msycamore said:
2004 DVD - the reason why they redid this wipe? I have no idea, I know the scenes before it had recomposited starfields in some shots and they colorized the rank badge etc. but why redo this wipe?
They redid this wipe because that shot was recomposited in 2004 as well. Look at the edges of the officers face - you can see the blue spill in the original and 97SE. He's also slightly cropped on the edges, which could mean that they didn't have the original elements for this scene and simply rotoscoped a new starfield behind them while slightly cropping the edges to get rid of the blue spill.