Harmy said:
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.
I see, that explains it. ;) the starfield in this particular shot looks like the original in terms of the positioning which made me doubt it a little. There's probably more of these redone wipes where they recomped stuff for the DVD...
Btw. that StarDestroyer bridge - shot, may go to history for the most crushed black levels I have ever seen in a transfer ever! :)