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Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)

The Star Trek films have felt like they have had the slowest trudge and bumpy roll out onto the 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray format. The films feel like they should be at the top of the list when format upgrades come, but alas they feel like an afterthought. Odd, especially when they are at the forefront of Paramount+ productions as there’s always a Star Trek going on at any given time. Breathe easy though, as The Next Generation films conclude the film roll out of the series. Released on April 4th, they carry over all the bonus features from before and audio/video updates to the films. Its doubtful the original television series or The Next Generation’s television episodes will ever see the format, so this is quite possibly it (Or at least for a long while). You can order yourself a copy of this set (also available individually) by click on the paid Amazon Associates link at the bottom of the review.

Star Trek: Generations (1994)

In the 23rd century, the Starship Enterprise is dispatched to the scene of a giant energy field about to engulf two ships. Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) averts calamity, but is exposed to the field and presumed dead. Years later, the Enterprise’s new commander, Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart), learns that one of the disaster’s survivors, Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowell), plans to enter the field by destroying a neighboring star. Picard now must collaborate with an unlikely ally in order to stop him.

The torch inevitably was to be passed from one generation to another to hold court for the theatrical output of the classic science fiction television program. As the original crew saw their swan song with The Undiscovered Country in 1991 and The Next Generation completing its 7 year run in May or 1994, the time was here. And the film Generations was ready to go the following fall in place of where a new season might have been. The film brought together the colossal pairing of captains James T. Kirk and Jean Luc Picard together on screen for the first and only time. Toss in legendary actor Malcolm McDowell as the villain, you should have a rousing success. At the box office it certainly was.

One area the original crew of Star Trek‘s films seemed to have mastered right away and even in their lesser entries, was delivering something that was more than just the television show on the big screen. They evolved and made their adventures bigger and more cinematic. If that meant certain characters got a shorter end of the stick for the sake of spectacle, then so be it. But they really felt like event movies and did things that could not have been done for television nor a script that would have been friendly to those trappings.

As we see right away here in Generations, Next Generation‘s first voyage to the big screen, there’s a confusion or struggle with whomever has the reigns in doing this. There are moments in which it feels theatrical, but there’s too much of the film that feels like just another television episode. Or a 2-part episode edited into a feature’s length. The film worries about subplots and giving each member of the crew something to do. The prime aspect that feels too much like television is Data’s entire subplot of getting an emotions chip. Sure, it plays as the comedic relief and knee slappers for the fans, but ultimately its the sort of thing that takes you out of it and feels very focused as a “Data learns what its like to be human” episode of a 24 episode season.

Why the film needed to bridge a gap with including Kirk is more marketing than it feels service to the story. It takes us almost a half hour to get to the actual main characters in the story by taking forever to show us Kirk, Scotty and Chekov just hanging around. If it was spending more time to introduce and develop our villain it would make sense. Instead its just paddling around. And the finale, which gives us Kirk’s final stand, feels largely underwhelming. The scenes Shatner and Stewart share are a fun little novelty but are also undercook a little bit. This should have been or felt much bigger than what it actually is.

Now, I’ve been hard on the film, but its actually pretty fine and decently entertaining. If you’re a fan of the show, you’re going to have no problems getting through this. If you’re someone who had only followed along with the films, the execution here is going to feel like quite a drop off. This one is merely fine, and oddly enough will end up proving to be maybe the second best of The Next Generation crew’s films.

Video

Disclaimer: Screen captures used in the review are provided courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment, not the 4K UHD Blu-ray disc.

Encoding: HEVC/H.265

Resolution: 4K (2160p)

Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1

Layers: BD-66

Clarity/Detail: Star Trek: Generations debuts with a pretty impressive 4K restoration and transfer. This is definitely up there with what the original crew movies were given. They look far less like DVD upscales and more of a full on effort. Its filmic looking with good texture, depth and detail to make it look much more cinematic than before. 90s films weren’t the prettiest lookers on Blu-ray, but 4K has been able to really bump up films like this with ease.

Depth:  Depth of field is pretty strong here. The scale on display is pretty accurately depicted, moreso in the interiors. Motion is smooth and natural with no issues from blur or jitter during rapid camera/actor movements.

Black Levels: Blacks are deep and natural, really accentuating the picture. The interiors of the Enterprise and other ships are much more impressive and relaxed looking. No crushing witnessed.

Color Reproduction: Colors are rather natural but in their prettiest and boldest forms. Uniforms have a nice strong look to them. HDR adds a lovely glow to the display screen, engines, fires, lasers, signage and more.

Flesh Tones: Skin tones are natural and consistent from start to finish. Prosthetics and make-up effects hold up to even the tightest of scrutiny and showcase lots of texture and fine details.

Noise/Artifacts:  Clean

Audio

Audio Format(s): English 7.1 Dolby TrueHD, English Audio Description, German 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Japanese 5.1 Dolby Digital

Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish

Dynamics: It doesn’t upgrade to Atmos, but Generations adds 2 more channels for its 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray debut. And its a nice extension of what came before. There’s great use of the full room to bring to life many interiors and exteriors. Its well balanced and layered well to give you a depth that makes you feel present. I like the feel on ships with their ambiance that feel lived in.

Height: N/A

Low Frequency Extension: The subwoofer hits well with blasts, explosions, crashes and engines blasting off into warp speed. The score also hums here quite decently with good power.

Surround Sound Presentation: The whole room is really neatly envisions. Rear and side channels do much more than just ambiance. They track things off screen and add power and force to things traveling around the room as well.

Dialogue Reproduction: Vocals are clear and crisp.

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

The Enterprise and its crew follow a Borg ship through a time warp to prevent the Borg from taking over the Earth in a past era. Stuck in the past, Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) helps a pioneer of space travel (James Cromwell) in his efforts to create the first warp drive while Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner) battle the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) as she tries to take over the Enterprise.

For a series that has warp speed and can travel to all ends of the universe, Star Trek tends to lean on the trope of traveling through time quite often. Not a bag on it, just a humorous thought. With First Contact, The Next Generation takes a trip back to a point in time still in our human future as I write this. But unlike the original crew’s “The one with the whales” adventure, this isn’t a fish out of water comedy. Its an endearing tale of destiny, confronting your demons, sticking the course, and making the decisions it was in your bones to make.

Jonathan Frakes takes the helm of the film as the 3rd actor from the show to have directed one of films, following in the footsteps of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner. While his film still has moments of feeling like TV, its a large step up from the previous effort and Frakes gets some large scale looking and feeling entertainment out of it. Perhaps the most crucial element he brings to the film his what he gets out of his cast and brings the script to life. This is a made up point in human history, yet thanks to the cast, it feels like a genuine moment in time we are watching. Like something that actually happened, akin to the crew going back and seeing the events of the moon landing or something similar. With James Cromwell as an important figure, the glisten in the eye while trying to be professional around him is a treasure to see from the likes of Burton, Frakes, Sirtis and the gang stuck on the planet.

The action in the film is also tossed up a few notches and the film gets right to it. There’s a heck of space battle to open up the film’s first act and get us to the crux of the film. Also, throughout, there’s a rock solid stealth mission full of suspense and drama going on during the Borg siege of the enterprise. Fan favorite Data is pretty well sidelined in this film, though he gets a pretty good little bit of stuff happening to him in the film and delivers some zingers. But, this time his part isn’t distracting or feel like its hampering the film’s plot at all. Frakes seems to realize the “crew member learns a valuable lesson” can’t be told in the ways it once was on the show.

For feature films, Star Trek: First Contact is The Next Generation crew’s finest hour. This adventure doesn’t overtake them but its a film that holds up to the finest of the original crew’s film output and is one of the best Star Trek films ever made. Jonathan Frakes proves a good fit for the director’s chair as he’s able to balance the cast in a way that doesn’t forget anyone but also allows us some new characters and their arcs and development to be as important. This is a fine follow up to the television series, functions standalone and is a rock solid space opera that can kick some butt when the time calls for it, too

Video

Disclaimer: Screen captures used in the review are provided courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment, not the 4K UHD Blu-ray disc.

Encoding: HEVC/H.265

Resolution: 4K (2160p)

Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1

Layers: BD-66

Clarity/Detail: Star Trek: First Contact has a beautiful transfer and a is a stunner on the 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray format. It takes advantage of this new format and the crisp image with great color saturation, black levels, depth and usage of HDR makes for plenty of candy for the eyes to devour.

Depth:  Depth of field is pretty rock solid. The space sequences showcasing ships and planets are lovely (And the CG holds up too). Earth sequences and interiors feature a lot of pushback and space. Movements are smooth and filmic without any issues coming from rapid character or camera movements causing jitter/blurring.

Black Levels: Blacks are deep and natural. There’s a lot of darkness in this movie, be in ship interiors or nighttime on Earth and its all handled well with beautiful shadows and saturation. Plenty of great contrast here helps the colors to pop. No crushing witnessed.

Color Reproduction: Colors are dynamite here. The HDR is off the charts with reds, greens and blues just bursting off the screen. From displays screens, blinking lights, lasers, engine lights and more this things is just glowing off the screen in one of the best ways I’ve seen on the format. Like I said – candy.

Flesh Tones: Skin tones are natural and consistent from start to finish. There are a lot of make-up effects on display in the film and the hold up to all scrutiny even in the biggest close ups, showcase some natural details and texture to sell the effect even more.

Noise/Artifacts:  Clean

Audio

Audio Format(s): English 7.1 Dolby TrueHD, English Audio Description, German 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Japanese 5.1 Dolby Digital

Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish

Dynamics: To match the impressive image on display, First Contact blasts through your room with an loud, thunderous and energetic 7.1 mix. You’re thrust right into the action with a balanced mixed with excellent layering and depth that effectively straps you for quite the ride on this journey through time and space.

Height: N/A

Low Frequency Extension:  The subwoofer is deep and powerful here with big explosions, blasts, crashes, take offs and more that pound and rumble your room.

Surround Sound Presentation: This mix has its fun all around the room. All channels typically have something going on. Sound travel powers back and forth and across the room. Unique sounds jump and jolt from anywhere and action is tracked very well off screen from shot to shot in any given scene.

Dialogue Reproduction: Vocals are clear and crisp.

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

A Federation mission to the planet Ba’ku takes a dangerous turn when a malfunctioning android, Data (Brent Spiner), takes a cultural task force hostage. When Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew investigate, they uncover the truth about the Federation mission: It was actually a systematic ploy by the Son’a to displace the peaceful inhabitants of Ba’ku. Now Picard and his crew must thwart the plot even while experiencing strange side effects from exposure to the planet’s surface.

One of both the praises and defenses of Star Trek: Insurrection over the years has been that it feels like a 2-part episode of the show. And that’s pretty on point. That’s relatively been an issue the whole way along with The Next Generation movies as I’ve mentioned. There is somewhat a middle ground thought here. One in that this story makes for an interesting type of movie, akin to classic science fiction features and something you’re not traditionally getting on the big screen. However, in the writing and execution, it struggles to translate cinematically and feels like they delivered you a tv episode done with film production equipment.

One thing Insurrection is aces at is comedy. Star Treks tend to toss a comedic entry every now and then, and this one does well with that. Its quite fun to watch the cast trade jabs with one another and have the always tough Worf flipped on his head into being the butt of all jokes at times. There’s also a play on youth and young love in the film that works rather well. You also have some solid social commentary on botox and work people having done on their faces to stay young in here whether its too heavy handed, mishandled or not enough. But, its not like this film isn’t going full Trek or trying. It can just be a bit of a slug to watch depending on the day.

Perhaps where the film is doomed is that there aren’t any really memorable or engaging action or suspense sequences tossed in here. Nothing really grand or suspenseful. I know its not Trek‘s MO, but most of the movies (or the best ones) are able to deliver at least average layer goods when they really have to. The hook is the character drama beneath the surface that helps sell on them. With Insurrection it just isn’t filmed or cut well enough for those moments and its based around a story that probably is best served with heated negotiations, courtroom drama or debates.

The third adventure in The Next Generation‘s film saga isn’t generally perceived as a general favorite and quite frankly falls toward the bottom of lists for all Trek. But standalone and randomly on its own, it can be a fun time with lighter expectations. The character stuff is fun, the story has its head in a solid spot, it just doesn’t all come together and execute as good as you’d hope a feature film of the show would do. Yes, it does feel like a 2-part episode of the show, but therein lies probably the big issue.

Video

Disclaimer: Screen captures used in the review are provided courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment, not the 4K UHD Blu-ray disc.

Encoding: HEVC/H.265

Resolution: 4K (2160p)

Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1

Layers: BD-66

Clarity/Detail: Insurrection debuts on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray looking pretty lovely. Its image comes in very much similar to its predecessor, though maybe not as flashy, but still having some good pop. There’s a lot of wonderful detail on display and its sharp, crisp look with great color and exquisite black levels.

Depth:  Depth of field is pretty solid and the city has both wide shots and closer in ones that are effective in setting some scale and showing pushback through the streets. Motion is smooth and natural with no distortion issues.

Black Levels: Black levels are quite impressive here. And you’ll know from the title screen where the title is red against a black screen and the letter glows and the black is so perfect you can see where the mattes begin. No crushing witnessed.

Color Reproduction: Colors are bold and quite striking here. From uniforms to flowers in the background they really hold on strong. Lasers, display screens, engines, fires and visual effects really bring out some good glow on the HDR.

Flesh Tones: Skin tones are natural and consistent from start to finish. Plenty of practical make-up effects on display here and hold up swimmingly with texture and detail as well as normal human stuff like stubble, freckles, wrinkles, make-up, pores and more.

Noise/Artifacts:  Clean

Audio

Audio Format(s): English 7.1 Dolby TrueHD, English Audio Description, German 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Japanese 5.1 Dolby Digital

Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish

Dynamics: This is another blistering, powerful 7.1 mixt that can shake a room when need be. The mix has a 360 degrees presentation of fun with great layering, depth and an ability to build a room to a lived in status.

Height: N/A

Low Frequency Extension: As mentioned, this one booms with explosions, big sweeps moments of the score, blaster fire, crashing and even good heightened natural sounds to good effect.

Surround Sound Presentation: As mentioned this room is radiated upon speaker to speaker, side to side, back and forth. From great ambiance, to surprises, to traveling across a room, this mix really captures your engagement to the best degrees.

Dialogue Reproduction: Vocals are clear and crisp.

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

A coup d’état on Romulus brings a new praetor, Shinzon, to power. However, Shinzon is not a Romulan, but rather a genetic duplicate of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. After being banished to the planet Remus for years, he now plots to draw the Starship Enterprise and her crew into a deadly confrontation and destroy the Federation once and for all.

If there’s a distinction for Nemesis amongst the crowd and especially The Next Generation films, its the one that probably looks the most visually cinematic of the 4 films. Its also a film that attempts to give this set of characters a bit of a darker. There’s a sense of finality to it that works as the sun setting for this gang of boldly goers that isn’t all doomsday but an open door as to where these lives are headed for the future beyond our viewing.

Stuart Baird was brought in as director for this, his third and (so far) final film. Mostly an editor for big time action movies, he really brings a bigger scale to The Next Generation. While his character work might be the key quips and joking around we are used to with this bunch, they are certainly given action and suspense like never before. Baird delivers an all-time (for Trek) action sequence with the dune buggy-esqe sequence in the desert. His planets, ships and sets also all carry different angles and lighting to really bring a variety of approaches here. I know this is a very hated entry among Trekkers but its not like this one isn’t trying and setting itself apart. From a technical standpoint, its probably the best made movie of The Next Generation 4.

Now it does deliver some solid fan stuff, with showcasing the wedding of Riker and Troi to open the film. We are also treated to a cameo from Captain Janeway of Voyager to link things even more. Where things service in character actions for this entry isn’t in the ribbing and memory sharing, its showcasing them working as a crew in action. Taking chances for one another and fighting for their cause and for one another to the bitter end.

Some of my personal grievance with the film is in how solid one character’s sacrifice and how lovely the following scene of remembrance is done. If only this merely is revealed to be a complete cheat in a way that leaves it sitting a little bit hollow at the end. We also have a villain that is sort of effective and sort of not. Tom Hardy proves a pretty good menace, but overall its a bit of an odd situation and really could’ve done well with some more personal stuff with Picard and him trading of and maybe forming a bond for a bit of the movie only to be undone. This could be done instead of keeping him in the shadows for some of this. Nonetheless this is more of an action movie and moves along more plot focused which definitely sets it aside from the more “plays like TV” set pieces of the first 3 films.

Its not the height of The Next Generation movies and its not a grand sendoff as well. However, I still find Nemesis to be a pretty entertaining action sci-fi flick that’s a little smarter than the rest and with better characters thanks to the Trek suit it is wearing. Aside from First Contact, this might be the easiest one to reach for and watch thanks to it just playing better as a movie and not like a bigger episode of a television series.

Video

Disclaimer: Screen captures used in the review are provided courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment, not the 4K UHD Blu-ray disc.

Encoding: HEVC/H.265

Resolution: 4K (2160p)

Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1

Layers: BD-66

Clarity/Detail: Star Trek: Nemesis holds up with the best of the transfers here. Its a much darker film that alots for plenty of contrast to pop out some gorgeous looking colors. Its a crisp image with lots of finer details and patterns showcasing through clear as looking through a window.

Depth:  Depth of field is really strong here and showcases a big scale from planetary surfaces, interiors and space battling. Motion is smooth and natural with confident camera movements. No issues occur from blur or jitter during the big action moments.

Black Levels: Blacks are deep and natural here. Its impressive because of how dark this movie is. There is great shadow work, and lots of pattern, texture and fine details that show through in even the darkest corners. No crushing witnessed.

Color Reproduction: Colors again look quite good here. There’s a nice green that really showcases well and glows under the HDR. Displays, visual effects, fire and more really radiate and shine.

Flesh Tones: Skin tones are natural and consistent from start to finish. Facial features and texture like make-up, stubble, wrinkles, lip texture, blemishes and more show up clearly and cleanly from any given distance in the frame.

Noise/Artifacts:  Clean

Audio

Audio Format(s): English 7.1 Dolby TrueHD, German 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital, Japanese 5.1 Dolby Digital

Subtitles: English, English SDH, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish

Dynamics: And to round out the triumphant 7.1 tracks, Nemesis follows suit quite well. Its a loud, eventful mix that packs a punch and really resonates and realizes the room.

Height: N/A

Low Frequency Extension: The subwoofer really pushes and punches here with blast, engines, explosions, punches, crashes and more as well as humming out that score.

Surround Sound Presentation: Like all the others, this thing goes round and round the room and creates and engaging experiences that is 360 degrees of impact. From the quieter locations to the loudest ones, it filled out well and feels lived in.

Dialogue Reproduction: Vocals are clear and crisp.

Here’s a video I did for a look at the packaging.

Extras

Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection is an 8-disc set and comes with the standard Blu-ray editions and a redeemable digital code for each film. Aside from commentaries and isolated scores. All bonus materials are found on the standard Blu-rays. No new extras have been created for or added to this release, all are carry over from the previous Blu-rays.

Star Trek: Generations

Audio Commentary

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

Library Computer

Production

• Uniting Two Legends (SD, 25:40)
• Stellar Cartography: Creating the Illusion (SD, 9:23)
• Strange New Worlds: The Valley of Fire (SD, 22:42)
• Scoring Trek (HD, 8:57)

Visual Effects

• Inside ILM: Models & Miniatures (SD, 9:3(
• Crashing the Enterprise (SD, 10:44)

Scene Deconstruction     

• Main Title Sequence (SD, 3:32)
• The Nexus Ribbon (SD, 7:08)
• Saucer Crash Sequence (SD, 4:50)

The Star Trek Universe

• A Tribute to Matt Jeffries (SD, 19:38)
• The Enterprise Lineage (SD, 12:49)
• Captain Picard’s Family Album (SD, 7:05)
• Creating 24^th Century Weapons (SD, 13:48)
• Next Generation Designer Flashback Andrew Probert (HD, 5:04)
• Stellar Cartography on Earth (HD, 7:39)
• Brent Spiner – Data and Beyond Part 1 (HD, 10:21)
• Trek Roundtable: Generations (HD, 12:23)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 007: Trilithium (HD, 3:06)

Deleted Scenes (SD, 33:10)

Archives – Storyboards, Production Gallery

Trailers

• Teaser Trailer (HD, 1:30)
• Theatrical Trailer (HD, 2:22)

Star Trek: First Contact

• by director and actor Jonathan Frakes
• by screenplay writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore
• by Damon Lindelof and Anthony Pascale
• Text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda

Library Computer

Production

• Making First Contact (SD, 20:19)
• The Art of First Contact (SD, 16:34)
• The Story (SD, 15:29)
• The Missile Silo (SD, 14:04)
• The Deflector Dish (SD, 10:30)
• From “A” to “E” (SD, 6:38)

Scene Deconstruction

• Borg Queen Assembly (SD, 11:10)
• Escape Pod Launch (SD, 4:58)
• Borg Queen’s Demise (SD, 3:12)

The Star Trek Universe

• Jerry Goldsmith: A Tribute (SD, 19:46)
• The Legacy of Zefram Cochrane (SD, 12:19)
• First Contact: The Possibilities (SD, 19:31)
• Industrial Light & Magic – The Next Generation (HD, 12:17)
• Greetings from the International Space Station (HD, 8:31)
• SpaceShipOne’s Historic Flight (HD, 4:41)
• Brent Spiner – Data and Beyond Part 2 (HD, 7:30)
• Trek Roundtable: First Contact (HD, 12:51)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 008: Temporal Vortex (HD, 2:36)

The Borg Collective

• Unimatrix One (SD, 14:15)
• The Queen (SD, 8:31)
• Design Matrix (SD, 18:10)

Archives – Storyboards, Photo Gallery, Alternate Titles, Ethan Phillips Cameo/Interview, Queen’s Demise

Trailers

• Teaser Trailer (HD, 1:26)
• Theatrical Trailer (HD, 2:26)
• Borg Invasion Trailer (SD, :32)

Star Trek: Insurrection

• Commentary by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis
• Text Commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda

Library Computer

Production

• It Takes a Village (SD, 16:41)
• Location, Location, Location (SD, 19:56)
• The Art of Insurrection (SD, 14:53)
• Anatomy of a Stunt (SD, 6:33)
• The Story (SD, 17:19)
• Making Star Trek: Insurrection (SD, 25:07)
• Director’s Notebook (SD, 18:56)

The Star Trek Universe

• Westmore’s Aliens (SD, 17:43)
• Westmore’s Legacy (HD, 12:45)
• Star Trek’s Beautiful Alien Women (SD, 12:40)
• Marina Sirtis – The Counselor Is In (HD, 8:26)
• Brent Spiner – Data and Beyond Part 3 (HD, 8:17)
• Trek Roundtable: Insurrection (HD, 10:50)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 009: The Origins of the Ba’ku and Son’a Conflict (HD, 3:00)

Creating the Illusion

• Shuttle Chase (SD, 9:36)
• Drones (SD, 4:43)
• Duck Blind (SD, 4:38)

Deleted Scenes (SD, 12:56)

Archives – Storyboards: Secondary Protocols, Photo Gallery, Worf and Troi, Tom Morello, Marina/Craft Services

Advertising

• Teaser Trailer (HD, 1:46)
• Theatrical Trailer (HD, 2:25)
• Original Promotional Featurette (SD, 5:02)
• Borg Invasion Trailer (SD, :32)

Star Trek Nemesis

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

Library Computer

Production

• Nemesis Revisited (SD, 25:45)
• New Frontiers – Stuart Baird on Directing Nemesis (SD, 8:42)
• Storyboarding the Action (SD, 3:37)
• Red Alert! Shotting the Action of Nemesis (SD, 10:08)
• Build and Rebuild (SD, 7:44)
• Four-Wheeling in the Final Frontier (SD, 10:14)
• Screen Test: Shinzon (SD, 6:29)

The Star Trek Universe

• A Star Trek Family’s Final Journey (SD, 16:17)
• A Bold Vision of The Final Frontier (SD, 10:17)
• The Enterprise E (SD, 11:37)
• Reunion with The Rikers (HD, 10:47)
• Today’s Tech Tomorrow’s Data (HD, 4:23)
• Robot Hall of Fame (HD, 4:34)
• Brent Spiner – Data and Beyond Part 4 (HD, 9:18)
• Trek Roundtable: Nemesis (HD, 10:26)
• Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 010: Thalaron Radiation (HD, 2:27)

The Romulan Empire

• Romulan Lore (SD, 11:51)
• Shinzon & the Viceroy (SD, 10:00)
• Romulan Design (SD, 9:05)
• The Romulan Senate (SD, 8:57)
• The Scimitar (SD, 13:14)

Deleted Scenes (SD, 27:13)

Archives – Storyboards, Galleries, Bryan Singer, Riker and the Beast, Terry Frazee

Trailers

• Teaser Trailer (HD, 1:38)
• Theatrical Trailer (HD, 2:08)
• Borg Invasion Trailer (SD, :32)

Summary

The feature films of Star Trek: The Next Generation was something they just seemed not to be able to figure out. There was an art to the way the original crew grew up to big movies that felt like big movies whereas their successors felt like they were making glorified TV episodes. However, they did nail it once (First Contact) and majority are still entertaining as this iteration features a wonderful cast and characters. As for their 4K upgrades, these all look and sound very lovely and are more “engage”ing than ever before. All the extras are back and they are packaged in a convenient and easy to store case. Its been a long time since the initial Blu-ray release of the films so I’m sure its an easy soon as you can purchase for fans.

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