Search for Spock and Final Frontier both looked passably decent, if just barely. But there was still an unwanted amount of dnr and contrast-boosting going on.
There’s a 35mm scan of III floating around, and while it’s in dire need of a little cleanup and color correction, it’s miles better than the official bluray. For one, it’s much darker, which really helps set the mood better than that over-lit eyesore of a bluray. Heck, even the Genesis surface was much more convincing in places. The scan also included the laserdisc audio mix, which is crisper and more lively than the dull and flat mix used for the bluray.
Bwahhhh??? First I’m hearing of this. I wish someone would also scan a print of Voyage Home, it was beautiful!
I do recall reading of sound effects heard on the SFS laserdisc that are absent from the dvd and blu-ray mixes.
Grabbed it off the spleen a while back, should still be there. I honestly wish there were a scans of all 6 films…aside from II, nearly all were hit hard in some way or another on Bluray.
Here’s a quick little comparison album, if you’d like: http://imgur.com/a/qV7b5
Bluray screenshots are from Trekcore. For some reason, Imgur makes everything look darker, so I guess just open the pics in new tabs to fix it.