According to some sources this is taken from a television cut of the film for networks as prepared by paramount.
don't know if this is the one that was on abc or nbc? or cbs? when it was world premiered on the tube.
The theatrical version i have transfered from the laserdisc by someone on these boards is of very dubious quality.
I do not know if this is because of the source laserdisc used the equipment or if the person does'nt know how to capture something properly. the pcm sound was tops though, great scoe by goldsmith!
Personally I'd like to see the theatrical widescreen cut in dvd quality on a dual layer disc. I do not know if the official dvd could be used to re-cobble together that cut. with the full bit rate pcm of course.
I also wish the same could be done for star trek II and VI with the full bit rate pcm. I took the bare bones release of these 2 out of the library and it appeard they were taken from the laserdisc master, and they were single layer and had bad artifacting unlike the LD.
Plus i wish someone would preserve all six original trek movies from the full screen laserdisc versions for notalgia sake, since this is the way I saw them on t.v. and vhs back in the day. Plus they are not available on dvd in full frame versions as far as I know. plus the full frame lasers have the original stereo tracks and not the dolby surround.
If I was going to do a laserdisc preservation of star trek II i would have the Ld episode of Space seed as a bonus.