CBS Releases TNG Season Two Blu-ray Trailer

With less than a week to go before the TNG Remastered Season One Blu-ray set hits store shelves, CBS is already whetting the appetite of fans with a look at Season Two.

In this new trailer, fans get a first glimpse of “The Child,” “Where Silence Has Lease,” “The Measure of a Man,” “Contagion,” “Time Squared,” and “Q Who” in glorious HD. It’s incredible how the restoration process makes these stories feel new again, as viewers notice details they’ve never seen before.

In addition to episode footage, the trailer gives us a glimpse of one of the very special extras that will accompany Season Two—an intimate round-table discussion with the TNG cast, produced especially for the Blu-ray set.

Season Two is set for release sometime in the fourth quarter of 2012, and you’ll find this trailer as an extra on the Season One discs. For even more on the Season Two restoration, and to watch the trailer online, visit StarTrek.com for an extensive interview with special features producer Roger Lay, Jr.

TNG Theatrical Screenings Announced for Australia and Canada

While American Star Trek fans eagerly await big screen showings of “Where No One Has Gone Before” and “Datalore,” international fans watch from afar with envy. But that’s no longer the case for fans in Australia and Canada.

CBS has announced that they’re teaming up with Front Row Centre Events and BY Experience to bring the theatrical event to Canadians on July 23, and Australian fans will be treated to the same experience on July 26 thanks to NCM Fathom and Sharmill Films.

Like the US events, the screenings are designed to welcome the Blu-ray release of TNG Season One on Blu-ray, and are the perfect way to celebrate 25 years of The Next Generation.

Canada

To find the theatre nearest you visit Ciniplex.com and use the search fields to identify you city.

Australia

To find out more visit the Sharmill Films website.

Currently the list of participating cinemas for Australia includes:

VIC: Cinema Nova, Palace Kino, Palace Westgarth, Upper Yarra Arts Centre
NSW: Hayden Orpheum Cremorne, Dendy Newtown, Chauvel Cinemas, Ritz Cinema Randwick, Dendy Byron Bay, Belgrave Cinemas Armidale, Avoca Beach Picture Theatre, Cinemax Cinema Kingscliff, Narooma Theatre, Arcadia Twin Ulladulla,
ACT: Dendy Canberra
QLD: Palace Centro, Dendy Portside
SA: Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas
WA: Luna Cinemas Leederville, Grand Cinemas Warwick
TAS: State Cinema Hobart

Side-by-Side DVD and Blu-ray Comparison of TNG Opening Credits

If you’re interested in how the visual accuracy compares between the original DVD release of The Next Generation and the new remastered Blu-ray, this video is for you. YouTube user gomtuu123 has created a side-by-side look at the opening credits from “Encounter at Farpoint.” It’s a great way to see exactly what the small differences are in this sequence between the two versions.

It should be noted that the video is scaled down so it is not intended as a quality comparison. Instead it just intended for accuracy comparison.

Differences that gomtuu123 notes are a slightly different angle when the Enterprise flies by at high speed, the addition of interior lights that can now be seen as the ship stretches when going to warp, and a different starfield between Denise Crosby’s name and the second time the Enterprise goes to warp.

Watch the comparison video below. You can find gomtuu123’s YouTube channel here.

TNG Remastered Season One Blu-ray Trailer Released

As the TNG Remastered sampler disc “The Next Level” hits the shelves, CBS has released a new trailer for Star Trek: The Next Generation Season One on Blu-ray. Billed as “the completely remastered first season in high-definition,” the season one TNG Blu-ray set will be available later this year. No word yet on the retail price.

The trailer gives us some new tantilizing glimpses of the gorgeous quality that is in store for us on Blu-ray, and includes some insights from Mike Okuda, Craig Weiss, and Rod Roddenberry, who says he is certain that his father would be so relieved that his true vision is finally going to be available to fans. Watch the trailer below.