It's a great remaster and recut. My only nit is I wish they either fixed or removed that infamous bridge shot using split-focus that looks horrible in any version.
Well, hey, gee, the Okudas’ 2001 text commentary for the film has been updated, with a few tweaks here and there. Although “Worf” is mistakenly spelled “Wort”, at one point.
And then there’s this:
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I can only assume that the Okudas’ continuing quest for relevancy post-2009 has extended to towing the CBS/Paramount party line by polluting an otherwise great 4K boxset with this apocryphal tidbit.
Sigh.
The word apocryphal means something is of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.I can only assume that the Okudas’ continuing quest for relevancy post-2009 has extended to towing the CBS/Paramount party line by polluting an otherwise great 4K boxset with this apocryphal tidbit.
Sigh.
I think many of us would agree that Classic Trek commentary should be limited to, well, Classic Trek and it’s contemporary history vs. shoehorning in those elements that have come thereafter.The word apocryphal means something is of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.
Nothing the Okudas' have said is untrue here.
Nor was there a half brother.It’s a question of appropriateness and applicability to the subject matter….there was no (clears throat) adopted sister in existence for Spock to consider as a character element in TMP. It is a meaningless detail that, again, amounts to meaningless shoe-horning and ads nothing to the story or production.
Nor was there a half brother.
I think many of us would agree that Classic Trek commentary should be limited to, well, Classic Trek and it’s contemporary history vs. shoehorning in those elements that have come thereafter.
It’s a question of appropriateness and applicability to the subject matter….there was no (clears throat) adopted sister in existence for Spock to consider as a character element in TMP. It is a meaningless detail that, again, amounts to meaningless shoe-horning and ads nothing to the story or production.
It's not shoehorned in at all. It's a commentary track discussing canon information about the character. Discovery is as canon as the Final Frontier when the track was included. To omit one while directly talking about the other would be odd.I don’t disagree there…but for the fact that a half brother is part of the history of Classic Trek and would be a fact worth mentioning as part of those series of films that TMP is directly a part of. Quite a bit different than the tales of Discovery being shoehorned in any way into this film.
We will have to agree to part ways on that point of view and leave it at that.It's not shoehorned in at all. It's a commentary track discussing canon information about the character. Discovery is as canon as the Final Frontier when the track was included. To omit one while directly talking about the other would be odd.
We will have to agree to part ways on that point of view and leave it at that.