To commemorate the film’s 45th anniversary, I have have a (very minor) update to this project.
Changes:
- Finessed (ever so slightly) the opening credits, so hopefully now the stars don’t come off as too sharp compared with the text
- Swapped out some shots of the Klingons in the opening that had smeary DNR in the 4K theatrical master with some from the Director’s Edition.
- Various little tweaks on stray shots to try and reduce obvious DNR artifacts. Most notably the theatrical shot of the tram flying alongside the Golden Gate and the shot of Spock entering the orifice should have less dark ghosting that’s presenting in the 4K master (I overlaid parts of the uglier but less smeary 2009 master).
- Corrected some glitches on this DE recomp and color graded it to the match the theatrical version’s colors for a major boost in detail (v1 uses the theatrical version of the shot). (Click to expand):
- Theatrical:
- DE:
- Anti DNR v2:
- For this shot, I overlaid the CGI tunnel over the equivalent theatrical shot. This gives you the continuity of coming out of the tunnel as in the DE while using the original effect.
- DE:
- Anti DNR v2:
Not a ton of updates, but enough to give it a little more polish. Happy 45th anniversary to Star Trek’s big screen debut!