werden, das bis zur VÖ im Video on Demand unter Stillschweigen zu halten. Jetzt darf man sich fragen, ob man dann ein Review überhaupt vorab veröffentlicht oder wartet, bis das Datum erreicht ist. Allerdings halte ich es dann durchaus für sinnvoll, schon mal alles über Film-, Bild- und Tonqualität zu schreiben, was möglich ist, damit ihr als Leser entsprechend darüber schon mal urteilen könnt, ob es sich für euch lohnt. Ansonsten würde ich mir wünschen, dass nicht unterstellt wird, dass ich mit Maulkorb schreibe. Wäre das der Fall, würden viele Reviews ganz anders ausfallen. Und das ist auch keine sonderlich freundliche Formulierung mir / bzw. meiner Arbeit gegenüber 😉

War auch nicht als Kritik an Dir, sondern an Parmount gemeint. Die Entscheidung, in der deutschen Sammlerbox die TV Fassung gerade NICHT zu veröffentlichen, ist ja absolut fragwürdig, wenn überall im Ausland Discs publiziert werden, die deutschen Ton bieten (TV-Fassung nur englisch). Kann man nicht verstehen, muss man auch nicht, aber man kann (und sollte) stornieren, was ich unlängst schon getan habe, zumal ich die Kinofassung ja in der I-IV-Box eh‘ schon habe.

Danke für die Aufklärung, Timo!

Genau, und mit deutschen Untertiteln. Und die UK Box hat auf der UHD der Kinofassung, auf welcher die Langfassung mit enthalten ist, sogar ein FSK 12 Logo.

https://youtu.be/zdPKnYAADEE?t=502

Ja, man hat ein wenig an einander vorbei kommuniziert. Ich selbst nehme mich mit meinen Beiträgen hier nicht aus. Bei mir persönlich hat dann noch für zusätzliche Verwirrung gesorgt das anderenorts im (deutschsprachigen) Netz die Deleted Scenes als TV-Cut bezeichnet wurden; Das man behauptet hat der TV-Cut wäre auf der Blu-Ray Bonus Disc was ja bedeutet hätte das der TV-Cut auch in der kommenden UHD Amaray Veröffentlichung dabei wäre uswusf. Die Amazon Produktbeschreibungen in Frankreich, Großbritannien, Deutschland sind auch dermaßen unterschiedlich und ungenau das man eigentlich nichts definitives in Erfahrung bringen kann .

YT Unboxings können manchmal sehr informativ sein aber zuletzt hatte ich einem Franzosen zugesehen der nicht mal die fünfte Disc im Set gefunden hat . In Amerika und Großbritannien gibt es nun auch Trekkies die keine Schnitt- und Fassungsexperten sind und da werden dann die Delted TV-Cut Scenes auch mal schnell zur Super Longer Version erhoben

Kurzum, ich fühle mich hier auf dieser Seite eigentlich immer gut und umfassend informiert und finde das die Reviews und Rezensionen sehr sorgfältig und nachvollziehbar für die Leser gestaltet sind .

Abschließend muß ich sagen eine gewisse Enttäuschung gegenüber Paramount ist da. Die fehlende dt. Tonspur bei der SLV ist eine Sache aber deswegen gleich den kompletten Cut von der Scheibe zu verbannen obwohl doch deutsche Untertitel verfügbar sind, das ist für mich nicht nachvollziehbar und das möchte ich dann auch finanziell nicht unterstützen. Die Storno der deutschen Verkaufsversion ist raus.

Die SLV wurde aber auf VHS veröffentlicht in DE und sogar komplett synchronisiert aber nur in Vollbild 4:3, ist diese hier habe ich auch noch zuhause

https://www.ofdb.de/view.php?page=fassung&fid=2256&vid=6801

Ich würde noch hinzufügen: Stand die komplette deutschen Box überhaupt zur Verfügung oder nur die Discs? Wenn die originale deutsche Box vorlag, kann man einfach ein Bild der Rückseite veröffentlichen, denn dies ist bislang nirgendwo zu finden (in Gegensatz zur US und UK Box).

Jetzt wollt ihr es aber ganz genau wissen. 😉 Ich kann das Ding gerne noch abfotografieren. Ändert aber auch nichts dran, dass der TV-Cut NICHT enthalten ist. Ja, ich hatte die Komplettbox.

Anbei die Rückseite der deutschen Box.

Besten Dank… 🙂 Insgesamt ein Armutszeugnis für Paramount. Die Box richtet sich an Sammler und niemand wird diese Box kaufen, die kann gleich wieder eingestampft werden. Die UK Box ist sogar etwas günstiger, wenn man direkt bei Amazon UK bestellt.